Strudel Cookies and Food Recipes

Dog Food Turkey Recipes

2012-01-28T11:27:00.000-08:00

Dog Food Turkey Recipes

Dog food turkey recipes are a great way to give your dog a great treat and keep him healthy too. If you are looking for some great recipes, the best place to search is online. With the recent scare of poisoning in store bought dog foods and treats, more and more people are searching for a safer way to feed their dogs without spending an arm and a leg. Making your own dog turkey recipes and treats can give you an option to know exactly what ingredients are in your dog's food, save money, and eat fresh.

The Tasty Turkey Omelet

If you are looking for tasty dog food turkey recipes, look no further than the tasty turkey omelet. You will need a single jumbo egg, two tablespoons of mashed potato, half cup of cooked turkey meat, a half cup of cooked vegetables, and a fourth cup of grated cheese. You are going to add some olive oil to a medium sized pan and heat it up.

Whip the egg and the potato together and then spread in the pan. Spread the turkey and veggies onto the egg and potato mix and sprinkle the cheese on top. Cook covered till the egg is completely done and the cheese is melted. Cut into wedges and serve to your pup.

Turkey Balls

Dog food turkey recipes are very popular. None of them will have a candle to this one. Turkey balls are a great way to keep your dog happy and healthy. You will need:

• Uncooked pizza or bread dough - 1 loaf
• Turley broth - ¼ cup
• Flour - enough to thicken
• Cooked turkey - ¾ cup
• Cooked vegetables - ½ cup
• Garlic powder - ¼ teaspoon
• Grated cheddar cheese - ¼ cup
• Sesame seeds - ¼ cup

You are going to roll out your dough and cut with a cookie cutter three inch circles.

Heat the broth in a sauce pan and add flour till it thickens. Add the turkey, vegetables, and garlic powder and allow it to cook till it is heated through. Once the thickened mixture is warm, spoon a few teaspoons onto the circles of dough, fold up the sides, and pinch them shut. Carefully roll each one into a ball shape. Sprinkle each ball with the cheese and sesame seeds. Arrange the balls on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for about 15 minutes or golden brown. Allow the balls to cool and then serve. Make sure to refrigerate or freeze any leftovers.

The Big Turkey Treat

Making a great big turkey treat for your puppy can be fun as it can economical. Go get two pounds of ground turkey; it is the easiest to work with. You will also want two eggs, 2 cups of cooked rice, 8 ounces of peas, three diced carrots, 1 large diced apple, and two cloves of minced garlic. Mix all the ingredients by hand in a good sized bowl. On a foiled baking sheet arrange the meat mixture into a huge dog bone shape and bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.

Easy Healthy Raw Food Recipes

2012-01-20T17:08:00.000-08:00

Healthy raw food is the best way to maintain your health and life. Every time someone suffers from a major health issue in their life they are immediately asked to go back to eating raw food, the question is - if raw food is so good for a diseased body, why shouldn't it be taken early on? The fact is that raw food is very high in vitamins, minerals and yes even protein.

A common complain that people starting into raw vegan food is that it is so time consuming and complicated. Let me make this very clear, it is not! How can it be time consuming when you are not even cooking anything? Quite to the contrary, raw vegan food recipes and very simple and can be made even by 6 year old. Probably the biggest advantage that you get by eating this kind of food is that it keeps the level of fiber in your body at an optimal rate. This is simply too important for your digestive system and also for maintaining your energy level always at a high.

Healthy raw, vegan food recipes also help you conquer obesity, heart problems and asthma, apart from heart burns, gastritis, and constipation which are all too common in a cooked food diet.

While starting out on a vegan food diet you can try one of the many books available online which offer a lot of delicious raw food recipes to start out with.

These books are written by experienced health coaches and fitness professionals who had witnessed amazing changes in their life after they switched onto a vegan food diet.

Peanut And Raisins Cookies

2012-01-12T11:06:00.000-08:00

Peanut and raisins cookies, the thought itself reminds you of the nutty flavor of peanuts combined with raisins give a delicious crunchy nutty taste and flaky texture.

Peanuts are known by other name like the ground nuts, monkey nuts. The peanut was introduced to China by Portuguese traders in the 17th century and another variety by American missionaries in the 19th century. They became popular and are featured in many Chinese dishes, often being boiled

Peanut butter is very famous and used in every home. Peanuts are used to prepare candy, bakery products and chikki (an Indian sweet meat). Peanut flour is low in fat than peanut butter and popular with chefs because of its high protein content and makes it suitable as a flavor enhancer. Peanut flour is used as a gluten free solution.

In south Asian countries, peanuts are known as either a light snack by themselves, usually roasted and salted, and often sold roasted in pod on roads in the north, or boiled with salt in the south. They are also made into little dessert or sweet snack pieces by processing with refined sugar and jaggery. Indian cuisine uses roasted, crushed peanuts to give a crunchy body to salads; they are added whole (without pods) to leafy vegetable stews for the same reason. Peanuts are used to help fight malnutrition. Peanuts are a good source of niacin, and thus contribute to brain health and blood flow.

Recipe: Peanut and raisin cookie
Summary: COOKIES MAIDA WITH FLOUR AND PEANUTS.

Ingredients
ALL PURPOSE FLOUR 300 grams
BAKING POWDER 1 tsp
DALDA 100 grams
EGG 1 -number
HONEY 1 tbsp
MILK 0 AS NEEDED
PEANUTS 1 cup
RAISENS 20 number
SUGAR 100 grams
Instructions
1.DRY ROAST PEANUTS AND BLEND IT.
2.TAKE A BOWL ADD DALDA, SUGAR, HONEY, CREAM IT, then add peanut powder mix well.
3.Now add flour, baking powder, rasins mix well
4.in another bowl add egg beat well and milk mix well.
5.Now ad the egg mixture to peanut and maida mixture make it into a dough.
6.divide into equal dumplings place it oven for 150 @15min or till golden brown colour
Cooking time (duration): 25

Number of servings (yield): 4

Meal type: breakfast

My rating: 4 stars: 1 review(s)

Recipe by Vahchef.

The preparation of Peanut and raisin cookie is simple and easy to prepare. Dry roast peanuts and make a fine powder. Chop raisins into fine pieces. Take butter or fat and cream it well, add sugar and honey and mix. If you desire you can reduce the quantity of sugar and increase the quantity of honey. Mix the mixture well. Add baking powder to the maida flour and add this to the peanut mixture. Beat egg add a little milk and mix it into the peanut maida mixture and make to a cookie dough. For vegans, they can avoid the egg and add little milk or water and mix. Egg is optional. Make into small flat balls place them on a baking tray and bake them. A nice combination of all these ingredients gives a really yummy nutritious and delicious cookie.

Baby Food Recipes

2012-01-05T14:42:00.000-08:00

Baby food recipe is definitely an indispensable and vital component in your quest of providing your infants only the best care and nutrition for their health and wellness. This stage of development of your baby is truly crucial hence you must find and discover the different food recipe choices you have that will give them the right level of nourishment and sustenance they need.

The transition from milk to solid food for your baby is a salient yet delicate stage hence preparation of the right food choices will spell a great difference in the outcome of your infant care. There are homemade and natural food preparations you can choose which are undeniably more nutritious and healthier.

Sweet Potato Recipes for your Baby

Yams or sweet potatoes are undoubtedly on top of the list when it comes to rendering nutritional value to your bundle of joy.

This natural product is high in beta carotene, potassium and vitamin A. There is likewise a great amount of calcium, folate and vitamin E which are great supplements for the mental and physical development of your baby.

Sweet potatoes all in all topped the chart in the Nutrition Action Health letter which gauges the nutritional potentials of 58 vegetables in adding up the percentage of the nutrients they contain including folate, iron, Vitamin A and C, calcium, copper and fiber.

You can introduce medium baked sweet potatoes for your baby as early as the solid food starter stage since this food recipe is highly palatable and fibrous helping the digestive tract of your infant. Other ways of preparing this recipe is through steaming and microwaving although the latter is less preferred for its radiation impact on the vegetable.

Food Recipes with Pumpkin for your Baby

Pumpkins belong to the squash family and are known for loads of nutritional compounds perfectly suited for baby recipes and solid food starters.

This vegetable is laden with Vitamin A and C, folate, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and calcium and beta carotene.

Pumpkins could easily be mixed with other solid food or puree as early as the first six months of your infant. You can add it with yogurts, chicken meat and homemade cereals or you can cook it as pumpkin risotto, pumpkin soup, boiled, steamed, baked or poached for diversity.

Avocado Recipes for your Baby

Avocados have nutrient compounds such as vitamin A, C, B1 and B2, folate, niacin, potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, iron and phosphorus among others. Moreover, it makes a great solid for babies because of its creaminess and highly palatable texture.

You can create avocado recipes for babies such as freeze or mashed avocados, guacamole for babies, avocado fruit salad or mix it with other ingredients such as mango, peach, banana, pumpkin, yogurt, apple, chicken meat and pears.

Straight Talk from a Comfort Foodie: Strudel Makes the Woman

2012-01-02T03:14:00.000-08:00

Grandpa Max loved butter cookies. He liked his Chivas Regal from a heavy cut-glass decanter, but the little butter cookies with coarse sugar sprinkles just had to come from a can.

His pleasures were simple born from a childhood of poverty, and his need for tidiness bordered on compulsion. Grandpa did all the ironing and packed all the suitcases, each layer of clothes sandwiched between tissue paper and sheets of plastic recycled from the dry cleaners. It was Grandpa Max who would stand in my bedroom like a soldier and teach me how to reassemble my dissheveld sheets and blanket into a proper bed. I had sleep in my eyes and my Barbie nightgown was twisted around me like a frenzied static sock. "Make ya' bed after ya' git oudda it, kiddo." he offered, dressed in his signature starched Van Hussen and perma-press pants. "This, not orange juice, is the way to start the morning." Then he'd show me how to get a brush through my tangled brown hair.

Grandma would have made him Scottish shortbread from scratch, but the man preferred store bought. When the pretzel-shaped contents, with their stiff little paper cups were spent, each container was reused to hold tea bags, Sweet 'n Low, or tiny packets of soy and duck sauce.

When my grandparents moved to Florida in the early 1970's, those blue cans with their little pictures of Dutch villages became the loving receptacles of Grandma's cookie care packages. Opening each lid revealed layers of Linzer tortes, rugelach, and strudel; each seperated by a piece of wax paper. Grandma did the baking. Grandpa did the packing. You never knew what would be inside. Half the fun of receiving one of these boxes, mailed immediatley after baking and marked no less than ten times with the word "fragile" , was eating your way through each delicious layer. I'd race to cut through all the tape and open the cardboard flaps just to catch that first wiff--a combination of her perfume and a myriad of cleaning products. At that moment I was transported right into their kitchen. I'd breathe deeply into the box and relive a time when my best friend lived down the block and being grown-up was the distant future.
I was to immediately call Miami and report any breakage. Invariably there were a few. Grandma was shrewd and never took the blame for a recipe that went array. She just may have forgotten some intergral ingredient to bind the recipe, but, the drama of the crumbled cookies, fell on Max for not putting enough tissue paper in with the silver trays.

"Ma-ac," she'd start off, not even calling him by his correct name. "Ya' broke the cookies," yelling to be heard over the soundtrack of Flower Drum Song. Rather than continue his umpeeth solitaire game, he'd scramble to the kitchen to defend himself.

"Lily, wud are ya' tawking bout? Cus-ik-sin I wrapped 'em plenty".

I had one set of grandparents that spoke only Yiddish. These two spoke the worst Brooklyn venacular you could imagine. It was a home were teabags were teaballs, Indians lived on reservoirs, and everything to the front of the house was a stoop.
When I came to spend the night, Grandma once said, "It's a good thing I have a cot, or I wouldn't know wheres to putchuz!" I always got to bed early at their house, 'cuz-ik-sin' I didn't want to catch Grandpa without his teeth in. Besides, at six in the morning, he'd be doing his unintended Spike Jones routine with the plates and silverware from the dishwarsher.

When these care packages still came on my birthday, even after I had had children of my own, I would devour all but one cookie, and there it would sit the entire year until the next batch. I just couldn't eat the last one until a new box arrived. There were definate seperation issues tied to those cookies. As long as I held on to one of Grandma's treats I was holding on to her, and that this would somehow tempt fate and keep her healthy till the next year.

The Wild Rose Inn Bed and Breakfast was open for buisness the year that Grandma, now widowed, turned eighty-eight. I had spent years as an itinerant tradeswoman buying, renovating, and selling my homes. This last purchase of a delapidated Victorian apartment house would be my finest work, and hopefully an end to my non-settled mode of living. I had shuffled my son, Austin, and Jake the dog, through six houses in six years. His toy chests were labeled moving boxes. I got Christmas cards from the storage company. To help make our situation more tolerable we got in the habit of writing a new and simple song for each house, and would sing it as we drove there.

"We're going home to Willow, to put our head on a pillow. We'll meet Jakey on the street. Our little house just can't be beat".

I couldn't change the past. But I vowed to give Austin a home where he could mark his growing height on the threshold of his bedroom door.

The Wild Rose project took all the money I could beg or borrow to be overhauled into upscale accommodations, never knowing that this endeavor was truly "in-my-blood". I had lived in Woodstock for nearly twenty years and finally had a piece of property on "the Monopoly board", and, even though I had spent my teen-age years living on Cape Cod and working the coffe shop and running the switchboard of my dad's motel, I didn't realize that innkeeping was not for the domestically challenged. With the onslaught of guests came the reality of constant laundry, grocery shopping, and baking.

A genetic disposition to the occupation was welcome. When the grand opening came my family arrived from various parts of the country to help create a grand event: a huge Victorian lawn party complete with a chamber ensemble for guests that would come dressed in period costumes. We prepared cucumber tea sandwiches and trays of pretty petit-fours. When the work was done, over a cup of strong black tea and a plate of cookies, grandma shared with me hand-me-down stories of her grand parents inn and tavern in Russia.

In the days of the Russian czars Jewish innkeepers, unlike their gentile competitors in that profession, were compelled to pay exceptionally high taxes, plus additional big fees for the liquor permit, taxes so extremely high that it was utterly impossible for my distant relative to earn but a poor living with the full help and cooperation of his wife. This matriarch, to help out her husband, would bake delicious cakes and tasty rolls, only to attract the eyes and appetites of non-Jewish customers whose wives did not posses the skill or talent for flavorful baking.

Being that I was now a fifth-generation innkeeper I would have to turn in my tool belt for an apron, get into the kitchen, and learn the family recipe for making strudel. Beautiful Russian strudel filled with raisins, candied fruit, and homemade plum butter.

I come from a long resilient line of Jewish mothers, women that utilized homemaking and baking for gains in an era when women were scarce in professional kitchens.

My great-grandmother was known as Bubbe--a woman that stood only four and a half feet high and measured all of her ingredients with a "yarzeit" glass. (This is a glass that was once filled with candle wax and was lit on the anniversary of a relatives passing). In 1916, with six children and a husband that spent more time in other womans beds that his own, Bubbe owned and operated The Spencer Hotel of Saratoga Springs, New York. It was one of many Jewish boarding houses in that upper-crust town where Yiddish was spoken. I love hearing my grandma speak of the sumptuous furnishings, horse-hair stuffed sofas, and oriental carpets with the softest pile she had ever felt. Gamblers frequented the place and her father, Rueben, would dance the night away with their fashionable wives. One day she wandered into the attic of that mammoth rooming house and discovered an antique trunk filled with Victorian ball-gowns. The attic was eventually renovated with smaller guest rooms, rooms for jockeys at the famous Saratoga Race Track.

Boarders paid twenty five dollars a week, which included three meals a day. Friday night dinners were with matzo ball soup, homemade gefilte fish, and roasted chicken. Satuday afternoons featured Cholent, a thick bean concoction with tender beef, barley, and potatoes that was prepared in the hours prior to the start of the sabbath. The symbolic Cholent, a dish that required no preparation or stove top manipulation, making it therefore Kosher, was served with a side of cold stuffed derma. Sunday afternoons saw dairy kugel, potato blintzes, and fresh fruit. Bubbe's strudel was always the finishing touch of every meal served to her guests.

My own mother and grandmother share a relationship that revolves around food and the kitchen. To this day they still argue about who makes the best mondelbrot. Grandma claims their recipes for this Jewish biscotti are identical, but hers are cake-like (and crumble) where my mother's have more snap.

During World War II, when her husband earned fourteen dollars a week for the family doing electronic repairs, grandma ran a luncheonette out of a renovated tool shack at the Idylwild Airport (later to become JFK). When there was no one to look after my mother, she was tethered--literally--to her mother's apron strings by a rope. Grandma cooked breakfast and lunch for the pilots at what was then a little airport. Her menu was a bit more assimilated than that of her mothers. The breakfast speciality was "The Gashouse Egg", a piece of buttered white bread toast with an egg fried in the center cut-out, with a side of homefries. Add a cup of coffee and the bill came to fifty cents. Dessert carried the blood-line. Russian strudel was always the finishing touch. Wrapping it in a paper napkin, grandma would stuff a piece into the pocket of each of her most loyal patrons.

As a young girl, my mother got to watch Bubble Lena bake strudel many times for the reason that after Bubbe was widowed, she would live with each of her six children for a three-month stay. Like most of the coveted family recipes, their secrets were withheld until matrimony.

My mom and dad began married life in a small ground floor apartment in a two-family house in Brooklyn. One day grandma decided it was her daughters turn to learn the family recipe and offered a hands-on strudel-baking lesson. My mother watched as the dough was worked until paper thin. The filling wasn't difficult, but the dough required a certain expertise. The crucial part was in the initial preparation; the dough needed to be pounded and stretched. As they were slapping it against the kitchen table to work it the ladies worked up a sweat. They continued to bang it around until they were almost done. They were waiting for the dough to gain its elasticity when all of a sudden there was a loud knock at the door. My mom wiped the moisture from her face and opened the door to find the landlady, who lived upstairs, looking impatient and frustrated. With her hands on her hips, she expressed wonder at how her tenants could possibly be cold -still. She had turned the heat up several times. My mom was puzzled. What she didn't know was the standard rule of two-family living: If you need more heat, rap hard on the pipes. My mother and grandmother still laugh about that till this day.

I've come to realize that innkeeping and baking cookies go hand-in-hand. The arresting aroma of the freshly baked stuff can not be replaced by vanilla scented potpouri. When my guests follow the wafting scent up the stairs to my kitchen, like Bugs Bunny following the scent of a carrot, I know I've reached their core. When melting chocolate hangs from their lip all pretenses are dropped and they are, once again, at home.

I've pilfored the family vault to aquire recipes. No matter the diet trend, low-carb or no-carb, the cookies get polished off. On the rare occasions when I have the pleasure of baking with both my mother and grandmother, I sit the "girls" in my kitchen with five pounds of flour and, like the millers daughter in a fairy tale, tell them they can't leave the room until it is all spun into strudel-gold, strudel that is now the finishing touch of the meals I serve to my guests.

Enjoying Great German Desserts

2012-01-01T09:15:00.000-08:00

German people love to eat, and they certainly know how to cook. My grandfather was born and raised in the communal society of the Amana Colonies in Iowa, and I've attended many family reunions and dinners in the Colonies over the years. Food was designed to stick to the ribs and keep hard-working men healthy and strong. Although my grandfather passed away while my mother was still a little girl, some of the recipes for foods he loved have come down through the family. Special German dessert recipes for cookies and rich pastries, such as Peppernuts (sugar cookies) and Apfelstrudel (apple strudel), were a beloved part of my childhood.

Peppernuts were among the German dessert recipes I remember. You start making Peppernuts with 1 cup of softened butter, one cup of lard, and 3 cups of sugar. Cream them together until fluffy. Add 4 eggs and beat until very creamy. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking ammonia, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 4 cups flour. Beat well. Form into small balls and bake at 350 degrees until the edges are brown, around 10-12 minutes.

All the cooking in the Amana Colonies was done in communal kitchens. After graduating from 8th grade, girls were put to work in the kitchens under the direction of a head cook. Their job was to turn out all the food, including preparing the German dessert recipes, which the colonies would eat each day. At mealtime children were sent to the kitchens with covered pails so that they could pick up the food allotted to their family and bring it home. Everyone worked hard, and no one worried about calories.

Apple strudel is another of the delightful German dessert recipes that smells heavenly while it's baking. For this recipe you need to start with 10 1/2 oz. of flour, 1/6 oz. of salt, 1 1/2 oz. of melted lard, and 5 1/3 oz. of warm water. This will give you the basic dough for the dessert. Knead the dough until it becomes smooth and elastic. Divide into 3 loaves, brush each with melted butter, and allow to raise in a warm place for an hour.

While you're waiting for the bread dough to rise, you can mix your filling. Start by peeling, coring, and slicing 5 1/2 lbs. of Golden Delicious apples. Mix 5 1/3 oz. of sugar with 1 1/2 oz. of dark rum, 5 1/3 oz. of raisins, the zest and juice from two lemons, and 1/8 teaspoon of cinnamon. Toss this mixture with the apples. Mix 10 1/2 oz. of bread crumbs with 10 1/2 oz. of melted, unsalted butter. Take one loaf of dough and stretch it to fit a strudel sheet. Cover 2/3 of the sheet of dough with bread crumbs. Spread apple filling on the remaining third. Cut the edges even and roll the dough up. Place on a cookie sheet, brush the top with melted butter, and bake at 400 degrees for for 60-90 minutes.

Hungarian Strudels or ReTes TeSzta

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The dough is folded several times, creating several layers, hence the name. Rétes is the "King" of pastries in Central Europe. Hungarian Rétes is similar to the Vienna Strudel, except it is a bit thinner. Rétes is a Hungarian peasant cake and is used to be a part of every celebration feast in the Hungarian lowlands. Today, it is prepared all over Hungary.

There is a definite family resemblance between Strudel Dough and the Greek Phyllo. The Hungarians first adopted the incredibly thin strudel dough from the Turkish pastry Baklava. This famous dessert is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of phyllo dough filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup or honey. Also, Greeks use spinach as well to create their Spanakopita or spinach pie is a Greek savoury pastry in the burek family with a filling of chopped spinach, feta cheese. It is not rolled the same as the strudel - rather folded neatly into a triangular parcel, but the dough preparation is identical. It is characteristic of the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empireand much of central and southwest Asia. Phyllo of Filo actually means "leaf" in Greek, but according to the food historians, it is of Turkish origin. Countless Turkish dishes have been adopted into Hungaryfrom these people (after all - they did rule the land for 150 years.) The flakey, flavourful, layered sheets of tissue-thin pastry are simply delicious and can be used in countless savoury and sweet recipes alike. Thank you Turkey!

And, while the German and Austrian varieties tend to be a little heavier and sweeter, Hungarian Strudel is much lighter and flavourful without being overly sugary. An important note to make is that the traditional Austrian Strudel pastry is different from strudels served in other parts of the world and are often made from Puff Pastry.

"Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels"...taken from the Sound of Music is a very Austrian tradition. To many people, Apple Strudel is the most famous of all strudels as well as the most famous of all Austrian pastries; it has always been closely associated with Viennain particular. However, we must clarify an important point right from the start - it is generally accepted that the dessert did not originate in Austriaat all. So, the origins mystery of this fine pastry dough remains unsolved.

The warm, sugar-dusted strudel is often associated with cafés of central Europe. But even after close examination of each of those country's' strudel, not one is the same nor are the names consistent. In Hungaryit is known as Rétes. In Sloveniaas Strudel or Zavitek. Tthe Czechs and Slovaks call it Závin or trúdl. In Romaniait is known as Strudel and finally, the Croatians use a similar name and call it trudla or SavijaÄÂa.

History differs on exactly how this Hungarian strudel arrived in Vienna, but the general theory is this: with the departure of the Ottoman invaders (the Ottoman Empire at its height included Vienna), the now unemployed Turkish and Hungarian cooks took their skills and specialties (and certainly strudel was among them) to the kitchens of the Viennese aristocrats in the new Austro-Hungarian empire.

Although the origins of strudel still seem to be fuzzy and many countries would want to lay claim on this delightfully light and versatile pastry, we cannot say with certainly that we have zeroed in on the origins. The key piece of information is that recipes for strudel differ from country to country. Now, a little research yields the following: the oldest recipe found dates back to the late 1600's, a handwritten one at that - and found in Viennaat the city library - The Wiener Stadtbibliothek. From this recipe, the pastry is believed to have its origins in the Byzantine Empireor Middle Eastern pastries. Some guess that the strudel entered Austrian kitchens via Bosniaand Croatiaand thus is derived from Börek. Börek (also called Burek and other variants) is a family of baked or fried filled pastries made of a thin flaky dough known as yufka (or phyllo). It is often filled with assorted cheeses- feta, sirene or kaÅar. Others are filled with minced meat or vegetables. Now these are thought to have been invented in Central Asiaby nomadic Turks, it became a popular element of Ottoman cuisine. (Ref: Wikipedia)

We may never solve the mystery fully, but let's put the origins issues aside and let's focus on the actual pastry itself - the structure, the creation, the ingredients - shall we? The traditional Strudel pastry dough is very elastic. It is prepared from flour with a relatively high gluten content, egg, water and butter. The flour is often called by the same name - Strudel Flour (or hard flour). The dough is worked quite vigorously, then rested and finally rolled out and stretched by hand so thinly over a large table covered with a crisp white tea towel, that is resembles paper. I recall reading an anecdote quoting that "...it should be so thin that a newspaper can be read through it." Legend has it that the Austrian Emperor's perfectionist cook decreed that it should be possible to read a love letter through it. After the dough has been fully stretched, melted butter or fine oil is then brushed across the surface carefully as not to tear the oversized thin sheet. The final preparation is the filling, which can range from sweet fillings like; apples and cherries and walnuts and poppy seeds to farmer's cottage cheese plump with raisins to the savoury versions with combinations incorporating spinach, cabbage, pumpkin, sauerkraut and meat. The filling is evenly dotted across the top layer; the dough is then carefully rolled with the help of the tea towel, brushed with more melted butter and then finally baked in the oven to a golden light brown.

The papery thin strudel dough is complemented by a variety of typically Hungarian fillings:

The Hungarians fill the papery thin strudel dough with; tart green apples, tiny black poppy seeds, crunchy walnuts, bright red cherries, ride pudding, sweet noodles, cabbage or farmers cottage or curd cheese dotted with plump raisins and whatever cake or bread crumbs are on hand. The number of different strudel fillings now-a-days, is almost limitless and includes both sweet and savoury fare. The savoury varieties are especially popular among eastern Europeans and in fact were a staple food for the majority at one time in places such as Hungary, Turkeyand Greece.

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People who love to eat out in the Philippines will always have a craving for the favorite Jollibee spaghetti they grew up with, or even the special siopao sauce they had been used to. Fortunately, www.lutong bahay.com has free recipes which include the Jollibee style spaghetti recipe and the Philippine style siopao sauce recipe.

For snacks or dessert, there are favorite Filipino recipes for sweets such as the best ube chiffon cake recipe, the hopia recipe and the sylvanas recipe.

Aside from cooked food, Filipino food is also richly enhanced by the wide variety of fresh fruits available in the country. Mangoes and lanzones are among the most popular and most loved of these fruits. People can have their fill of lanzones especially during the Lanzones Festival 2010 celebrated in the third week of October in Camiguin Island. This is where the sweetest lanzones in the land can be found.

The Sweeter Side of Austrian Cuisine

2011-12-23T03:18:00.000-08:00

Austria's cuisine comes from the Austro-Hungarian cuisine and it has Italian, Bavarian, Hungarian, and Czech influences. Austrian pastries are famous and it is true that the people there love desserts. Vannilekipferl is a Christmas dessert and these are little, crescent-shaped cookies which are made with ground hazelnuts or almonds. These little snacks are flavored, often with vanilla, and they have powdered sugar on top. They come from Vienna.

Tortes and chocolates are also popular in this cuisine and the Sachertorte is especially renowned. Sachertorte consists of chocolate sponge with apricot jam in the middle. The frosting is made of dark chocolate and there are also chocolate flakes decorating the sides and top. This tasty treat is often served with unsweetened whipped cream. Another famous Austrian cake is the Zwetschkenfleck, which is a plum and cinnamon-topped, upside down cake. Marzipan is used a lot in Austria's dessert recipes and this ingredient is made with almond meal and sugar.

Hot chocolate with whipped cream is a beloved comfort food. So, what about American dessert recipes? Perhaps jello recipes are not so common in the country as they are in the United States and sometimes it is nice to take the time to make an authentic Austrian dessert. At other times, when you are more in a hurry, jello recipes can save you time and effort and they are sure to taste good. As for American apple pie, Austria's capital, Vienna, has apple strudel, which is similar.

This typical Viennese dessert is a rectangular pastry containing apples, raisins, cinnamon, breadcrumbs, and sugar. Sometimes a tot of rum is added to it. Walnuts, pine nuts, or almonds are optional ingredients. It is important to make apple strudel pastry very thin.

Recipe for Zwetschkenfleck

There are three kinds of Austrian plum cakes, which are cookie-type cakes, cake-type cakes and yeasty ones. The following recipe makes a cake-type recipe and you will need to have a mixer to make it. The eggs must be beaten until they are fluffy and light, else the batter will not have the right consistency.

You can either do this by beating the eggs and sugar together for about ten minutes, by separating the whites and yolks and beating the whites, then adding the yolks alternating with the sugar, or by beating the whites until they are stiff and then beating the yolks with sugar, before combining the whole lot.

What you will need:

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
4 eggs
1 lb pitted plums, cut in quarters or halves
1/2 lb all purpose flour
3 1/2 oz melted butter
3 1/2 oz water
Powdered sugar, as needed

How to make it:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Cream the sugar with the eggs using your electric mixer. Slowly add the oil, then spoon in the flour gradually, alternating with the water. When the mixture is smooth, spread it into a parchment paper-lined jelly roll pan or a rimmed baking sheet. Leave a one inch border around the outside.

Cover the dough with the plums, skin side down and bake the cake for half an hour or until the fruit is soft, and the dough is golden brown. Sprinkle powdered sugar over the zwetschkenfleck and cut it into squares. Serve it with unsweetened whipped cream.

What Are Baked Cookies?

2011-12-19T00:44:00.000-08:00

Baked cookies as the name implies are baked to perfection so that they remain crisp yet soft. Cookies have been a favorite with most people of all ages and these cookies can easily be even made at home. They are extremely delicious and can be made from an assortment of ingredients and in different flavors. There are different types of cookies and some of the most popular variations include chocolate chip cookies, black and white cookies, rainbow cookie, fortune cookie, Tim Tam, shortbread, peanut butter cookies etc.

List the Baked Cookies
Cookies in India consist of baked cookies and contain two types where one lot of cookies is the universal favorites while the second lot of cookies is the ones that are a local variation. The local cookies are of different kinds and some of the most popular ones include Khari, Khakra and Toast. They are practically made at most local bakers and have been enjoyed for years down the line. All these cookies are made with different types of ingredients and are baked and not fried thereby ensuring they have low calories. There are many manufacturer of cookies in India who are involved in creating a range of specialty cookies that are ideal to keep as snacks at home or even gifted it on special occasions. Some of the most popular baked cookies besides the local variation consist of the following:

Sweet Hearts: These delicious specialty cookies with a hint of sugar are baked perfectly to offer a delicious treat. It is made from an assortment of ingredients including wheat flour, sugar, margarine, shredded coconut, vanilla and sugar.

Coconut Almond Cookies: These baked cookies contain the flavors of coconut and are topped with an almond. It can be made from a host of different ingredients and flavors.

Cashew Cookies: These cookies are filled with the richness of cashew nuts and a topping of chocolate glaze. Some of the flavors available include cocoa, walnuts, peanuts, almonds and cinnamon.

Coco Jelly: These are sumptuous little crispy cookies that are extremely popular and well loved.

How baked cookies is useful as health conscious
Baked cookies are any day better than other type of cookies or even snacks because they are extremely healthy and are low on cholesterol and fat. Specialty cookies are ideal for any occasion or even as a tea-time snack or between meal snacks because they ensure you dont stay hungry at the same time they are completely healthy. There is no cholesterol and everyone can enjoy these delicious cookies without having to worry about putting on weight. Since these crispy cookies dont contain any sugar hence it makes it ideal for people suffering from diabetes or those who dont exactly have a sweet tooth. These baked cookies are completely vegetarian and are low in saturated fats and doesnt contain any no trans fat. These are just some of the reasons on why these crunchy cookies absolutely delicious yet very healthy.

Baking Cookies As Wholesome Family Fun

2011-12-15T05:19:00.000-08:00

Baking with your children is one of the best known family-bonding moments. Time spent together in teaching and learning allows you to spend quality time with them that will create a wholesome family fun and enjoyment.

Baking cookies with any or all of your children is entertaining. Cookies are versatile, handy, sweet and fun to make. They can be made in different versions, flavors, sizes and designs kids will like doing. Just prepare the dough in the evening and bake them the next morning. Older children can read the recipe while adults can guide them on what steps to take. Small children will enjoy rolling the dough into balls and flatten it with a fork, similar to making peanut butter cookies. They most likely will love the cookies all the more.

One of the main ingredients that can enhance your cookie is cornstarch. It plays a big role in many food recipes, especially when added to dough. In fact, most baked recipes in the 20th century used corn starch in conjunction with flour. Bakers discovered cookies baked with cornstarch have a notably fine texture with more tender crumbs, compared to cookies baked with flour alone.

In 1892, Argo Corn Starch was launched. It continued to be the source of much conjecture even to the present. Upon its merge with Kingsford in 1899, its experts created recipes bearing this wonderful discovery of corn starch to food.

Here is a simple and delicious cookie recipe that will bring you and your children a batch of fun to bake.

Lemon Shortbread Cookies

Ingredients:

1 1/3 cups Argo or Kingsford's Corn Starch
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups butter or margarine
2/3 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Lemon peel, finely shredded

Procedure:

Preheat the oven to 350°F.
In a large bowl, beat butter until softened. Add the powdered sugar.
Beat until well combined.
Add lemon peel and vanilla. Beat well.
In a medium bowl, stir together flour and corn starch, add to mixture and beat well.
Roll dough into 1-inch balls. Let your kids to do this, they will love it.
Place on ungreased cookie sheets. Press each ball with the tines of a fork to create subtle design.
Bake for about 15 minutes, or until bottoms are lightly browned.
Cool on wire racks.

Makes six dozen Lemon Shortbread cookies that can be enough fun to go around for everyone.

Spinach and Mushroom Strudel, a Great Vegetarian Entree

2011-12-12T01:19:00.000-08:00

Here is a fun way to create a great vegetarian entree using puff pastry. Saute two pounds of spinach in olive oil with fresh mixed herbs. When you get it thoroughly wilted, put it in a colander and let it cool and drain. Next take three pounds of sliced mushrooms and saute them until they are soft and de-glaze them with 8 oz. of red wine and a 2 oz. of balsamic vinegar. Cook them until all the liquid is gone. You will be stirring quite a bit as the last of it evaporates now set them aside in a bowl to cool.

Take 2 logs(20 oz.) of Cherve (French goat cheese) and put it into a bowl and mix it with a hand mixer to make it soft. If you do not like goat cheese use domestic "feta" which is cows milk. Add some fresh minced garlic and fresh Italian herbs. Salt and pepper to taste. Now you need a 10" by 15" sheet of puff pastry dough. You can usually get these at your local delicatessen. This will make enough for 6 entrees.

Now you will need a couple of eggs to use as an egg wash to seal the seams and to make the dough shine when you bake it. Put them into a small bowl and add a couple tablespoons of water. Mix them up with a fork and drag out your pastry brush ready for action.

Lay the dough out on your floured cutting board and flatten it out with a rolling pin a little bit more than it already is. Roll it out about two to three inches all the way around. So now you have a sheet that is about 20 inches long by 13 inches or so wide. Now for the filling, the spinach needs to be hand squeezed to get rid of as much liquid as possible. This is necessary so that it does not saturate the puff pastry. Once that is finished the filling is ready to go.

First, take the spinach and make a fat 1 inch tall by 2 inches wide row down the pastry starting about 3 inches from one end and stopping about 3 inches from the other end. This is done by placing handfuls of spinach on the dough and forming it into a long line, about 2 inches wide and evenly dispersed. Next do the same thing along side of the spinach with the sauteed mushrooms. Go end to end leaving the last three inches on both ends empty. I think the quantities should be just right to fill the space.

Now if you are using goat cheese you will need a pastry bag with a large round tip. Squeeze out a line of cheese on top and down the center between the spinach and the mushrooms. With feta you can simply crumble it over the two fillings evenly to cover them and add your seasonings after you have finished. Now it is time to make the envelope.

First brush the egg wash around the entire outside edge of the dough. Now fold each end of the rectangle back over the filling even with where the filling stopped. Next brush the newly exposed dry spots on the dough with egg wash (this is the sealing glue). Now for the sides, take one side and fold it over the filling. It should be just enough to cover over the filling without draping onto the other side. Once again brush with egg wash and fold the final side on top of the other side. This exposed side does not need to be egg washed because it will be the bottom of your creation.

Now you can roll the entire log over onto its double side. Gently brush off any large accumulations of flour from the newly exposed side. Now it can be transferred to a cookie sheet. At this point it should be 4 inches wide and about 14 inches long the cheese will be on the bottom covered by two layers of pastry to keep from burning. Once you have transferred it to the cookie sheet brush the top and sides with the egg wash. Now turn your oven to 400 degrees and let it preheat. The final step is to take a knife and make a series of diagonal slices across the top about two inches apart.

When the oven gets to temperature put your strudel in for about 20-30 minutes until it rises and turns a nice golden brown. This makes a great vegetarian entree and it will serve 6 people easily. Enjoy!!

Hungarian Vanilla Custard Squares

2011-12-11T03:20:00.000-08:00

Magyar Krémes (pronounced kray-mesh) are made with a very thick layer of smooth vanilla custard sandwiched between two squares of flaky, feather-light puff pastry, or strudel dough, dusted heavily with confectioner's sugar. The Hungarians call this delightful dessert Krémes, and it is a strong childhood memory for my family and I would venture to guess, almost everyone's favourite. It is believed to have originated in Naples, thus the name Napoleon Creams or Napoli Szelet. Hungarian Vanilla Custard Squares are classic Hungarian dessert fare and can be found on literally every Hungarian confectioner's counter.

The French and Italians both call their creations mille-feuilles, or thousand leaves and they are usually filled with either; whipped cream, pastry cream and/or fruit preserves. The French most often top it with a layer of white fondant decorated with multiple strings of chocolate drawn in a chevron design.

Frozen Puff Pastry is a very easy, suitable choice for these squares, but you can be selective about your pastry. An alternative is Strudel Dough (phyllo). I think the Hungarians make it best - they always do - as it's simple and delightful, not heavy and complicated.

1 pkg Puff Pastry, frozen

Vanilla Custard Cream

3 eggs, separated

2 cups heavy cream

3 tbsp sugar

Pinch salt

1 pkg plain gelatine

3 tbsp water, cold

½ cup water

Garnish

Icing sugar for dusting

Mom always preferred the Puff Pastry for this recipe and she made her own, but we are sharing the recipe using frozen Puff Pastry. Thaw Puff Pastryin refrigerator overnight.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out puff pastry to ¼" thick large rectangle. Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Chill for 20 minutes. Before baking, dock pastry. (Using a fork, poke several holes into the pastry. This will allow the steam to escape and prevent the pastry from puffing out of shape). Then, place a sheet of parchment on top of pastry and place a second baking sheet on top of parchment, to weigh it down. Bake for 20 minutes at 375°F. Remove the top pan and sheet of parchment. Brush pastry with egg wash and return to oven for anther 8-10 minutes, until golden brown in colour. Allow to cool. This large sheet will be cut into ½ for 8 large squares.

Vanilla Custard Cream - Separate 3 eggs and set yolks aside. Beat egg whites until they are stiff but not dry. Dissolve the gelatine in the 3 tbsp water. Bring the ½ cup water to a boil and dissolve the softened gelatine in the boiling water. Cool by setting the pan in an ice-water bath until the gelatine is syrupy.

Whip the heavy cream, adding the pinch of salt and the sugar. Fold in the egg whites. Add cooled, syrupy gelatine and fold in with the spatula, distributing the gelatine throughout the mixture and chill before using.

Hint:This Vanilla Custard recipe without the gelatine can be used for Hungarian Cream Puffs, Varga Béles and other Hungarian desserts.

Note: The Hungarian preferred topping is simply powdered sugar.

Pastry Assembly - Place 1 large rectangular sheet of puff pastry onto a cookie sheet. Pile the custard cream mixture evening onto the sheet about 2-3 inches thick. Place in the freezer to chill until firm. With a wet, sharp knife, cut the filling and bottom pastry into serving-sized pieces. Cut the other baked pastry sheet into pieces of the exact same size and place these pieces on top of the pre-cut filling/pastry layer. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Dust with confectioner's sugar, just before serving.

Sugar Cookie Recipe

2011-12-10T06:58:00.000-08:00

The special things about sugar cookies is the extra softness you get from each bite. The reason behind that are the ingredients which include; sugar and other sweeteners. All the categories of dry sugar (granulated, brown, powder or confectioners) are hygroscopic in nature, they have a strong attraction when mixed with water.

The basic advantage they provide is that they safeguard the structure builders (starch and proteins present in flour and egg) from moisture and water. So the end product results in sugar cookies having a shelf life longer than normal cookies; along with maintaining the same tenderness, softness and moistness as when you first baked them. Just think of the situation in which you reduce the amount of granulated sugar, the result will be a larger amount of water content in the sugar cookies. This in turn will make the cookies crunchy because the dough is stiffer and won't spread.

When considering the crunchiness or softness of the sugar cookie you might also consider that the finer the granules the better it will be to spread the cookies on the table.

Also, bear in mind that the confectionery sugar has more of cornstarch which also reduces the ability for you to spread the cookie dough around. If the sugar is added in proper proportion then it also stabilizes the whipped egg whites. This is because of the following:

The procedure of spreading out and the collection of the egg proteins slows down.
It protects the air bubbles from collapsing by creating thick viscous syrup.

Also it is always good to know the sources of the granulated sugar so that we are in a better position of fusing the correct constituents.

The source is generally the sugarcane or the sugar beets. Sucrose is the chemical name of granulated sugar. The common usage is in baking sugar cookies.

Confectionery sugar is mixture of cornstarch (3%) and granulated sugar. The finesse of the sugar ranges anywhere from 6x to 10x. Confectionery sugar cannot be used as a substitute of the granular sugar because of following reasons:

The air bubbles cannot be trapped
The sweetness is lesser

The cookies that are made from brown sugar will have a softer texture & a darker color. The difference arises during the baking process where the melting of sugar crystal takes place & it moves to the surface. It is there where the dark color is provided and it caramelizes for added flavor. Adding or blowing air can be done for creaming softened butter with sugar.

The Little-Known Secret of Making Well-Made Birthday Cakes, Bread, or Pastry

2011-12-03T01:21:00.000-08:00

In baking birthday cakes, other types of cakes, pastries, and bread from scratch, is it possible to create a well-made cake, bread, or pastry? The answer is probably not, as large flour companies have made it almost impossible today to find flour that is good quality. Large flour companies want you to buy bake goods already made or sell you ready made mixes that carry a high profit margin. This marketing ploy has been so successful for so many decades that today most bread, cake and rolls are bakery made.

Flour making companies will sell you "all-purpose flour." This is the four that is available in grocery stores. This type of flour is very, very poor quality soft wheat flour with very little strength. Flour that is all-purpose is made from mixing wheat that has a lot and very little amount of gluten wheat with less protein than bread flour. You can always substitute all-purpose flour for bread flour, but be aware the results will not be as great. The secret to well-made cake, bread, or pastry is gluten. The appropriate flour with the appropriate amount of gluten in it is different for cake, bread or pastry.

1) Bread Flour - This is a high quality, strong flour. Without it, it is impossible to make a good loaf of bread or flaky pastry. Bread flour is flour made from a high amount of gluten that has added to it a little bit of flour from barley and ascorbic acid powder. The flour from the barley works with the yeast and the other additives to increase gluten's elasticity. Gluten is a protein found in wheat flour. Gluten when wet forms an elastic network throughout the dough. And that is why you knead dough - to organize the strands of gluten running through the dough into a strong, resilient, interconnected web. As yeast ferments in your dough, the web of protein will entrap the bubbles of CO2 and allow the dough to rise. The gluten keeps the CO2 from bubbling up to the surface and disappears. Together they trap gas as the dough begins to rise and bake. You will want to use bread flour for making bread and crusts for pizza as it gives the loftiness and chewiness that gluten provides.

2) Pastry Flour - You must have this to make good rolls, muffins, pie crust, or even good pancakes. It is low-protein flour and it is the protein in the flour that determines how delicate, elastic, strong, stretchy, and bendable, etc. Bread flour has around 12% to 13% protein. Cake flour which is at the low end of the spectrum has a 5% to 8% protein and is much less elastic which helps to produce a wonderful crumb cake. Pastry flour has a tad more protein with 8% to 9% protein giving you baked goods with a little more stiffness and body than cake flour but the tenderness you need making a well-made biscuit or pie. It can be difficult to find pastry flour. You can make your own by combing cake flour and all-purpose flour in a ratio of two thirds cake flour to one third all-purpose flour or one half cake flour to one half all-purpose flour.

