Friday, January 24, 2014

Reliability of Food Blogs


Food blogs tend not to have reliability issues as they are just relaying information about how to make certain dishes or desserts. The only issues that would come up is false promoting and preparation issues.

Promotions like the "best spaghetti " or the "most moist cupcakes"happen often. For example there are 3 million most moist cupcake URL's that come up on google search and 87 million results on best spaghetti. There can not be 3 million most moist cupcakes in the world, nor can there be 87 million best spaghetti's. These falsities are not life threatening, and they can be tested but no one will go through and test 87 million spaghetti's to see which one is the best. I'm sure everyone has their own opinion to which one is the best. But even then there can only be so many of the best.

There are issues concerning the proper procedures for preparing certain foods. Foods like raw eggs and meat need to have careful cooking instructions to insure they are cooked properly. And most food preparation blogs or websites have warnings about making sure you cook meat properly. Also the use of raw eggs is almost always followed with a warning for elderly, pregnant women and children for ingesting food with raw eggs.

Apart from these issues food blogs and websites tend not to have any hoaxes. And their reliability concerns only to proper preparation and false advertising.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Introduction

My name is Kendralee. I am half Jamaican and half German. I wanted to write about something I would be proud of. Something that would make a difference. So I have decided to share my grandmother's recipes.
My grandparents families have brought these recipes with them from the Ukraine where they lived and passed them down through generations. We are not sure which recipes are German and which are Ukrainian or whether they are some mixture of both. 

Over the next couple of months my grandmother and I will make these recipes so I can extract the measurements and share them with all of you. These are the recipes I will be sharing with you, in no specific order.

Streudle
Streudle is an extremely thin dough rolled up into little cylinders. My grandmother makes a Pork Rib, Potato and Tomato Paste Stew. This is my favourite of the Five that we will make. My family always uses the stew to dunk the dough into.

Dumpfnoodle
Dumpfnoodle is a fried ball of dough stuffed with sour kraut and sausage. This is a family favourite! My grandma is so nice she makes them custom for us. I don't like sour kraut, my mom doesn't like them with to much sour kraut and my grandfather likes some with nothing in them to use with his soup later. 

Fleisch Roladen
Fleisch(Flesh Roladen) is pickle and bacon wrapped in a beef tenderloin. This is not my favourite but it is still really yummy. I like it after i take the pickle out, but I'm really picky. My boyfriend really likes this one because of the lack of dough. My grandma makes it instead of roast with all the fixings. 

Borscht
Borscht is a cabbage, beef and vegetable soup. It is really hearty and good. My grandparents really like this. They make it all the time for themselves. 

Schneeballen
Schneeballen is a German pudding dessert. It is made with egg whites and vanilla cream. We are going to try this one for the first time together. My grandmother assures me it is yummy!


I hope you enjoy what I will share with you over the next couple months.