DaBookLady's Recipe Life: March 2009

Friday, March 6, 2009

Sweet Potato REcipe Contest!! Win $1000

Sweet Bytes is offering a wonderful contest!! You could win $1000 just for making your favorite "original" sweet potoa recipe. All ya have to do is make it, photo it and post it on your blog, then let Sweet Bytes know... Go over there right now, and read all the rules and get cooking...............

Entries will be accepted beginning Saturday February 21, 2009 at 9:00 am ET through 11:59 pm ET on Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Contest is only open to US residents who are 18 years of age or older and currently maintain a blog. Winners picked April 9th

***Some Interesting Food and Health Facts***

*Avacados
*You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
*The drive-in restaurant concept, where patrons are served food in their vehicles, dates back to pre-World War II. The concept reached its height of popularity in the early 1950's. The first drive-in restaurant opened in Glendale, California in 1936.
*The average American consumes about 30 pounds of hamburger a year.
*The popsicle was invented by 11-years-old Frank Epperson in 1905. Epperson (1894-?) lived in San Francisco, California. Epperson had left a fruit drink out overnight (with a stirrer in it), and it froze, making a new treat.
*Purchase at least one pound of uncooked turkey per person when purchasing a whole turkey. You'll have enough for the feast and leftovers, too.
*Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century.
*The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
*You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
* Apples are made of 25% air, that is why they float.
* Apples, onions, and potatoes all have the same taste? Try the test: Pinch your nose and take a bite out of each.
* Carrots were originally purple in colour, changing in the 17th Century to orange with newer varieties.
* Cherries are a member of the rose family.
* Corn always has an even number of ears.
* Orange does not rhyme with any other word.
* Pears are a fruit that ripens from the inside out.
* Strawberries are the only fruit which has its seeds on its outer skin.
*44% of Americans go on a diet each year.
*A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
*Catsup was sold as medicine, in the 1830's.
*Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
*Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
*Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.
*Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
*The average ear of corn has 800 kernels arranged in 16 rows. *Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Cinnamon Sticks GUEST GROSGRAIN GIVEAWAY!!!!

Friday, March 6, 2009

Sweet Potato REcipe Contest!! Win $1000