3) Cake Flour - This must be an extremely fine high grade flour. You must use this very fine cake flour and a special emulsified shortening that will hold sugar well to make a really good cake. Cake flour is low protein flour compared to other flour and that is what you want for tender results. Much less gluten forms when you mix it into a batter and this in turn creates a fine, soft even crumb. You could use all-purpose flour but you will notice a difference in the texture between a cake made with all-purpose flour and one made with cake flour. Cake flour is commonly used in white cakes and in angel food cakes, both which are known for having a light texture. Bagels and breads require the most protein and strongest gluten, not as much for pastries and cookies, even less for cakes such as pound cakes and the least for angel food cakes.

4) High Gluten Flour - To make French, Vienna, Italian or Bohemian bread or apple strudel, you must have this flour. It is impossible to make these items without these flours.

The making of Apple Strudel or AppelStrudel is one of the great secrets of baking. Very few people know how to make Apple Strudel. An Apple Strudel made with a real authentic recipe produces a pastry so thin you can see through the layers. The making of Apple Strudel was invented back in 1881 and really has not been around for a long time. It was created in a town named Aachen or Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany by a Priest named Otto Miller. The town has two names because at different times in history it was ruled by French and German speaking folks. Without good quality high gluten flour it is impossible to make Apple Strudel, or for that matter any of the hard crust breads like French, Vienna, or Italian breads. So are you ready to get started? Let's begin.

In a large bowl put in 10 cups of high gluten flour. Make a well in the center and add 3 cups of lukewarm water, one level tablespoon of salt, 6 eggs, 8 tablespoons of corn oil, and 7 level tablespoons of sugar. Mix the dough well in your electric mixer until silky and pliable. Then put the dough on a lightly floured table and knead for at least 15 minutes. Knead the dough until the dough comes away fairly clean from your hands and is very pliable. Weigh the dough into 1 pound pieces and shape into an oval or round loaf. Place the pound loaves into a dish of corn oil at room temperature for 30 minutes. Put a piece of plywood on the table 4' by 4' and give it a good coat of corn oil. Put a pound of dough in the center and with the palm of your hands press it out as thinly as possible. Brush some corn oil lightly over it. The dough will look somewhat transparent. Let it relax for 40 minutes and gain press it out as thinly as possible. Let it relax twenty minutes.

For the filling take 2 pounds of apples and peel and slice them very thin. Add 2/3 cup of raisins, 2/3 cup of sugar, 4 level teaspoons of cinnamon, 1/4 level teaspoon of salt. Mix well and sprinkle evenly over the stretched dough. Trim off any uneven edges of the dough. Carefully roll up the thin dough. The dough will be soft and floppy and thin and it will be hard to roll but that is alright and do not get discouraged. It is not supposed to look pretty at this stage. Slide the roll onto a buttered cookie sheet. Brush with corn oil and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Bake in a hot oven for 35 to 45 minutes at 400 degrees. Watch carefully and remove when golden brown. Take a cup of corn syrup and 1/4 cup of water and bring to a boil. Let it cool to lukewarm and brush over the top and sides to form a glaze.

The Benefits of Enjoying Vegetarian Food Recipes

2011-12-02T10:41:00.000-08:00

Vegetarianism is the act of eliminating meat from the diet. This includes chicken, fish, beef, pork, or any other form of meat. Some people choose this diet out of respect for animals, while others enjoy these eating habits for their health benefits. Below are some of the main benefits of eating healthy vegetarian food recipes.

Benefit 1: You will have lower levels of cholesterol, which is commonly caused by eating a lot of red meats.

Benefit 2: Vegetarianism helps to decrease the amount of toxins in the body. Fresh fruits and vegetables do not introduce nearly as many toxins as meat.

Benefit 3: You will have lower blood pressure, which is wonderful especially if you currently have high blood pressure.

Benefit 4: You will have a lower risk of heart attack or stroke.

Benefit 5: The food is delicious and will give you the energy your body needs.

Benefit 6: Vegetarian recipes are very nutritious! You will be eating a variety of vegetables, which are rich in nutrients and vitamins that your body needs to stay healthy.

As you can see, eating a vegetarian diet does not come without its own list of great benefits.

One of my favorite vegetarian food recipes is a simple salad with cheese cubes. It's incredibly delicious, and you can put almost anything in a salad. Finish it off with your favorite salad dressing and you have yourself a great meal or snack, depending on the size of your bowl!

Vegetarian food recipes are incredibly healthy for you and can be a lot of fun too. If you have any favorite meat recipes, you can alter them to become vegetarian by substituting meat for something else.

Get creative with your diet and have fun with your cooking. Your body will thank you, and so will your family.

Top Five Food Recipes For Diabetics

2011-11-24T10:43:00.000-08:00

Back in the day, many housewives divided up their weekly meal planning into five main recipes. Monday might be meatloaf day, Tuesday night pork chop night; Wednesday was spaghetti night, and so on. Of course, this method is convenient, and even if you don't want to stick to an exact routine - I mean, it can get pretty boring and predictable, right? - it is good to have a few recipes under your belt to make your meal planning easier. Nowadays, we don't eat the way did a couple generations back, and diabetics need to adjust their eating even more, but there are lots of delicious recipes you can eat. Here are the top five food recipes for diabetics:

Chicken Vegetable Pasta
Cut up a store-bought, cooked chicken into bite size pieces or cook your own in the oven and then cut it up.

Put on a pot of water to boil and cook up some pasta.

Get a bag of mixed frozen vegetables, and about 3 or 4 minutes before the pasta is done, add the veggies to the water.

Drain, combine everything in a bowl, and add some salad dressing and some lettuce.

Spanish-Style Egg Roll-Ups
Dice some onions and peppers and a little cayenne if you like.

Add them to the pan as you scramble a couple of eggs.

Add a dash of shredded cheese to the top.

Spoon into a tortilla and roll up.

Go Green Pasta
Cook up your favorite pasta - I like small shells - and put aside.

Save a bit of the pasta water.

Heat some olive oil in a skillet and add in the green.

Sliced zucchini, green beans, a bit of broccoli, and a green onion or two.

Add the reserved pasta water and let simmer on the stove until veggies are tender.

Mix the vegetables and pasta together.

Add a bit of parmesan cheese if you like or just eat it like it is. Delicious!

Baked Chicken with a Zing
Take some boneless, skinless chicken breasts and marinade in Italian dressing in the fridge overnight or while you are at work all day.

Roll them in a mixture of parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, and herbs.

Place in a shallow pan and bake at 350 for about 40 minutes or until thoroughly cooked and golden brown.

Serve with a side of fresh veggies.

Cream Cheese and Jam Toast
Great breakfast! Mix low-fat cream cheese with a spoonful of strawberry jam.

Spread on toasted whole wheat bread.

Chocolate Drums Cookie Recipe

2011-11-24T02:22:00.000-08:00

The chocolate drums cookie recipe is a perfect one to make with the children. These little gems will look so great sitting on a serving plate at your next holiday party!

Ingredients

1/2 cup granulated sugar

3/4 cup salted butter, softened

1 egg yolk

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

Decorations:

Vanilla flavored candy coating, melted, slightly cooled

Decorator sugars and candies

Drumsticks:

Red licorice laces

Vanilla flavored candy coating, melted, slightly cooled

Hardware

Large bowl

Small microwave safe bowl

Cookie sheets

Plastic wrap

Mixer

Step 1: In a large bowl, combine sugar, butter, egg yolk and vanilla extract. Beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy (2-3 minutes).

Step 2: Reduce speed to low and add the flour and cocoa; beat until well mixed.

Step 3: Divide dough into fourths. Shape each fourth into a 7-inch roll about 1-inch in diameter. Wrap each roll with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.

Step 4: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Step 5: Cut rolls into 3/4-inch slices with a sharp knife. Place rolls 1 inch apart, cut side down, on ungreased cookie sheets.

Step 6: Bake for 8-10 minutes or until set. Let cookies set for 2 minutes before transferring to a cooling surface. Cool completely.

Decorating:

Step 1: In a small microwave safe bowl, melt candy coating in microwave according to directions on package.

Step 2: Roll sides of drums in the melted candy coating. Immediately dip or roll in desired decorator sugars or candies. Let stand to harden.

Drumsticks:

Step 1: Cut licorice laces into 1 1/4-inch pieces.

Step 2: Dip one end of each piece into melted candy coating. Crisscross two drumsticks on top of each drum. Let stand to harden

The chocolate drums cookie recipe makes 24 drums.

Mouthwatering Low Carb Shortbread For All Occassions!

2011-11-21T06:23:00.000-08:00

As a fellow low carber, I know what it's like to feel restricted with certain foods. Particularly when it comes to those delicious foods that are typically high in carbs and sugar.

But fear not as I am happy to share with you a low carb recipe for shortbread that will delight the whole family! So, here is just one of the many low carb treats from my secret shortbread collection for you to take away today, I hope you enjoy it's simplicity and deliciousness as much as I do!

In fact, this particular low car shortbread recipe was taken straight out of my exclusive 7 day low carb success course, which contains over 1001+ delicious low carb recipes too!

Low Carb Shortbread Recipe -

Hazelnut Shortbread

2 sticks butter, soft

2 cups hazelnuts (16)

1/2 c Splenda (12)

1 egg (.8)

1/2 t salt

1/4 t baking powder (.5)

1 cup vanilla whey powder (6)

1 T cinnamon (2.1)

Preheat oven 325. Grind hazelnuts to fine meal. Beat butter til fluffy. Add Splenda, beating well, then egg, and beat. Add salt, baking powder and half hazelnuts. Beat well, add remaining nuts, and beat. Add whey powder and mix well. (Should have soft, sticky dough). Line a cookie sheet (11 1/2 x 15 1/2) with parchment and turn dough onto parchment. Use spatula and smooth dough into even layer, about 1/4" thick. Bake 25-30 min til golden. Score immediately - if you wait til cookies cool, they will crumble.

67 carbs, 24 fiber (43 NET carbs), 3800 Calories, 409 fat, 97 protein. Makes 77 cookies @ .6 carbs, 49 Calories, 5 fat, 1 protein.

These are the delicious! I sometimes use ground pecans instead of hazelnuts. Orig. recipe called for 2 T water, which mine didn't need, and I added cinnamon. If dough is hard to spread, you can put another piece of parchment on top and press to spread the dough, but I found that more difficult.

A Delicious Trip Down Memory Lane

2011-11-15T11:22:00.000-08:00

What is the first thing that comes to mind when someone asks you what you favorite comfort food is? Mine is baked macaroni and cheese that is just a little bit crunchy.

I love to eat, so when the book Southern Living Comfort Food came across my desk I just had to check it out. After skimming the index I read the foreward which is almost as good as the recipes!

Most of the 150 comfort food recipes are accompanied by full page color photographs. Illustrations or photographs are particularly helpful to cooks like me who are curious about the final presentation.

The book covers: comfort food classics, breakfast anytime, fresh from the garden, casseroles & beyond, soups & stews, desserts, and holidays & special occasions.

My favorite comfort food, macaroni and cheese, is the first recipe in comfort food classics. Macaroni and cheese takes on a whole new meaning with the Three-Cheese Pasta Bake. This recipe is followed by more of my favorites including Gonzales Meat Loaf, Buttermilk Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Lemon-Garlic Roast Chicken With Sauteed Green Beans, The Perfect Burger, French Fries, Chicken Pot Pie, Classic Barbecue Ribs, Chicken-Fried Steak, Pork Chops, Cabbage, and Apples, and Mama's Fried Chicken.

Farmers Market Scramble, Pimento Cheese Biscuits, Hash Brown Casserole, Buttermilk 'n' Honey Pancakes, Cinnamon-Raisin Rolls, Waffles Benedict, and Carmel-Nut Pull-Apart Bread are just a few of the recipes featured in breakfast anytime.

Fresh from the garden includes such mouth watering recipes as Homemade Applesauce, Corn Pudding, Crunch Fried Okra, Summer Squash Casserole, and Fried Green Tomatoes.

You will be the hit of the party when you arrive with any of the dishes in casseroles & beyond. My favorites include Chicken-and-Rice Casserole, Scalloped Potatoes With Ham, Saucy Manicotti, Taco Casserole, and Twice-Baked Mashed Potatoes. A novel approach to comfort food to go!

Sops & Stews includes two variations of chicken soup: Chicken-and-Wild Rice Soup and Chicken Noodle Soup. Recipes for "Baked" Potato Soup, Black Bean Soup, 30- Minute Chili, and Easy Brunswick Stew are also among the soups and stews featured.

Memories are made of Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies, Giant Oatmeal Cookies, Double-Chocolate Brownies, Mississippi Mud, Million-Dollar Pound Cake, Banana Pound Cake, and Peanut Butter Pie. The are just a sampling of the mouth watering recipes in Desserts.

Thin Holiday Ham, Birthday Cake, Root Bear Baked Beans, Popcorn Balls, Roast Turkey and Gravy, Cornbread Dressing, Pumpkin Chess Pie Peanut Butter Fudge, Mrs. Floyd's divinity, and Walter's Pecan Pie and you have a recipe for almost any of the holidays & special occasions.

You will find this book at your local public library but you may want to spend $29.95 and buy it at the local bookstore. I think it is well worth the investment.

Top 10 Food And Recipe Iphone Apps

2011-11-15T00:57:00.000-08:00

It seems most everyone has an iPhone these days, and with that come Itunes, where users can download music, movies, and television shows. One of my favorite features on iTunes, though, is the Applications page where you can find a number of apps dedicated to recipes and cooking. I actually had no idea such a thing existed until I was exploring the site one day and my inner chef found a new home. Read on to discover my top ten favorite recipe apps on iTunes. Try them for yourself to broaden your recipe collection!

1. Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner - Recipes, Drinks, and More!
This free application features thousands of recipes and can be searched by ingredient, type of dish, or cooking time. If you're unsure what you are looking for you can have the app randomly generate a recipe for you. Each recipe is a top-rated recipe from allrecipes.com.

2. BigOven
Featuring 170,000 recipes, this free application allows users to search for recipes by name or ingredients. Users may also post their own favorite recipes on the BigOven website and later access them on their iPod or iPhone. This app also features the BigOven Food Dictionary that includes tips on a number of food related items.

3. Easy Chef Recipes (15,000+ Recipes)
This app costs .99, but for the simplicity and ease, it is worth it. Over 15,000 recipes that can be searched or randomly generated. The catagory menu is extremely specific and makes recipes that much easier to find and browse through.

4. Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List
This free app from Conde Nast features a plethora of recipes from Conde Nast's most popular magazines such as Bon Appetit and Self. Recipes can be viewed step-by-step and can be searched by name or ingredient. WIth this app you can also create shopping lists.

5. Recipes
This app by EBSolutions allows users to create and store their own recipes - the only app to do so. Cost is .99. Recipes are included with this app, but the main feature is to allow user to create and store their own.

6. Gluten-Free Recipes
This is a wonderful app for those searching for gluten-free recipes. Cost is .99. Though there is not a large amount of recipes here, they are so tasty and perfect for those wishing to prove gluten-free does not mean taste-free.

7. Veggie Lovers Recipes
For those looking to incorporate more vegetables into their diet, or those already practicing a vegetarian lifestyle, this app features meatless dishes. Cost is $ .99. Though there are only 15 recipes in this app, the are quiet unique and varied.

8. iFood Assistant by KRAFT
This is a must have app for anyone interested in food! Cost is $ .99. Featuring recipes, videos, tips on budget friendly meals, as well as where local grocery stores are located and ingredients to buy, this app makes every aspect of the cooking process easy as pie!

9. The Betty Crocker Mobile Cookbook
This free app features over 4,000 of Betty Crocker's best loved dishes. Can be searched easily by ingredient or users can type in an ingredient they have on hand and a recipe will be located that uses that ingredient.

10. Middle Eastern Recipes
This app features over 130 Middle Eastern recipes. Cost is $ .99. Also included are tips to help make your meal easier to prepare. Brighthouse Labs have quite a few apps on iTunes exclusive to different regions.

Best-Selling American Cereals and Breakfasts in the UK

2011-11-12T08:24:00.000-08:00

The amount of American food and drink you can now get hold of in the UK is growing by the day, not least in the area of breakfast cereals. Any British person who watches American TV shows, soaps, sitcoms and movies will know of at least one brand of American breakfast cereal. And now they can find out what it tastes like by buying it from online American food retailers that have appeared in recent years.

So what is available and what is popular? A quick Google search for "American breakfast cereals" will give you a list of online sellers that you can take a look at. Here's a list of what appear to be the most popular and best-selling American cereals in the UK at the moment.

1) Lucky Charms

One of the most famous cereals in the world, most people are aware of the tagline "They're after me Lucky Charms!", as the leprechaun (called, of course, Lucky) from the advert says. Lucky Charms are basically frosted oats and coloured marshmallows in the shape of hearts, moons, pots of gold and other things you would associate with a leprechaun. It's not as unhealthy as it sounds either, containing 12 vitamins and providing a good source of calcium.

2) Froot Loops

Another big name cereal, this time from the world famous Kellogg's. This multi-grain cereal is flavoured with multiple fruit flavourings and is advertised by Toucan Sam. It's a long standing cereal in the States and there's also a marshmallow version! You may already be aware of Froot Loops and have wanted to try them. Now you can.

3) Reeses Puffs

This one is probably an acquired taste. Why? Because it comes from Hershey, the makers of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and yes, it contains peanut butter! Actually it is a combination of corn puffs in Hershey's cocoa and Reeses' peanut butter flavour. A favourite with the Americans for sure, and becoming increasingly popular in the UK. Only the USA would consider having peanut butter with breakfast, but these are the same people that have it with jam on sandwiches!

4) Pop Tarts

Yes, you've been able to get Kellogg's Pop Tarts in the UK for quite a few years now, but they are nothing like the American version and they certainly don't come in the range of flavours available in the States. Just look at these - Cookies & Cream, Wild Grape, Strawberry Milkshake, Apple Strudel. The list is endless! Now that the American versions are available in the UK, you can try them all. The beauty of these is their convenience of course - just pop (hence the name) them in the toaster, wait a minute or two and they're done.

5) Pancakes

Ever fancied a proper breakfast of American pancakes with syrup? Well now you can have it. There are a range of authentic pancake mixes from a variety of manufacturers including Aunt Jemima, Bisquick and Mississippi Belle and each of them offer proper syrup to go with it.

Raw Food Diet Recipes Give Food Flavor

2011-11-07T16:27:00.000-08:00

Does dieting have to be limited to starvation, pills, and powdered shakes?

We often become hesitant to go on a "diet" because we assume that we'll be hungry or cringe during every meal. The real problem is that we perceive weight loss the wrong way. Weight loss shouldn't be about simply losing weight. It should be about changing our eating habits-forever.

Sticking to a raw diet is easier than standard diets. That's because you can buy everything you need from your local supermarket, farmer's market, and so on. And, you'd probably be surprised at how many raw food diet recipes are available. This makes it easy to prepare healthy and flavorful meals for your family or when you have guests.

Dishes made from raw foods are busting with color, aromas, and most importantly, flavor! From juices to guacamole and from stuffed peppers to cranberry sauce, the sky is the limit when preparing raw food recipes.

You can even create tasty desserts, such as durian popsicles and rice pudding!

Where can you find raw food recipes? Several cookbooks are available in bookstores. Of course, you can also search where you can find virtually any information in the universe: the Internet. Remember, though, that some of the best raw food recipes can come from friends and relatives who share the same love for natural fare.

Finally, while a diet of raw foods is undoubtedly healthier than eating cooked food, the absence of meat in your diet could create certain nutrient deficiencies. Thus, it's wise to take supplements for Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D. You should also consider supplements for copper, iron, and zinc. Without these vitamins, you could experience problems related to energy loss, overworked organs, and even hair loss!

The bottom line is that raw foods can be colorful, aromatic, and scrumptious.

Soon you'll have your own favorite recipes to share!

Dog Food Recipe

2011-10-31T01:39:00.000-07:00

If you are looking for ways to better the quality of your dog's life, then you should perhaps consider writing up your own dog food recipe. These recipes can be for just about anything that you think that your dog will enjoy eating, and they can all contain great fresh ingredients for the overall health of your dog. Knowing what it takes to make a good recipe work, will be the first step in building a good library of recipes. When you have established a decent library of recipes, you will then be able to mix things up a bit.

Different Meals For Different Days

When it comes to a dog food recipe, it might not hurt to try and be adventurous once in a while. This means that you can make different meals for different days, and this will keep the dog interested in what you are serving them. There are many great ideas that can be used for dog food, and you will seldom find that the dog will refuse what is being served.

You can basically use what you plan on serving your own family for meals when you are going to create a good dog food at home, and this means that you can use some fantastic ingredients. With choice cuts of meat and fresh produce, you have the opportunity to make something your dog will surely love. Dogs are capable of eating pretty much what we eat, but it is important to note that there are some exceptions to this rule. It is always a good idea to speak with your vet prior to making something.

Avoid Fruits

It might not be a bad idea to avoid fruits in your dog food recipe, as you simply do not know exactly how the dog is going to react to the fruit. It is well known that grapes are something that a dog should not have, as it can put them in renal failure.

This is because they are considered toxic for dogs, and can introduce symptoms such as: vomiting, diarrhea, and shaking. This is something that can be avoided however, by simply sticking with vegetables where the recipe is concerned. With beans, carrots, and other vegetables as the centerpiece for the recipe you can be sure that it will be healthy. Finding the right meat to include is nothing more than looking for small quality cuts that are inexpensive yet fresh.

Do It For Your Dog

Many people choose to make their own dog food recipe so they can save money, you really should consider this as a way to do your dog a big favor. There are many health benefits that can be attributed to homemade food, as everything that is included will be fresh and by product free. This is the best way to ensure that your dog is getting the best food possible, and you will not have to wonder what it is that they are eating.

Low Fat Apricot Angel Food Cake Recipe

2011-10-24T01:02:00.000-07:00

What could be better for dessert than something that is tangy, tasty, light, and only contains a trace of fat per serving? Sound impossible? Of course not! Give this delicious Apricot Angel Cake a try today!

APRICOT ANGEL FOOD CAKE
1 1/2 cups egg whites (apprx 10)
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups sugar, divided
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp almond extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup apricot preserves
2 tbsp water

Place egg whites in a large mixing bowl and let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Sift flour and 1/2 cup of the sugar together twice; set aside.

Add the cream of tartar, almond extract, vanilla extract, and salt to the egg whites. Beat mixture on medium speed of electric mixer until stiff peaks form.

Gradually add the remaining sugar, about 2 tablespoons at a time, beating on high until stiff glossy peaks form and sugar is completely dissolved. Gradually fold in the flour mixture 1/2 cup at a time.

In a small mixing bowl, beat the apricot preserves and water until frothy. Gently fold this into the egg white mixture. Gently spoon the mixture into a non greased 10-inch tube pan. Cut through the batter with a knife to remove air pockets then place in the 350 degree oven. Bake 50 to 60 minutes on the lowest oven rack or until the cake is lightly browned and the top appears dry. Immediately invert pan and cool completely. This will take about an hour. Run a knife around the sides and center tube of the pan to loosen the cake. Remove cake to your serving plate. Frost, serve with fruit, glaze, or finish off to suit yourself.

