10 Fruit Ice Pop Recipes to Help You Beat the Heat
Fruit Ice Pops remind me of a particularly funny childhood memory. We lived in a 101 year old house when I was growing up and it had this awesome big porch. I loved that house. I used to sit out there with my cat, Dusty, and my mom would give me an ice pop to enjoy outside. It turned into – One lick for me. One lick for Dusty. Back then, as a child of nine or ten, it wasn’t gross or weird to share an ice pop with my cat. LOL. In fact, its turned into a happy memory.
Blueberry-Carrot Kale Salad
This blueberry-carrot kale salad is simple on ingredients but packs a powerful punch of healthiness! Kale is such a glorious food – high in fiber, potassium and lots of nutrients! The key to making this kale salad is to massage the olive oil and lemon juice into the leaves for a minute or two. It helps to break up the fibrous leaves to make it easier for your stomach to digest.
30 Healthy Super Bowl Recipes
Burgers, pizza, dips, chili, and margaritas… We have the complete healthy Super Bowl game-day recipes to make your party or gathering a hit!
3-Ingredient Paleo Pancakes
These 3-Ingredient Paleo Pancakes were actually very tasty. A little more like banana bread but very light in nature. The cinnamon was a really nice touch in this recipe, too. I will definitely be making these time and time again. Can’t wait to get creative with the toppings.
10 Vegan Food Blogs: Happiness, Healthy and Balanced
Embracing a Vegan Lifestyle happens for many reasons. It could be passion for cooking pure plant-based meals, to become a lean & healthy athlete, perhaps its an angst about agriculture practices, a switch because of health issues and/or its benefits, or maybe because a vegan diet can simply be delicious. This list of Vegan Food Blogs will surely help you find your inner vegan, covering everything from your questions about how to start a vegan diet to delicious vegan recipes.
Peanut Butter, Banana & Flax Seed Smoothie made with Chobani Greek Yogurt
This Smoothie made with 2% Vanilla Chocolate Chunk Greek Yogurt makes an awesome dessert smoothie. Of course, it would make an awesome breakfast, too. With the healthy ingredients in this smoothie, there’s no guilt to be had. Enjoy!
Menu Plan: Healthy On a Budget
Since my plans are to bust barriers on my New Year’s resolution, Eradicating my Debt, I am on a Budget. And I will NOT budge in the BUDGET. And you know what, my system for reaching my goal – keeping receipts and tracking expenditures daily – is working grand for me.
10 Healthy Casserole Recipes
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the weekday meal was pipping-hot-ready when you got home? So all you needed to do was fix a side salad and a refreshing drink for dinner to be ready. I would LOVE that! But long days in the office don’t exactly warrant for that to happen. I’m usually rushing home to fix a less than satisfying meal or running out to grab something to eat so that I’m not eating dinner at 8pm.
30 Heart Healthy Oatmeal Recipes
Your heart and I… we had a heart-to-heart talk. She was letting me know that she needs some more of that low-calorie, heart healthy fiber that oatmeal provides. She needs to be protected against heart disease and cancer… and that bad cholesterol. And with the season starting to cool down – its important to build her immune system. Oatmeal can do all this for you!
The Anti-Diet: Trash the Scale and Ditch the Diet!
Today I wanted to share with you something I am always talking about and still learning a lot about! I simply have the hardest time with the word DIET. I think being a health blogger, dancer, and fitness fanatic I get caught with being super healthy and often exhaust myself trying to keep up with the latest!
25 Healthy Spinach Smoothie Recipes
A Spinach Smoothie is always my go-to green drink when introducing someone to adding greens in their drink. Usually you cannot even taste the spinach in the smoothie (depending how much spinach a smoothie recipe calls for). But if you do taste the spinach, it lends a very mild taste to the drink. Very palatable.
Healthy Packed Lunch Ideas in the Run up to Summer
Spring is officially upon us. As the weather starts to brighten and the days become longer we turn our thoughts to the summer months and for many to operation bikini. Many spend the spring mentally preparing for the summer and thinking how they would like to be in good shape and healthy when the time comes to don summer attire.
30 Delicious Green Smoothie Recipes
Incorporating Green Smoothies in your diet is an easy, delicious way to boost up your health and a great way to stay fueled through out the day. And because they are high in fiber, your body stays regular (if you know what I mean). Green smoothies are known to resolve a lot of digestive problems. And with a proper diet, can help you stay lean.
Berry Banana Creme Protein Smoothie
I decided that I could make berries more palatable for me by blending them up in a smoothie! I found out that part of the reason I wasn’t a fan was because of the potential mushiness of the fruit. This does not happen when you use frozen berries.
10 Strawberry Oatmeal Recipes
Did you know… Strawberries are low in calories, great for bone health, is an antioxidant, high in manganese and Vitamin C, is great for eye health and may stimulate your metabolism and help suppress your appetite! This makes the strawberry quite alluring. Then you have Oatmeal – whose benefits include, but are not limited to lowering cholesterol, regulating insulin, and keeps you feeling full.
Pumpkin Oatmeal (fit for a pumpkin king)
I can feel the seasons changing. Autumn is such a special time of year. Pumpkins, cranberries, fall colors, smell of spice, crisp leaves, the cool air, full moons, birthdays…
Cereals Paste Products And Starches
Cereals are made of wheat, oats, corn, rice, rye, and barley. They are often considered as breakfast foods, but are not limited to the breakfast meal. Cereals are divided into two main classifications, those that are ready to cook and those that are ready to eat. Some cereals are made of one grain, and others of a combination of grains. Macaroni, noodles, and spaghetti are the most popular of the paste products. Paste products are made from flour high in gluten content.
