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Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.
Kevin, who is a legislative aide to state Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, “InterCHANGE,” on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
Culinary no-no #31
By Kevin Fischer
Sunday, Dec 9 2007, 04:49 PM
Did you eat cranberries on Thanksgiving this year?
Odds are you did.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports, “88 percent of Americans include cranberries in their Thanksgiving celebrations every year.”
But will you eat cranberries again in 2007? Will you wait until next November to eat cranberries?
You really shouldn’t. More on that in just a bit.
Cranberry juice is the most common form purchased at the grocery store (61 percent of cranberry product purchases). Cranberry juice drinkers are also the most frequent cranberry consumers overall. Most do not mix the juice with other beverage products, preferring to drink the juice by itself.
Turning to other cranberry products such as sweetened dried cranberries, cranberry sauce and fresh or frozen whole cranberries, consumers report a variety of recipe-oriented uses.
In order, here are the ways consumers use the cranberries they purchase:
Eat by themselves as a snack
Turn into relish/spread
Add to breads or muffins
Add to salads
Add to drinks
Add to cereal
Add to pies or tarts
Add to granola or other mixes
Consumers who eat cranberries throughout the year are doing themselves a huge favor.
Cranberries are considered to be the very best of the super-foods with numerous health benefits.
So, don’t wait another year to eat cranberries. That would be a culinary no-no.
(P.S. Wisconsin is the #1 producer of cranberries. Massachusetts is a distant second).
PREVIOUS CULINARY NO-NO’S
1) Ketchup on a brat
2) Green peppers on pizza
3) The dirty martini
4) Fruity brats
5) A Bloody Mary after dinner
6) Women “manning” the grill
7) Eating pizza at Festa Italiana, brats at German Fest, or tacos at Fiesta Mexicana. (Be adventurous. You can have those items anytime).
8) Eating a cream puff as though it was a hamburger.
9) Taking your own bottle of sauce when invited to a barbecue.
10) Touching the grill if you’re a guest at an outdoor barbecue.
11) Coaching the host on how to grill.
12) Some regional flavored ice cream…..like black licorice.
13) Taking the husks off before you grill corn on the cob
14) Being afraid to chill red wine
15) Pizza on the grill
16) When serving exotic or strange dishes to guests, do not tell them exactly what it is. Instead, use a more inviting term (caviar) rather than being blunt (fish eggs).
17) In late summer and early fall, this time of year, don’t buy zucchini. Somehow, someway, you will find zucchini or zucchini will find you.
18) Showing disrespect to your restaurant server.
19) Eating out on a Monday night.
20) Pumpkin beer.
21) Mail-order turkey.
22) Grilled cheese is just for kids.
23) Dining in the dark.
24) Ketchup on spaghetti
25) Sneaking healthy foods into treats to get your kids to eat it.
26) Do not throw away culinary gifts received in the mail because you don’t like them.
27) Do not feel guilty about eating Oreos. (Oreos are not to blame for out of control obesity).
28) Doing something so totally ridiculous that you are desperately forced to call the Butterball Turkey Hot-Line for assistance.
29) Don’t forget the sweet potato January-October.
30) Using resource guides from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s on gracious living to plan holiday parties