Serves 12

Gluten and Lactose Free Foods Recipes

2011-10-17T11:29:00.000-07:00

Gluten and lactose free foods and recipes have come a long way over the past few years. As people who suffer from these allergies, do not want to sacrifice taste. The fact is people love good food and good food recipes.

Gluten and lactose free food recipes are in cookbooks made specifically for people who suffer with these kinds of food allergies and many other kinds of food intolerances as well. People think because they have an allergy to gluten and products or ingredients they have to eat yucky foods with no taste.

However, did you know that gluten free recipes are for things like fudge, pancakes, pies and piecrusts and many more, delicious things and treats? You can have cakes and lasagna and pasta dishes the only difference is these things contain substitutes for the flour. A different kind of flour that these recipes call for is usually rice flour.

On the other hand, the recipes will call for other things to substitute for the flour like nuts and eggs and cornstarch to thicken and hold a cake together. Anything can be, substituted for any ingredient if you only know what to use. Gluten and lactose free recipes give you all the solutions to these substitutes.

The same things can be, said and done if you or someone you know has another kind of food allergy as well. Say you are allergic to peanuts as this is a common allergy. You can use a different kind of ingredient for cookies, cakes and other desserts. Alternatively, you can use soy-based milk instead of cow milk when you are cooking your favorite foods too.

Gluten and lactose free food recipes can be, found in several places. You can find them at your local bookstore that sells cookbooks.

You can order the gluten and lactose free food recipes online separately or you can find a collection of several different great tasting recipes all in one place.

Some of these kinds of gluten and lactose free food recipes even include recipes for other kinds of allergies as well. Sugar allergies or intolerance is on of the main common problems people suffer. The recipes call for simple sugar substitutes. This is quick and easy to adjust in most recipes and some recipes are, made specifically for diabetics in mind. A gluten and lactose free cookbook right here on the internet and this cookbook includes some other kinds of food allergy free recipes as well. If you want some great tasting, outstanding recipes that are restaurant style quality then you will want the Fun with GF /LG Food E-book Cookbook.

This little 95-page book is filled with restaurant type recipes that have been served in the Golden Chalice Restaurant and Gallery. Therefore, you are, guaranteed that all of these recipes taste amazing.

If you have a food allergy and want taste back in your diet and life then simply click on the link provided to you here in this article to go to the site where you can get your own Fun with GF /LG Food Cookbook right now.

Learn to Clean Cookies

2011-10-08T01:32:00.000-07:00

Websites use cookies to enhance our browsing Experience. Our browsing activities are also tracked in form of cookies. There are many cookies which expire when we shut down our web browser. However, there left some cookies which stay for years. These non-expiring cookies start clogging system with the passage of time and may also become a security issue because our personal information in stored in cookies. To better protect our system and prevent from these cookies we should remove these on regular basis. Below is illustrated on how to block cookies on our system and how to clean them.

To Block Cookies in Internet Explorer; please follow these steps
a) Open your browser.
b) Go to TOOLS.
c) Select Internet Options.
d) Security Tab.
e) In Settings section, you would see slider that you can use to control the way you want cookies to download on your system.
Make sure that slider is not on the lowest level because if it is on the lowest point then it would store all cookies.

If you do not want to accept cookies then you have to take the slider to highest point.
Cookies are used to enhance our browsing experience. We can manually add certain websites to allow them to copy cookies to the system.
Cookies are easy to clean from the system using option available in Internet Explorer. Following steps are helpful if you want to delete cookies.
a) Open your Internet Explorer.
b) Go to Tools and then select Internet Options.
c) In the General Tab you may see a section with options to either temporary remove Internet Explorer files or the Browsing History.
d) In deleting browsing history dialog box, select Delete Cookies button to remove cookies from your system

There are many third party tools available on Internet that enables you to perform a thorough check of your system and remove cookies form it.
Experts recommend using Registry Cleaner software after you have removed the cookies using Internet Options. A reliable registry cleaner enable you to remove any malicious entries added to the registry from bad cookies. They also help in deleting cookies and other Internet Explorer file form the system.

Diabetic Food Recipes for Dessert

2011-09-30T18:46:00.000-07:00

When diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, patients are required to follow a strict diet to control their blood sugar levels and would need to learn diabetic food recipes. They are not necessarily required to eliminate sugar from their diet, but they do have to moderate their intake.

In this article, I will share with you three diabetic food recipes for dessert that will surely brighten up your days and your meal hour especially when you have loved dessert ever since you were a kid.

1. Fresh Peach Brulee

This recipe is filled with vitamins and nutrients that you need for diet. You will need two large and fresh peaches, two tablespoons fresh lemon juice, cooking spray, and 2 teaspoons light brown sugar. What you need to do after lining a small baking pan with aluminum foil is to peel and halve the peaches. Then coat all sides of the peaches with cooking spray before sprinkling some lemon juice.

Place these on the baking pan, with the cavity side up, then sprinkle with 1 teaspoon brown sugar around every peach's top. Broil for about two minutes until sugar caramelizes and begins to glaze the peach.

This non-fat and cholesterol-free recipe yields 47 calories, 1 g protein, 12g carbohydrates, 1 g dietary fiber, and only 2mg sodium.

2. Banana Chocolate Parfaits

Using only low-fat yogurt, low fat frozen dairy whipped topping, sugar-free chocolate pudding mix, unsweetened cocoa powder, bananas, fresh lemon juice, and chopped walnuts. You would have to use a blender to combine the yogurt with the pudding mix until the mixture is smooth.

You should then cut each banana into diagonal pieces and sprinkle lemon juice on the pieces.

Place some of these on dessert parfait glasses and then pour the pudding mix on top. You will hen have to add 1 tablespoon whipped topping. Top this off with some cocoa powder, walnuts, and even cherries if you like.

3. Caffe Affogato

Lastly, you can try the Caffe Affogato, which is simply fat-free frozen vanilla ice cream topped with 2 tablespoons of hot espresso. This is non-fat and contains, 73 calories, 16 g carbohydrates, 37 mg sodium and 2 g protein.

So who said you could not have sweet and appetizing diabetic food recipes?

Gourmet Raw Food-Paleo Raw Food Diet Recipes

2011-09-23T02:17:00.000-07:00

Raw food dieting is a growing trends. Raw food diet consists of non

proceeded and uncooked plant foods: fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, seeds, grains, beans, nuts, dried fruit, beans, grains, legumes, unprocessed organic foods and seaweed. The Paleo Diet does not allow beans, grains or legumes. If food is cooked above approximately 116 degrees F destroys enzymes. Enzymes aids in the digestion and absorption of foods in the body's digestion system. Cooking foods is believed to reduce the nutritional value of food. Enjoy The Raw Chef's Recipes and the Paleo Diet Raw Food Recipes.

Mini Flax Pizza Bites

Gourmet Raw Food Diet Recipe
Raw Diet Recipes

Ingredients:
-1/2 cup flax seeds
-1/2 cup flax meal
-6 medium tomatoes
-1 cup sun-dried tomatoes, soaked 2 hours or more
-1 tablespoon lemon juice
-1/4 cup fresh basil
-3 tablespoons dried Italian herb mix
-3 medium onions
-1 clove garlic
• Grind all ingredients in a food processor
• Spread evenly and thinly over 2 Paraflexx dehydrator trays, right to the edges and then use a knife or spatula to score into individual squares .
• Dehydrate at 105 degrees for 3 hours then invert onto another mesh dehydrator tray to finish drying in the dehydrator for a further 10 – 18 hours.

Pine Nut Cheese Spread
Ingredients

-1/2 cup pine nuts
-1/2 cup macadamias
-2 teaspoons lemon juice

-1/4 teaspoon salt
-2 teaspoons nutritional yeast
-1/4 cup water
• Grind all ingredients in a food processor.

Tomato Sauce
-4 medium tomatoes, de-seeded
-1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes, soaked 2 hours or more
-1 soft date
-1 clove garlic
-2 teaspoons olive oil
-1 tablespoon fresh basil
-1 tablespoon dried oregano
-2 teaspoons lemon juice
-Blend all ingredients in a high-speed blender until smooth.

Pesto
-2 cups basil, tightly packed
-1 tablespoon minced rosemary
-1/4c pine nuts
-1T olive oil
-1/4t salt
-2t lemon juice
• Pulse all ingredients in a food processor until broken down, but leaving some texture to the finished pesto.

Assembly
- Start with the flax cracker as a base to which you'll add a layer of the nut cheese spread.
-Next comes the tomato sauce and then top off with some pesto.
- Garnish with olives, capers and a sprinkle of Italian seasoning.

Variation: This recipe works great using marinated whole mushrooms as a base instead of flax crackers.

• Marinate 12 mushrooms in 1/4c tamari and 1/4c olive oil for 2 hours or more.
• Fill the mushroom caps with the nut cheese, tomato sauce and pesto.

Going heavier on the amount of pesto works really nicely with mushrooms.
• Once the mushrooms are stuffed, place in the dehydrator at 105 degrees F to warm through 1 - 2 hours.
Provided: Russell James the Raw Chef

Fresh Fruit Salad

This fruit salad combines chopped peaches, strawberries, bananas, blueberries or blackberries, red and green grapes, dressed with a simple fresh lime and pineapple juice dressing. Fruits are seasonal in Winter months may substitute peaches and strawberries with grapefruits, cantaloupe, kiwi or oranges. Substitute to taste.
Paleo Raw Food Recipe

Ingredients:

Paleo Raw Food Diet Recipe

-6 peaches, peeled, pitted and chopped
-1 pound strawberries, rinsed, hulled and sliced
-1/2 pound seedless green grapes
-1/2 pound seedless red grapes
-3 bananas, peeled and sliced

-1/2 pound blackberries or blueberries (to taste)
-small amount of honey (topping to taste)

Dressing:
-juice of one lime
-1/2 cup pineapple juice
-1 teaspoon ground ginger

Preparation:
Combine chopped and sliced fruits in a large serving bowl; toss गेंत्ली।Add small amount of honey to taste. Whisk together remaining ingredients in a small bowl or 1 cup measure. Pour dressing mixture over fruit and toss gently to combine. Cover and chill the fruit salad thoroughly before serving.
This fruit salad recipe makes enough to serve about 10 to 12 people.

Organic Foods: Raw food diets recommend eating only organic foods. Organic foods are not grown with pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers or other toxic chemical harmful to your health. Recommended to eat organic as versus to conventional food but is it 100% practical? For raw food dieters totally eating only raw organic food may not suit their life-style. Therefore, for some their raw food diets maybe a mixture of organic and conventional. A raw food diet does not necessitate only organic foods a conventional foods can be used. Organic foods are recommended for optimal health benefits.

The Gourmet Raw Food Diet Series of 6 Raw Food Recipe Cookbooks: Christmas, Thai, Mexican, Chocolate, No Dehydrator and Raw Nut Cheese Order: The Raw Chef‘s Recipe Cookbooks Raw Paleo Diet Gluten, Dairy and Preservative free diet. . 310 delicious recipes. Order: Paleo Recipe Cookbook

Mccoy Cookie Jar

2011-09-15T06:45:00.000-07:00

Mccoy pottery companies are most prolific pottery companies of the 20th century, mccoy cookie jar are the great production of mccoy pottery companies. There are number of designs and structure in mccoy cookie jar in different attractive and gorgeous colors. Mccoy cookie jar is traditionally used as a present or a gift and decorative piece and as well as for keeping cookies and other food stuff of human beings and pet animals. Mostly parents might encourage their kids to get their hand stuck in the cookie jar.
Designs and styles of mccoy cookie jar

There are number of designs and styles of mccoy cookie jar, the beauty of cookie jars is their design and craft that they have. Some of mccoy cookie jars are like mccoy owl jar have a complete look like a owl, mccoy flower basket cookie jar that have shape like a basket having flowers in it, mccoy apple basket cookie jar that have shape like a basket having apples in it, mccoy cherry cookie jar that have look like cherry and the green tip of cherry is the opener of cookie jar, and many other styles and designs are available in market but the most popular type and design of mccoy cookie jar is the mummy cookie jar that shows the initial traditional design of mccoy cookie jar.
Colors of mccoy cookie jar

As in the above paragraph I explained you about the different styles shapes and design of mccoy cookie jar that have structure like any entity.

Color of the mccoy cookie jar depends upon the structure as if cookie jar is of cherry shape then it must have a red color similarly if jar is in shape of apple basket then its color will be red on apple and brown on basket. Like this all kind of mccoy cookie jars have color of according to their design.
Mccoy cookie jar is a great decorative piece

Some Popular Xmas Cookies

2011-09-07T13:10:00.000-07:00

Yuletide is a time to savor the best of cookies. When it is about cookies, there can’t ever be a shortage of options. While there are a couple that are old family faves, there are others that come with a bit of a modern twist. Here is taking a quick look at some of the best all time Yuletide cookies.

To start with, the folks that hate to drift away from the old traditions can roll the all time favourite butter cookies. These are definitely delicate which gets them all the attention. Also, it is very simple to make them. All you have to do is make the dough one day and roll the cookies the second day. You can take the aid of all the members of your folks to brighten them.

Other succulent cookies that are good for the occasion of Christmas are Starlight mint cookies. Folks who love aggregate of different flavors would certainly love these.

Basically, these cookies are prepared from brown sugar dough as well as mint candy. Crisp edges of cookies are the result of brown sugar dough added to it. But mint simply adds to the flavor and softens while eating. The texture of these cookies makes them a must buy this Christmas. But these cookies are a harsh no-no for diabetes patients.

For all you chocolate lovers, the chocolate peanut butter bonbons are the best choice. These cookies have both- chocolate and the peanut butter as the name suggests. These have a little bit of a modern touch to them. They are chewy rather than crisp and they are creamy too. In case its children you are going to amuse, this cookies will be a definite hit. Again, the ones suffering from the problems like acne should avoid too much chocolate. Instead, you should try the Clearpores Skin Treatment Products.

Another surprisingly succulent cookies are butter pecan cookies.

These cookies are sometimes called turtle candy which appear in a bar form. Combination of chocolate, caramel as well as buttery shortbread crust makes these cookies yummy. But, be cautious as they contain excess of butter and sugar. So, for weight watchers, it can call in for lots of calories. However, it is just a matter of one day. Hence have these cookies and for extra weight gain, pop up some Caralluma Burn Appetite Supressant pills.

Are you expecting some guests home? How about baking some Mexican Tea Cakes for them? It certainly is a great idea. These are just shortbread and sugar rolled together. Then the cookies are covered with sugar again after the bread cools down. You can then fill in some chocolate kisses or pecans and they will definitely taste nice.

Make these cookies and you’re certain to add the right touch of sweetness to your festivities.

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Cookie Diet Elaborated

2011-08-28T20:54:00.000-07:00

In the process of dieting, we limit ourselves to the intake of only those food nutrients which are beneficial to us. In the case of professionals like sportsperson and actors, they are compelled to take up a strict diet regimes. Cookie diet is one such kind of a diet with the help of which we acquire the desired nutrient.cookie diet is a diet plan in which you have to eat cookies in appropriate quantities and at fixed times to obtain the nutrients. Meals are replaced with cookies. These cookies which are taken in place of meals help us to control our hunger. There are many cookie diets in the market today like Smart for life cookie diet, Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet, Hollywood Cookie Diet and R&D Diet Cookie.
Dr.Siegal's Cookie Diet was produced by Dr. Siegal who is a renowned weight lose expert, physician and author. He conducted vast research on the subject of dieting and food before bringing this diet plan in market in the year 1975. His experience with his patients also contributed to his knowledge and vigilance with which he produced his own diet plan called Dr.Siegal's cookie diet. Since the time it has come in the market, it has had many buyers who have been invariably benefited by it. It has been 35 years now and ever since it has proved effective on people. This diet plan has been advantageous to 500,000 dieters around the globe. It has also had hundreds of doctors as its users . There have also been instances of these doctors recommending this cookie diet to their patients. It has turned out to be beneficial to an immense number of people worldwide. The book "Is your thyroid making you fat " which has elaborated the impact of thyroid on the body was written by Dr.Siegal. It was read by thousands of readers specially health enthusiasts and provided them with vital information. This plan. These cookies are eaten as a replacement for meals and they provide the body with vital nutrients and energy. People following this diet plan need to take only dinner. With this they have to take sufficient amount of liquids. Although it is a very low calorie diet, it is not short of any nutrient. An approximate calorie count of this diet is 800 calorie per day. Along with this, the carbohydrates intake is near about 70 grams per day. All these vital information takes us to the conclusion that this diet plan is very low in calorie and carbohydrates. These reason further ads to its relevance and popularity in the market and among people.

Health Benefits Of Food Recipe Articles

2011-08-22T08:31:00.000-07:00

Health Benefits of Food Recipe Articles

The ancient seed of Quinoa is so versatile and such an important source of nutrients that it has been referred to as the "gold" of the Incas.Visit Here http://bbc-food-network.blogspot.com

It is known to increase stamina, a useful aid in days gone by when "warriors" needed every bit of advantage they could get when their "people" were under attack.

However, such is the structure of Quinoa, it has the benefit of being a natural and complete protein. This means that it has all the amino acids like acid lysine which is very important for the repair and growth of body tissue. As shown below, it is known to be beneficial to the body in a number of ways - nature's natural remedy.

Migraines and hypertension

Riboflavin and magnesium are the natural aids in Quinoa for bad headaches.

They are known to help relax the blood vessels, which reduces constriction and so eases tension. Basically they help the body to function better which in turn eases the stress the body experiences when circumstances make it over work. While no one claims it makes headaches go away, it can help and is known to reduce the frequency of migraine attacks.

Childhood Asthma

Many allergies are connected with grass seeds but Quinoa is not a grass. It is a plant but is not known to produce serious allergic reactions in people. Asthma is the result of breathing difficulties that are made worse by tension. It is known to have triggers and often there is a family history of asthma. It is known to have got worse over the years and many experts point to our modern living conditions as making it more prevalent.

While not all asthma attacks are caused by allergies which may or may not be avoidable, it is known that Quinoa helps to reduce body stress and helps to keep the airways open. It is recommended that children with asthma eat a whole food diet. Many of the nutrients that we need are in Quinoa such as Magnesium which naturally helps to reduce spasms in the bronchial tubes. We know that many asthma sufferers are short of vitamin b, minerals like magnesium, zinc and iron all of which can be found in Quinoa. Why not check out some of the recipes and see which ones are easiest to include in your child's diet.

Gallstones

This is another surprising area where Quinoa is known to be useful. It may not get rid of gallstones but it can help protect their development. Indeed this is another case where a wholesome diet rich in fiber can aid in the digestion of foodstuffs. As it is a soluble fiber it speeds through the intestines and reduces the need of increased bile production. Too much bile production helps to develop gallstones so this is another natural remedy for our bodies.

Type 2 Diabetes

Quinoa is rich in magnesium which is a mineral that is essential in the body's ability to deal with glucose and insulin. Yet again there is evidence that Quinoa, as part of a whole food diets aids in the digestion of foods. It is also known to increase Insulin sensitivity while reducing triglycerides (blood fats which need to be kept low in diabetics).

Heart Disease

Quinoa is known to prevent the clogging of arteries and veins which in turn helps to relieve stresses on the heart. The fat in Quinoa is good fat in that is low in cholesterol and can help reduce blood pressure thanks to the presence of potassium and magnesium. In other words it is a good source of protein without the drawbacks of too much saturated fat and cholesterol.

Pregnant Mums

Quinoa is known to be an endurance food which gives energy. It is also known to be a good source of Iron which pregnant mums are always advised to increase in their diet. It is good for tissue repair and development of teeth and bones. Along with the other benefits of Quinoa, it is a useful source of goodness that forming babies will demand in plenty as they grow. It is also good for Mums when they are feeding as it will improve the quality of milk for new-born infants.Visit Here http://bbc-food-network.blogspot.com

Famous Filipino Food Recipes To Savor At Lutong Bahay Website

2011-08-15T13:53:00.000-07:00

Famous Filipino food or pagkaing Pinoy recipes can now be savored at any time of the night or day by anyone from any part of the world with an internet connection. All that needs to be done is to log on to the lutong bahay website which is not related in any way to lutong pinoy website. The lutong bahay website offers fast and easy download of Filipino food recipes online while also providing a venue for a community of food lovers with a passion for cooking to congregate, create friendships and learn from each other. Visitors likewise get more information and entertainment from articles on food and food related activities like the Philippine Lanzones Festival 2010.

The Filipino lutong bahay foods are not just for everyday meals but also for all kinds of festivities and celebrations. All these are contained at the lutong bahay website, where the free recipes of Pilipino cuisine are shown off with attractive pictures from the Philippines. The extensive and comprehensive selection includes Pinoy breakfast recipes, viands or lutong ulam recipes, and snacks or merienda recipes.

One of the possible explanations for the amazing number of Filipino dishes in Filipino or Pinoy cooking is the fact that Philippine history and society has been made colorful by so many foreign cultural influences. The major cultures that have strong inputs in Filipino food are the Malays, Chinese, Spaniards and Americans. The oldest Philippine or Pilipino foods recipes from those times were most probably still prepared in the native palayok or clay pot and tended over open fires with firewood. The ways of cooking those dishes have, however, been modernized through generations.

As Filipinos continue to enjoy the oldest existing traditional recipes, their many variations are just as well loved. The Filipino adobo, for instance, has been well received in its original form in many countries of the world but still has enough variations to fill several cookbooks. Filipino cooks in each generation also continue to create new recipes using native Filipino ingredients and attuned to the Filipino palate. These days, that palate has become even more international in its taste.

From the lutong Pinoy free recipes or lutong bahay free recipes from the Philippines made available online, Filipinos can pick the best healthy and easy Filipino foods recipes. Upon seeing the words mga lutong Pinoy or lutong Pilipino one will find Filipino cooking, while a site with the words mga lutong bahay or lutuing bahay will yield home cooked food. It is also highly likely that Mama Sita recipes will be found, which use ready mixes in cooking traditional Filipino recipes.

Filipino food recipes in a lutong Pinoy menu can include Ilocano, Pampanga, Tagalog and Visayan foods, dishes and recipes like the Batangas bulalo recipe of Batangas province; the pigar pigar recipe of Dagupan, Pangasinan; the pancit chami recipe of Lucena, Quezon; the saluyot recipe from Ilocos; sinigang sa bayabas, sinigang sa miso, ginisang togue, the seafood kare kare recipe, the sweet and sour lapu - lapu recipe, the Spanish sardines recipe, the rellenong pusit recipe, the crab Maritess recipe and the ginataang tilapia recipe.