Conventional Classification Of Spice
K. V. Peter, Kerala Agricultural University (formerly at Indian Institute of Spices Research) The Geneva-based International Standards Organisation (ISO) defines spices and condiments as Vegetable products or mixtures thereof, free from extraneous matter, used for flavouring, seasoning and imparting aroma in foods. Any of various aromatic vegetable productions as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., used in cookery to season and to flavour sauces, pickles, etc. a...
What are bread improvers and why are they used?
The term bread improver is used to embrace a wide range of materials that can be added to wheat flour and dough in order to improve some aspect of dough behaviour and final bread quality. The use of the term is common and most often applied to the addition of several ingredients at low levels blended with a carrier, a material that may or may not have functional properties but that aids dispersion and provides a more conveniently handled composite material.
The Organization Of Modern Kitchens
The purpose of kitchen organization is to assign or allocate tasks so they can be done efficiently and properly and so all workers know what their responsibilities are. The way a kitchen is organized depends on several factors. The kinds of dishes to be produced obviously determine the jobs that need to be done.The menu is, in fact, the basis of the entire operation. Because of its impor- tance,we devote a whole chapter to a study of the menu (Chapter 5). The major types of food service...
Brooding Chicks
If you wait to order your young birds until local temperatures are quite stably warm and if you have a draft-free place for the chicks you can make do with a minimal source of heat their first week or so at night and that's it. This is the closest thing you could have to a non-brooding option. If you're going to raise chicks, you've got to learn at least a little about brooding them. Introduction to Brooder Structures Newborn chicks are tiny, fragile, and fluffy The basic characteristics of an...
Guidelines for Handling Convenience Foods
Handle with the same care you give fresh, raw ingredients. Most loss of quality in convenience foods comes from assuming they are damage-proof and can be treated haphazardly. 2. Examine as soon as received. Particularly, check frozen foods with a thermometer to make sure they have not thawed in transit. Put away at once. Frozen foods must be held at 0 F (-18 C) or lower. Check your freezer with a thermometer regularly. Refrigerated foods must stay chilled, below 41 F (5 C), to slow spoilage....
Why Is the Atkins Nutritional Approach So Revolutionary and So Right
The U.S. is the fattest nation in the world. More than sixty percent of Americans are overweight or obese. Yet thirty years ago, it was less than forty percent. Are Americans exceptionally weak-willed Or could it be that we've developed an extraordinary collective compulsion to become thicker from front to back and wider from side to side than the rest of humanity Please don't laugh. You know that isn't the answer. Why are we in the midst of an obesity epidemic The obvious answer is that...
Figure 2 Appetizers
Mix all canap spreads to a consistency that can be applied or spread b. Keep all canap spreads refrigerated until just before using them. c. Select an extra sharp knife for trimming and cutting canap s. d. Spread canap base with a thin film of softened butter to prevent the canap s from becoming soggy. e. Work systematically using an assembly-line technique-make one kind of canap at a time. f. Decorate canap s with an item that improves the appearance and enhances the taste. g. Arrange items...
Autism, Ambrotose and Glyconutrients
Autism has been medically classified since 1943. Since that time the incidence of autism has continued to increase at alarming rates. Autism is a term used to refer to a spectrum of disorders whose cause is unknown. Some believe autism spectrum disorders are genetic disorders that have not as yet been identified with genetic testing. This may be because they are caused be several different genetic abnormalities. Childhood autism is always present before 3 years of age and often can be seen by...
Sensible Diet Tips
Start your diet with a food diary, record everything you eat, what you were doing at the time, and how you felt. That tells you about yourself, your temptation, the emotional states that encourage you to snack and may help you lose once you see how much you eat. Instead of eating the forbidden piece of candy, brush your teeth. If you're about to cheat, allow yourself a treat, then eat only half a bite and throw the other half away. When hunger hits, wait 10 minutes before eating and see if it...
How Youll Succeed
Whether you are an old hand at the weight loss game, or have, at the very least, been on a diet before, the following scenario may sound all too familiar. Determined to succeed, you vowed to go about slimming down the right way. You stopped eating red meat, cooked egg-white-only omelettes with no shortening in a Teflon pan, removed the skin from chicken, ate your baked potato without butter or sour cream and consumed lots of pasta. Frozen yogurt, fruit and sherbet served as dessert. Your...
Regimen to jumpStart Weight Loss
You've been invited to a friend's beach house two weeks from now. But you're spilling out of all your bathing suits some of them look as though they might actually burst. Crying won't burn up enough calories to shed those pounds. You need a high-powered solution that will last a lifetime so you never have to repeat this misery. Your problem is simple. You don't know how to start. Even though you've read everything in this book so far-you still want a bit of help to get going....
Alcohol in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This study proceeds from my research into drinking behavior and attitudes toward drinking in late medieval and early modern Europe, from about 1300 to about 1700, focussing on England, France and Italy. Despite the differences between the wine-drinking south and the ale- or beer-drinking north, these countries shared a drinking pattern which resulted from the functions of alcoholic beverages. The functions reveal that the role of alcohol then was far more important than it is today. Alcohol was...
Avocado Products
For Fresh Avocados, see the Vegetables section. Frozen processed avocado is available in many forms and flavors, such as plain, dip, sauce, guacamole, hot'n spicy guacamole, and Western-style guacamole. Packs 1-lb (450-g) cans, 12 per case. 10 cans, six per case. 25-lb (11.2-kg) tubs. 1-oz (28-g) guacamole packets, usually 100 per carton. -gal (1.8-l) pack avocado sauce, 8 per case. Weight One 10 can 104 oz (2.9 kg) net weight. Serving sizes 2 oz (56 g) per sandwich or as topping. 4 oz (112 g)...
