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Amazon Is Giving $10 to Prime Members Just for Shopping at Whole Foods This Week

Here's how to get it. BRAD TUTTLE   July 12, 2018 Amazon  Prime members have special reason to shop at Whole Foods this week: When you spend $10 or more at Whole Foods from July 11 to 17, you’ll get a free $10 credit that can be used at  Amazon  during the Amazon Prime Day sales event coming up. Amazon Prime Day 2018  is taking place over the course of 36 hours, starting at 3 p.m. on Monday, July 16, and stretching throughout Tuesday, July 17.  Amazon says  this year’s edition of Prime Day, an annual blockbuster online sales event created in 2015 as a  summertime version of Black Friday , will be bigger than ever, with more than one million deals worldwide. This year, for the first time, Amazon is fully incorporating  Whole Foods Market stores  into its Prime Day plans. Amazon  bought Whole Foods  in 2017 for $13.7 billion, and has steadily been synergizing the brands. Soon after the acquisition was complete, Amazon instituted  cheaper prices  on some groce

Grilled Potato Salad Recipe

Ingredients: 3 pounds/1350g Russet potatoes, peeled and cut into wedges 4 green onions, root ends trimmed 1 tablespoon/15ml extra-virgin olive oil 1 pint/400g cherry tomatoes 3/4 cup/180ml nonfat plain Greek yogurt 1/2 teaspoon/2ml coarse sea salt 1/2 teaspoon/2ml ground black pepper 2 strips cooked bacon, crumbled Method: Put potatoes into a large pot, cover with salted water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes. Drain into a colander and leave potatoes in the colander to continue draining. Meanwhile, prepare a grill for medium-high heat cooking. Thinly slice dark green ends of green onions; set aside for later. Keep white and light green part of green onions whole. In a small bowl, stir together oil, large pieces of green onions and tomatoes. Thread tomatoes onto skewers. (If using wooden skewers, soak them in water for about 30 minutes before assembling.) Grill onions and tomato skewers about 8 minutes, turning once halfway through cooking, or

Old Fashion Short Cakes Recipe

This always reminds me of summertime, church or town socials and picnics and of driving along the coast in New Hampshire and Maine, where signs were abundant for “Fresh Strawberry Short cake.   2 cups/250g all purpose flour 2 tablespoons/30ml/24g granulated sugar 1 tablespoon/15ml/11g baking powder 1/8 teaspoon/.5ml salt 8 tablespoons/1 stick/113g unsalted butter 1 large egg 1/2 cup/125ml cold water or cream Preheat oven to 400F/200C/Gasmark 6 In a large bowl, whisk together dry ingredients.  Using 2 knives cut butter into dry ingredients. The mixture will resemble cornmeal (laced with small pieces of butter).  Combine egg and water or cream in measuring cup. Add to dry ingredients. Add more milk i tablespoon at a time if too dry. Turn dough out onto a clean dry surface.  Knead about 6 times until dough comes together. Won't be totally smooth. Roll out to a rectangle 1 inch/2.5cm thick. Cut dough into 4 inch/10cm circles. Place 1 inch/2.5cm apa

Chicken Reuben Casserole Recipe

Serves 4 4 Chicken Breast 28 ounces/795g Sauerkraut, drained, and rinsed 1 tablespoon/15ml Fennel Seeds(optional) 4 Slices Swiss Cheese 1 Cup/250ml 1000 Island Dressing Pre-heat oven to 375F/190C/Gas 5 Place chicken in one layer in a casserole dish.  Top evenly with sauerkraut. Spread dressing over the sauerkraut (sprinkle fennel seeds if using) and top with cheese making sure to cover each piece of chicken with cheese.  Place in pre-heated oven and bake for 30-35 minutes. Serve with toasted Pumpernickel Bread private chefs and event catering Palm Beach + Boca Raton + Fort Lauderdale + Miami Beach info@yadachef.com | 954-367-YADA (9232) 561-285-7466 www.yadachef.com south florida catering and personal chefs

Ripe vs. Unripe Bananas: Which are Better for You?

