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Preparing Dry Cured Sausages Want to make dry cured meats like Salami, Peperone (also: pepperoni), or Chorizo? The slides above will give you a brief step by step of the process. We'll go more in depth as we move along our own adventures in charcuterie. 

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We're happy to announce that we will once again be part of the International Home + Housewares Show (March 10th-13th in Chicago). Not only can you visit us all four days in booth S2183, but you can watch a live cooking demonstration by Michael Symon on Sunday the 11th from 10am to12pm. Weston's favorite celebrity chef will give a cooking demo to show the versatility of the Professional

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New to Michael's Live to Cook line: Safe Slice Mandolines. Chef Symon loves mandolines because they seriously reduce the amount of time required in knife work. Mandolines allow you to slice through foods both swiftly and precisely - Perfectly even pepper rings, matchstick potatoes, radish ribbons, tomato slices, and more, in minutes. When you're an Iron Chef, every second counts, and we know

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Pinterest is a fairly new social networking tool that allows you to 'pin' web images to pinboards created by you. Pinboards are focused around a particular subject and help you to keep your pins organized. They allow you to share the things you've come across on the web. If you think of it like Facebook, it's like a page that visually shows off all of your 'likes.' At Weston, we've

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Click to watch on the official Backlands site Season 9 of 'BackLand Experiences' is now in full swing on the Pursuit Channel (Thursdays @ 9pm EST). The show follows Scott Anderson and his hunting buddies on their adventures all over the backcountry. Between the stunning HD cinematography and honest storytelling, we highly recommend this show to those of you who love to hunt! In this

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Recently, we were asked for help with making Whole Wheat Pasta, and we thought, "Gee, we bet a lot of our customers could use help with that!" And so, what better place than here to share our Westonian knowledge on the subject... Why Whole Wheat? Whole Wheat flour is unrefined - it uses the entire wheat seed. Your body burns extra calories working to process the fiber found in Whole Wheat

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In this video, CEO of Weston Products, Mike Caspar shows you how to make jerky with the venison from his latest hunt. Throughout the jerky making process, we cover: Choosing the cut of meat Slicing Using the Weston 7 ½" Meat Slicer Seasoning Using a dehydrator vs a smoker Curing Marinating Using a Weston Vacuum Sealer to marinate Dehydrating Using the Weston 4 Tier Dehydrator

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Get ready for the Last Days of Deal of the Day! Apple PeelerSaturday, December 17th New from Weston, this Apple Peeler doubles as a corer and allows you to effortlessly peel, core, and slice apples and other soft fruits and vegetables. Not only is it great for making apple pies, we love making curly fries with it too! Regularly $24.99, Just

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If you've never had Michael Symon's legendary Lola fries, you're missing out. They're the epitome of why we all love Michael Symon so much. He keeps it simple. Fresh cut potatoes, rosemary, and sea salt. Three ingredients can take you to new french fry heights. The Michael Symon Live to Cook French Fry Cutter with the fresh cut Lola fries made by Chef Symon himself. And all that you need

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Michael Symon and Jason Roberts in a sausage making duel [using the new Michael Symon Live to Cook Sausage Stuffer by Weston], assisted by Food Network mixologists Alie & Georgia This past weekend, Weston sponsored a "Celebration of Cleveland’s Culinary Scene," hosted by Michael Symon at the Cleveland Fabulous Food Show. The Weston Cleveland Culinary Scene was a gathering of Cleveland Food

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Weston CEO Mike Caspar shows off our new Michael Symon Live to Cook collection on New Day Cleveland to preview our presence at the Cleveland Fabulous Food Show. If you're in the area, stop by! We're located at Booth #119, across from the Farmer's Market and Taste of the Neighborhood Stage.   Michael Symon will be performing a live demo of his Live to Cook line by Weston at our booth today (

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Symon Says, "Bigger flavors at home - that's what living to cook is all about." Coming soon to the Live to Cook line is this Professional Advantage Vacuum Sealer. Vacuum Sealers are great for preserving foods, especially if you have one that produces a quality seal. With this vacuum sealer, you can go one step further and marinate and compress your foods - it's that powerful. Michael

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Michael Symon is a self-described "meat-centric" chef. So when he puts a meat grinder into his Live to Cook line, he doesn't just settle. He chooses a grinder that's tough enough for an Iron Chef. Michael Symon Live to Cook No. 8 Commercial Grade Electric Meat Grinder & Sausage Stuffer This meat grinder is a heavy-duty, commercial grade, .5 horsepower, 350-watt beast. It's built of all