Harvesting Storing and Using Wheat
When to Harvest Wheat is one of the slower grains to mature it takes winter wheat 40-50 days from heading to harvest. The wheat is close to harvest time when it has grown tall, has headed out with a big bushy top full of those wonderful grain seeds, and has started looking dry and turning yellow all over (some varieties turn a brownish red). How to Harvest To harvest by hand, do it at this time, when the straw is just turning yellow and the grain can be dented but not mashed (seed at 20-35...
Historiography of Food Riots
Why do people riot over food The obvious answer, that they riot because they are hungry, does not begin to answer the question, since most who are poor and hungry do not riot. Moreover, why do people riot over particular foods and not others Rice not coconuts Tortillas not chiles Meat not cheese What intervening variables determine who eventually riots over which foods As mentioned, historians have analysed and explained food riots in the following ways as collective action representing the...
Peasant Frugality as a Virtue in the Interwar Years
A concept common to middle-class thought at the turn of the century was that of the frugal diet of the Italian people, experts at making do and performing best when eating little and badly. Of course, there was no lack of less categorical and more debatable opinions. On the one hand, there was a glorification of the prudent and parsimonious spirit and modest living requirements , on the other hand, the image of the peasant as the robust hard worker was clouded by observations of listlessness,...
Desserts
Milk and Pastry Pudding, 56 Coconut and Semolina Cake, 58 North African cuisine abounds in rich, savory flavors and aromas, yet the basic ingredients are familiar. They include fish, poultry, eggplants, zucchini, bell peppers, carrots, lentils, chickpeas, beans, apples, peaches, lemons, limes, dates, and nuts. Lamb is the favorite meat in North Africa. North African cooks transform these familiar foods with an array of flavorful herbs and spices. Common among them are cumin, cinnamon, ginger,...
Consuming Baked Beans
In the previous chapter, we noted that pottage constituted the basis of the colonial diet. People ate it, in one form or another, every day, especially in the seventeenth century. A historian of Weare, New Hampshire, stated that ''the most common dish of those times was bean porridge. It was made by boiling the beans very soft, thickening the liquor with a little meal and adding a piece of pork to season it. A handful of corn was often put in.'' Perhaps we can see in this description an...
Oatmeal Toppings & Moonbows
When Lori and Michelle were having a highly stressful day where nothing was going right, they put a HIIT (high-intensity interval training) workout to the rescue and called it, Sweat Beats Stress Workout. Check out these 6 exercise to help you feel like you can conquer anything! BTW, they like (raw reserve) Amazing Grass Super Food, too.
Segmented screwbarrel singlescrew wet extruders
A typical drawing of the single segmented wet extruder is shown in Fig. 3.1. Segmented screw barrel single-screw extruders are the most widely applied cooking extrusion design in the food, pet foods and feeds processing industries. 'Wet' means that steam and water can be injected into the barrel during processing. Typically, the barrels of these machines are also equipped with heating and cooling jackets. They process more tonnage of extruded products than any other extruder design. The...
Teiggerichte
Sauce made from molten butter blended with one sixth its volume of port, an anchovy fillet or anchovy essence and a little mushroom ketchup. All placed in a covered dish and baked at 190 C for 45 minutes. Teiggerichte Germany Macaroni dishes teisen gri Wales See Welsh griddle cake teisen lap Wales An oblong fruit and spice cake eaten when cold as buttered slices teisennau cocos Wales Cockle cakes teisennau tatws Wales Welsh potato cakes teisen nioned Wales Onion cake teisen resi Wales Rice...
Flexibility Exercises
One of the safest and most beneficial types of flexibility exercises is static stretching. Static Stretches are slow, controlled movements through a full range of motion. The term static means the stretch is held at the end of the joint's range of motion. These static exercises are considered safe and effective because they stretch the muscles and connective tissue without using fast movements that will be resisted by the muscles. These exercises can be done actively (e.g., you contract the...
Peach Melba
Are eaten as a vegetable when it is very young. Also called scallop squash, custard marrow, cymling (note So called because of its dish shape with scalloped edges.) patty shell United States A puff or short pastry shell for serving hors d'oeuvres, bouch es, vol-au-vents, barquettes, etc. patty tin See bun tin pau South Asia An old unit of weight. See also powa paua New Zealand A type of abalone, Haliotis iris, with a rainbow-coloured shell which is often used as an ornament Pauillac lamb...
Cross Fit Fit Chicks for Inspiration
How did Shape Magazine know I was looking for female Crossfit inspiration? I just came across their article titled, 10 Seriously Fit Chicks of Crossfit – Strong and inspiring women to watch at the Crossfit Games. Annie Thorisdottir is always my fave to watch at the games. Here is some more information about Annie via an interview.
5 Workouts to Sculpt a Sexy Upper Body
There is something sexy about a woman sporting a nice set of guns. Maybe because it denotes she is strong. Or maybe its the air of confidence surrounding her from standing strong. These workouts use your upper body and only requires minimal equipment like, dumbells, a jump rope, a chair, and a stability ball. Sculpt that upper body so you can rock that short sleeve shirt or bathing suit this summer.
10 Best Low-Calorie Drinks for Cinco de Mayo
I just realized in a few days, I will celebrating Cinco de Mayo. I am so excited! First, I get to meet so many bloggers I admire and follow. Second, I get to spend an awesome weekend checking out Boulder, Colorado (I’ve only ventured into Denver, but here I have quite a treat in store with Boulder).
Cranberry Steel-Cut Oat Muffins
But we didn’t just bake a new recipe, we tweaked it a little. I’ve experimented beyond the realms with a cooking recipe. But baking I have not. Because baking is a different art. One that usually calls for level measurements. But we figured, what could be the worst of it? It doesn’t come out the way we want it and we bake it again? Let the experimenting begin.
