At the kosher show, we ran into the good folks from exceptional brownie/koshercarepackages.com. These lovely ladies supply some of the absolutely bestest baked goods on planet Earth!

We already told you about their honey cake (a Kosher Nexus Five Fork winner), and we already urged you to try the hand made Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake. Well, we listen to ourselves from time to time, and we had some.
Holy mackerel! We cried tears of joy as our knees went weak from eating this heavenly dessert.

We served it at our shul’s daily, after-minyan breakfast, and it was gobbled up in the blink of an eye. Everyone at the table loved it. And if you can get a table full of old Jewish men to agree on anything, you have got a winner.

Rich pumpkin taste off set by the sweetness of the chocolate chips. And of course it is pareve. MMMMMMMMM good. Another KN Five Fork winner!

Claire and Karen are our official Kosher Nexus bakers. Yup, no two ways about it- they do amazing work.

We would propose marriage to them, but alas, that is not in the cards. So, we will gladly buy their product. Now, if only we could corner the market!

November 22/London/Daily Mail — Eating just one egg every day can substantially raise the risk of developing diabetes, according to researchers.
For those who already have type 2 diabetes — also known as adult onset diabetes — eating more than a couple of eggs a week can make the condition worse.American scientists reached the conclusions after tracking almost 57,000 men and women over a period of up to 20 years.

They found that eating an egg every day increased the overall risk of type 2 diabetes by about 60%. For women, the risk increased by 77%.

Eating just one egg a week carried no increased risk, said the report in the online journal Diabetes Care.

Doctors are now urging patients with type 2 diabetes or those at risk of the condition to limit their egg consumption to three a week.

If people want to include eggs in their diet, they suggest that eggs high in omega-3 fats are a better choice.

The researchers, from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, recommend further studies into the health risks of eating more than one egg every day.

From the November 24, 2008, Prepared Foods e-Flash

From USA Today, last week……….

There’s no such thing as organic fish –- yet

The National Organic Standards Board, the arm of the Department of Agriculture that rules on what is and isn’t officially organic, is currently pondering whether there should be organic fish. And on Tuesday, as part of a three-day meeting looking at various questions on organic labeling, the board’s livestock committee will be discussing what an organic seafood standard might look like.

Up until now, no seafood has been considered organic on the theory that although fish are wild and free, there’s also no way to know what they’re eating or how clean the water they’re swimming in is –- both things that are important when deciding if something’s organic.

It’s pretty clear that fresh water pen-raised fish, such as tilapia and catfish, are easiest to make organic because they’re raised in closed tanks on land and they’re vegetarians, so it’s easy to feed them organic grain-based feed.

The big questions are ocean-grown species such as the farmed salmon that has become so cheap and popular in recent years.

A host of consumer and environmental groups are lining up against the idea because they say that while the fish might be “organic” there’s no way that pen-raised salmon are environmentally sustainable, which they say makes them de-facto non organic.

That’s because of the threat pen-raised salmon can pose to wild salmon …

Farmed salmon are grown in big ocean pens in bays and inlets, often in areas through which wild salmon migrate on their way to home streams to spawn. To make salmon farming profitable, those pens have to be pretty full. Having that many salmon together in a small space means diseases and a nasty little marine parasite called the sea louse can flourish. Growers use drugs and chemicals to protect the penned salmon, but there’s been research showing that salmon nearby can also be infected, further harming already fragile populations of wild salmon.

Lower stocking densities and some new techniques could go a long way to dealing with this problem, so it’s on the “potentially fixable” list.

Another problem is that salmon are carnivores: They like to eat other little fishies. It takes between two to 10 pounds of wild-caught fish to turn into feed to make one pound of farmed salmon. But the board wants to allow up to one pound of wild-caught fish to be fed to farmed salmon for each pound of salmon harvested.

And the board would only allow fish food made from scraps of sustainably harvested fish to be fed to farmed fish. But activists say that the food wouldn’t be organic. Up until now any animal labeled as organic has to be fed 100% organic feed. Opponents say these wild fish can’t be organic because they have the potential to carry mercury and PCBs, both of which are routinely found in some fish species.

–By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY

It has been quite some time since we last visited the Sally Williams booth at any food show. Recently, we stopped by to see what’s new and how the company is doing.

The company is doing well, we are pleased to say. And their products just get better and better all the time. This OU certified, kosher for Passover, too, company sells grown up treats. These are definitely too expensive for the kiddies whose taste runs to candy bars at the drug store.

These are way upscale treats, fit for royalty! The candies are made in South Africa, have no additives, gelatin, preservatives or cholesterol.

Flavors include: Almond, Maccadamia, Hazelnut and Cashew. They also have OUD milk chocolate coated nougat bars. The rest of the product line is Pareve. The Belgian dark chocolate covered bars are a real taste treat for those of us who prefer deep, dark chocolate.

These products are a Kosher Nexus Five Fork winner!

www.sallywilliamsusa.com

The business office is located in Ontario, Canada. The phone number there is 905 474 9211

But are they kosher, you ask? How about they have 3- count ‘em three- hashgachot. There must be one that you find acceptable!!

These veggies need no additional checking- guaranteed! Plus, some of them are kosher for Passover.

From Eden comes:
All whole lot of broccoli choices, mixed blends, cauliflower choices, zucchini choices, brussel sprouts, sugar snap peas, strawberries, spinach choices, carrots of various shapes and sizes, peas, mixed veggies, and some nice selections of french fries.

Think of the time you will save by not having to stand at your sink checking and rechecking your veggies for buggies. Ah, it’s a mechiyah!

Eden brand frozen veggies. Much cheaper, by the way, than the other famous brand.

Look for these products at your local kosher store, butcher store, used clothing store (just kidding) or where ever kosher food is sold!