The Jollibee style spaghetti recipe, siopao sauce recipe, hopia recipe, sylvanas recipe and best ube chiffon cake recipe are also among the free Filipino recipes at www.lutong bahay.com.

Fat Burning Food Recipes - 21 Day Fat Loss Jumpstart

2011-08-08T08:49:00.000-07:00

One of the most effective methods in trying to lose weight is to consistently eat healthy foods. Eating substantial amounts of healthy foods while losing weight is not a problem if you learn some fat burning food recipes. The goal of these recipes is to make you eat foods that will help you in your weight loss by actually burning fat as you consume them. It will also help you avoid foods that contain a lot of empty calories and unhealthy fat.

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If you are thinking that eating healthy foods are boring and are no fun to eat; try these fat burning food recipes. A simple recipe example is turkey meatloaf. You can also make some turkey burgers. Make sure that you use lean turkey meat. Turkey packs a lot of omega 3 fatty acids that help in burning fat so these recipes should not be left out.

Eating fish is very healthy too and should be a part of your everyday diet.

Fish contains a lot of protein that naturally burns fat. Try preparing a seared tuna salad for you and your family. It is a delicious salad made with tuna, olive oil and a lot of green vegetables. Foods rich in vitamin C are good fat burners. Carrots are a great example and you can make a delicious carrot coriander soup.

Broccoli is also a great fat burner. It is rich in calcium and also in vitamin C. A nutritious and tasty recipe is a broccoli rice casserole. Apples are rich in pectin; this substance limits the fat absorption of cells in the body. Making apple pie, apple brownies and apple cookies is a great treat for you and your family to enjoy.

There are still a lot of fat burning food recipes for you to include in your everyday diet. Losing fat will be a delicious experience after all. Remember to eat in moderation and eat healthy all the time.

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2 Great Cold Picnic Food Recipes

2011-07-31T18:33:00.000-07:00

Picnics are a great way to enjoy two of life's greatest pleasures, the great outdoors and food. Who doesn't like a good picnic, well minus the mosquitoes biting and those annoying flies trying to get into your picnic basket, a picnic is a great way for people to gather.

At any picnic the food is the star of the show, without a doubt. It doesn't matter how well you put together your picnic, how nice the day is, or none of that. If the food isn't up to par, there are going to be a lot of unhappy campers at your picnic(even if they don't tell you). The most commonly used food at a picnic are straight off the grill, like hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken and list goes on. Few people however, consider how cold foods can be a big star at a picnic a bigger star than there hot food counterparts. All of you have to do is know the right recipes. So here they are.

Sandwich Slaw/Serves 4

Ingredients

* 2 cups green cabbage, shredded
* 2 tablespoons, onions, minced
* 2 tablespoons, cider vinegar
* 2 tablespoons, mayonnaise
* 1 garlic clove, minced
* 2 teaspoons, granulated sugar
* 1 teaspoon, black pepper
* salt, to taste

How To Put It Together

Mix the ingredients and refrigerate for a hour.
2. Place a generous amount on each sandwich.
3. Or you can serve it along side the bread.

Grilled Caribbean Shrimp Wrap with Lime Sour Cream and Red Cabbage/Serves 1

Ingredients

* 6 21 to 25 shrimp, medium
* 1 tablespoon olive oil
* 1 tablespoon garlic, finely minced
* 1 teaspoon minced thyme
* 1 teaspoon scotch bonnet pepper, minced
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 cup sour cream
* 1 tablespoon lime juice
* 1 14inch tortilla shell
* 1/2 cup red cabbage, finely shredded
* 1 tablespoon olive oil
* 1 tablespoon champagne vinegar
* 1 romaine lettuce leaf
* 1 sliced tomato

How To Put It Together

Marinate the shrimp with garlic, olive oil, thyme, scotch bonnet peppers, and salt for 1 hour.
2. Grill the shrimp until just done.
3. Slice the shrimp into strips.
4. Beat the lime juice into sour cream.
5. Spread the tortilla with the sour cream.
6. Toss the cabbage in the oil and vinegar.
7. Add the shrimp, cabbage, lettuce, and tomato to the tortilla and roll tightly, securing with skewers.
8. Trim the ends and cut the roll at an angle one third of the length then cut straight at the next third.

Celebrity Cookie Diet-Celebrity Cookie Diet

2011-07-25T07:31:00.000-07:00

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Experiment With Famous Filipino Food Recipes At Lutong Bahay Website

2011-07-18T03:42:00.000-07:00

Experimenting with recipes is one of the major interests of new and experienced cooks alike. Any Filipino or non-Filipino can not experiment with famous Filipino food or pagkaing Pinoy because these can be easily and quickly accessed and downloaded online from the lutong bahay website. The Filipino food are available from any country in the world with an internet connection. It should be clarified, though, that the lutong bahay website is not the same as lutong pinoy.

Filipino lutong bahay foods classified into Pinoy breakfast recipes, viands or lutong ulam recipes, and snacks or merienda recipes are showcased at the lutong bahay website, with the free recipes shown with pictures from the Philippines. Pilipino cuisine is well represented, from everyday dishes to special dishes for festivities.

One can find hundreds of Filipino dishes in Filipino or Pinoy cooking. These Philippine or Pilipino foods recipes are made up of very old and very new dishes, with many intermediate dishes in between. This is so because the oldest traditional recipes dating back to early Philippine history and influenced by the Malay, Chinese, Spanish and American cultures are still being prepared and served today. At the same time, these recipes have also produced so many variations as each generation of each family seems to have created their own versions of old time favorites. A good example is the Philippine adobo which has several cookbooks worth of variations. Alongside these old recipes and their variations are also the newly created original recipes that Filipino cooks continue to produce.

Very common topics of conversation among Filipinos are mga lutong Pinoy or lutong Pilipino or Filipino cooking, and mga lutong bahay or lutuing bahay or home cooked food. Whenever there is a source of lutong Pinoy or lutong bahay free recipes from the Philippines available online, the word spreads and it is immediately perused for the best healthy and easy Filipino foods to try out. Since many of the Filipinos today have hectic lifestyles, the Mama Sita recipes have become popular for using ready mixes to make the preparation of traditional Filipino recipes much more convenient, with no need for a palayok or clay pot.

It is possible to craft a purely lutong Pinoy menu to cover even a year or more. There are enough dishes in the regional cuisines to mix and match, including Ilocano, Pampanga, Tagalog and Visayan foods, dishes and recipes, and more. Very prominent are the Batangas bulalo recipe from Batangas province; the pancit chami of Lucena, Quezon; the pigar pigar using carabao beef from Dagupan, Pangasinan; and the saluyot of Ilocos. Common vegetable or soup recipes are ginisang togue, sinigang sa bayabas, and sinigang sa miso. Filipino food for fish and seafood will be expected and may include the seafood kare kare, the sweet and sour lapu - lapu, the Spanish sardines, the rellenong pusit, the crab Maritess and the ginataang tilapia.

Also available for experimentation from lutong bahay website are other free Filipino recipes like Jollibee style spaghetti recipe, siopao sauce recipe, hopia recipe, sylvanas recipe and best ube chiffon cake recipe. Food articles can be read online, such as the Lanzones Festival 2010.

Locate Famous Filipino Food Recipes At Lutong Bahay Website.

2011-07-10T17:32:00.000-07:00

Anyone can now easily locate any of the famous Filipino food or pagkaing Pinoy recipes online by simply logging on to the lutong bahay website which is not connected in any way to lutong pinoyThese Filipino food recipes are now quickly and easily accessed for download at the lutong bahay website from any location in the world, for as long as an internet connection is available.

Filipinos are famous throughout the world for their good food. They love cooking and then sharing their specialties with family members and friends, including non-Filipinos. Almost any occasion is celebrated with a festive buffet laden with food. There are food festivals like the Lanzones Festival 2010.

Filipino lutong bahay foods contain Pinoy breakfast recipes, viands or lutong ulam recipes, and snacks or merienda recipes for daily meals and for special occasions. All these various types of dishes in Pilipino cuisine are displayed extensively in the comprehensive lutong bahay website where the free recipes are further showcased with pictures from the Philippines.

The diversity of Filipino dishes and their large numbers can be traced directly to the historical truth that Filipino or Pinoy cooking, like all other aspects of Philippine society and culture, has been exposed to so many foreign cultural influences through the years. Early Philippine history shows the major influences from the Malays, Chinese, Spaniards and Americans. More recently, Filipino overseas workers have brought home many other cultural inputs, including those from Japan, the Middle East, Italy and many other countries. In olden days, the traditional dishes were cooked in the native clay pot called the palayok and placed over firewood fed stoves. These days, cooking methods have become very modern but many of the traditional Philippine or Pilipino foods recipes have remained alongside their new versions. There are also many new dishes created by Filipino cooks of each generation.

It is not surprising that the lutong Pinoy free recipes or lutong bahay free recipes from the Philippines offered online are voluminous. They also contain the best healthy and easy Filipino foods recipes. One can locate Filipino cooking in collections that indicate mga lutong Pinoy or lutong Pilipino and home cooked food in collections that indicate mga lutong bahay or lutuing bahay. The Mama Sita recipes in these collections recommend the use of ready mixes to make the preparation of traditional Filipino recipes simpler.

To keep the lutong Pinoy menu fresh and varied one should make creative recombinations of regional dishes such as Ilocano, Pampanga, Tagalog and Visayan foods, dishes and recipes. Some Filipino food recipes to consider are the pigar pigar recipe of Dagupan, Pangasinan; the Batangas bulalo recipe of Batangas province; the pancit chami recipe of Lucena, Quezon; fish and seafood recipes such as the seafood kare kare recipe, the sweet and sour lapu - lapu recipe, the Spanish sardines recipe, the rellenong pusit recipe, the crab Maritess recipe and the ginataang tilapia recipe; and vegetable recipes such as sinigang sa bayabas, sinigang sa miso, ginisang togue or a saluyot recipe. One could also add the Jollibee style spaghetti recipe, siopao sauce recipe, hopia recipe, sylvanas recipe and best ube chiffon cake recipe, all found among the free Filipino recipes at www.lutong bahay.com.

How to Prepare Toaster Strudels

2011-07-03T00:47:00.000-07:00

When we think of breakfast food, we often have in mind hotdogs, eggs, bread and butter, and cereals. We have that limited array of options. By that we can come to a conclusion that in order for a certain type of food to belong to the breakfast food list, it has to pass some criteria. The food should be simple in all ways. It should be prepared in a fast manner. Cooking eat should be easy as counting 123. Eating is should be simple and would not require a lot of time to finish. The cooking equipments used in preparing it should be easy to clean. Lastly and most importantly, because it is the first meal of the day, it should be healthy. We all know that breakfast is our foundation for the day. As they say, we should eat breakfast like a queen. This defines our level of activities and this will set us off for the day. Your breakfast should energize you especially if you go to school or work.

Toaster strudel is one of the most popular toaster pastries that people usually but for breakfast.

Toaster strudel is a frozen pastry. Its story is quite fascinating. A young businessman's father was eating a cherry-filled pop tart when he thought that a pastry filled with fruit and topped with icing would be an irresistible treat. It was perhaps the American version of a Cuban pastelito. The young businessman then contacted Pillsbury and thus, toaster strudels came out in the market in 1985.

As mentioned a while ago, breakfast should be prepared easily. Preparing toaster strudels are surely easy! After opening the box, you will see the packaging of the strudels and the icing packet. Take out the number of strudels that you desire. You can use a toaster or a toaster oven with this. Place the strudel vertically when using a toaster and horizontally when using a toaster oven. After that, set the timer of the toaster oven or press down the toaster lever. Wait until the toaster bell rings then you can say "Something better just popped up!" That's a famous line concerning toaster strudels. Place your strudels in a clean plate, take out the icing packet and apply it to the strudel. There you go, a perfectly cooked healthy breakfast!

Toaster strudels are available in many flavors. You can choose from apple, strawberry, raspberry, cinnamon roll, cream cheese and raspberry, apple cream Danish, Danish style cream cheese and a lot more!

This surely passed the criteria for being a perfect breakfast food! Cooking it will require just a few minutes. You only use a toaster or toaster oven. Eating it will surely be fast because of its crunchiness and its fun flavors! With toaster strudels you can even get your child to eat! Your breakfast is prepared instantly and you will not be bored with all the exciting flavors available. This also fits your budget! Toaster strudel is the perfect breakfast food. With Toaster strudels, you surely start the day right!

Asian Food Recipes

2011-06-26T09:16:00.000-07:00

ASHY-Soup

500 g mutton
250 grams of horse meat (flank)
75-100 g fat kurdjuchnogo
2 radishes
4 onions
4.3 Tomato
1 clove garlic
or 3-4 heads and green garlic or bulb 1 cup chopped green steppe (lady's purse, alfalfa, etc.)
or 2 tbsp. tablespoons parsley, 1 tbsp. teaspoon chervil
2 eggs
1-2 tbsp. tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon flour
0.5 tsp black pepper
2.3 bay leaves
1,5 L of boiling water
1. Prepared bone mutton and horse meat (one piece), pour boiling water, boil the broth.

2. The flesh of mutton chop narrow thin strips in the form of thick noodles and fry on a sheep's tail fat perekalennom a cauldron for 10-15 minutes, then add the diced onion and radish strips and continue to saute and simmer for another 20-25 minutes, adding as little boiling juice amount of broth. Shortly before the availability of meat add tomatoes, cut into large slices.

3. The resulting meat and vegetable sauce prepared to enter into the broth, add the bay leaf, pepper, salt and bring to a boil.

4. Simultaneously, beat eggs and milk and diluted in egg-milk mix the flour. Pour this mixture into a preheated frying pan with oil and fry. The resulting thick omelette cut in the form of a large noodles and fill them ashy-Sorpa.

5. Immediately after that pour into ashy-Sorpa herbs, minced garlic, and then give the lid without fire for 3-4 minutes.

6. Before serving, remove from broth horse meat, cut it into thin slices and drop back into the broth.

BRINCHOBA

1 cup rice
4 onions
2 carrots
4 tomatoes
50-75 g of melted butter, kurdjuchnogo lard or vegetable oil 750 g potato
2 cups sour cream
1 cup green coriander and basil
0.5 tsp paprika
4 bay leaves
Fry in pre-calcined oil or lard with chopped onions, carrots, tomatoes, and pour this mixture is 2.5 liters of water to boil, lay the washed rice, salt, 1 teaspoon of salt. When rice is half cooked, pour the pre-sliced into small pieces (1 x 0,5 cm), potatoes and sunflower again, to fill a bay leaf, pepper, and cook potatoes until tender, season after cooking spicy chopped herbs and sour cream.

Taste of Indian Recipes and Food

2011-06-17T04:01:00.000-07:00

Indian recipe is usually characteristic in its taste because of the usage of spices that lend it a different spicy taste! The staple diet of any Indian consists of a wide range of pulses, rotis, rice, pickles, vegetables which are cooked in quite a lot of Indian curries, lip-smacking pickles etc. The recipes of India also varies as per the region and culture. Here, the flavors and the main ingredients change depending on the particular are you're visiting. South Indian recipes is known for its delicious dosas and idlis where as North Indian recipes is well known for the typical gravies, kulchas and tandoori chicken. Recipes in western India is totally different with rice, fish and the use of coconut being of prime significance for Goa the place as the Maharashtrian recipes have an assortment from the sweet puran poli to the delicate flavored nutritious breakfast items.

The eastern India's recipe is known for its mouthwatering range of sweets. Well, in case you are a lover of Indian food recipe and want to try something at home, then try some simple Indian food recipes which you can cook easily.

Indian recipes is more about flavor and vegetarian taste. Seasoning and tempering is an important need in all parts of India. India is well known for its versatile variety in recipes and owing to urban residency there's a simple transition of adopting cooking trends. Foods are usually of gourmet nature in any part of India. Usually the culinary trends are associated to the local produce.

There are several methods of utilizing the spices in indian recipes. For e.g. in the rice selection like kichdi, pulav or biryani it is a traditional to make use of complete spices in the pure form.

This adds to the flavor and the aroma is felt because the meals is being cooked. The benefit of utilizing spice is flavoring and furthermore it aids to construct the appetite. Desserts are additionally aided with spices like cinnamon or cardamom that lend a definite taste and useful for digestion.

Any Indian home has a conventional stocking of the choicest spices and in lots of kitchens we discover masalas or mixtures which can be usually associated to the type of cooking. It's a frequent pattern to make use of the garam masala in North Indian style and it is a large list of spices gently ground to a nice mixture.

Collectible cookie jars

2011-06-10T09:33:00.000-07:00

Cookie jars are wonderful ceramic and glass jars that are used for decoration. In America and Canada however, they are mostly used to store cookies and the people in the United Kingdom actually call it biscuit jars. As the name implies, the jars are used to store biscuits and other similar cookies in the United Kingdom. But the cookie jars do not have strict use like say the kettle. They are used throughout the world to store cookies, biscuits, candies, dog treats and even money in some places.

Collectible cookie jars have a wonderful history. They have been used in England and the United Kingdom in whole for close to three centuries now. In those times, they were often made with glass and metal lids were used to cover it. However during the Great Depression in America in 1929, the jars found their way into the United States. As expected, America added another twist to the way the jars were made by developing the ceramic version of the jar.

The first company in history to manufacture the ceramic cookie jar was the Brush Pottery Company in Zanesville, Ohio.

So if you are collecting antique cookie jar, you have to know that none of the ceramic jars out there is up to 100 years. So the really unique antiques are the glass cookie jars that were used in the United Kingdom. However you can also scout around for some of the earliest made ceramic cookie jars out there. Before you give money out with the aim of getting one of these antiques, make sure you really know what you are buying. If you are not sure, these collectible cookie jars are available here to buy.

You can find collectible cookie jars, antique cookie jars on our website http://www.collectiblecookiejars.net on for discount prices and see the most popular ones on the internet.

Important Information About Commercial Dog Food Recipes

2011-06-03T09:14:00.000-07:00

While I believe that all dog owners should be knowledgeable about dog food recipes and their dogs nutrition needs, the facts are that there are a small, but slowly growing, number of dog owners that are actually doing anything about it.

I don’t mean by wasting time trying to lobby for forced change in commercial dog food recipes. I mean choosing the only genuinely effective action for your dog by taking on the responsibility of researching and learning what the actual nutritional needs of dogs are and then developing the dog food recipes that are going to meet those needs.

There is plenty of material to be found on the net about what is involved in the processing of modern commercial dog food recipes (dog’s included) that will give you cause for alarm. I’ll provide you with a partial list here.

Nearly all of the animal protein used in all its forms contains less than 60% of protein that can actually be digested by the animal.
The inclusion of vegetable based forms of protein doesn’t do very much to improve the situation.
In some cases the vegetable based forms of protein can be dangerously toxic.
These grains, instead of adding to the protein level end up only increasing the carbohydrate levels.
They can also end up being processed and stored as excess fat.
The can or bag nutrition labels will count it as protein; meaning that the actual protein level will be lower than indicated and the actual carbs and fats levels will be higher than indicated.
They may also be a source of food allergies.
The use of these very low quality proteins have a substantial effect on a dog’s immune system
Some of the most commonly used preservatives are known carcinogens (cancer causing agents) in humans and in cats; but. Are still legally used in dog food because there hasn’t been any research done in how they affect dogs.
These facts are believed by veterinarians to contribute to the increase of stunted growth, slow recovery from injury or illness and reduced life span of any animals that eat primarily, and sometimes only, commercial pet foods.

If you love your dog; (mine is one of my better behaved family members) then give them the same time and effort you take with your children’s nutrition. You’ll find that it doesn’t really take that much time to make your own dog food recipes and that the rewards will be noticed by all in the improved energy and appearance; not to mention the reduced grocery bill and fewer trips to the vet.

You don’t need to be concerned about incurring higher costs be cause of having to purchase expensive food processing equipment you don’t already have or spending more money for food ingredients that you don’t already buy.

At first it will take a little more of your time gathering the information you need in order to develop dog food recipes; and you’ll find that a local veterinarian and some google searching will get you pointed in the right direction.

3 Tips on Diet Foods and Recipes

2011-05-27T03:09:00.000-07:00

Have you ever subscribed to the best food weight loss publications and have almost rented all the books which contained diet foods and recipes and have visited the markets in the hope of getting the best diet foods and recipes. Shopping for the foods may take more time because you have to carefully go over all the foodstuff tags. Even if you are a nourishment weight loss specialist, you cannot be positive that you are consuming the right material?

Specialists have exposed tips on diet foods and recipes sins and how you can keep away from them.. These tips are described as follows:

Tip #1: Don't take for granted that what you consume and drink is good and sufficient.

People have a tendency to think and act on what they study. For example, just for the reason that a label said something actually fit, does not precisely mean that it includes the nutrients you necessitate.

Looking further than what the diet foods and recipes may contain is really what should be your main concern. Eating foodstuffs that have undergone processing, can not take the place of new veggies that you make ready yourself. There are certain ingredients that are wasted for the duration of the processing. Fruit juices are not as good as consuming entire fruits. Even if they declare to be 100% untouched, these juices do not include as much ingredients as fresh fruits do.

Tip #2: Over-eating and Under-eating is a bad habit.

These are two different situations in diet foods and recipes weight loss plans. Even if they are very much opposing to one another, they are very much associated. Consuming large amount of food even if you have adhered to all the low-fat and low-carbohydrates diets may still not be a good weight loss application for you.

Not eating adequate food will also result in weight increase because it will manipulate your insulin levels encouraging storage of fats by your system. Hence, it is highly recommended that instead of putting much stress on diet foods and recipes, one should eats about 5-6 light servings of food a day instead of eating 3 large ones.

Tip #3: Several supplements should only be used after advice of a doctor

Vitamins are add-on and we call them supplements. They can be an element of your diet foods and recipes weight loss plan but should not be taken in very excess quantity. The supplements are needed if you don't get nourishment from the foods. These should be approved by a doctor and should not be requested from just about anybody which includes the sales person in the neighboring pharmacy.

Proper diet foods and recipes have been in constant public interest all these years. A lot of negligence has been made by quite a few people due to the shortage of proper advices from genuine experts. This can now be easily concluded that weight loss program is not identical for everybody. What is suitable for you may not be good for your mother. Moral of the story, recommendation of dependable health experts should be your first footstep in finding the best diet foods and recipes.

Easy To Prepare Dog Food Recipes

2011-05-19T19:33:00.000-07:00

Cooking for our dogs can be time consuming especially if you are always on the go running errands and juggling work loads and housework responsibilities. But there are easy to prepare dog food recipes that can be wrapped up in no time at all. It may take some time in the beginning, but once you've get the hang of preparing foods for your dog, it will come in easy.

When preparing food for your dogs, opt for recipes that are easily available in the supermarket. So when you go grocery shopping, you can get them at the same time. Meats and vegetables will be enjoyed by your dogs when they come in with variation of tastes and appearances.