10 Ideas for Growing Food in an Apartment Patio
Want to plant some edibles, but not sure how to proceed because you live in an apartment dwelling? Container gardening in the patio can yield an abundance of food. And there are plenty of ideas to help you pot plants in a variety of containers; mason jars, gutter pipes, and a shoe bag to name a few. Take a look at this gallery of ten different and neat ideas for growing a garden in your apartment patio.
6 Natural Remedies to Treat Skin Abrasions
While on a hike, I was thinking about the potential mishaps or spills of the typical trail runner or hiker (I know, these things I think about). Like how a runner or hiker (or mountain biker for that fact) might run their leg across a branch resulting in a cut or trip over a rock that leaves a chin scrape or runs across a plant, like poison oak, that leaves the skin irritated.
All in a Day’s Morning
There is something about getting up early in the morning that is so peaceful. The house is quiet. Everyone still nestled in their bed. It’s the perfect time to spend relaxing with a cup of coffee, the time when I feel closest to God and the time when my cat likes to give me lots of love… there is a safe and serene feeling early morning. It’s definitely one of the little things in life I enjoy.
Camping/Ultra Light Backpacking
I’ve been calling it my UltraLight backpacking trip. But in reality its more camping for 5 days with daily long 10-13 mile hikes planned on the John Muir and Pacific Crest Trail. I’m not hiking 5 days straight with camping along route. So my ultralight backpack will not include carrying a tent and 5 days worth of food.
Body for Life Progress
I’m probably still recuperating from Crossfit this weekend and my Upper Body workout from Monday. Haha. After running the kids to around to the store for hair products and off to choir practice and back, I finally got to get my workout on! I mean after all it was Abs of Steel night!
Menu Plan: Vegan Fall Recipes
Vegan Fall Recipes – Keeping the VeganMoFo Going! We get a couple of cool nights here in Southern California and I automatically dive into wanting to make fall recipes. Mind you, it was like over 100 degrees last week. But here I am taking wanting to make chili, cook with root veggies, and make some wonderful soups. All {healthy} comfort foods. I hope the weather cooperates with me!
Oatmeal Toppings – Best of the Best
Relaxation Takes Effort (For Me) – Man oh man, this post screamed out at me as soon as I read its title. Janetha went on a trip to Costa Rica and returned with new insights about her own ability to relax and live each moment as it comes. She inspired me to take a social media vacation this fall.
Pams Chocolate Cake MuffinBar Substitute
Pam says Believe me when I say you will feel like you're really cheating with this recipe. It can be sliced into bars for protein bars for a snack or breakfast quickie, made into muffins or made in a loaf pan for chocolate cake. 2 3 cup 100 soy protein isolate 3 tablespoons Hershey's cocoa 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 4 cup vegetable oil 1 tablespoon melted peanut butter 4 packets artificial sweetener 1 4 cup water Put dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Mix oil and eggs in separate bowl. Melt the...
35 Male Health & Fitness Tumblr Blogs
This was a fun project to research! And thank you to the health & fitness men of Tumblr for helping me seek you out! Weight Training, Weight Loss… Jujitsu, Kayaking, Hiking, CrossFit… Running, Paleo Cooking, and more. Here are 35 Male Health & Fitness Tumblr Blogs to explore. Have fun!
The Perils of Sugar
The net result was that sugar intake, which had averaged 12 pounds a year per person in 1828, was nearly ten times that in 1928. Remember, too, that if you don't take your sugar straight, you'll find it already sprinkled into a thousand different foods and beverages before they come to your table. There are marked similarities in the diet eaten in all the world's developed countries, so, for now, I'll just mention some statistics for the United States. Once you understand what healthy eating...
Professional Cooking Glossary
Note Phonetic guides are included for difficult French words, giving the approximate pronunciation using English sounds. Exact rendering is impossible in many cases because French has a number of sounds that don't exist in English. Aboyeur (ah bwah yer) Kitchen worker who accepts and transmits orders from waiters, calls for orders to be finished,inspects finished dishes, and passes them to the dining room staff. Adductor Muscle The muscle with which a mollusk closes its shell. In the case of...
Yeast Leavened Desserts
Europeans commonly serve yeast-leavened sweets as desserts. To North Americans, items like yeast-leavened coffee cakes (German kugelhopf and its French next of kin, baba au baba, or savarin) or sweet doughs with a filling are more apt to be on the breakfast table or served with an afternoon coffee. The most basic yeast-leavened dessert is a sweet bread dough with a filling of nuts, fruits, dried fruits, jams, marmalades, ground seeds (such as poppy seeds) or even sweetened mild cheeses. There...
Maintaining Healthy Habits
Once your new habit becomes a part of your routine and is performed effortlessly, you are maintaining, rather than adopting, this habit. Maintaining healthy habits during interruptions in your regular routine (such as vacations or illness) can create challenges of its own. So how can you maintain your routine when faced with setbacks Anticipate and try to avoid setbacks or upsets to your routine. Plan in advance how you will handle interruptions (e.g.vacation) to your schedule. Motivate...
Hamburger-Rice Soup
Nothing better than a warm, hearty bowl of vegetable soup on a cold winter’s night. And this recipe is so versatile. Don’t like zucchini? Consider adding summer squash or red bell peppers. Or even sub chicken for beef. Even opt out the meat in this recipe to make a vegetarian splendor.
Subtropical and Tropical Fruits
That eastern Washington widow Florence Merrifield, who retired in Jalisco, Mexico, keeps sending me tantalizing progress reports My banana tree has a bunch of bananas ready and 2 other hands forming. Papayas are getting ripe and some have fallen. And mangos . . . there must have been a ton on the seven large trees in my garden. At last they are all about gone. I also have a large vegetable garden. Some green beans and cukes ready now. Planted 5 more banana trees Saturday In general, southern or...