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Browse the new Michael Symon collection above Today we launched a new site, MichaelSymon.WestonProducts.com, as an online source for our latest line of specialty kitchen products, the Michael Symon Live to Cook collection. Celebrity Chef Michael Symon is an Iron Chef, Food Network Star, host of ABC’s “The Chew,” and now, he has partnered with us to

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Did you know Weston's IT Manager is an Italian cooking genius? We didn't either. Last week, he prepared an incredible meal for Westonians that illuminated this fact for all of us. And we just didn't think it fair not to share it! He started by dehydrating fresh Italian bread and Roma tomatoes in a Weston Food Dehydrator. He then ran each through a Weston Meat Grinder separately to produce

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Prep Time 10 minutes   Cook Time 6 hours Ingredients 4- 1/2 lb. top round steaks 2 eggs for egg wash 1 cup homemade breadcrumbs 1/2 cup grated fresh Locatelli 1/2 cup grated fresh Pecorino Romano Tools Weston Meat Cuber/Tenderizer or Meat Cuber/Tenderizer Attachment Weston #5 Electric Meat Grinder with Shredder/Slicer Attachment Butcher's twine Run steaks

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Herb Dehydrate Time 6-10 hr   Prep Time 10 min   Cook Time 6 hr    Ingredients 2 tablespoons fresh basil 2 tablespoons fresh oregano 1 lb beef chuck steak 1 lb pork shoulder cut from the bone - set bone aside 1 lb. veal loin chops, cut from the bone - set bone aside 10 garlic cloves, minced Tools Weston Dehydrator Weston Meat Grinder Weston Meat Lug Dehydrate

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Prep Time 10 min     Cook Time 3-5 min     Serves 6-8 Ingredients 1 1/2 cups Semolina1 teaspoon salt2 eggs1/8 cup white wine1/4 cup frozen spinach 1 tablespoon olive oil for boiling  1 teaspoon salt, for boiling  1 tablespoon olive oil for tossing Tools  Roma Tube Pasta Machine by Weston  Roma Bamboo Spoons by Weston Roma Colanders by Weston Defrost the

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Prep Time 30 min     Cook Time 6+ hours Ingredients 20 tomatoes 2 cups chianti 3 tablespoons fresh basil leaves, chopped 3 tablespoons fresh oregano leaves 2 cups grated Locatelli 2 cups grated Pecorino Romano 10 garlic cloves, minced 12 oz (1 1/2 cups) tomato paste Tools   Weston Tomato Strainer/Sauce Maker, any of the following models will do: Roma Electric Tomato Strainer/

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Ingredients 1 loaf fresh Italian bread 1 cup basil leaves 3 sprigs oregano Tools Weston Dehydrator (We used the Weston 6-Tray Dehydrator) Weston Meat Grinder (We used the Weston #5 Electric Meat Grinder) Dehydrate all in a Weston Food Dehydrator at 115 degrees for about 8 hours - but check back every hour after 4 hours (due to water content, dehydrating times vary).   Run all ingredients

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Method #1: Dehydrating Tomato Puree Makes 8 Cups of Paste Ingredients 10 Roma Tomatoes   Tools Weston Dehydrator Weston Tomato Strainer/Sauce Maker, any of the following models will do: - Roma Electric Tomato Strainer/Sauce Maker by Weston - Weston #5 Meat Grinder with Tomato Strainer Attachment - Roma Manual Tomato Strainer/Sauce Maker by Weston Puree the tomatoes

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We're so excited about our new Electric Tomato Strainer, we just keep on coming up with excuses to use it! One of the best features of the strainer is the berry screen, which strains out stems and seeds from the fruit puree while processing... which just so happens to make the perfect puree for fruit leather. With a Roma™ by Weston® Electric Tomato Strainer and a Weston® Dehydrator, making

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The good folks over at Kabab-O-Matic stopped by to make us some authentic kababs. Using a Weston Vertical Sausage Stuffer and their kabab making attachment, they churned out the most delicious kababs we've ever had. Homemade kababs are typically made by hand, but the Kabab-O-Matic makes perfect, uniform kababs every time - quickly and easily. They attached their

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  Summer inspires some novel pairings as foodies become eager to use up fresh fruits and vegetables before it's too late. One of our favorite, less explored combinations is strawberries and tomatoes. Mixed with the wrong ingredients, the two mixed together can prove disastrous, but with just the right enhancers, the blend of sweet and savory can be the epitome of fresh summer flavor. Two

