This week a seasonal version of the iconic American snack cake — Hostess Twinkies — joined dozens of other foods as a victim of a secondary recall because of Salmonella contamination at a powdered milk plant. Hostess Brands LLC of Kansas City, MO, initiated a nationwide recall of its “Holiday White Peppermint Twinkies” late Monday because of a recall by Blommer Chocolate Co. of the confectionary coating used on the Twinkies, according to... Five weeks after the U.S. Marshals Service raided a powdered milk factory at the request of FDA, seizing more than 4 million pounds of product because of possible Salmonella contamination, down-stream food companies are still initiating recalls, the latest being the iconic Palmer Candy Co. The 149-year-old, family-owned candy company based in Souix City, IA,… A $25 million research project that has already produced improved detection and eradication techniques for toxic E. coli is beginning its seventh year with the continued goal of reducing public health risks.

Scientists and educators at 18 institutions have been working on the project, funded with a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that… Another top job has opened up at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to be filled by President-elect Donald J. Trump. FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations — the agency’s 25-year-old police force — will be without a director after Jan. 20 because of the resignation of its chief following some more high-level shenanigans. The OCI director since January… A Saudi entrepreneur who runs a California-based raw milk network that stretches across the United States is on notice from the FDA to stop making illegal claims about the therapeutic benefits of unpasteurized milk, including raw camel milk. In a warning letter dated Sept. 15, 2016, and recently made public, the Food and Drug Administration… Three warning letters recently posted by the Food and Drug Administration cited food safety violations at a tofu production plant in California, a supplement company in Nebraska and a supplier of fish roe based in Peru.

Companies that receive FDA warning letters are given 15 days to respond in writing. sushi to go centrito valleFailure to make necessary changes… sushi grade fish oceanside A breach in food safety is enough to knock restaurants, grocers, retailers and everyone in the supply chain to their knees when contaminated food contaminates the trust consumers have in their products. jogo sushi cat the honeymoonTake Chipotle Mexican Grill for example, the most recent poster child for damaged customer relationships. In July 2015, the first of six foodborne… People who have eaten sliced deli meats from Dion’s restaurants in three states are at risk of infection from Listeria monocytogenes according to a public health alert from the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.

Dion’s restaurants in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas used the implicated meats on pizzas, salads and open-faced sandwiches from mid-December… Anyone who ate fajita or gyro dishes made with chicken strips in restaurants in the Cleveland, OH, area in December should monitor themselves for symptoms of Listeria infection in the coming weeks. Ready-to-eat, fully cooked chicken breast strips produced by House of Raeford in Mocksville, NC, and shipped to restaurants in the Cleveland area may… An anti-regulation bill that would have eliminated a training requirement for people selling wild mushrooms to food establishments in Michigan has been vetoed by Gov. Rick Snyder. The measure, HB 5532, was approved along party lines by the Republican-controlled Michigan House of Representatives and Senate — 57-52 in the House and 26-11 with one not voting… Oregon officials are warning consumers to check their homes for hazelnuts from the Schmidt Farm and Nursery farm stand and to immediately discard them because they have been named the cause of a Salmonella outbreak.

The warning Friday from the Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division reported five people have been confirmed in the outbreak… Fried Chicken SushiSushi Recipes ChickenChicken Sushi RollsTeriyaki Chicken Fried RiceFried Sushi RecipesSushi TeriyakiCooked ChickenSushi Recipes Easy HomemadeSushi Rolls HomemadeForwardDelicious, homemade sushi with teriyaki chicken, AVOCADO, and asparagus for just $1.40 per person? Click through for recipe.Stay humble, be fearless, and work, work, work, work, work, work. One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to learn how to make my own vegetarian sushi.  I’m OBSESSED with my favorite sushi restaurant, Cowfish.  I’ve been watching countless YouTube videos on how to prepare sushi, and finally decided to take the plunge today. My ingredients included baked and breaded zucchini, raw cucumber, raw beets, and cream cheese. I bought organic nori and special short-grain brown rice, too. After prepping the sushi rice in accordance with this video, I set to work.

The hardest part was getting the courage to flip the nori and roll the sushi.  I knew I needed to be confident and firm, but I was super nervous and unsure so I made the Husband’s roll first. My brown rice was sticky, but too soggy. Why did my beets bleed all over my rolls but when I get sushi at Cowfish, their beets do not bleed? What kind of knife am I suppose to use? My knives aren’t sharp enough to cut through the rolls without squishing them. I definitely want to keep learning how to make my own sushi (I think a rice cooker would make this whole process easier), but I also can’t help but think that Cowfish’s rolls are much tastier and only $4.  Sometimes, takeout really is the best option. I think I’m going to go eat a bowl of cereal instead of the remainder of my sushi.  😉 Previous post: The Final Countdown Next post: Dog-Gone AwfulWhile writing my post on How to Host a Sushi Party, I surfed the blogs for a good 30 minutes looking for a great tutorial on how to make miso soup using instant dashi.

Well, I couldn’t find one that I liked, and in that 30 minutes I could have made 30 gallons of miso soup and still photograph/write a tutorial. So thats just what I did. (the photography/writing thing, not the 30 gallons) I use instant Dashi – kind of like Japan’s version of chicken bouillon. If you didn’t have Dashi, you could use diluted chicken stock…but it just wouldn’t taste right. But hey, if you really wanted miso soup and thats all you had, go for it. Just make sure you dilute the chicken stock – 70% water, 30% stock…otherwise your miso soup will end up tasting like chicken soup. Or….instead of chicken stock – try a diluted seafood stock or vegetable stock. Both of those will work much better than chicken. Alright, back to the dashi. You could also make dashi from kombu and bonito flakes, but this recipe is the 10 minute miso soup, therefore instant dashi works just fine. Instant dashi can also come in a convenient glass jar. This is dried seaweed.

Just a tablespoon of the dried wakame will be enough for a pot of miso soup to feed 4. Soak this in a little water and watch it expand. There are many, many different kinds of seaweed, but this one is made especially for eating in miso soup. Look at the package first. Of course, I can’t read Japanese, but the back of this package shows an illustration of miso soup and little arrows pointing to put the seaweed in the soup and a happy smiling face drinking the soup. Therefore it must mean seaweed fortified with Prozac. This is the miso paste that I found in the refrigerated section of the Asian market. Many regular supermarkets have miso paste as well. I generally buy organic, but this is all I found last week. I like Shiro Miso the best – its lighter, sweeter, little less salty. The most important thing about making miso soup is that you never boil the miso paste. Only add miso after you’ve turned off the heat. So, if you are using anything that needs a little cooking time, just do that before you add the miso paste.

The reason why you don’t boil the miso – is that it will become gritty if it’s overcooked. All you need to really do to the miso is dissolve it in the just-boiled-soup.Cut into little cubes. I’ve tried making my own tofu before. Lots of work for very little tofu. I’d rather buy a block of the organic stuff. Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 5 minutes This miso soup recipe can be made in 10 minutes! Remember, you don't want to boil the miso paste -- add it at the end with the heat off to avoid a gritty texture. 1. Pour the water into a pot and bring to a boil. Add the instant dashi and whisk to dissolve. Turn the heat to medium-low and add the tofu. Drain the seaweed and add the seaweed to the pot. Simmer for 2 minutes. 2. In the meatime, Spoon the miso paste into a bowl. Ladle about 1/2 cup of the hot dashi broth into a bowl and whisk with chopsticks or a whisk to mix and melt the miso paste so that it becomes a smooth mixture. 3. Turn the heat off, add the miso paste to the pot and stir well.