Turkey Burgers
The appeal of turkey burgers is that they are healthful. The drawback is that they are not beefy in flavor or texture. Mushrooms and soy sauce help deepen the savory flavor of these turkey burgers, bringing the taste closer to a real burger. The egg white also helps bind the supple turkey meat into hearty patties. 5 ounces white mushrooms 1 tablespoon butter 1 pound ground turkey 1 egg white 1. In a food processor, pulse the mushrooms until coarsely ground. 2. Melt the butter in a large skillet...
Using Honey
Botulism spores can be in it. These don't harm adults when directly eaten, but in the intestines of infants under 1 year of age especially under 6 months of age they can grow. This was discovered in 1976 and is now thought to account for at least some cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Keep these small babies out of soil (where botulism spores are) in general. Honey at the Table Get 2 small syrup pitchers. Fill one with honey and one with molasses or...
Recipes see also Mise en Place Timing
The first time you follow one, you need a little more time to get to the destination. Once you are familiar with the route, it is easier to go faster. Eventually, you may not even need the map. BASICS To follow a recipe successfully Read V the recipe all the way through before starting to cook. Make sure that you have all of the necessary ingredients and equip- not to use a pan so large that it heats unevenly on your burner. And if the amount of food will crowd the...
Common Legumes
Navy Beans Navy beans are small and oval in shape. They are white in color, have a powdery texture, and a mild flavor. Peanuts Peanuts are oblong kernels. They are light brown in color, and have a firm texture. Pinto Beans Pinto beans are medium-size, oval-shaped beans. They are beige and brown in color, and are typically mottled. They have a powdery texture and an earthy flavor. Black Beans Black beans are medium-size and oval-shaped. They are also called turtle beans. Black beans have a...
Basic Seed Recipe Ideas
Soft seeds are important to raw food eaters especially sunflower seeds, because they're easy to grow. The following recipes are all from Ruth of Bonaire W> SEED CHEESE Use I'A c. hulled raw sunflower seeds and 'A c. hulled raw sesame seeds (or 2 c. sunflower seeds). Soak for 8 hours, drain, and let sprout for another 8 hours. Then pour I c. water into a blender and blend in seeds, bit by bit, with blender on highest speed, until you have a smooth paste (takes about 3-5 minutes). Pour mixture...
Acid Base Leavenings
Soda Combined with an Acidic Food The acidic food could be sour milk, buttermilk, vinegar, cream of tartar, molasses, lemon juice, or any combination thereof. When sour milk is used, the acid that reacts with the soda is lactic acid. Soda always means baking soda, or bicarbonate of soda, NaHCC> 3 (sodium hydrogen carbonate). Soda is a base, and when the base and the acid are both in solution and able to contact each other, the resulting chemical reaction releases a harmless gas (carbon...
Camping Recipes
Camping Recipes are the best! It’s when the cast iron skillet, dutch oven, or aluminum foil are brought out to play. Over an open fire or on a propane stove. And weather it be the crack of dawn or the evening dusk, campers swoon for that hot meal. What could be better? How about some ultimate camping recipes!
Making Healthy Living Easy as 1, 2, 3!
Katy’s post resonated with me because I sometimes feel left out of the blogging community since I am not a fan of running. It’s easy to get dragged into a comparison trap with all the accomplished running bloggers out there, but Katy reminded me that if I don’t like running, I don’t have to force myself to do it, and can still be healthy!
10 Inspirational, Beautiful and Funny TED Talk Videos to Definitely Watch
Sometimes we all need is a little inspiration – no matter how small – to help remind us how to live our best self, our authentic self in each and every day. To help you be inspired, I’ve rounded up 10 TED talk videos that inspire me, help me to feel compassion and make me laugh. I hope that they will do the same for you.
Keeping You Informed Week-by-Week
What NOT To Do When Working With Bloggers – Nancy is one feisty lady! She tells it like it is to brands looking to work with bloggers – something that is becoming more and more common these days. As a blogger myself, I have experienced some of these “dont’s”, and I’m sure many of you have to.
News for the Future, Insights on the Past, Healthy Living for Today
I love goat cheese and was curious as to how a vegan version would be made! Even though I’m not vegan, I’m always up for trying new takes on my favorite foods. Laura uses tofu to create a healthy appetizer that involves another one of my favorite things – roasted tomatoes!
How To Store The Udde Papad
Pommes savoyarde France As gratin dauphinois, but substituting stock for cream. Also called gratin savoyard pommes vapeur France Boiled or steamed potatoes pomodori di magro alla sarda Italy Tomatoes stuffed with anchovies, tuna and aubergine flesh and baked pomodorini Italy Small tomatoes pomodori ripieni alla novarese Italy Tomatoes stuffed with rice, onions and cheese, pan ed and deep-fried pomodoro Italy Tomato pompano A small, oily, round seawater fish of the genus Trachinotus, with a high...
Lemony Orzo Salad with Chicken
How do I start this paragraph? I have so many elated feelings about this recipe… this salad. It was a quick & easy recipe, summer light, but so pact with flavor. While the lemon was an awesome ingredient in this salad… it wasn’t the secret that tied it all together. Can you guess what it was?
Ways Of Cooking
The principal ways of cooking are boiling, broiling, stewing, roasting, baking, frying, sauteing, braising, and fricasseeing. 31 Boiling is cooking in boiling water. Solid food so cooked is called boiled food, though literally this expression is incorrect. Examples boiled eggs, potatoes, mutton, etc. 32 Water boils at 212 F. (sea level), and simmers at 185 F. Slowly boiling water has the same temperature as rapidly boiling water, consequently is able to do the same work, a fact often forgotten...
