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Award-Winning recipe for Cinco de Mayo Guacamole with Blue Cheese and Bacon (inspired by Food Network Best Thing I Ever Ate)



Guacamole Kit
Guacamole Kit

Friends of Web Watch have a large-scale annual Cinco de Mayo party featuring a salsa competition. We’ve been lucky enough to have walked away a prize every year with various takes on salsa, so when this year’s invitation indicated that there would be a guacamole competition instead (“to shake things up a bit”), we took that on as a challenge.

Because, let’s face it, guacamole really isn’t all that hard to make. It’s making prize-winning guacamole that people will declare as “the best thing I ever ate” that takes a little bit more effort.

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Just in time for the Kentucky Derby: The Ultimate Bourbon Ball Recipe



The Kentucky Derby Museum Cookbook
The Kentucky Derby Museum Cookbook

Next week is the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

And if you’re like Web Watch, you will be tuning in to watch the race with friends – holding a mint julep in one hand, and a racing form in the other… all while trying to see the race through the forest of giant Kentucky Derby hats worn by the ladies in the room.

But Kentucky isn’t know just for this long-running horse race.

No, Kentucky is also known for bourbon.

So if you’re going to host or attend a KENTUCKY DERBY PARTY on race day, you may want to make something bourbon-related.  You know, just because.

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FOOD ALERT! Girl Scout cookie Thin Mints are still smaller, so try this recipe




Girl Scout Cookie Thin Mint

It really shouldn’t bother Web Watch as much as it does.

After all, eating too many cookies of any type isn’t good for you.  Heck, even Cookie Monster says that “Cookies are a Sometimes Food

But as the Chicago Sun-Times and others pointed out last year, Girl Scout cookies were getting a bit smaller, perhaps due to the recession.   There’s even a FACEBOOK page devoted to fans who want to get their 8 cookies back in the box.

But now an entire whole year has passed since, and Web Watch dutifully went to the local grocery store to buy our annual allottment of Thin Mints, Tagalongs, and Samoas from the Girl Scouts (and their parents) trying to sell off their excess inventory*.

And Web Watch can confirm that this year’s Thin Mints Economic Indicator shows that the economy is still in the gutter as the 2010 box looks to be the same as the 2009 box.  That is, in 2010 we’re still looking at a smaller box and fewer cookies.

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Want to cook like a professional chef? Set your TiVo on Dec 15 for “Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live”



Gordon Ramsay Kitchen NightmaresWeb Watch has enjoyed watching Gordon Ramsay yell at both potential and actual restaurant employees for years on HELL’S KITCHEN and KITCHEN NIGHTMARES, respectively. 

And in the end, we wholeheartedly agree with the yelling, as he is yelling for good reason the majority of the time.  All Gordon wants is to bring out the best in people. 

So while you may not agree with his methods, you can agree that when it comes to food he does know what he’s talking about. 

Which is why FOX has decided to import yet another British series for Ramsay that shows a decidedly softer side of the typically angry chef in GORDON RAMSAY: COOKALONG LIVE, airing live on FOX on December 15th.

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A new holiday treat: Turbaconducken! (Order yours today)



turduckenEveryone jokes about ubiquitious holiday food, from the green bean casserole to the fruitcake.

But no other holiday food has garnered as much interest as the TURDUCKEN, an epicurean concoction of a deboned chicken stuffed inside of a deboned duck, stuffed inside a turkey.

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Problems with Food Network Recipes: Jerk Chicken and Zarela’s Creamy Rice Casserole



Oaxaca Traditional Recipes
Oaxaca Traditional Recipes Cookbook by Zalera Martinez

Web Watch enjoys watching Food Network, and one of the limited-run series that Food Network has been airing for the past few weeks is entitled THE BEST THING I EVER ATE.

Each episode has various Food Network stars (Guy Fieri, Duff Goldman, Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, etc) raving about the Best Things They’ve Ever Eaten in different categories. If you’re a foodie, these are the places around the country that you should stick your head into to see what’s up.

One episode, entitled “Obsessions”, covered foods from Miami to San Francisco. Finally, an episode that featured three(!) restaurants that Web Watch has already visited. So far, so good.

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Twecipes – Chefs Cook Up Recipes with Twitter



Everyone who uses Twitter knows that Twitter limits all tweets to 140-characters.

That means some people get very creative with their abbreviations and phrasing in order to squeeze every last bit of information into those 140-characters.

But even with that restriction, it is possible to write TWECIPES aka COOKING RECIPES in those 140 characters.

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Six Chocolate-Bacon Recipes



A few weeks ago, Web Watch bought a Vosges Chocolate Bacon candy bar, just to see what all the fuss was about.

We get it.  It wasn’t perfect, but it had promise.  We shared the bacon-chocolate with others and reviews came back ranging from “ewwww” to “wow”.

So considering how many people are putting bacon into all types of desserts, Web Watch thought we’d throw some of the more interesting ideas together here.  Try some of these and report back what you’ve come up with.  Be careful and don’t eat too much: chocolate-covered bacon is also why you’re fat.

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A Kentucky Derby Bourbon Balls Recipe



Just in time for the Kentucky Derby in Louisville running later today, here is just one of many different recipes you may find for KENTUCKY DERBY BOURBON BALLS.

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