There are plenty of healthy dog food recipes that you can find on the internet. You can even narrow your search on some specific recipes if you are looking for something special or to accommodate a specific diet required by your dog.

You can use these recipes as is or you can alter them, depending on your needs. One thing you have to remember though is to avoid the use of strong condiments for your dog's food as they may lead to some stomach upset, or worse, serious diseases like high blood and diabetes.

Sloppy Joe for Doggies is one of the easiest meals you can prepare for your dogs by combining stir-fried ground pork or beef, boiled eggs, cooked plain oatmeal, a jar of baby food green beans, a jar of baby food carrots, and some cottage cheese. It is a simple recipe that can make your dog bark with delight. You may make a big bowl of this recipe and give a portion to your dog each meal. Store unused portions in a sealed container and then refrigerate. If unused after three days, discard.

A casserole recipe which your dog will truly like is a mixture of boiled chicken, cooked brown rice, boiled mixed vegetables, and unsalted chicken broth. Stir them at room temperature and serve to your little fur ball. Add supplementary vitamins and minerals for a fortified recipe. When cooking for your dog, always keep in mind to leave out salt and other seasoning and spices which can be harmful to them.

Peanut butter and banana are two of the most dog-friendly human foods that you can give to your dogs. To make it even more interesting for your dog, and for easier feeding, make peanut butter popsicles. To do this, you will need to mash bananas and peanut butter together, add chopped peanuts and then chill. To make it easier to handle, scoop with plastic spoons then freeze them with the spoons. This recipe is good for dessert or treats for your dog food.

Different recipes can offer a lot of healthy treats for your dogs. They are easy to prepare and you can serve them fresh anytime. The above mentioned recipes are just few out of hundreds available online. You just need to find out the right combination of recipes preferred by your dog.

Relish Famous Filipino Food Recipes At Lutong Bahay

2011-05-10T17:11:00.000-07:00

Famous Filipino food or pagkaing Pinoy recipes are now available online to be easily downloaded, kitchen tested and relished by any Filipino or non-Filipino residing in any country of the world. All that is necessary is an internet connection to quickly access the lutong bahay website which is distinct from lutong pinoy.com. The lutong bahay website offers the Filipino food recipes along with a community of food lovers who share a love for cooking, too. Tips on the proper preparation of the recipes can be exchanged.

Almost any dish anyone can think of from among Filipino lutong bahay foods can be sourced at the lutong bahay website. Pilipino cuisine is displayed in all its glory, from Pinoy breakfast recipes to viands or lutong ulam recipes and snacks or merienda recipes. All the free recipes are further enhanced with yummy looking pictures from the Philippines.

Whether they are in the Philippines or abroad, Filipinos never lose their love for cooking and feasting on good food. Almost anything becomes an excuse to gather and eat together from a bountiful table laden with sumptuous dishes. Family and friends, including many non-Filipinos, are invited to partake of the banquet. Because there are hundreds of Filipino dishes in Filipino or Pinoy cooking, there is always something new to sample.

The oldest and most traditional Philippine or Pilipino foods recipes are still being enjoyed today along with their many spin offs and variations. After all, good cooks always like to improve on a dish, adding their own flourishes. Shortcuts have also been developed, as in the Mama Sita recipes which use ready mixes in preparing some traditional Filipino recipes, no longer cooked in the native earthen pot or palayok. Modern day Filipino cooks likewise go on developing new Filipino dishes to add to the cuisine.

Those who are searching for the best healthy and easy Filipino foods recipes can comb through the collection of lutong bahay free recipes or lutong Pinoy free recipes online from the Philippines. The phrases mga lutong Pinoy and lutong Pilipino mean Filipino cooking in the native tongue while the phrases mga lutong bahay and lutuing bahay mean home cooked food.

When having to create a lutong Pinoy menu for up to a years worth of daily meals and celebrations, one can just easily match up dishes from the various regional cuisines, including Ilocano, Pampanga, Tagalog and Visayan foods, dishes and recipes and others. One can put in the pancit chami recipe of Lucena, Quezon; the Batangas bulalo recipe of Batangas province; the pigar pigar recipe of Dagupan, Pangasinan; and a saluyot recipe from the Ilocos region. Other vegetable dishes that may be added include sinigang sa bayabas, sinigang sa miso and ginisang togue. Filipino food recipes for fish and seafood will also be demanded for, such as the seafood kare kare recipe, the Spanish sardines recipe, the crab Maritess recipe, the sweet and sour lapu - lapu recipe, the rellenong pusit recipe, and the ginataang tilapia recipe.

The lutong bahay website also offers free Filipino recipes for the treats that Filipinos often enjoy when eating out, such as the Jollibee style spaghetti recipe, the siopao sauce recipe, the hopia recipe, the sylvanas recipe and the best ube chiffon cake recipe.

Along with recipes, the website provides entertaining and informative articles focusing on cooking, food and food events like the recent Philippine Lanzones Festival 2010.

Soul Food Recipes - Tips For Choosing the Best

2011-05-03T00:39:00.000-07:00

Soul food recipes have traditionally been equated with preparing and cooking meals that took all day or even days like our great grandmothers used to do. Her days would normally start before the sun came up and continue throughout the day and well into the evening.

I can remember the delightful smells waltzing from my grandmothers home next door all the way down the street. Saturdays were her main cooking days. The smells of her homemade jams, collard greens, sumptuous meats and of course her signature pies and cakes were legendary. When she cooked the alarm bells in your nose and taste buds would immediately go off just from the smells. Whatever you were doing the smells would immediately make you stop and reflect for a minute or two on what the food would taste like you were smelling.

Many grandmothers had that reputation of spending whole days in the kitchen.

But in today's hectic high-tech world more people are looking for ways to prepare the tasty meals like our grandmothers used to make - without having to spend all day in the kitchen. Most women of today can afford to spend all day in the kitchen preparing meals like our great grandmothers could. There's far too much to do now with too little time to do it in.

The most popular cooking trends today is 30 minute meals. Meals that are filling, tasty and satisfying that you can cook in under 30 minutes. But with so many 30 minute meal plans and menus how can you choose which one is best for you. Without a plan you the average person could get overwhelmed with so many 30 minute meal plans. Especially with the new soul food 30 minute meal plans. Here's valuable tips on choosing the right 30 minute soul food meal for your table.

Here's Tips For Choosing The Best Soul Food Recipes

Ingredients are easy to obtain in your area.

- The may seem obvious but you'll be surprised at the number of people who overlook this obvious point. They choose menu that calls for fresh main lobster and they live in Kansas.

Know Your Basic Cooking Terms - This is one of the biggest mistakes many beginners make. Although most 30 minute meals have simple ingredients with simple cooking methods you still must know the difference between mixing, folding or stirring, for example.

Invest In Decent Cooking Equipment - Just because the 30 minute meal is simple, don't underestimate the power of having a good food processor and other modern food preparation tools. They can make your 30 minute meals go so much smoother. And in the case of non-stick cookware, it will make clean up so much easier. What's the point if it takes an hour to clean up after you prepare you 30 minute meal.

You can find an assortment of soul food recipes you can prepare in under 30 minutes on many sites online. By applying the ideas you've read in this article, you can choose the right ones more intelligently. Yes, convenience cooking is in. By taking the time to consider the points just mentioned your 30 minute soul food meals will be enjoyable for you and your family.

The Healthiest Dog Food Recipes

2011-04-24T22:22:00.000-07:00

If you’re reading this then it is very likely that you have a very special dog in your life and that finding the healthiest dog food recipes for your dog is a high priority for you. It certainly was for me. In fact, I had good reason to be looking very hard for that information. My dog was having health problems that my veterinarian told me were related to relying on commercial dog foods.

The problems with commercial dog foods have been well documented and well reported so I won’t get into that topic in depth; but, I’d be doing you a miss-service if I didn’t say anything about it so I will give you some minimal information right here.

The commercial pet food industry has been found to be responsible for severe mal-nutrition in pets; especially mammals like dogs and cats.

This problem results in an impacted immune system, stunted growth, food related allergies, reduced ability to recover from illness or injury, lack of vitality and reduced life span that in some cases can be as high as 50%.

So, now you know that the answer you’re looking for isn’t going to be found there.

Dogs, like their owners, can vary in a variety of ways concerning physical condition and general health issues. So, your first stop should be a consultation with your vet and a thorough physical exam for your dog. This can tell you if there are allergies (possibly food related), or other maladies that me require a specialized diet of some kind.

For instance your dog may be diabetic or have a sensitive digestive tract.

You may have a situation which could require certain medications or nutritional supplements either temporarily or permanently. Your vet can also provide you with a list of foods that are just plain toxic to dogs (but may be among your favorites like Avocados). Developing the healthiest dog foods you can and making then yourself is an important step in your dogs wellbeing.

You’ll need to know how to do a slow transition from a commercial dog food diet to the healthiest dog food recipes you’ll be creating taking into consideration what you have learned from your vet. This has to be done gradually or it could cause your dog a lot of discomfort. It involves trading out portions of the old food with the new food a bit at a time from about 10 days to 2-3 weeks depending on how your dog is handling it.

You continue with your normal feeding schedule and serving size while every week or so you will introduce a smallish percentage of the new food and remove an equal amount of the old food. Your serving size will be normal for your dog and he can adjust to the new ingredients at his own pace.

Unless your vet says differently for some reason, you should start with proteins and then move to a rotation of carbs and fats (Omega 3’s are best unless your dog is allergic to fish). Once the transition to the healthiest dog food is finished; over the next few months you will notice that your dog is looking and feeling better, has more energy and greater vitality which will continue to increase over the next year or so, depending on the age of the dog and how long he was on commercial dog food.

Hollywood Cookie Diet Scam

2011-04-15T19:55:00.000-07:00

There isn't a more amazing formula for weigh loss on the market. The Hollywood Celebrity Cookie Diet will solve all of your weight loss issues in weeks instead of months. Let's not forget about the 7 day money back guarantee if you fail to lose weight! All of your concerns were taken into consideration before the perfect weight-loss formula was developed. The cookies had to taste great to keep you motivated, suppress your appetite so that you would be less likely to binge, and be low fat so that you would shed pounds of fat. They also needed to be nutritious so that you wouldn't have to go after other sources of fiber, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and more to get fully replenished.

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In fact, there is. A study was conducted in the United States involving 2,472 men and 12,309 women.

40 clinics were opened to accommodate the respondents of the longitudinal study. The subjects were asked to consume only cookies for a period of 8 months. Each subject was provided with a fat loss tracker to monitor their progress over the 8 month span.Moreover, the subjects were asked to return to the clinic at the end of each month to monitor their vitals. A full, exhaustive physical was conducted on each subject to ensure that their health was not jeopardized by subsisting on only cookies for a month.
The study discovered that 100% of the women and men who participated in the study lost weight for each of months that they subsisted on cookies.

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The average women in the study lost 53 pounds and the average man lost 47 pounds.

In addition, all of the vitals for every woman and man in the study were optimal for their age groups. The doctor's who conducted the study concluded that the Hollywood Celebrity Cookie Diet did in fact lead to fat loss and were also sufficiently nourishing to subsist on for the rest of one's natural life.

It is worth mentioning that every ingredient that went into creating the Hollywood Celebrity Cookie Diet was clinically tested and approved by governing health inspection administrators. Using the perfect combination of protein enzymes, macrobiotics, and amino acids, the cookies stimulate metabolic burnage and reduce the level of ghrelin in the bloodstream, which suppresses appetite.

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Authentic Mexican Food Recipes

2011-04-07T05:39:00.000-07:00

two nopales with the spines removed
one cup refried beans
one teaspoon every ancho chili powder, garlic powder and cumin
two de-seeded, chopped tomatoes
1 cubed cooked potato
one chopped onion
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1 cup grated cheddar
one de-seeded, chopped red bell pepper
Sliced, pickled jalapenos
Salt and black pepper, to taste
eight corn tortillas

How To Make Them:

If you are making use of refreshing nopales, lower the leaves into strips and boil them in salted drinking water for ten minutes. Papitas del ajillo are little one potatoes with cumin and garlic. Try them with a grilled steak. You can get the two red and white kinds of these at Mexican markets, whilst the skinny-skinned alpha variety with its yellow flesh utilised to be the most widespread type by far.

As soon as the cheese is melted, serve.

Eggs are a common ingredient in Mexican breakfast recipes but there is no rule declaring that egg dishes can only be served at breakfast time. The following two recipes are extremely diverse but they give a very good notion of what Mexicans like to mix with eggs to make delicious dishes.

Egg And Chorizo Breakfast Dish

You can either serve this mixture as a tortilla filling or serve it with tortillas. It would make a great breakfast or brunch but this chorizo dish would also be excellent served as supper.

Warmth a few of tablespoons of oil above a reasonable warmth in a skillet. You will want much less if your skillet is non-stick. Fry a pound of Mexican chorizo until it is browned all over, and then drain the unwanted fat off.

Add a chopped white onion and cook for a couple of of minutes, then add two de-seeded, chopped jalapenos or Serrano chilies. Jalapenos are milder than Serrano chilies. Beat 8 eggs and then blend them with the chorizo. Fold in the chopped leaves from fifty percent a bunch of cilantro and discard the stems.

Serve the cooked egg mixture with four flour tortillas, 50 percent a cup of refreshing salsa and a mashed avocado. If you want to serve the chorizo combination within the tortillas, set the chorizo combination in the tortilla, then add the avocado and salsa and roll them up to serve.

Chilaquiles With Shrimp

Chilaquiles are a terrific weekend breakfast dish and they arrive in distinctive kinds. Inspite of being renowned in Mexico as a hangover remedy, this recipe would make a suited breakfast or brunch for any one who loves the flavors commonly observed in authentic Mexican food recipes.

This recipe contains "crema" which is a variety of Mexican cream. Use sour cream or creme fraiche alternatively if you can't get crema. This recipe tends to make enough for two people today, so double it if you want to feed the household. If you do not want to use seafood, both depart out the shrimp or use cooked, shredded chicken as a substitute and add it at the finish with the tortillas, so it can warm by way of.

What You Will need:

6 husked tomatillos
six tortillas, in two inch strips
one/four cup minced cilantro
one garlic clove
twelve oz medium shrimp (about 28 of them)
1/two teaspoon each salt and black pepper
1/four cup chopped onion
one cup chicken stock
one/four cup queso fresco

Find Famous Filipino Food Recipes at WWW.Lutong Bahay.com

2011-03-31T05:09:00.000-07:00

If you have long been searching for the most famous Filipino food or "pagkaing Pinoy" recipes online, you do not have to go farther than www.lutong bahay.com. This is different from lutong pinoy.com. When going to www.lutong bahay.com one can find hundreds of Filipino lutong bahay foods, featuring the Pilipino cuisine's free recipes with pictures from the Philippines. This ranges from Pinoy breakfast recipes to viands or lutong ulam recipes to snacks or merienda recipes.

Filipino or Pinoy cooking is so diverse and produces a large variety of Filipino dishes that one can spend months trying out all of them. Philippine or Pilipino foods recipes are also always guaranteed to be mouth watering.

Homecooking in Filipino is called "mga lutong bahay" or "lutuing bahay." Filipino cooking is referred to as "mga lutong Pinoy" or "lutong Pilipino." These lutong bahay free recipes or lutong Pinoy free recipes from the Philippines represent the best healthy and easy Filipino foods recipes that can make up an extensive lutong Pinoy menu covering all regions including Ilocano, Pampanga, Tagalog and Visayan foods, dishes and recipes, among others.

One can find, for example, the famous Batangas bulalo recipe.

Bulalo is, after all, the specialty of Batangas. Those with roots in Lucena can search for the pancit chami recipe. The pigar pigar recipe which is the specialty in Dagupan, Pangasinan is available, too. One can even find a saluyot recipe if one is craving for this slippery farm vegetable. Other vegetable recipes such as the simple ginisang togue can be found, as well as various types of sinigang like sinigang sa bayabas and sinigang sa miso.

Those who are avoiding beef, pork and chicken can focus on Filipino fish and seafood recipes such as the unusual seafood kare kare recipe, the popular sweet and sour lapu - lapu recipe, the Spanish sardines recipe, the rellenong pusit recipe, the ginataang tilapia recipe and the crab Maritess recipe. The ginataang tilapia recipe is best cooked in a palayok or earthen pot but even without this any other cooking pot can do.

For people on the go, the Mama Sita recipes are the most convenient recourse. Instead of doing everything from scratch, the ready mixes enable anyone to recreate well loved traditional Filipino recipes the easier way.

People who love to eat out in the Philippines will always have a craving for the favorite Jollibee spaghetti they grew up with, or even the special siopao sauce they had been used to. Fortunately, www.lutong bahay.com has free recipes which include the Jollibee style spaghetti recipe and the Philippine style siopao sauce recipe.

For snacks or dessert, there are favorite Filipino recipes for sweets such as the best ube chiffon cake recipe, the hopia recipe and the sylvanas recipe.

Aside from cooked food, Filipino food is also richly enhanced by the wide variety of fresh fruits available in the country. Mangoes and lanzones are among the most popular and most loved of these fruits. People can have their fill of lanzones especially during the Lanzones Festival 2010 celebrated in the third week of October in Camiguin Island. This is where the sweetest lanzones in the land can be found.

Peanut and raisins cookies

2011-03-22T16:19:00.000-07:00

Peanut and raisins cookies, the thought itself reminds you of the nutty flavor of peanuts combined with raisins give a delicious crunchy nutty taste and flaky texture.

Peanuts are known by other name like the ground nuts, monkey nuts. The peanut was introduced to China by Portuguese traders in the 17th century and another variety by American missionaries in the 19th century. They became popular and are featured in many Chinese dishes, often being boiled

Peanut butter is very famous and used in every home. Peanuts are used to prepare candy, bakery products and chikki (an Indian sweet meat). Peanut flour is low in fat than peanut butter and popular with chefs because of its high protein content and makes it suitable as a flavor enhancer.

Peanut flour is used as a gluten free solution.

In south Asian countries, peanuts are known as either a light snack by themselves, usually roasted and salted, and often sold roasted in pod on roads in the north, or boiled with salt in the south. They are also made into little dessert or sweet snack pieces by processing with refined sugar and jaggery. Indian cuisine uses roasted, crushed peanuts to give a crunchy body to salads; they are added whole (without pods) to leafy vegetable stews for the same reason. Peanuts are used to help fight malnutrition. Peanuts are a good source of niacin, and thus contribute to brain health and blood flow.

Recipe: Peanut and raisin cookie

Summary: COOKIES MAIDA WITH FLOUR AND PEANUTS.

Ingredients
ALL PURPOSE FLOUR – 300 – grams
BAKING POWDER – 1 – tsp
DALDA – 100 – grams
EGG – 1 -number
HONEY – 1 tbsp
MILK – 0 – AS NEEDED
PEANUTS – 1 – cup
RAISENS – 20 – number
SUGAR – 100 – grams
Instructions
DRY ROAST PEANUTS AND BLEND IT.
TAKE A BOWL ADD DALDA, SUGAR, HONEY, CREAM IT, then add peanut powder mix well.
Now add flour, baking powder, rasins mix well
in another bowl add egg beat well and milk mix well.
Now ad the egg mixture to peanut and maida mixture make it into a dough.
divide into equal dumplings place it oven for 150 @15min or till golden brown colour

Cooking time (duration): 25

Number of servings (yield): 4

Meal type: breakfast

My rating: 4 stars: ★★★★☆ 1 review(s)

Recipe by Vahchef

The preparation of Peanut and raisin cookie is simple and easy to prepare.

Dry roast peanuts and make a fine powder. Chop raisins into fine pieces. Take butter or fat and cream it well, add sugar and honey and mix. If you desire you can reduce the quantity of sugar and increase the quantity of honey. Mix the mixture well. Add baking powder to the maida flour and add this to the peanut mixture. Beat egg add a little milk and mix it into the peanut – maida mixture and make to a cookie dough. For vegans, they can avoid the egg and add little milk or water and mix. Egg is optional. Make into small flat balls place them on a baking tray and bake them. A nice combination of all these ingredients gives a really yummy nutritious and delicious cookie.

Peanuts are a good source of niacin, folate, fiber, magnesium, vitamin E, manganese and phosphorus. They also are naturally free of trans-fats and sodium, and contain about 25% protein (a higher proportion than in any true nut). Raisins include relief from constipation, acidosis, anemia, and fever. Raisins also help in weight gain, eye care, dental care, and bone health. Do try this healthy recipe and make all your dear ones happy.

Gourmet Cookies: Indulgence In Cookies

2011-03-15T06:23:00.000-07:00

Jamaica Things
The term gourmet cookies come from the idea of gourmet cooking. Gourmet cooking is based on beautiful presentations, using fresh ingredients, fusing different flavors. Gourmet cooks concentrate on using the freshest ingredient they can find for instance seafood, foal grass and the use of rare mushrooms. These ingredients are sometimes very rare and thats why sometimes gourmet dishes can end up being pretty expensive. Then there is the presentation factor. Gourmet cooks prefer to serve their food as a form of art not through paints or colors but rather through their presentation which can be topped with beautiful sauces. Gourmet cookies evolved from the basic concept of gourmet cooking. Rather than just eating plain cookies gourmet chefs created some extravagant cookies with different flavors and ingredients. This took the approach of making cookies to a different level. Gourmet cookies come in varied flavors and have different ingredients. These cookies also have their unique presentation as the visual beauties of the cookies are taken care of seriously. Flavors start from the usual chocolate chip and may vary to unusual ingredients as lemon, orange, mint, oats to raisins and citrus. Sometimes different flavors are fused together to create a whole new flavor and a whole new taste for the palette. These cookies are usually mad of the ingredients of the highest quality and their freshness is taken good care of until they reach the customer. It has become a trend around the world and mostly in the United States to present loved ones with a specially made box of gourmet cookies. These cookies are usually packed on beautiful wrappings or boxes and most of the gift boxes have different flavored cookies in them. The packing of these cookies also have different approaches and themes. Some cookies are packaged in simple boxes or packs while other cookies have designed packages and tins or ceramic jars. In spite of being made with extra care and ingredients of the highest quality and having varied flavors most of these cookies dont cost a lot and is affordable for almost everyone. Thats why they have received such high acclaim and gained popularity. Gourmet cookies are a great gift to give to your loved ones and it is especially appropriate for the holiday season of Christmas and New Year. Gourmet cookies with their delightful taste, incredible texture and flavor are sure to put a smile on the faces of your loved ones. So get out and get one now. Jamaica Things

Press Cookies For Christmas

2011-03-08T06:35:00.000-08:00

Press Christmas cookies are one way to make interesting and delicious cookies for the Holiday season. They do require some special equipment and are one of the more complex cookies to make for Christmas. But once you get the hang of it, they are worth it. And making pressed cookies with your kids can become one of your Christmas traditions.