Pie Dough Basics
A few ripe peaches sweetened and baked in a crust with a latticework top make an appetizing pie. Latticework is a grid pattern on a pie crust made with individual strips of crust. Fruit pies, cream pies, and custard pies have long been considered favorite American desserts. This section presents the basics of pie dough and pie fillings. Basic pie dough is sometimes called 3-2-1 dough. This ratio refers to the weight of three parts flour, two parts fat, and one part water. Successful pie crusts...
Water and Food for Chickens and Other Adult Fowl
WATER You must have a constant supply of clean drinking water available. Even a short period of water shortage can slow growth or egg production, and chickens can take a distressingly long while to come out of such a slump. Grown chickens need twice as much water as they do food. Chicks need even more. In very hot weather, chickens pant to cool themselves (water evaporates from their lungs). That form of air-conditioning may double their previous level of water consumption. Chickens can be left...
Oatmeal Toppings & Xen Strength
Need to stay motivated to make sure you exercise during these colder times to keep the holiday gain at bay? Head on over to Because I Can. Starting December 1st you are challenged to work out for at least 30 minutes per day, every single day, until February 1st. Can you become the 30 to 60 Rockstar?
Are nuts and seeds okay on this phase of Atkins even though they have carbohydrates
As you know by now, Atkins is not about eating no carbs. It is about controlling carb intake and eating those that are most nutrient-dense. Different nuts and seeds have different percentages of fat, protein and carbohydrate. I don't recommend eating them during the first two weeks of Induction. But now (in OWL), if you are continuing to lose steadily, you can try introducing some nuts (see The Power of Five in this chapter) and see if they fit into your Ongoing Weight Loss regimen. Note,...
Heavenly Chicken Soup
Note Make it with stock on hand or use a combination of canned soups and extracts. Simmer a few veggies in the stock and add chicken last. The soup tastes good even without chicken. In a rush, throw in a package of frozen vegetables. Serve with Superb Rolls or Intense Garlic Bread Surprise. Serving size,1 cups. Carbs per serving 5.5 grams of carb. NUMBER OF SERVINGS 2. 2 Tablesps olive oil optional 1 cup raw, chopped broccoli cup raw, chopped cauliflower about 1-inch pieces cup chopped sweet...
Splendid Banana Loaf
Note This is a tasty banana bread that has a rich banana flavor and is still fairly low-carb. Serving size, one -inch thick slice. Carbs per serving, 4.4 grams of carb. 1 cup mashed bananas about 3 medium-size bananas 1 3 cup stone ground whole-wheat flour 2 Teasps grated lemon peel optional 1 cup unprocessed wheat bran 1 cup whole almond meal Preheat oven to 325 F. Lightly butter three mini loaf pans use non-stick pans made of heavyOgauge metal . Optional For easy cleanup and removal, cut...
Low Carb Pastry Pizzazz
This delicious treat adds only 1.9 grams of carb for a Superb Roll of any size. Just add a glaze to the rolls once they are baked. While the rolls are baking, make or of the below mentioned glaze. Apply the glaze thinly with a pastry brush to the tops of the hot rolls. It will set within minutes. The rolls will freeze well, even with the glaze. Thaw at room temperature or follow directions for heating in the oven. SERVING SIZE ,icing for 1 cookie. Carbs per serving 0.5 gram of carb. Number of...
MeltInYour Mouth Pancakes
Note They really do melt in your mouth and are about as easy to make as stuff you pour from a container. Serve them with butter and carb-free or low-carb syrups, fresh fruit, or blueberry sauce. If all you want to eat is pancakes, the recipe serves one. Combined with sausage, ham or something else, this is a serving for two. PREPARTION TIME 5 minutes. COOKING TIME 3 to 4 minutes. SERVING SIZE,three to four 3-inch pancakes. CARBS PER SERVING, 2.6 grams of carb. NUMBER OF SERVINGS 1 to 2. Preheat...
Beef and Mushroom Crepe Filling
Carbs per serving , 3.2 grams of carb. Ingredients 3 ounces lean ground beef cup chopped scallions 4 ounces sliced mushrooms salt to taste freshly ground black pepper to taste Heat a small or medium skillet over medium heat. Add olive oil or coconut oil. Cook ground beef in hot oil until done. Set aside and keep warm. Add scallions to the skillet and cook for 1 minute. Add mushrooms and cook until just tender, about 4 to 5 minutes. Return meat to pan. Mix with onions...
Savory Black Soybean Loaf
Note This tasty bread is easy to make and is gluten-free. It is best baked in mini loaf pans (3x6 inches or similar). Use three pans for this recipe. Black soybeans are low in carbs and rich in fiber and protein. You can freeze this bread, too. One loaf has 11.7 grams of carb. Serving size, one slice. Carbs per serving, 1.2 grams of carb. Ingredients 1 cup rinsed, lightly mashed organic black soybeans, drained cup whey protein powder cup soy protein powder 1 Teasp baking powder pinch of salt 1...
The Goosefoot Greens
Amaranth is a more distant relative of this bunch, as are purslane and sea purslane. The rest beet greens, Good King Henry, lamb's-quarters, Malabar spinach, orach, spinach, Swiss chard, and water spinach are all closely related members of the family Chenopodiaceae the beet, chard, spinach, and quinoa family. Some food experts recommend that you boil the goose-foot greens before eating them. This is because they all contain more than the usual amount of oxalic acid too much oxalate can cause...