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Here in Ohio, we have a plethora of delicious fruits and vegetables in season right now. The local farmers markets are  pushing strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and rhubarb in particular. Naturally, we decided it was time to get out the canning kit and savor the fresh flavors of summer in the form of jam. Once we started jammin', we went a little overboard and ended up with five

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When it comes to coleslaws, the possibilities are endless. And we were further reminded of that when this article from CNN's Eatocracy came across our feed: Rule of slaw. So when we made coleslaw, we decided that the only way to appease everyone was to approach the cabbage with a few different options. Yet still, narrowing it down to three was unnerving. We did a lot of soul searching, lost a

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Making jerky with the Weston Original Jerky Kit Wondering what to get your Dad for Father's Day? We were too until we came across this article by Epicurious.com: 12 D.I.Y. Kits For Every Type of Dad. It was there that we found our Original Jerky Kit. We don't know about you, but all of our dads love jerky, so we decided to offer 15% off our D.I.Y. Dad-friendly Original Jerky Kit for

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 It's official - the brand new Realtree Outfitters™ line of game processing equipment by Weston® is out and we couldn't wait to give our venison burger recipe a try in the awesome new burger press! We're so excited about our burgers that not only are we going to share the recipe with you, we've included a link below where you can get free patty paper when you purchase the Realtree Outfitters™

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Tweet   Marination Time 6 hours        Prep Time 30 min        Grill Time 10 min Ingredients 3 lbs. venison 1 lb. bacon 3 cloves garlic, minced 2 shallots, minced 3 tablespoons fresh parsley 2 tablespoons worcestershire sauce 2 tablespoons olive oil 3 teaspoons black pepper 1 egg Tools Weston® Flat Top Dial ScaleRealtree Outfitters™ Meat Grinder by Weston® Weston® Meat Lug or Meat

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Prep Time 6-8 hr. stock, 20 min    Cook Time 30 min.   Serves 8-10  Ingredients 2 gallons ham stock (ham bone, 1/2 lb ham, 2 gallons water) 2 lbs. ham 12 oz. shredded mild cheddar 12 oz. corn 1 red pepper 1 quart heavy cream 10-12 small red potatoes 1 cup scallions 1 red onion Tools Weston Stainless Steel Cone Strainer Weston 9" Meat Slicer Weston Silicone Spray Weston Multi-Chopper Weston

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We made Ham & Cheese Corn Chowder from our Easter leftovers. The Weston Stainless Steel Cone Strainer was perfect for making the ham stock, the Weston 9" Meat Slicer sliced our leftover ham into perfect slices for soup, the Weston Stainless Steel Mandoline Vegetable Slicer and Multi-Chopper took care of all of our vegetables, and the Weston Stainless Steel Food Mill made a perfect corn puree.

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When you prepare your lamb this Easter, be sure to set aside the shoulder for sausage making. With a Weston Meat Grinder, Sausage Stuffer, and Smoker, your Easter lamb extras can be made into a smoky, flavorsome lamb sausage. For this recipe, we used the Weston #22 Commercial Grade Electric Grinder, Weston 11 lb. Vertical Sausage Stuffer, and Weston 36” Propane Smoker, but Weston carries a

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Serves 10-12     Prep Time  1 day    Smoke Time 1 hour Ingredients  5 tablespoon olive oil 5 garlic cloves 5 lbs lamb shoulder 2 lb. pork fat 2 tablespoons paprika 2 tablespoons cayenne 2 tablespoons cumin seeds 2 tablespoons chili powder 5 tablespoons kosher salt 2 ½ teaspoons sugar hog casings hickory smoking chips Tools Weston Multi-Seed Grinder Weston Meat Grinder Weston Vertical

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At Weston, we're not all blog and no bite. Our CEO loves to make sausage just as much as our customers do. Here, he shows you how to properly tie a sausage link with our Smoked Lamb Sausage - get the recipe!

