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#reverb10: Make (Chicken Soup for the Soul edition)

  Days six of the #reverb10: Make. What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? Is there something you want to make, but you need to clear some time for it? A few weeks ago I discovered a local restaurant that makes a DYNOMITE lemon chicken soup, Greek style I believe.  I killed myself to find a comparable recipe but found one online that I think approximates it  here .  My favorite part? It is ridiculously easy. And fun to mess with! I've made several batches now and now are quite the same. I experiment each time- in part to see if I can replicate the original soup (impossible!), but also because I like the variations. The lesson here? Catching lightning in a bottle is hard, but trying to catch it CAN be just as worth while so why not at least try? The other thing I made from this is a happy wife. She LOVES the soup concoctions and is a willing guinea pig each time. You never know what you might be doing that will make someone else happy! What wou...

Taking Beer and Nuts to a Whole New Level

Image via Wikipedia I have no clue how I have missed 10 years of a spice maker trying to drive taste trends, but I (and I suppose 95% of the public) missed the tenth annual  McCormick ®  Flavor Forecast this year. I could not make this up if I wanted.  McCormick ®  , the world's largest spice company, has been unleashing this prognosticating tool since 2000. Their latest version can be found here . They've even opened up MORE with a grilling edition and a holiday edition.  I titled the blog post today on the 5th combination in their standard edition this year: almonds and ale. Seriously.  The flavor pairings only started in 2007, but the very notion that you can be predictive of what chefs, cooks, and laypeople at home will cook with is... brilliant? The company has chef Kevan Vettar look at the crystal ball with a team of folks from around the country to come up with such combinations. The seering works : The [McCormick's] share price has more than d...