{"id":468,"date":"2013-02-04T12:45:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T17:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakenormantaichi.com\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2013-02-05T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T04:17:07","slug":"february-foods-worthy-of-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakenormantaichi.com\/blog\/february-foods-worthy-of-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"February Foods Worthy of Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What Do Beans, Bananas, and Pancakes Have In Common?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-470\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Celebrate Beans, Avocados, Bananas, Pancakes, and More This February\" href=\"http:\/\/lakenormantaichi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-beans.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-470    \" title=\"Celebrate Beans, Avocados, Bananas, Pancakes, and More This February\" alt=\"Celebrate Beans, Avocados, Bananas, Pancakes, and More This February\" src=\"http:\/\/lakenormantaichi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-beans.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakenormantaichi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-beans.png 480w, https:\/\/lakenormantaichi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-beans-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/lakenormantaichi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-beans-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrate Beans, Avocados, Bananas, Pancakes, and More This February<br \/>Photo collage courtesy of lobster20, numanzaa, and nuchylee\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedigitalphotos.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">FreeDigitalPhotos.net<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Do you love food? So do I. Do you love to celebrate? Yeah. me too!\u00a0What do you get when you put the two together? Food Celebrations!! And that&#8217;s exactly what we have each and every month. February is ripe with some pretty tasty ones.<\/p>\n<h3><!--more-->February Foods of the Month<\/h3>\n<p>This month we celebrate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avocado and Banana Month<\/li>\n<li>Beans (Dried and Fresh) Month<\/li>\n<li>Exotic Vegetables and Star Fruit Month<\/li>\n<li>Grapefruit Month<\/li>\n<li>National Cherry Month<\/li>\n<li>Sweet Potato Month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With so much variety, it&#8217;s easy to overlook some of these tasty foods. Any vegetable you don&#8217;t eat regularly can be considered an exotic vegetable. So take a trip through your grocery store&#8217;s produce section and try some Kale, or Brussels Sprouts, or even an Avocado!<\/p>\n<h3>Weekly Food Celebrations<\/h3>\n<p><em>National Pancake Week,\u00a0February 10 to 16<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pancakes are a go-to Sunday Breakfast food for us. Our daughter prefers Chocolate Chips on hers, I like bananas and my wife likes them with almonds on top.\u00a0My all-time favorite pancake recipe is <a title=\"Pancake Recipe of the Gods!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/alton-brown\/instant-pancake-mix-recipe\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alton Brown&#8217;s<\/a>. It&#8217;s quick, easy, and delicious. This would be the week to try it for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><em>National Date Week,\u00a0<\/em><em>February 15 to 24<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Remember that scene in the Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark where the plate of dates was laced with poison and Salah smacked the date out of Indy&#8217;s hand mere moments before he ate it because he saw that the monkey had died from eating a date? I&#8217;ve been leery of eating dates since then. It&#8217;s been 32 years, maybe I should get over it.<\/p>\n<h3>Food Celebration Days<\/h3>\n<p><em>Bubble Gum Day, February 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not really a food, but there&#8217;s nothing wrong with having some fun with your food. Besides, it can be good for your teeth. Make sure to choose one that doesn&#8217;t have any artificial sweeteners, colors, or flavors. Our favorite is Glee Gum.<\/p>\n<p><em>Crepe Day, February 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A fancy pancake! You can find a crepe recipe in almost every culture. Savory or sweet, they can be had for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ice Cream for Breakfast Day, February 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Enough said! You can even have it with crepes!<\/p>\n<p><em>Pancake Day, February 12<\/em> The highlight of Pancake Week.<\/p>\n<p>You should have pancakes for\u00a0<strong>every<\/strong> meal today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chocolate Mint Day, February 19<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who can deny the awesome taste combination of Chocolate and Mint?<\/p>\n<p><em>National Chili Day, February 28<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For me, Chili is a classic cold-weather food. Unfortunately, it hasn&#8217;t been that cold in Charlotte in recent years, so I haven&#8217;t been making Chili. Maybe this year I&#8217;ll make a 3-Bean Vegetarian Chili, I might even <a title=\"Emeril Lagasse's Vegetarian Chili\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/emeril-lagasse\/vegetarian-chili-recipe\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">try this recipe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate the bounty of our Earth and hearth. 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