When it comes to bananas many of us go well … literally “banana’s” for them; after all, they are the  nation’s favorite fruit  and the original 100-calorie snack! Sometimes we often look at fruit and think “oh, it’s far too ripe” or “oh dang, that fruit is too green!” which is a shame because quite often different stages of a fruits maturity have different benefits. UNRIPE BANANAS Benefits:  One benefit of green bananas is the high resistant  starch content . For anyone trying to avoid food with high sugar content,  green bananas  are an option whereas yellow bananas are not. So those suffering from Type 2 Diabetes can eat the unripe fruit while maybe ripened bananas are not as compatible. Unripe bananas also have  probiotic bacteria , a friendly bacterium that helps with good colon health. In addition, green bananas also help you absorb nutrients better, particularly  calcium . Drawbacks:  Because antioxidant levels actually INCREASE as bananas age, unripe bananas are low

TSA Agents Are Going After Snacks More Than Ever and Travelers Are Not Happy

Your checklist of things to remove and put in separate plastic bins in the airport security line just keeps getting longer. ANDREA ROMANO   July 05, 2018 A few months ago, you might have noticed that some TSA agents remove any food items  from their carry-on bags before putting them through the scanner. started making the fairly unusual request that travelers  Up until recently, the policy was simply a “recommendation” issued by the TSA to help with the screening process, according to  The Washington Post . But now, it looks like the policy is becoming more concrete. More travelers, including Shivani Vora of  The New York Times , have encountered agents who have asked them to remove any edible items, citing that “it’s a new policy.” Snack removal is supposed to actually speed up lines and help agents better check for explosive devices. Larry Studdiford, a security consultant for airports and the founder of Studdiford Technical Solutions, told  The New Yo

Do Chip Bags Have Less Air in Them Than They Used To?

This study says it depends on the chip but yeah, probably MIKE POMRANZ   July 05, 2018 It doesn’t take much to crush a bag of potato chips into smithereens. To prevent this from happening, chip brands have a secret gas up their sleeve: nitrogen. Bags of chips get pumped full of the stuff to prevent the contents inside from getting completely crushed (and the nitrogen helps preserve the chips as well). But at what point do things change from that gas doing the consumer a favor to simply deceiving us about how many chips are actually inside? The answer to that question is one of personal opinion—and to be fair to the boys working for big potato chip, snack bag contents are measured by weight, not by volume, so anyone with a bit of scientific knowledge should know exactly what they are getting themselves into. Still, the amount of air in chip bags is apparently a regular customer complaint, and so every now and then, someone comes along to perform a test on which brands

Cherry Cobbler Recipe

Recipe By: Jan Lester "This was handed down by my Grandmother. You can use any kind of fruit filling. If using cherry, pie filling can be substituted with 2 cups fresh cherries." Ingredients 1/2 cup butter 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup milk 1 (21 ounce) can cherry pie filling Directions Preheat oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). Place butter or margarine in a 9x13 inch baking dish and set on oven rack to melt. In a medium bowl, mix together flour, sugar, and baking powder. Stir in milk. Remove baking dish from oven as soon as butter or margarine is melted. Pour flour mixture into dish, but DO NOT STIR. Pour fruit evenly into pan, and DO NOT STIR. Raise oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bake cobbler for 50 to 60 minutes, until golden brown. personal chefs and event catering Miami + Miami Beach + Fort Lauderdale + Palm Beach info@yadachef.com | 954-367-YADA (923

Chicken With Juniper Berries Recipe

Juniper berries are not really berries at all, but a female seed cone and are wonderful with birds and game. They give sharp  clean taste to the dish, not to mention are used to flavour gin! Serves 4 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts 1 tablespoon/15ml olive oil 1 small onion, minced 1/2 teaspoon/2ml sea salt 1/2 teaspoon/2ml black pepper, freshly ground 2 teaspoon/10ml olive oil 1 cup/250ml chicken broth 2 cups/500ml dry white wine 1 tablespoon/15ml juniper berries, lightly crushed 3 sprigs fresh thyme In large skillet on medium high heat add half of the olive oil. Swirl to coat the pan. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Cook for 3-4 minutes per side. Remove to a dish. Add additional olive oil and the onion. Cook until lightly golden (about 4 minutes). Pour in the chicken broth, wine, juniper berries, and fresh thyme sprigs to the skillet. Bring mixture to a boil until the sauce has reduced by half (3-5 minutes). Return the chicken to the pan to just heat