Category Archives: Nutrition

Cooking is a Lost Art!

  I have been attending the most terrific Dairy Symposium today and looking forward to tomorrow!  This afternoon, everyone visited a local family dairy farm and learned all about what it takes to get milk from the farm to your glass.  Pretty interesting stuff! Tonight, we all got to go to The Culinary Center in Kansas City, and we all prepared our dinner meal.  This may sound dreadful to some who do not like to cook.  But it wasn’t.  It was exactly
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Recipe ReDux – Cupcake Conundrum

The call this month for Recipe ReDux was asking the question if people were over the cupcake trend, I can tell you there are several television shows, bakeries, and eating establishments that hope people answer NO to that question. A standard cupcake uses the same ingredients as a standard sized cake: butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. Nearly any recipe is suitable for a layer cake can be used to bake cupcakes. Cupcake batter can be flavored or have other ingredients stirred
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The Week of the Egg

This post was written by Kimberly Wolfer, a UNL Dietetic Intern: I hope everyone had an EGGcellent Easter!  I spent the day with family and friends.  As expected, we participated in all of the customary activities typical of Easter Sunday.  We ate too much candy and dyed too many eggs.  But now the egg hunt is over, and my refrigerator is loaded with hard-boiled eggs.  Here are a few recipes that will be on the menu at my house this week! 
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