"peanut butter recall" news and stories

• Trick out your Valentine's Day desserts with a hint of coconut. Recommended recipes include Coconut Cheesecake, Lemon Coconut Tapioca Pudding, Coconut Chocolate Pudding and Coconut Poundcake.
  
• A useful search tool that scours the peanut butter recall list, letting you check on the status of your pantry items.
• Information on the various kinds of dried, flaked and shredded coconut meat you can get.
• "Moldy" sandwich baggies, cooking classes galore and vitamin D are all in the mix this week.
  
• Pete Peterson spotlights the Nagami Kumquat this week, and recommends it for its floral, tart flavor.
• Annette Stadelman is trying to refresh the image of Australian wine brands, so that people think of more than just shiraz.
• Potato boats are a fun take on the twice-baked potato and will have kids cleaning their plates.
• Cook up some seasoned lamb meatballs for a quick Mediterranean dinner that will please everyone.
• This week in the On Time/Under Budget column, you'll find Kielbasa With Smothered Cabbage and Mashed Potatoes.
  

With all this talk of major food recalls lately, it got me thinking: what if a store simply doesn't hear about a recall or accidentally leaves a can or two of some recalled food on the shelves?

That's what they're talking about in North Carolina this week, as inspectors have discovered several small stores that were still selling cans of Castleberry's products even after the major recall. Many small stores that don't get their products from major distributors are sometimes not even contacted by distributors or the company itself about a recall.

I guess the moral to the story is, if you own a store, keep track of the food industry yourself and don't just trust that people will contact you.