It takes a bit of practice to make press cookies come out picture perfect. Press cookies are forced through a disk that has a cut out shape, for example a star or Christmas tree. It is forced out through the use of a plunger pressing through a long tube you load with cookie dough. The tube has a place to insert die's or the disks with the shape you want on one side and a handle on the other with a sliding top which moves down the tube in order to press the cookie dough through the disk's design. Wilton makes a great line of cookie presses that come with a wide variety of cookie shapes.

There is a variety of different cookie presses out there from simple and inexpensive to professional grade.

Disks are usually not interchangeable so keep this in mind when getting your press. There are a number of recipes you can use with press cookies with a variety of ingredients. One of the common ingredients is cream cheese. If you do not have a cookie book that has press cookies in it, there are a number of websites that provide great recipes for press cookies.

Children can help you assemble the ingredients, choose the shape of the cookies, and if they have the strength, help press the cookies.

Here is a basic recipe to get you started this recipe is for whipped shortbread. Whipped shortbread is a variation of a regular shortbread recipe that has been modified to work with a cookie press.

Basic Press Cookies

Ingredients

1 lb butter

1 C Powdered Sugar

1 tsp vanilla

Pinch of salt

1/2 c cornstarch

3 C all purpose flour

Instructions

Start by preheating your oven to 350 F.

2. While your oven is preheating, cream butter, powdered sugar, vanilla and salt.

3. Once these ingredients have a creamy consistence gradually, add the cornstarch and flour. Use an electric mixer to whip these ingredients till fluffy.

4. Place some of the dough into the cookie press, following your cookie press' directions and press out cookies onto a cool baking sheet.

You can decorate these cookies with candied cherries, pieces of cherries, sprinklers or whatever else you might want to use for decoration the place them in the oven and bake for 12-15 minutes. Take them out of the oven and let cool at least 2 minutes on the baking sheet before moving them to a wire cooling rack. Then simply store in an airtight container.

The thing to remember with press cookies is that because they are being pressed through small openings, the dough needs to be fairly compact within the cookie press. This will help to prevent breaks in the cookies and make sure that each pressed cookie is complete. Just about any cookie recipe can be used to make press cookies however, it must be plain dough or one that has very small pieces of things like nuts and cannot be too dense like oatmeal.

Butter is the best choice over margarine or shortening because it will help the dough keep it's shape. The dough should be at room temperature but you can chill the cookie press itself.

Using a cookie press results in a really elegant cookie that is easy once you get the hang of it. Try the recipe above with different food coloring and your green Christmas trees or yellow stars will delight young and old alike.

Health Food Recipes - Your Plate Your Fate

2011-02-26T23:43:00.000-08:00

What is health food recipes? There are lots of recipes out there claiming that they have the healthiest recipe and delicious meal provided. But it is more important to know which one of these is the real one and which ones are not. The contents that you will read here acquire the components of a real healthy meal recipe. At the same time, there are also tips on how you can make a healthy recipe by substituting certain ingredients.

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Have you ever known that seafood's and lean meat are far way better than red meat? For a quick recipe menu, a healthy protein, just simply add a good sprinkling of dill and some lemon juice on a few pieces of salmon. After this, cook the fish for at least 350 degrees F, until cooked all the way through.

When done, get ready to taste a delicious and healthy meal in your diet.

Avoid foods that contain high amount of carbohydrates. But how, as we all know that most meals consist of carbohydrate element. By using whole grains, brown rice and wheat bread, you will definitely make a healthier meal. As much as possible, stick to this form of diet if you are aiming to lose weight, foods with high carbohydrates nutrients is the number one enemy of those individuals who are in terms of weight loss routine. This is the reason why reducing carbohydrate intake in your body is really important and vital for individuals who are aiming to lose weight.

When it comes to vegetables, this must be the biggest portion of your meal everyday. There are so many good things about vegetables, it consists of different vitamins and nutrients that a vegetable can provide in one's body. A great soup to make is vegetable and lima bean soup. This can be done easily, simply cook several celery, carrots, onion for 15 minutes on the stove top, after this, add potatoes, lima beans and 4 cups of vegetable stock.

Some people take fruits for granted. But do you know that fruits also give great benefits too? It provides the body with blooming skin and cleanses the body from the inside. By these health food recipes, you will definitely have a great and healthy meal each day.

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Healthy Homemade Dog Food Recipes - Are They Necessary?

2011-02-18T15:03:00.000-08:00

There are a large number of healthy homemade dog food recipes flying around the internet these days. Is the renewed focus on feeding our dogs healthier meals really necessary? Is the food being served to our dogs by commercial companies really that bad?

Consider first what dogs ate just 100 years ago. Although there was probably commercial food available for dogs, the vast majority of dog owners no doubt gave their dog the leftovers, and didn't think a thing of it.

However, there are now major corporations making LOTS of money by selling consumers packaged dog food. But the reason they can sell it so cheap, is because they can acquire the ingredients so cheap. Is there such a thing as good, cheap meat? If you've been to the grocery store lately, you'll agree that it is very expensive to buy meat these days, so the meat they put in pet food must be very low quality.

Commercial dog food companies put a large amount of fillers, additives and animal products into their products. But most of the by-products being put in the mix, are products considered "unfit for humans". It's obvious when you open a bag, that it can't be made of high-quality ingredients, just smell it! In fact, if you feed a dog healthy homemade dog food, you'll see that they don't want to go back to their old pre-packaged "junk" Even the dogs realize that what they are eating is just bad!

Are healthy homemade dog food recipes necessary? Yes. You've learned that you can't trust what's in commercial dog chow, and it is important to give your dog the nutrients it needs, while also keeping out the garbage that can hurt a dog's system.

It's also important to vary what you give your dogs, and to ensure proper nutrition, which is why having recipes can help you to plan your meals. If you give a lot of thought into what you feed your dog, you'll find that your dog's health will drastically improve. They will live longer, get sick less, and lead happier lives.

Soul Food Recipes - Top 3 Pies Voted by Readers

2011-02-09T01:18:00.000-08:00

Soul food recipes have the robust southern taste many people love. For example, crunchy and flavorful fried chicken, succulent ribs that almost fall off the bone, collard greens or golden-brown hot- buttered cornbread.

The taste of the south attracts food lover's from around the globe. That same reputation includes southern dessert favorites, more specifically the pies, oh-the pies. They're the perfect way to top off a tasty southern meal, that is if you remembered to save a little room for them.

I polled a sample of my readers on their favorite soul food pies, I received a good collection of data with a few surprises. But for the most part the traditional favorites won out. Many commented on eating certain pies on holidays and others love to consume them whenever they feel the mood. But they all had pleasant descriptions, memories and emotions attached to their favorite soul food recipe for making pies.

Whatever method or style they chose, the results were the same - satisfying.

For example, some used their great-grandmothers recipe, handed down for generations. They included rich ingredients such as cream, butter and heaping tablespoons of nutmeg, cinnamon and brown sugar. Others went healthier and lighter by using light butter, and a tiny hint of the other traditional ingredients.

Here's a list of the top 3 soul food pies voted by readers.

1. Sweet Potato Pie - This is an all-time favorite and always toward the top of most southern cuisine lovers favorite pie list. A must for the holidays, but always welcome during any family gathering or special occasion. Most people eat it hot, but many can also consume it cold, especially if eaten in the hot summer months.

Deep-Dish Apple Pie - This is another favorite southern dessert. An excellent dessert to top off the main course of any soul food recipe. Especially good hot or cold and goes great with a dab of homemade ice cream on the side or right on top if you prefer.

3. Lemon Meringue Pie - Creamy tangy and tasty. This is a summer time favorite after the barbecue. There's nothing the like the cool texture of a good meringue, creamy lemon filling and flaky crust to end a good summer meal.

These are the top 3 soul food desserts most of my readers loved. Fortunately these were also the easiest to prepare. Simple ingredients and easy preparation. Each can go great after any southern meal or eaten as a welcome late-night snack. You can go traditional with heavier ingredients or you can go healthier with lighter ingredients. Try one today.

Healthy Food Recipes To Lose Weight - Your Plate Your Fate

2011-01-31T00:16:00.000-08:00

Ever trying to get a healthy recipe that suits your body's need for good nutrition? Have a hard time in finding the right type of food to help you lose weight or you still struggle to eat less just to get those extra pounds off? Well' today's topic will surely give you guidelines to be able to get those healthy recipes to lose weight. These easy to follow steps can give you more energy as well as promoting good metabolism for your wellness.

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Try to find some recipes that promotes more on the taste as well as the benefit of loosing those unwanted carbohydrates or high cholesterol recipes. By examining the usual recipes you may find that you're getting too much on what the food has than what you need, not only to fill your taste but also your need for energy and less on the gastronomical need.

You can focus also in those recipes that are in season to which you can relate your diet into.

In that way you can rest assured that your keeping up with the body's reaction to loose weight no matter what season t may fall whether it'll be on the holidays where most of the eating is active or simply on busy days that you can't predict if you can have more or less food than the usual no matter what time of the year it falls.

Aside from those recipes on food, the recipes for drinks are also to be observed with caution. Basically the drinks compliment the food that we eat, so in that matter getting those juices or any other type of drink that's having too much for your body to take has to be regulated. You won't have to dramatically give up on those sweet drinks but make something more likely to drink that you may compliment your senses as well as your body to get well.

Always take caution on finding the healthy food recipes. There are many out there promise but it's your body that reacts to the results of that good food or drink. So take time and get your way to well ness with healthy recipes.

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Simple Chinese Food Recipes

2011-01-23T16:17:00.000-08:00

Think about this situation, you are in your home through the weekends and you also suddenly started craving for Chinese foodstuff. But then you recollect that your favorite Chinese foods that delivers is close throughout the weekends. You considered going out and getting some Chinese meal but the future restaurant is rather far and also you just don't want to make that trip for Chinese foodstuff. Now all this trouble might have been avoided should you only knew how you can cook Chinese meal. Knowing some fast and simple Chinese quality recipes can really do something positive for the environment.

In general, the easiest Chinese food may be cooked in precisely 10 to 15 minutes. The majority of the easy ones involve just stir frying the ingredients and just before you comprehend it you are enjoying a hot meal using your chopsticks. What really takes lengthy is the preparation. Nevertheless, there are lots of cooking preparation tips for you to can put on for making your life a lot simpler.

To be able to prepare a hot Oriental food rapidly, you should learn to get ready the ingredients before hand. As an example, ginger may be peeled, sealed in a jar and spot within the refrigerator until eventually required and believe me you will need to have ginger almost day in and day out. It is probably one of the most used elements in Chinese cooking.

You could also do greater if you've prepared the meat and vegetables ahead of time. Fundamentally this suggests you happen to be anticipating for you to will lust for Chinese meal anytime. If you like the meal, I do not see why this should actually be any issue. With meat you ought to cut them in uniform sizes so stir-frying them is a lot simpler and they prepare quicker as well. You are able to cover the cut meat with a plastic wrap and outlet them inside your refrigerator. Exactly the same comes with veggies. Wash, cut and store them.

I realize that this isn't a healthy practice but if you are genuinely out of time or you would like that Chinese foodstuff actually rapidly, an option for greens would be to use frozen and/or canned ones. You can find in your supermarket frozen veggies which are previously prepared for stir-frying. Canned Chinese vegetables such as bamboo shoots and mushrooms are also available in the market. There is no exchange for fresh veggies though.

Keep in mind your sauce concoctions. You can make use of the same sauce recipes for other Chinese dishes. This way you save time from experimenting every time you cook. It is possible to do lots with a couple of tablespoons of soy sauce, oyster sauce, and in many cases sugar. Or one more alternative could be to settle with ready-made sauce or marinade. There should be a number of flavors to choose from.

In fact you will be amazed on what you can find with your supermarket's shelves. There is a variety of goods that can make your cooking a lot easier and simpler. From canned veggies and meat, to instant broths, marinades and sauces, you may have that Oriental flavor in a flash by just adding h2o, boiling or including the flavors with your cooking.

But one of the greatest tricks, if you find yourself in any pinch is find out to simplify the recipe. A quick and easy Chinese recipe involves simplifying your substances, preparation and cooking. Though, experimentation can indeed result in some truly incredible foods, but when your rushed and someone's by now waiting for their foods, it would be advisable to adhere to the reliable tested recipes, at least for that now.

Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe | Christmas cookie ideas,Christmas Cookie Decorating

2011-01-17T13:21:00.000-08:00

Sugar cookies are mostly made of vanilla, vinegar, salt, milk, sugar, baking soda, and eggs. Cookies such as chocolate chip cookies, are made in circular shapes, but this is not the case with sugar cookies. You can roll them with your hands, and even cut them with the help of cutters. Cookies are also decorated on special occasions, such as Christmas and New Year. You can decorate the sugar cookies by sprinkling some sugar or with icing. Sugar cookies can also be made in different shapes and sizes. More on cookie decorating.

There is a tradition in the USA since 1930, according to which, children keep milk and sugar cookies for Santa, every Christmas. The interesting thing is that, there is also a sugar cookie day, that is celebrated on July 9, and it is a holiday! Sugar cookies are made in different shapes, decorated in various styles, and exchanged between family and friends.

How to make sugar cookies? Making sugar cookies is quite easy, and can be fun.

Let us learn how to make sugar cookies from scratch at home.

Ingredients
3 cups of flour
1 egg
3/4th teaspoon of baking powder
1 tablespoon of milk
1/4th teaspoon of salt
Powdered sugar
1 cup of regular sugar
1 cup of softened butter

Method

Mix baking powder, flour, and salt together, and keep it aside.
Take butter and sugar in a bowl, and blend it well (till it becomes light in color.)
Add the egg and milk, and mix it well.
Slowly, add flour to the mixture, and make a dough.
Cut the dough into two parts, put in waxed paper, and keep it in the refrigerator for two hours.
Preheat the oven to the temperature of 375 degrees.
Sprinkle powdered sugar, where you'll roll the dough.
Smear powdered sugar on the rolling pin, and roll out the dough with 1/4th inch thickness. Check that the dough is not sticking.
If the dough has become a little warm, then place a cold cookie sheet on top of it for ten minutes.
Cut the cookies into any shape you want, and place them on the baking sheet with a distance of one inch between each other.
Bake them until the sides of the cookies have started turning brown, or approximately for 7 to 9 minutes. Rotate the cookie sheet halfway.
Remove the cookies from the oven, and wait for two minutes.
Place them on a wire rack for cooling.
Serve them (you can also decorate them as you wish)
Store the cookies in an air tight container.

This was a simple sugar cookie recipe. More on cookie recipes. Now that you have learnt how to make sugar cookies, let's look at the different types of sugar cookies.

Common Types of Cookies

2011-01-09T23:28:00.000-08:00

Everyone loves home-baked cookies. Nothing is more welcoming than the smell of freshly baked cookies or the sight of them cooling on the counter. It's my favorite kind of aromatherapy.

Cookies have a long history, dating back to 7th Century Persia. By the 1800s, cookie recipes began appearing in cookbooks as 'small cakes.' In fact, the term 'cookie' comes from the Dutch word koekje or koekie which means little cake.

Recipes for cookies in a variety of styles and flavors increased in the early 1900s and continues today. Cookies are the most common treat baked in home kitchens and it's estimated that more than half of all home baked cookies are chocolate chip.

But there are a lot more kinds of cookies out there waiting to be baked. Most cookbooks classify them by how they are formed into the following categories or types of cookies:

Bar Cookies, Squares, or Pan Cookies
The quickest and easiest type of cookie to make.

Batter or dough is pressed or spread into a pan and cut into bite-size pieces after baking. Brownies are the classic example of a batter-type bar cookie but they come in a variety of styles and flavors.

Drop Cookies
By far the most common type of homemade cookie created by dropping or pushing cookie dough from a teaspoon or tablespoon onto a prepared cookie sheet. Just mix, drop, bake, and enjoy -- definitely an easy cookie type. Popular examples of drop cookies include oatmeal raisin, peanut butter, and chocolate chip.

No Bake Cookies
Another easy cookie, no bakes don't require an oven. They are a great way to introduce kids to the fun of cookie making. Some of my favorite no bake cookie recipes include rice krispie bars, coconut date balls, rum balls, and peanut butter bars.

Ice Box or Refrigerator Cookies
Originally referred to as "ice box cookies," made from stiff dough that is refrigerated and usually formed into a cylinder before slicing and baking.

Contemporary cookbooks may categorize refrigerator cookies as sliced or slice and bake cookies. You can keep a log of cookie dough in the refrigerator or freezer then slice, bake, and enjoy a warm, fresh from the oven, homemade cookie whenever a cookie craving strikes.

Shaped Cookies
These cookies are shaped by hand or with molds or extruded from a cookie press or pastry bag. Shortbread is a classic example of a hand shaped cookie. There are also lots of popular holiday "spritz" cookies that require a special cookie press.

Whichever type of cookie you choose to make, friends and family are sure to applaud your efforts.

Famous Filipino Food Recipes To Download At Lutong Bahay

2010-12-31T16:50:00.000-08:00

Anyone anywhere in the world who loves to cook and who is interested in learning how to cook Filipino food recipes only needs a working internet connection in order to be able to access and download famous Filipino food or pagkaing Pinoy recipes online at the lutong bahay website. One need not even be a Filipino to do so. Non-Filipinos are just as welcome at the site.

Please make sure you know that the lutong bahay website is different from lutong pinoy.com, though. The lutong bahay site is a thriving community of Filipinos and non-Filipinos whose common interest is cooking and who want to learn and perfect the cooking of Filipino dishes in particular. It is a virtual place where old friends can reconnect and new friends can be met while sharing cooking tips.

Filipino lutong bahay foods like Pinoy breakfast recipes, viands or lutong ulam recipes, and snacks or merienda recipes are presented along with special occasion recipes at the lutong bahay website. The free recipes are matched with pictures from the Philippines to showcase Pilipino cuisine.

There are probably several hundreds of Filipino dishes produced by Filipino or Pinoy cooking. It is, after all, a known fact worldwide that Filipinos are passionate about good food and feasting. Even the simplest Filipino celebration held in the poorest barrio of the Philippines always serves delicious Philippine dishes. The dishes need not be expensive to be delectable. Philippine or Pilipino foods recipes originated from contributions made by the Malay, Chinese, Spanish and American influences in Philippine history but these have all been melded together through generations of use by families to create the Filipino cuisine. While most of the traditional recipes still survive, there are even more variations and new spin off dishes produced from them.

Filipino cooking, in general, is called mga lutong Pinoy or lutong Pilipino. Home cooked food, in particular, is called mga lutong bahay or lutuing bahay in Filipino. Many of the best healthy and easy Filipino foods recipes can be located at the online collection of lutong Pinoy free recipes or lutong bahay free recipes from the Philippines. Since not everyone has enough time to always cook from scratch, the list also contains Mama Sita recipes which use ready mixes for recreating traditional Filipino recipes.

Several different versions of the lutong Pinoy menu may be created by a merry mix and match of various regional specialties, such as Ilocano, Pampanga, Tagalog and Visayan foods, dishes and recipes, among others. These menus could, for instance, include the Batangas bulalo recipe of Batangas province, the pancit chami recipe from Lucena, Quezon and the pigar pigar recipe of carabao beef from Dagupan, Pangasinan. Vegetable recipes such as sinigang sa bayabas, sinigang sa miso, ginisang togue and perhaps a saluyot recipe could also be included.

Philippine seas and lakes have a bounty of fish and seafood widely represented in Filipino food recipes. These include the seafood kare kare recipe, the popular sweet and sour lapu - lapu recipe, the Spanish sardines recipe, the rellenong pusit recipe, the crab Maritess recipe and the ginataang tilapia recipe which used to be made in a palayok or earthen pot.

Other free Filipino recipes to download at lutong bahay include the Jollibee style spaghetti recipe, siopao sauce recipe, hopia recipe, sylvanas recipe and best ube chiffon cake recipe. There are also related articles like the one on the Lanzones Festival 2010.

Why I Make Simple Raw Food Recipes

2010-12-23T00:08:00.000-08:00

Usually my raw food recipes are nothing more than a couple of ingredients. Something like a blueberry banana smoothie is nothing more than bananas and blueberries (and water, if that counts).

Why is that? Why don't I offer more complicated recipes?

Complicated Recipes Digest Poorly

Sure, the typical raw recipes you find with lots of flavor-enhancing spices and texture-improving fats are tasty. But are they really healthy for you?

Dr. Douglas Graham, author of The 80/10/10 Diet: Balancing Your Health, Your Weight, and Your Life, One Luscious Bite at a Time, has a great saying (I believe it's from the Perfect Health Program) that:

"If it looks like pizza and if it tastes like pizza, it is going to digest just like pizza."

In other words, while you may be eating "raw" pizza made up of dehydrated flax seeds, avocado, sun-dried tomatoes, agave nectar, salt, etc., you are still eating a poorly combined, fatty, sugary, salty meal.

Yes, the raw pizza recipes are clearly better for you than the real thing.

But BETTER doesn't mean HEALTHY.

I eat raw because I want to be healthy and I'm sure you do too. That is why I consume simple, properly combined raw food recipes that digest easily, fuel my body, and taste delicious.

Are Your Recipes Simple and Healthy or Complicated and Junky?

There's an easy way to find out if your raw recipes are healthy or not. Once you finish a meal, simply listen to your body.

Is your stomach gurgly? Are you bloated? Are you gassy? Do you feel numb and/or fatigued? Do you have an unpleasant taste in your mouth?

All of these are signs that the food you ate did not agree with you.

You likely ate a poorly combined meal, probably high in fat and sugar.

For more on making simple and healthy raw vegan recipes, be sure to check out my 3 guidelines here (just follow the link).

Go raw and be fit,

Swayze

Indian Food Recipes (Sanjeev Kapoor)

2010-12-13T20:32:00.000-08:00

Indian Food Recipes (Sanjeev Kapoor)

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You have to be reasonably healthy to handle a detox diet, especially if you are considering one of the more extreme detox diets, like a detox juice fast or a 21-day detox program. But no matter which detox diet you eventually choose, you will help your cause greatly by using a sample detox diet to let you prepare in advance the foods you'll be eating through your detox program.

Having the guidance of a sample detox diet is one safeguard against your diving into the temptation of unhealthy junk or fast foods in the middle of your detox program, when you'll be subsisting on organic fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

Looking At A Sample Detox Diet

The typical sample detox diet has you beginning each day with an eight ounce glass of purified water into which you have squeezed the juice of half a fresh lemon.

You will follow this "lemonade" with fresh organic fruit of your choice eaten fifteen and thirty minutes before your "real" breakfast, so that you help your digestive system prepare for what's coming.

For your breakfast on a sample detox diet you can have any whole grains except wheat or corn. Try buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa, or brown rice for variety, because any one of them is rich in fiber and will fill you up while cleansing your digestive tract.

Your sample detox diet will let you have a mid morning snack of fresh fruit, so why not go with what's seasonal? Fresh berries or watermelon are wonderful in the summer, as are apples in the fall.

