February 2010

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Chili with Ground Pork and Red Beans

Submitted by tpill on February 28, 2010 - 11:21am

Enjoy this easy to make chili with ground pork and red beans. Fresh salsas added to the chili give a nice smokey flavor with a decent chili punch.

Improvements to Recipe Editing and Recipe Ingredients

Submitted by editor on February 28, 2010 - 10:06am

We've made a few adjustments to the Recipe editing module at Family Recipe Central that our users will want to know about.

Recipe Ingredients - Reordering the Ingredients List

The inability to re-order the items in the recipe ingredients list has been a frustrating limitation on our system. After you put your recipe ingredients in and save the recipe, you may want to change the order of one or more of the ingredients in the list. Worse, if you update an ingredient such as fixing a spelling mistake or rewording the ingredient description, the system will change the order of the updated ingredient in the list, usually moving the item to the end of the list.

We're currently working on an update release that will include a number of enhancements to the recipe ingredients list including a drag-and-drop interface to easily reorder the list.

In the meantime, we've provided an interim solution that makes it possible to reorder the ingredient list.

Polenta with Shitake Mushrooms

Submitted by recipebob on February 21, 2010 - 3:02pm

Polenta is a staple food from the North of Italy, made from corn meal. While the simplicity of Polenta is one of its virtues, variations like Polenta with Shitake Mushrooms are easy ways to enhance this versatile dish.

Default Photos at Family Recipe Central

Submitted by editor on February 21, 2010 - 11:59am

Images and photos add an extra dimension to just about every form of content at Family Recipe Central including your user profile, family group home page, your recipes and cookbooks and your personal and group blog posts that you can create.

In the spirit of "pictures provide a much more interesting view", we've added a few default images that you should be aware of.

User Profile

We have been using a default gravatar image for your user profile picture. Many of you may not have registered at Gravatar, so you end up with a unique auto-generated image (Gravatar keeps track of the unique image they create based on your email address - remember, email addresses are unique across the Internet).

By the way, Gravatar is a convenient way to handle your user profile picture that can follow you everywhere you go on the Interent where the Gravatar system is used to provide user profile images.

cute gravatar sample image

For the most part, the auto-generated Gravatar images are kind of cute ...

Arugula Salad with Parmesan Cheese

Submitted by recipebob on February 15, 2010 - 8:45am

Arugula salad with shaved Parmesan cheese is a simple, fresh salad that scores with great flavor, easy to prepare.

Pasta Fagioli Soup

Submitted by recipebob on February 13, 2010 - 2:24pm

Pasta Fagioli soup (pasta e fagioli) translates as pasta with beans in Italian. This classic Italian soup makes a perfect first course or starter. And you can make a full meal with this hearty soup, just add a nice crusty Italian bread.

Ratatouille

Submitted by recipebob on February 12, 2010 - 5:13pm

Ratatouille is a vegetable stew made popular in the Provence region of France. "Rata" is a slang term for stew in French, and "touiller" means "to stir". So literally, a stew that is stirred.

There are many variations to ratatouille, and no one standard or correct way to prepare this dish. Think of it as similar to American "stew", it can take on a number of forms and is open to your interpretation.

This ratatouille variation includes mushrooms for some additional succulent texture and balsamic vinegar for a rich flavor with a touch of tangy sweetness.

What is Food Porn Doing on a Family Recipe Site

Submitted by editor on February 11, 2010 - 7:34am

Food Porn? Come on, this is a family site!

If you're a food and recipe enthusiast and you're familiar with the many great food blogs and recipe sites online, then I'm pretty sure you're also familiar with the term "food porn".

If not, then food porn is probably not exactly what you might be thinking. After all, this is a family friendly site, so get your thoughts out of the gutter. I think you'll actually find out that food porn is quite wholesome and provides true g-rated entertainment value.

Food porn is a provacative term generally referring to the spectacular presentation of food in advertisements, cooking shows and other visual media including the great proliferation of food blogs on the Internet. The intention of this close-up, glorified presentation of food is to appeal to your eating desire.

For example, the popular food show "Iron Chef" scores high on the scale of spectacular visual presentation of food. The truth of the matter, the show's audience is probably more vicariously entertained watching the food presentations than actually cooking and preparing the recipes and dishes featured on the show.

In the United States, food porn also takes on a slightly negative context when applied to the food industry that some would say goes too far in marketing less than healthy, high fat content, artery clogging food in an irresistable and tantalizing manner.

Across the blogoshpere, food porn, in a mostly "tongue and cheek" manner, refers to the myriad of food blogs that feature spectacular photographs of food. Spectular food photography has most definitely become part of the pop food culture today. If you're interested in food, it's good fun to gaze at the food photography that people are turning out every day.

Collard Greens and Turnips

Submitted by tpill on February 10, 2010 - 9:12am

At the New Year, this is the time for collard greens and turnips. Actually, we are ready to enjoy a bowl of greens and turnips any time of year. And remember the corn bread to sop up the pot liquor. Oh my.

Thin Crust Pizza Dough

Submitted by recipebob on February 9, 2010 - 9:20am

Nothing better than a homemade fresh pizza. Making your own thin-crust pizza dough is not as difficult as you might think.