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Liza’s Tips to Eating #2: String Cheese

Pulling pieces off of string cheese is truly an art form to me. Each time I eat string cheese, I’m constantly striving to pull a perfectly thin, moderately wide, full length piece of cheese because there is nothing more satisfying. We’ve all been there – you pull a piece off and it breaks halfway down, or you’re pulling and the piece ends up being half of the cheese stick – it’s frustrating! So after years and years of experimenting with different brands, different pulling techniques, and even just giving up on pulling all together and eating the cheese stick whole, I finally discovered the variable that makes all the difference: Temperature.

Now, you don’t want the cheese to be too cold (like straight out of the fridge) because it is hard not to pull gigantic pieces. You don’t want it too hot because the string cheese won’t pull at all.

So the Liza’s Tip to Eating String Cheese – SIT ON IT– yes literally, put the packaged string cheese under your bottom. Sit on it for about a minute or two and I promise, it will make the cheese the perfect temperature for pulling perfect pieces everytime! And THIS is how you eat string cheese

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Liza’s Tips to Eating #1: The Roast Beef Sandwich

People may call some of my eating habits questionable, strange, or even gross, but if they are brave enough to try them themselves, they understand there is a purpose to my weirdness! So I’m introducing Liza’s tips to eating so that eating delicious food can be EVEN MORE ENJOYABLE!

Tip #1: Eating a Roast Beef Sandwich (as witnessed by ES’s own Gansie and 80 Proof)

Take the bun off of the roast beef sandwich (I have been doing this since the 80’s so although it is low carb, it was never influenced by any Atkin’s fad). Now, simply stick out your tongue, pick up an individual DE-LISH slice of roast beef (preferably very thin sliced), hold the edges of the slice of beef in your hands (the beef should be dangling from them) and then “flip” or “plop” magnificent strip of beef onto your tongue so it lays flat… and close your mouth and enjoy! And do this with every piece until there is no more meat! If you’re still hungry, eat the bun! And THIS is how you eat a roast beef!

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Hot Potato!

And I’m not talking about those boring potatoes, I’m talking about the much more fabulous and way more flavorful sweet potato. They are just as easy to cook, plus they are orange and more nutritious. Yet they are often ignored or associated with Thanksgiving. Adding marshmallows is definitely de-lish, but sweet potatoes are much more versatile – try this recipe and see how good Hot and Spicy Sweet Potatoes are!

Cut sweet potatoes into strips
Coat in olive oil
Shake a good amount of Chili Powder all over the strips
Bake in the oven, throw them on the grill, or even cook them in a skillet!
Every way is good!

Trivia: Are Sweet Potatoes and Yams the same thing?
See answer after the jump!

Weapon of Choice: Chicken and Pears

Now we can all learn cooking from the Fabulous Christopher Walken!

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Healthy Hearty Barley!

After overdosing on WAWA’s pasta salad (served in a convenient plastic to-go container of course) I decided I might need an alternative. And not just any alternative, because I’m very VERY picky about the contents in my pasta salad (I DO NOT eat that milky macaroni crap salad – barf) So I found this wonderful, De-lish, Liza approved, healthy hearty barley “pasta” salad.

Liza QuikTip: Buy Quick Cook barley so it doesn’t take an hour to cook

Click after the Jump for the recipe!

One, Two, Three, BACON!

The great philosopher Francis Bacon once said, “knowledge is power.” So you need to know that there is indeed such a thing as bacon that can be cooked in the microwave AND be ready in THREE seconds! Ok, well maybe not three seconds, but it only takes a minute at the most! And this Three Second Bacon is so tasty and wonderful that it has gotten approval from resident food snob BS!

I actually prefer this pre-cooked Three Second Bacon to real bacon not only because of the time saving/easy factor, but also because it is never too fatty or not crispy enough.

The best part of the Three Second Bacon is it allows you to add bacon to a salad, sandwich or anything you want without the hassle!

*** For all of you skeptics who don’t believe Three Second Bacon actually exists, check the deli meat section of the grocery store.

For a quick and de-lish bagel sandwich recipe, see after the jump!

Posh and Becks Come to America…Crappy British Food Tastes Follow

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On this week’s sorry-excuse-for-an-NBC-special-event called “Victoria Beckham Comes to America,” the once and future Posh Spice confronts our fellow blogger Perez Hilton at L.A. coffee shop Cafe Marco.

Our trashy food/celeb correspondent did some research and learned that Cafe Marco’s claim to fame is providing free wireless Internet, the very best customer service and serving only the finest gourmet beverages, but we think it should be the fact that they have a live web cam on their website so you can spy on the celebs.

While we know you are all already over the Beckhams and their insane media saturation, we here at ES feel there has been way too little coverage of their eating habits. When will mainstream journalists finally stand up and do their jobs?

Here are a few tidbits from the blogosphere:

-Victoria only eats soybeans and Diet Coke, with the occasional pretzel, but only on birthdays and anniversaries.

– She was spotted earlier this week consuming something that, while tiny, looks suspiciously like real food. Please contact if you have any further info on this shocking occurrence.

– One of our spies across the pond tells us that Becks’ OCD complex means the fam keeps a separate fridge for each food group!

-Finally, here’s a recipe direct from David’s fav pie n’ mash shop in Waltham Abbey.

***Additional reporting provided by BS and Pinch of Minch.

*** Gansie will be back from her real job next week, and since she actually cooks, we will return from our not-so-unpredictable slide into a trashy celebrity blog.

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