Coming Soon: New Menu Items

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Passanantes Home Food Service

Exciting news from your friends at Passanante’s Home Food Service! We have a ton of new items coming to our menu this spring that you and your family are sure to love. Be sure to ask your sales rep about the new fully-cooked items coming to our menu including 8 way fried chicken and homestyle meatloaf (yum!). Which of these new items will you be ordering? Tell us in the comments below!

PREPARED ITEMS
Fully cooked, hardwood smoked 1/2 chicken
Fully cooked homestyle meatloaf
Fully cooked Yankee pot roast
8 way fried chicken

BISON
Ground bison bulk
Bison rib eye steaks
Bison strip steaks
Bison sirloins

SIDES
Agostino twice baked potatoes available in three different varieties: 3 cheese, sour cream & bacon, and ultimate
Agostino garlic mashed potatoes
Agostino scalloped potatoes

MANY, MANY MORE
Ground beef sliders
Authentic, raw kielbasa
Tri-pepper marinated skirt steaks
Garlic and herb seasoned lamb roast
Cilantro lime chicken cutlets
Tortilla crusted tilapia
Full rack uncooked baby back ribs

Facebook Request – Sashimi Grade Tuna

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Last week one of our loyal Facebook fans asked us for a delicious tuna recipe she could try out with her sashimi grade tuna. Obviously there are many wonderful options out there including the one that’s posted on our wall, but we took it a step further. After reaching out to a close friend and master chef we found an incredibly simple and luxurious recipe that we can’t wait to try out ourselves!

Facebook Recipe Request

Preparing the Shashimi grade tuna

  1. Wash the Sashimi grade tuna with club soda
  2. Season with Himalayan salt and ground fresh pepper
  3. Sauté the tuna with truffle oil for 30 seconds each side
  4. Pop the tuna in the oven on 400 degrees for 10 min

For a spin on traditional mashed potatoes, add a tablespoon of Wasabi powder to the milk before mashing the potatoes. Serve with grilled asparagus alongside the tuna and enjoy!

If you’re looking for a new recipe or two let Passanante’s Home Food Service know about it in the comments section or on our Facebook page!

5 Food Trends of 2013 That Will Make Your Mouth Water!

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Food Trends

Food fads come and go, so you’ve got to jump on board asap to take advantage of the new tasty trends for 2013! After reading tons of food prediction websites Passanante’s Home Food Service has narrowed it down to our top 5 favorite food trends to look out for this year. Check them out!

1. Savory Sweets

  • This trend was a shoo-in for our number one spot. Be looking out for more and more sweet foods that have swapped frosting for a savory favorite like bleu cheese crumbles. We’ve seen this trend before in simple spinach, strawberry and bleu cheese salads, but rumor has it that this will be popping up in appetizers, entrees and even desserts! Yum!!!!

2. New Flavors on the Scene

  • Move over butter, salt and sugar, the flavors of 2013 are in! Tart, acidic and bitter flavors are making their way onto the shelves of grocery stores and into the stomachs of restaurant goers all across the U.S. Be on the look out for sour beers, vinegars and fermented fruit juices that are sure to make your lips pucker.

3. Fancy Chicken Feasts

  •  With the recent increased interest and demand for better-raised and better-tasting chicken almost everyone agrees that chicken entrees will steal the show this year. Whether it’s chicken wings, chicken hot dogs or Filipino style fried chicken we think chicken is clutch.

4. Bye Bye Sriracha, Hello Gochujang

  • If you aren’t a spicy food lover this next trend won’t be high on your list of things to try.  An affinity for Gochujang, a spicy Korean chili paste, is spreading like wildfire across the country. Food predictions indicate that you might start seeing a dab of this super hot sauce on egg sandwiches, sliders, and chicken wings.  

5. All Veggie Entrees For All

  • Cauliflower steaks and spaghetti squash — it’s what’s for dinner? You bet! Heaping plates of tasty veggies and even vegetable based cocktails are all the rage this year. No longer will those fabulously colored produce favorites be confined to your salad course. Feel free to fill up on vegetables — it’s on your New Year’s resolution diet! 

Family Recipe: Lemonade Cheese Cake

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New Year 2013

Happy 2013 food lovers! We hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and new year filled with friends, family, and phenomenal food (of course).  So tell us, what is your resolution for 2013? Trying to branch our and try new foods? Eat healthier? Pass on pesticides?  Go organic? Or maybe your resolution is to indulge yourself with delights! Passanante’s Home Food Service would love to hear about your new years resolutions on our Facebook page so we can cater our blog content to YOU and provide even more exciting recipes, food news, kitchen tips and more!

Today we thought we’d mix it up and throw out an awesome dessert recipe from a close friend’s family cookbook. This recipe for Lemonade Cheese Cake is a nice departure from the standard chocolate sheet cake, and we have nothing but good things to say about it!

What you need for the lemonade cheese cake filling:

  • 1 package of pillsbury white cake mix
  • 1 cup of sour cream
  • 6 ounce can of frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
  • 3 ounce package cream cheese, softened
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 3 eggs

What you need for the topping:

  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 cup sour cream

How to prepare Lemonade Cheese Cake:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Using solid shortening or margarine (not oil) grease and flour a 12-cup fluted pan (non-stick finish)
  3. In a large bowl, combine all of the ingredients for the filling
  4. Blend at low speed until moist
  5. Beat at high speed for 4 minutes
  6. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean when dipped into the filling
  7. Completely cool upright in pan for 45 minutes
  8. In a small bowl, mix sugar and four cream, spread on cake
  9. Refrigerate and serve when cold!

Happy eating!

Politics in the Pantry

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Produce Inspection

With the Presidential election behind us we just may begin to see some changes in food regulation laws as a result of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) signed into law by President Barak Obama back in January 2011.

Impacting roughly 80% of consumer purchased foods not including meat and poultry, the FSMA is the most dramatic change to food regulation laws in the United States in more than 70 years. The premise of the FSMA is to emphasize prevention rather than punishment by implementing four sets of rules designed to reduce foodborne illnesses which impact some 50,000 Americans each year and result in an average of 3,000 deaths annually.

The goal of the  four regulations associated with the FSMA is to increase monitoring of imported foods, while taking aggressive measures to prevent produce contamination including but not limited to more frequent and thorough inspections of food packaging facilities.

In the summer of 2012, America experienced four major outbreaks linked to FDA-regulated foods. While the cost of increased regulation through the FSMA is steep, falling in the billions of dollars range, a 2010 Pew Trusts study estimates the total ‘costs’ of foodborne illnesses at $152 billion each year.

At Passanante’s Home Food Service we pride ourselves on the safety and quality of foods we provide to hundreds of families each month. We don’t need the federal government to tell us how important food safety is or to implement laws to protect you — we do it on our own and are conscious of it everyday. Passanante’s has always adhered to the strictest of policies and actively looks for opportunities to improve our methods.

We love being the company you can trust for safe organic produce and hormone-free meat delivery and look forward to continuing to impress each of you!

Happy eating! ❤