Butchering Chickens
Once you know what you're doing and have your system worked out, 2 people can kill, pick, and cut up about a half dozen chickens an hour or even more. Of Age and Stage Home-grown chicken to eat comes from 2 basic sources the broilers or cockerels you raise to butchering age and then put in the freezer, and the hens whose egg production is declining or stopped, that you cull out of your flock. The broilers or cockerels are your young, tender birds. At 8-12 weeks of age, they'll weigh from 2 to 8...
Getting Started Information and Supplies
Poultry Periodicals Most U.S. rural-living magazines have occasional articles on poultry the most common homestead animal. And also . . . Feather Fancier Newspaper is a Canadian newspaper focused on purebred poultry, pigeons, waterfowl, pheasants, etc. 20 US yr sample 2 519-542-6859 fax 519542-4168 5739 Telfer Rd Sarnia, Ont. N7T 7H2, CANADA featherfancier ebtech.net www.feather fancier.on.ca. National Poultry News is the Country Paper Country Folks Love to Read, a homespun 32-pg quarterly,...
Lesser Known Starchy Roots
These include arrowhead, cassava, kudzu, malanga, taro, and yam. arrowhead Sagittaria latifolia is also known as bardang, chee koo, duck potato, and kuwai. It's a hard, small walnut-sized tuber that's native to America but is now also grown in Asia. It's not an easy crop to grow because the tubers grow from underground runners that stray far from their origin. Raw arrowhead tastes unpleasant the cooked stuff tastes like a sweet potato. Use like potatoes. Cassava NOTE Cassava, like taro,...
Southwestern Vegetable Soup
If you like a soup that's packed with veggies, that's low in fat, and has some of that Southwestern zing to it, this is the one for you. Just toss all the ingredients in a pot and simmer. Garnish with some shredded cheese and crumbled tortillas, and prepare to take the chill off. 6 cups chicken broth Swanson is best 1 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes, with juice 1 cup water 1 cup canned dark red kidney beans, with liquid 1 cup grated cheddar jack cheese blend 1 cup crumbled corn tortilla chips 1....
Montauk Lodge Marinated Vegetables
1 pkg frozen stir-fry veggies 3 4 cups vinegar 1 cup sugar 1 2 cups oil 1 cup celery cut thin diagonally 1 cup onion sliced very thin 1 cup chopped red amp green peppers 1 pkg Italian seasoning Cook vegetables about 7 minutes in small amount of water until crisp tender. Do not over cook. Boil vinegar, sugar, and oil 5 minutes and pour over hot vegetables. Add celery, onion, and peppers. Mix well. Add Italian seasoning and mix again. Store in double zip-lock bags in cooler until ready to serve.
Creamy Ricotta and Sausage Calzone Recipe
Use this recipe as a template for other calzones. Try other calzones with mushrooms, pepperoni, spinach, or more. If you use onions or green peppers, partially cook the veggies before adding them to the filling. Meats should always be cooked first. 2 2 3 cups bread flour 1 cup water at 110 degrees 1 7 gram packet instant yeast 1 4 cup stone ground whole wheat or rye flour 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 teaspoons granulated sugar 1 2 teaspoons salt 1 tablespoon baker's dry milk 1 2 teaspoon dough...
Pepper Sweet
Varieties The sweet peppers (Capsicum frutescens grossum) are basically bigger than the hots and come in many types blocky bell peppers heart-shaped pimentos tomato-shaped cherry varieties long banana-shaped peppers that are only 2 inches wide at the top but 6 to 8 inches long and produce heavily (30 or more fruits per plant) the long, curved, green Italian bull's horn pepper Japanese sweet peppers Lamuyo, the European sweet pepper and yellow-green, thick-walled, 4- to 5-inch-long cubanelles...
Squash Sponge Luffa
The luffas are a totally different gourd species (Luffa) than the lagenarias. The luffa (sometimes spelled loofa) originated in Asia and has as about as many names as there are seed catalogs. One of its most common names is vegetable sponge because the skeleton of this gourd is the luffa sponge you can buy from your health-food store. It's also known as towel gourd or dishcloth gourd. Asian specialty catalogs may use its Chinese names. Luffa sponges can be used as bathing sponges, boat or...
Native American Health Recipes
Acevedo Jr. in his Doctoral Dissertation (August 23, 1983) and work on the Elderhealth Project Four Worlds Development Project, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge Alberta **These recipes have been updated and revised in November 1996 and updated in March 2000 to new findings and research that is better suited to Native populations using these recipes. Copyright by Cruz H. Acevedo Jr., Ph.D. TO TREATMENT DIRECTORS, ELDERHEALTH COORDINATORS SUMMER CAMP SPORTS TRAINING...
The Edible Flower Bud and Stem Brassicas
These include broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, raab, and sea kale. As little plants, they all look about the same they begin to look different only as they mature. They all require long, cool summers and need fertile, well-limed soil. Most have insect and disease problems, so don't plant brassicas in the same spot for 2 or 3 years. To hold off cutworms from new transplants, arrange a newspaper, cardboard, or metal collar around the stem. I have trouble growing these because it's hot here in the...
Vegetarianism
Vegetarian Diets When I first started writing this book I didn't know anything about the vegetarian way of eating. But readers, and life, have educated me. I've been exchanging letters for about a year now 1989 with a remarkable young lady named Ruth Miller. Age 13, she lives with her sister and parents on a small island, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles, in the Southern Caribbean, where her parents manage a religious radio station called Trans World Radio. Ruth and her parents are long-time...
Food for Pigs
Pigs Recycle Kitchen Scraps Pigs are important because they eat kitchen scraps garbage. We keep a slop bucket in the kitchen for the pigs. Into the slop bucket go peelings, leftovers, extra milk, spoiled foods from the root cellar, the contents from jars of canned fruit that got moldy, bread crusts if I burned the bottom of the loaf or accidentally baked it 2 hours instead of 40 minutes and so on. People have asked me if you can feed chickens scraps of chicken meat or pigs scraps of pig meat....