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Weston is soon releasing our new line of Roma by Weston Bamboo Spoons. Why bamboo? Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants on earth. It regenerates quickly and on its own, and its cultivation is organic, requiring no pesticides or other chemicals. Bamboo is naturally anti-microbial Our bamboo spoons are safe for use on all cooking surfaces These spoons are top rack dishwasher safe

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At Weston, energy efficiency means using your own energy to get the job done. Our manual style products give you the peace of mind that you prepared your food with your own hands, while saving money on the electric bill. Take a look at some of the simpler products that we offer. Roma by Weston Traditional Style Pasta Machine Make fresh, homemade spaghetti, fettucini, ravioli, lasagna, and

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Did you know that Weston has a full line of home harvesting products? Here are some ways to use them for your spring crops - remember that specific crops and harvest dates depend on your location (try the Field to Plate™ Seasonality Guide) . . . Mint & Parsley Use a Weston Dehydrator to make your own fresh herbs. Morels, Radishes, & Turnips Use a Weston Stainless Steel Mandolin Vegetable

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We can think of plenty of reasons - How about additives, preservatives, chemicals, pesticides, toxins, herbicides, xenobiotics, genetic engineering, global warming, factory farms, cloning, trans fats, pollution, nutritional value, E. coli, fossil fuels, local economies, health risks… we could go on for decades. Processed foods are full of preservatives and unhealthy additives. They come from

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Tweet           One of the best ways to be green in the kitchen is to be energy efficient. We’re not talking about going out and buying an expensive new appliance. Using your own energy can be an excellent way to give back to mother earth. The Weston Stainless Steel Food Mill is a great multi-purpose manual tool in cooking homemade dishes from scratch. It’s a sturdy, ergonomic, hand

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Tweet If you live to cook, then you've been dying to see the new Michael Symon line by Weston®, "Live to Cook":

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Tweet Celebrate the festival of colors and the arrival of spring with our favorite Indian Curry Recipe! Yesterday marked the first day of spring and Saturday saw Holi. Celebrated primarily by the Hindu religion, Holi (or Basant Utsav) is a celebration of nature and color. Just because the festival is technically over doesn’t mean we can’t go on celebrating - and considering it’s Monday, we

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Tweet Iron Chef Michael Symon showed off his new "Live To Cook" line by Weston at the International Home + Housewares Show this week. Watch the demo: We partnered with Chef Symon to bring you fresh products for processing, preparing, and preserving your fresh foods. Locavores, foodies, and home harvesters alike will delight in the effortless ways these tools enhance the cooking

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Tweet You must have the luck of the Irish if you're reading this. The pot of gold at the end of this rainbow is our Homemade Corned Beef Recipe. Forget the long lines at your favorite deli this St. Patty's Day - With a crock pot and a Weston 9" Food Slicer, the best corned beef will be made right in your kitchen. This isn't just a lot of blarney - see for yourself at the Cooking with

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You can celebrate a cajun-style Mardi Gras without being in New Orleans this Fat Tuesday! Andouille is a spicy cajun-style smoked sausage that is often served with black beans and rice and makes for a perfect Mardi Gras dish. With a Weston Meat Grinder, Sausage Stuffer and Smoker, you can make your own Andouille like we did! Visit the Cooking With Weston Recipe Book for our recipe. Recipes

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Tweet If the way to your significant other's heart is through their stomach, we have a recipe that will make them yours forever. Cupid may have an arrow but we have, well, a vacuum sealer. It may sound strange, but preparing the most tender steaks means vacuum sealing them raw and cooking them in their bag in a water bath. The technique is called sous vide and you don't need a sous vide

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Tweet With Christmas just around the corner, now is the time to start collecting your favorite holiday recipes. Every year I page through magazines and click through webpages looking for something exciting and new to file away in my recipe book. But this year, nothing sparked my interest enough to earn a tear-out or even a print-out. As I sat there across from the bright red pasta

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As snow begins to fall, now is the time to roll out the comfort foods. One of my favorites is a pot pie. Your turkey leftovers are great for pot pies. Turkey, veggies, and flaky fillo shells filled with mashed potatoes make this pot pie special. Visit the Cooking With Weston Recipe Book for Turkey Pot Pie my way.

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Tweet Using my ground turkey from Monday, I pressed together turkey, chipotle sauce, smoked cheddar, mayo, and cilantro in a Weston Burger Press for this recipe. Chipotle sauce makes for the best turkey burgers - visit the Cooking With Weston Recipe Book for my Smokey Chipotle Turkey Burger recipe.