Shell Dry Beans
Shell beans are the many varieties of Phaseolus vulgaris that are dried on the vine, shelled, stored dry, and then served in chilis, soups, casseroles, etc. Basically you grow shell beans (beans for drying) just as you grow bush beans (almost all of them are bush rather than pole types), but you harvest them differently. varieties All the beans described in the following paragraphs are Phaseolus vulgaris varieties. Soybeans, lentils, dried peas, garbanzos, and black-eyes are good shell beans...
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Fencing Housing and Food
Fencing for Goats The biggest problem with any goats, male or female, is controlling them. They can jump over, crawl through, or squeeze between and they can do terrible damage terribly fast if they get where they don't belong. Wrap the trunks of your fruit trees with chicken wire 6 feet high if you have goats. This keeps the goats from eating the bark. If the goats are sticking their heads through and getting stuff they shouldn't, fence them in with chicken wire. Keep them well fed so the...
Summer Squashes
When somebody tells you zucchini is Italian soul food, that's okay. But if they say zucchini came over on the boat with Columbus, inform them they've got the direction backwards. Both summer and winter squash are natives of the United States that migrated to Europe A meal of squash, beans, corn, and venison was a basic native American supper. Summer squashes are grown, cooked, and preserved quite differently than are winter squashes (see next section). Zucchini, marrow, scalloped pattypan...
Fruit Juice and Juice Products
The quickest and easiest way I know to keep working men and women happy in hot weather is to keep gallon jars of cool liquid in the refrigerator and a plastic gallon jar of ice cubes in the freezer compartment. I make lots of tea (wild strawberry leaf is Mike's favorite, and wild mint is mine). I sweeten the tea with honey, chill it, and serve it plain or with ice cubes for a special treat. I also keep some of our spring water chilled in the refrigerator in summer for drinks. And the children...
The Cabbagy Brassicas
This group includes Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and Chinese cabbage. brussels Sprouts You are probably going to plant your seed indoors and then transplant outside. You're aim ing to produce little cabbage-type heads. They can get as large as ping-pong balls, but don't let them, because bigger ones aren't as tasty. Brussels sprouts are a funny-looking, tall (2 to 4 feet) plant with a bunch of leaves at the top like a palm tree. The sprouts grow all around the sides of the stem. Planting. You can...
The Leafy Brassicas
There are lots to choose from in this group collards, cress, kale, mizuna, mustard, rape, rocket, turnip greens, tyfon, and watercress. collards I've got at least a partial credential for talking about collards because my mother was born and raised in Alabama. She left around age 20, first for a job in a bank in New York City and then to take a teaching job as an English teacher in the practically brand-new, whistle-stop town of Clyde Park, Montana. They called her Alabam there, and from her I...
By Dwayne Pritchett Medicine
Welcome to the Geezer Cookbook on-line. Whether you are just visiting, here to gather great Dutch-oven cooking recipes or just surfing the net, I would like to extend a warm Geezer welcome to everyone You may be asking yourself, what is a Geezer Well thoughts of older folks, sitting around a porch and telling stories of yesteryear comes to my mind, so if you have a moment, Ill spin a little tale of the Medicine Man and the Geezer's Cookbook. Dwayne Pritchett (aka by his OA vigil name, the...
Mango Salsa
Slice the mango flesh from each side of the pit. One half at a time, make an inch cut just inside the skin, then score the flesh in 3 8-inch cubes. Turn skin inside out and free the mango flesh with the knife. Cut the cubes in inch dice, reserving any mushy pieces for some other use. You should end up with about 1 1 2 cups. Combine mango with all remaining ingredients and let sit 30 minutes to blend flavor. 2 whole chickens --,Halved 8 cloves garlic --,Minced 2 T fresh ginger,Crushed 2 T...
Detailed Stepby Step Drying Instructions
Harvest Harvest your fruit or vegetables at the peak of flavor. They'll taste better when slightly immature than when overripe unless you're making leather. You can make fruit leather out of overripe fruits, but you're better off raising chickens and pigs on the overripe vegetables. Get started on the drying as soon as possible after picking the harvest. For sun-dried foods, start early in the morning. Then you've got the entire first day to get them started drying. Start on a day that promises...
Vegetable Seed Catalogs
Listed below are firms offering general garden seed catalogs, including some specialized firms that offer vegetable seeds as well as their specialties. (In subsequent chapters' entries about various vegetables and other plants, these firms are simply mentioned by name you can get the address from this section.) Sometimes I mention if the catalog is black and white (b w) or color. Personally I prefer the b w folks because they're doing the environmentally wiser, less-leaded option. I wish I had...
Tough Squirrel Stew
1 pound Cajun smoked sausage, cut into 1-inch slices 1 stalk celery, chopped 1 quart chicken stock 1 small can cream of mushroom soup Salt to taste * Heat oil brown sausage. Season squirrel. * Remove sausage brown squirrel pieces well. Remove squirrel. * Saut onions, bell pepper and celery until soft then remove. * Place squirrel, sausage and veggies back into pot add about 1-pint of chicken stock to pot. * Bring to slow boil lower heat to low-medium and simmer slowly. * After 45 minutes, add...
Seasoning Mixtures
Save your empty spice containers to hold your own mixes Store seasoning mixes in an airtight container and in a dry, cool place not over or beside your stove Packaging Seasoning Mixes Combine your favorite spices, dried vegetables, and herbs. Lay out squares of foil or small plastic baggies. Spoon 1 serving size of your mix into the center of each foil square or baggie. Seal foil packets by folding over the ends and rolling them. To store in plastic, press the air out and tie tightly shut....