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I ground up my turkey leftovers in a Weston Manual Meat Grinder today for all of this week's recipes. One of the best ways I know of to get rid of Thanksgiving leftovers is to throw 'em all together and roll 'em up. Turkey Roll is incredibly simple. After all of the elaborate cooking we do for Thanksgiving, the week after is a time for simplicity. I laid out about a pound

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Tweet Remember that Apple Sausage Stuffing I made last week? Well hopefully you didn't already eat yours - because it goes perfectly with today's main course: Applewood Smoked Turkey. You can smoke a whole 10-12 lb. turkey or you can smoke a large turkey breast, which is what I did. If you do smoke a whole turkey, don't be tempted to stuff it. While this dish is perfect with the Apple

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Tweet Au Gratin is a rotten name for such a tasty dish. But it is what it is. The French used the term "au gratin" for culinary gems with a browned crust on top. Fresh sweet potatoes, orange juice, oats, brown sugar, butter, walnuts, and spices make this dish part of the 'upper crust' of Thanksgiving dishes, and so I changed its name a little to suit its deliciosity. Visit the Cooking

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Tweet Are you tired of the same old cranberry sauce? My recipe for Cranberry Chutney puts a new twist on an old classic. Dried fruits, cider vinegar, and of course, cranberries make a chutney that pairs well with any turkey. It doesn't take long to make and its easy to store, so with just a few days left until Turkey Day, you can make the chutney now, vacuum seal it, and store it in the

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Tweet This week, I'm giving you three more ways to make traditional exceptional. Here's what to look forward to: Monday Evening 11/22/10 - Cranberry Chutney Tuesday Evening 11/23/10 - Sweet Potatoes Au Gratin Wednesday Evening 11/24/10 - Applewood Smoked Turkey with Apple Sausage Stuffing

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Tweet  Pumpkin Pie is nice. It's traditional. It's nice and traditional. It's also boring. While you can always use my Pumpkin Pie Recipe for a recipe that's not so cliche, you could also go all out and surprise your friends and family with a Pumpkin Tart this Thanksgiving. You could even make your own pie crust with my Homemade Pie Crust Recipe and really do Thanksgiving right. White

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Tweet Next week I'm making an Applewood Smoked Turkey and I wanted to make a stuffing to accompany it ahead of time. I cubed and toasted ciabatta bread on a Weston Baking Mat, cored and chopped red delicious apples with a Weston Multi-Chopper, and mixed them with the leftover Italian Sausage from Novemberfest, herbs & spices crushed with a Weston Multi-Seed Grinder, and onions chopped

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Tweet I hate mushrooms. I don't like the way they taste. I don't like the way they feel in my mouth. And I don't like that they're in green bean casserole. So I came up with a new recipe that tastes like green bean casserole, but it doesn't have mushroom soup... or green beans! Visit the Cooking with Weston Recipe Book for my recipe for Zucchini Fries. And if this recipe still leaves you

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Tweet You don't need spuds to make tasty fries. Since I showed you two non-traditional ways to make burgers this week, it's only fair that I provide you with the way to make fries that measure up to these burgers. You can eat Sweet Potato Fries and Zucchini Fries with any meal, but I like them best with my Wild Blueberry Burgers and Southwest

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Tweet I may not be a vegetarian, but I know a good veggie burger when I taste one, and my Southwest Black Bean Burgers are gooood! I use a food processor to mix black beans, corn, red bell peppers, egg, bread crumbs, flour, cilantro, and spices, add some whole black beans to the mix, press the burgers with a Weston Burger Press, and my Southwest Black Bean Burger patties are done in no time.

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I do not like deer meat. In fact, I don't like wild game. "Gaminess" is not a flavor that I subscribe to. But I do like my Wild Blueberry Burgers. Deer season is here in Ohio for archers, and will be soon for other hunters. So I thought, "What better time to make deer burgers?" The beauty is that my burgers not only tasted better than regular old venison, they looked flawless after I

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It was Novemberfest tonight as the Weston Sales Team made sausage! And the feature of our sausage-making event... Weißwurst. Weisswurst (ß or an "eszett" is the German letter that replaces double s) is a Bavarian favorite that I had in Munich. It is literally a white sausage. "What makes it white?" many asked. It is half veal and half pork, so the meat is white once cooked. In addition,

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Tweet I think it best to warn you ahead of time that it takes about 6 weeks total to make sauerkraut in a fermenting crock. I started by quartering my cabbage heads around the core. With a Weston Cabbage Shredder, I shredded all of my cabbage in no time. I have a particular set up that I like to use when shredding cabbage. I find it easiest to turn the board away from me with the

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Tweet Just over six months ago, I was sitting in a warm Augustiner in Munich debating with my friends about the neatly tucked pretzels in the basket that was in the middle of our long table: "No! Don't eat them! We don't know how much they cost yet!" "But they look so good. Who cares!" If there's anything we learned from Italy, it was not to consume anything placed on the table

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Tweet Have you ever had peppermint bark? Or maybe you've had chocolate or almond bark? Well you won't have to wait until Christmas for a seasonal chocolate bark. It's no secret that I love the flavor of pumpkin. So I thought, why not make Pumpkin Bark? It took me a few tries to perfect the recipe, but I'm proud to share with you my Pumpkin Bark. I feel a little like Dr. Frankenstein. I've

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Tweet Halloween is right around the corner, and I can't think of a better treat to share at parties than cupcakes. But you can't show up with just any old cupcake. Bring along these Carrot Cupcakes for cupcakes that not only look like fall has arrived, they taste like it too! For this recipe, I made a moist carrot cake and filled it with a mascarpone-cream cheese frosting with a Weston

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Tweet In the spirit of 'trick-or-treat,' today I made a Zapple Pie. Zapple Pie is both a trick and a treat. In reality it's a zucchini pie, but to your taste buds, it's a delicious apple pie. As I baked the pie, Weston employees filtered through from as far as the back offices: "I smell apple pie all the way at my desk!" "Actually, it's zapple pie." "What's that?" "It's made with

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Tweet I usually purchase at least one, sometimes two smoothies a day. Not only do they taste great, they're often great for you as well. So I decided, why not make my own smoothies at home? Two of the healthiest natural ingredients I could think of were flaxseed and sunflower seeds. Flaxseed is one of the best plant sources of omega-3 fatty acids, which aid the immune and cardiovascular

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Tweet I try to take 1 oz. of wheatgrass juice a day, and while the health benefits of wheatgrass are disputed, I know the changes that I've noticed. The biggest reason that I take wheatgrass juice is for energy. And not just a 'boost' of energy - energy that gets me through the rest of the day. I also have yet to get sick even though every one in my family has been sick several times

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Tweet The time for colds and flu is right around the corner, so what better time than now to start incorporating healthy eating into your diet? In my house, vegetable sandwiches have become one of our staple dinners. They're simple to make, nutritious, and you can prepare them a million different ways. To find a local farmer's market to buy fresh veggies, visit LocalHarvest.org. One of

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Tweet Cinderella Pumpkins are on the far left You just can’t have an autumn themed week of cooking without pumpkins. So I journeyed back to my favorite local vegetable stand for some standard pie pumpkins. I’m making Pumpkin Pie and a Ginger Pumpkin Roulade. When I asked for a few pie pumpkins, the friendly man behind the stand informed me that the Cinderella Pumpkin is actually best for

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Tweet For me, it's not officially autumn until I've brought home fresh picked acorn squash. My Acorn Squash Soup Bowls and Sweet Cinnamon Squash Seeds were the perfect excuse to stop by Mapleside Farms again. The beauty of acorn squash is that it's so flavorful, all you need for an impressive dish is a little nutmeg or cinnamon. When I make soup from acorn squash, I don't like to waste a

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Tweet This week, I'm using three of my favorite fall ingredients in my cooking: apples, squash, and pumpkins. Apples were today's focus, and so I absolutely had to use the Weston Fruit and Wine Press to make fresh apple cider. I was already excited about using this really neat tool, but since I saw it used on The Food Network's Chefs vs. City, it's become that much more cooler to use. In the

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Tweet  While I am in love with the Roma by Weston Electric Pasta Machine, I pryed my flour-covered hands off of it last night in exchange for a night in the olden days. A lot of people prefer a manual machine to an electric one. It's true, there is something strangely beautiful about using a steel bodied hand crank pasta maker. It gives you an unexplainable credibility to use one. I feel

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Tweet Continuing with the theme of Pasta and Sauce for this week, I cooked up some Whole Wheat Pasta, smothered it with Pineapple Cream Pasta Sauce, and finished the evening off right with Chili Chocolate Fettucine with Raspberry Sauce. I know what you’re thinking… “You smothered it with Pineapple Cream Pasta Sauce?” Yes I did. And here’s why: ‘When In Rome,’ I went to a spaghetteria

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Tweet I am a lot of things, but probably most importantly, I’m Italian. So naturally, when I endeavored upon this blog and I had to think of a direction for my first week of cooking, I came up with pasta and sauce! This week, I’m cooking up my Italian grandmother’s special meat sauce to go with the pastas I make later on in the week. Last night I cooked for family friends. They milled

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