Whatever food you eat on your sample detox diet should be thoroughly chewed, so that your hunger pangs will be satisfied.

And for as long as you follow your sample detox diet, drink at least eight eight-ounce glasses of purified water each day, as well as all the freshly squeezed organic fruit and veggie juices, and herbal teas, as you can manage.

Sample Detox Diet Recipe

To give you an idea of what you can look forward to on your sample detox diet, here's a recipe for roasted cauliflower which is rich in immune-boosting, system-cleansing antioxidants and easy to prepare as well.

Cut tow medium heads of cauliflower into florets; toss them in a bowl with one-quarter cup of organic cold-pressed olive oil and sea salt to taste: place them in a large roasting pan and roost in a 400F oven for thirty minutes. Absolutely delicious!Visit Here http://bbc-food-network.blogspot.com

Dog Food Recipes For a Healthier Dog

2010-12-06T20:18:00.000-08:00

There are many dog food recipes listed on the Internet, but you need to be certain that the ingredients meet your dog's nutritional needs.

While I do think that home made dog food is the best way to a healthier dog, I would suggest you learn as much as you can about the subject before you look at recipes.

The proper amount of Proteins, Fats, Carbohydrates, Minerals, Vitamins and Water are all the basic nutrients needed for a healthy dog. The key is you need to learn to feed your dog a balanced diet that includes the nutrients listed above.

Every dog is different and that is why commercially processed pet food fails miserably when it comes to keeping our dogs healthy. There is no way they can come up with a commercially made dog food recipe that will be right for every dog.

With home made dog food recipes you can tailor the dog food recipe to the age, breed and current health of your dog.

You make enough to last a week or two and by freezing it you beat the need for preservatives.

While I'm going to include a few dog food recipes below I can't stress how important it is to learn how to recognize the needs of your dog and therefore selecting dog food recipes that will be the most beneficiary for him.

Canine Meat and Grain Menu 2 cups cooked brown rice 2/3 cup Lean beef 2 teaspoons lard -- or veggie oil 1/4 cup vegetables --no onion *Supplements Mix the above. You can cook the meat if you want to, use your judgment. Serve slightly warm. *For supplements, add 2 tsp. powder and 1 tsp. oil to feed daily- now this is for a 5-15 lb. dog, and the book instructs to use double supplements for a puppy.

Chow Chow Chicken 2 chicken thighs -- or white meat 1 stalk celery -- sliced thick 3 carrot -- peeled and halved 2 small potato --peeled and cubed 2 cups rice -- uncooked Place chicken pieces in large pot.

Cover with cold water (5 -6 cups). Add carrots, celery, and potatoes to water. Add salt to taste if you want. Cover and simmer on low heat about 2 hours until the chicken becomes tender. Add the rice, cover and cook over low heat for about 30 minutes until the rice is tender and most of the liquid is absorbed. Remove soup from heat. Pull the chicken meat off the bone ( if will practically fall off), discard bones. Return shredded pieces to pot. Stir well. Let cool. Store in the refrigerator or freeze.

Soul Food Recipes - Top 3 Cakes Eaters Love

2010-11-29T17:22:00.000-08:00

Soul food desserts follow the best southern recipes to top off the best meals. The one layer cakes have the reputation as tasty, satisfying and light. I polled a sample of my readers on their favorite cakes. Many were eaters and others were cooks who prided themselves on baking these cakes. Of course those were the one's with the interesting stories and memory.

The memories of family gatherings accompanied by their cake creations filled their thoughts. Most of the cakes that finished at the top of the favorites list were the one layer or the sheet cake variety. But others that received votes but finished lower on the list mentioned the multi-layer cakes. These received fewer votes perhaps because they had more elaborate baking techniques than the 3 that finished at the top of our voters list. For example, the 3 layer chocolate and coconut cakes.

Here's a list of the top 3 soul food cakes voted by readers.

Sock-it-to-me Cake - This cake started out as an excellent cake eaten for the holidays. But it has grown in popularity and now many people enjoy it all year. The pecans, cinnamon and nutmeg gives it a tasty and crunchy texture. An excellent coffee cake if you drink coffee. Also an excellent light snack also.

2. 7-Up Cake - This light cake has grown into a popular soul food cake. As the name implies, 7up is added to the cake mix instead of water. This helps to make the cake light and airy. The texture is similar to pound cake. It's shaped and baked in a bunt pan and topped with a glaze or white frosting.

3. Lemon Jell-O Cake - This is another favorite with readers who love the hint of tang plus the lightness of the cake. This sheet cake is topped with a clear lemon glaze that gives it just the right look and taste.

People love this cake because it's super simple to make and taste good. It's especially good right out of the oven and topped with glaze.

Cake is an all time favorite when it comes to soul food recipes. These desserts represent celebration and good times to those who consume them. Their simplicity encourages more people to try their hand at baking them and many have. These are beginners cakes. Some creative types even add their own imagination to give the cakes their own unique touch or signature.

Hollywood Cookie Diet Plan

2010-11-21T19:27:00.000-08:00

There's nothing more amazing weight loss formula on the market. The famous Hollywood Cookie Diet solve all your problems of weight loss in weeks rather than months. Forget the money 7 days money back guarantee if you do not lose weight! All your concerns will be addressed before the weight loss formula quite developed. The cookies have a taste to keep you motivated, stop your appetite as you would be less likely to binge, and low in fat that you pay a pound of fat. They also need to be nutritious as it would not go after other sources of fiber, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and more to recover in full.

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Subjects were asked to use cookies only for a period of 8 months. All subjects received fat loss tracker to track their progress during the eight months span.Moreover, subjects were asked to return to the clinic at the end of each month to monitor their vital signs. A full, complete physical conducted on each subject to ensure that their health was compromised by cookie exists only for the month.
The study found that 100% of women and men who participated in the study lost weight for each month where they subsisted on cookies.

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Women on average in the study lost 53 pounds and the man who lost an average of 47 pounds. In addition, each of the vital organs of every woman and man in the study were optimal for their age group.

The doctor who conducted the study concluded that the Hollywood Cookie Diet of the Stars has indeed lead to lose fat and nutritious enough to exist for the rest of his natural life.

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Fat Burning Foods And Recipes

2010-11-15T04:15:00.000-08:00

There are hoards of fat burning foods discovered today which you can know about and get definitely cheered up with a thought that you can relish numerous things and at the same time continue getting freedom from your extra weight. Yet the main difficulty is which of these hoards of items you can take in, in your regular program. You continually scratch your head about this and in the end cannot fix any one thought!

The solution is simple. The very first| thing you should remember is, to dissolve those extra kilos is not to starve yourself. You should eat 4-5 times daily, that also in good quantity, thereby you can stay energized and not exhausted. Hence, apt way to practise a wholesome diet is to involve these foos items in your regular meals and take the pleasure of a number of healthy foos items, without giving up your taste factor.

In general, green and other colored veggies, nuts, whole grains, soy, fruits, tofu, fishes, skinless chicken, 90% lean beef, coffee, beans, yogurt, onions, red chillies, garlic and even real dark chocolate are foos items that burn those extra kilos. If you involve these in your day-to-day meals in such a way that you can get profited from all of them, it will be a superb alteration of taste for you and you wont also get tensed of going through a diet program. And for this, including them in fat burning recipes is the apt way. Some such recipes have been given below. However you also, using your own creativity, can make several such recipes, which consist of many fat burning foods, yet taste great!

The first recipe is Mexican Wrap, for the preparation of which, you have to take one low-carb wrap, half cup of chopped, pre-cooked chicken, cup of Mexican cheese, a large handful of raw veggies like, carrots, celery, etc and 2 to 4 tablespoons of without-sugar salsa. First you add together the salsa, cheese and chicken and keep them in the microwave thereby the cheese will melt. Give a coat of this mixture on the wrap, and also add the raw vegetables and enjoy. Isnt that truly simple to prepare and health-giving?

Next recipe is a soup containing vegetables and beef broth, which too is simple and healthy. You will need 10 chopped stalks of celery, 14 ounce of beef broth, 2 green bell peppers, tomato juice, 15 ounce of cut green beans, 1 ounce envelope dry onion soup, 1 big chopped cabbage, 16 ounce of whole peeled tomatoes, 3 chopped onions and 5 chopped carrots. Add pepper and salt to add flavour. Cook all the contents in sufficient water, till the vegetables turn tender. It can be kept in the fridge for many days and can be heated at the time of having.

Next yummy recipe is a savoury cake containing egg whites. You will have to take whites of 6 eggs. Whisk them well together with 1 tsp of baking powder, pepper and salt, 1 teaspoon of olive oil, a pinch of garlic powder and a cup of broccoli. Cook in the oven for about 30-40 minutes on 350. If you want a brown top, you may broil it for the last 5 minutes.

Belly Fat Diet Plan - Foods and Recipes

2010-11-08T13:03:00.000-08:00

Belly fat diet is the diet to reduce excess fat around your abdominal or belly regions. The problem here is that, most people conclude that belly fat diet is to consume less amount of food, and even in worse many may leave the stomach empty. They actually involve doing a terrifying amount of stomach crunches that make them drained of energy and made them weak, even make them hungry. Every diet plan has some procedure and a proper plan. Experts suggest some effective and healthy way of diet plans and programs, which cost less and can see the change in two or three months and can lose up to 15 pounds in your waistline.

Actual Diet Pan

There are several basic principles in belly fat diet plan. The first one is to limit the calories in your food. How many of you know that some meal are about 3000 calories. It's really horrible to hear it.

Researches say that a normal adult must take about 1600 calories a day, limiting calories about 1600, a day with Mediterranean-style food plan that emphasis on wholesome, unrefined foods, such as nuts, beans, seeds, grains, lean protein, few red meat, fresh fruits and vegetables. The secret element beneath Belly Fat Diet is having at least one kind of food which contains monounsaturated fat (MUFAs) at every meal. Many researches proven that these MUFAs have huge potential to reduce belly fat. So, where do we find these MUFAs. This MUFAs are highly available in soybean, seeds, olive, and sunflower oils.

The next active step in reducing belly fats is practicing some abdominal exercises to stimulate metabolism and reduce more fats in the abdominal region. Abdominal exercises mainly concentrate on rectus abdominus muscle to burn more fats.

This article gives an easy abdominal exercise to start off with that can be implemented in a daily routine.

1. Bicycle crunch

It is one of the easiest ab exercises that puts stress on the abdominal muscles by repeated expansion and contraction of the muscles in the region. This exercise has double the effect of the basic crunches and sit ups. At first lay on the exercise mat with your hands supported in the side of your head. Now bring your left leg up near you chest which puts immense stress on the on your abdomen. These is the starting position and by keeping your left leg afloat now alternate your leg position imagining as if you are riding a bicycle and bring the right leg near your chest. Repeat the above mentioned process slowly by making sure that your legs stretch out nice and slowly thereby stretching your muscles in the abdomen.

The exercise mentioned in the article is just a starting point for the belly fat reduction technique. Make sure you consume healthier foods and incorporate some good abdominal exercises to reduce your belly fats.

Grandma Hystad's Recipes, Drinks, Food Information

2010-11-01T08:36:00.000-07:00

Beef And Potato Cakes
You can use ground meat if desired. A treat for children
8 oz. Beef.
8 oz. Potatoes.
1 small 2-3 inch onion chopped finely.
1 egg yolk.
Dark soy sauce.
1 teaspoon salt.
Cook the potatoes and mash. Mix in egg yolk and salt. Chop onion finely, brown with 1 tablespoon oil, add ground meat. Brown for 4 minutes. Add soy sauce and mix the batch with the potatoes. Shape into balls the size of golf balls, flatten into cakes. Heat the cooking pan. Grease lightly with oil, use medium heat to brown the cakes, turn to brown both sides. If you have a electric skillet set temperature at 340. When automatic control light blinks, turn cakes over.

Peel, core, and cut apples into quarters or wedges, depending on the size of the apple. Place apples in 1 quart baking dish. Dot apples with margarine.

Sprinkle apples lightly with sugar and cinnamon. Orange juice may be added if desired. Bake at 375 degrees until tender, about 30 minutes. Serves 2.

Grandma's Beef-Stew & Dumplings
1 pound………………(500 g)…………………stew beef
3 tablespoons(45 ml)…………………flour
1 clove of garlic
salt and pepper to taste
1 medium size onion, chopped
3 carrots
1 turnip, diced
1 bay leaf
Cut meat into cubes. Roll in flour and brown in hot oil.
Add chopped onion and garlic. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Stir until onion is a golden brown. Add enough water to cover
the meat. Bring to a boil. Simmer gently for 1 ½ -2 hours.
Add rest of vegetables ½ hour before stew is served.

YIELD: serves 4-6
TIME: 15 minutes preparation, approx.2 hours to cook

Dumplings

2 cups………………………………..(500 ml)………………………all purpose flour
4 teaspoons…………………….(20 ml)……………………………baking powder
½ teaspoon…………………………(2,5 ml)……………………….salt
2 tablespoons…………………(30 ml)……………………………shortening
¾ cup…………………………………….(185 ml)…………………milk
Sift flour. Add baking powder and salt and sift again.
Cut in the shortening and add milk. Drop into simmering stew
gently, being careful to drop a piece of meat or vegetable so
that it will not be immersed. Cover the kettle.

Macaroni With Hamburger Balls
1 pound hamburger
2 medium-sized onions, minced
¼ pound macaroni
1 ½ quarts boiling water
2 teaspoons salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
1 cup canned peas
2 cups tomato juice
Mix chopped onion, ½ teaspoon salt and pepper with hamburger. Form into small balls and fry until tender. Drain. Add peas, tomato juice and hamburger balls to the macaroni. Simmer together for 10 minutes.
SERVES: 6-8

AUNT PAT'S FAVOURITE BUTTER TARTS

1/3-cup ....(80 ml) ...........butter

1-cup.......(250 ml).......... brown sugar

2 tablespoons.(30 ml)..........milk or cream

1/3 cup......(80 ml)...........currants

1 egg beaten well

1 teaspoon...(5 ml)......................vanilla

Mix all ingredients together. Put in unbaked tart shells.
Bake at 450 F, (230 C), for 8 minutes. Turn down to 350 F,
(175 C), and cook until brown.

MOM'S MINCEMEAT COOKIES

¾ cup…………………………………(185 ml)…………………shortening

1 ½ cups…………………………(375 ml)…………………sugar

3 eggs beaten

3 cups………………………………(750 ml)…………………flour

¾ teaspoon……………………(3.75 ml)………………salt

1 teaspoon………………….(4 ml)…………………..soda

1 cup…………………………………(250 ml)……………….canned mincemeat

3 tablespoons………….(45 ml)…………………water

1 cup…………………………………(250 ml)…………………walnuts

Cream, sugar and shortening. Then add eggs. Sift flour, salt,
and soda together. Add to creamed mixture. Add mincemeat and
water. Stir until thoroughly mixed. Add nuts and stir. Drop
from teaspoon onto well greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350F,
(175 C), for 10-15 minutes.

YIELD: 4-5 dozen cookies
TIME: 1 hour

GRANDMA'S WHIPPED SHORT BREAD COOKIES
1 POUND………(500 G)……………..BUTTER OR MARSRINE
3 CUPS………..(750 ML)……………FLOUR
1 CUP ……………(250 ML)…………..ICING SUGAR
Beat with mixer until creamy. Drop on cookie sheet and bake at 350 F, (175 C) until slightly brown.
YIELD: approximately 5 dozen cookies
TIME: 1 hour (includes cooking and cleaning time)

LIGHT SIDE

A fellow finds himself in front of Saint Peter at the golden gate. St. Peter explains it is not easy to get to heaven. There are some criteria before entry.

He asks the guy are you religious? Gave money to the church? Gave
money to the poor? Help his neighbour?

The fellow answers "no".

Peter says, "look, work with me, I am trying to help you, think".

The fellow says, "Well, I came out of a store and found this old
lady surrounded by a dozen bikers. They were shoving her around,
and abusing her. I got so mad I threw my grocery bags down, fought through the crowd, and got her purse back. After helping her to her feet, I went to the biggest, baddest biker and told him how despicable, cowardly, and mean he was. Then I spat in his face."

"Wow", said peter, " That's very impressive. When did this happen"?

"oh, about five minutes ago", replied the fellow.

VEGAN MIXED BERRY MUFFINS

Flour, white, 1.75 cup
Raw sugar, 4 tsp
Baking Powder, 2 tsp
So Good 'Trim' Soymilk, 1.25 cup
Egg Replacer, 1 serving
Applesauce, unsweetened, 25 grams
Strawberries, frozen, unsweetened, 0.125 cup,
Blueberries, frozen (unsweetened), 0.125 cup,
Blackberries, frozen (unsweetened), 0.125 cup,
Raspberries, 0.125 cup

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with non-fat cooking spray. In a large bowl, combine all dry ingredients.
In a smaller bowl- combine applesauce and soymilk.

Chop the frozen berries into a manageable size. Add wet ingredients to the dry, and stir to combine, adding berries as you mix. Using a 1/4 cup measure, scoop into prepared muffin tin (they should be about 2/3 full), bake for 20-25 minutes (when a toothpick inserted comes out clean). Cool in tin for 5 minutes, then turn out to cooling rack.
serve warm

VAGAN INFORMATION

Vegan:

A person that chooses a lifestyle that aims to eliminate the use of products obtained from animals for food, clothing or any other reason. This means that they don't eat any meat, fish, dairy products or eggs. They also avoid products that are tested on animals and do not wear fur, wool or leather.

A Vegan's diet includes foods such as: beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, Soya products (for protein), whole grains, vegetables, fruits and healthy oils.

People choose to become vegan for various reasons, the most popular include -

-Ethical views concerning animal rights
-Concern for the environment
-To improve personal health

VEGGIE BURGERS

You want to try veggie burgers; they are great imitations of the real thing. Many companies now make them in a variety of tastes and styles. Some mimic meat; others are intentionally grain like. All are lower in calories and fat than a conventional burger and higher in fibre. Many have a respectable amount of protein, too. Their weakness is sodium: The rated burgers have 250 to 500 milligrams. (The recommended daily limit is 2,300 milligrams)

BUGER VEGGIE, Calories 110, Fat (4g), Protein (10g), Sodium 360(mg).

BEEF VEGGIE, Calories 177, Protein 17(g), Fat 11(g), Sodium 360.

If you have teenagers, or in fact any adult, impress on them the risks of driving while intoxicated. Statistics demonstrate drunk drivers cause many fatal road accidents.

It should be known that like any other drug, addiction is a potential hazard. Excess of alcohol will affect organs such as the brain, heart, and liver.

BAR MIXES

WORKERS RUM

1 shot rum

Fill with orange juice

2 tablespoon Grenadine (or adjust to taste)

Ice cubes

Stir or Shake.

Fresh Fruit Punch
8 ounces apiece of orange juice, pineapple juice, and
grapefruit juice.
1 bottle ginger ale. Sugar to taste.
Combine the juices with the sugar. Stir until the sugar is
dissolved and refrigerate. Add the ginger ale plus chunks of
ice before serving.

Disclaimer: The Author of this article is not responsible for accuracy or completeness nor shall he be held liable for any damage or loss arising out of or in any way related to the information or utilization of it.

French Food Recipes - Sesame Chicken With Aioli

2010-10-22T21:54:00.000-07:00

This dish is a French classic, as aioli is a speciality of Provence. Many French food recipes are extremely rich and therefore not low in fat - this is no exception. For a lower fat version you could use ready made light mayonnaise, mixed with mustard, garlic and parsley - if you go this route, you can omit the egg and the olive oil from the list of ingredients.

Ingredients

4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
4 cloves garlic
bunch of spring onions
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 egg
6fl oz/175ml olive oil
juice of 1/2 lemon
1/2 bunch parsley
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
4oz/100g quick cook noodles
2 tablespoons sunflower oil
4oz/100g sugar snap peas
2 tablespoons mango chutney
salt and black pepper
Method

Cut the chicken into thin strips.

Trim the spring onions and slice them diagonally, approximately the same width as the chicken. Peel and finely chop the garlic. Finely chop the parsley.

To make the aioli sauce; blend the garlic, mustard, parsley and 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a blender or food processor until creamy and smooth. Keep the blender running and add the egg, then slowly add the remaining olive oil, followed by the lemon juice. Season with salt and black pepper. Empty the mixture into a bowl and set aside in the refrigerator until required.

Heat a wok and toast the sesame seeds until golden, remove and set aside. Heat the sunflower oil and stir-fry the spring onions for 2-3 minutes. Add the chicken and stir-fry for a further 5-6 minutes until browned.

Add the noodles and peas and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes.

Stir in the chutney, season and sprinkle the sesame seeds on top. Spoon the sesame chicken onto four plates and serve with the aioli sauce.

Be aware:- I should advise you that any dish containing raw egg should not be consumed by women who are pregnant, vary young children or the elderly and infirm!

Bon Appetit.

Healthy Food Recipes For Diabetics

2010-10-15T00:48:00.000-07:00

It is commonly misconceived that when you are suffering from diabetes you should be wholly dependent on a strict diet including fruits and vegetables which is not necessary. However, the diabetics are bound to be careful on what they should eat and what they shouldn't. In spite of this restriction we have a good many alternative healthy food recipes for diabetics.

Chicken Breasts - Dinner

Marinade Skinless chicken breasts in Italian dressing can be preserved in your fridge fresh for about eight to ten hours. As soon as you step in for cooking you should apply your favorite herb mix, bread crumbs, and parmesan cheese. Place them in the oven for about 30 to 35 minutes above 300 degrees. Make it sure that your chicken is cooked well to ensure a healthy diabetic food recipe before putting off the oven. If it is ok, you can serve it with fresh side dish, probably your favorite salad or even steamed vegetables.

Spanish Egg Roll - Lunch

Among many of the healthy food recipes that are preferred by diabetics, Spanish egg roll is another one.

It is very simple that can be prepared at home in varied tastes. You have to scramble some eggs in the way you usually do, and add in some onion and diced peppers to your taste. After this, just adding some grated cheese at the top of the scramble, and spooning can give you a tortilla wrap. It can be rolled up to have a delicious, tasty, and funky recipe. It is also a healthy lunch that can be enjoyed by the family as a whole.

Raw food recipes - Breakfast

Another one of the healthy food recipes for diabetics you can make for breakfast at home is raw fruit cereal.

Simply by using natural grains, and small cut pieces of your favorite fruits with nuts added to milk or mere water, you will get dramatically a delicious recipe. It's so simple and economic to cater your need. You can have such raw recipes preferably to substitute your regular food when you are in any journey near around. In case you cannot have specific fruit to your taste, you need not get back as you can add any fruits that are available at your reach.

If you browse online you will find many of such food recipes for diabetics. Just being diagnosed with diabetes does not imply that you stay locked to specific diabetic foods but you have lots of healthy food recipes serving to control blood sugar.

Cookie & Cookie Busters

2010-10-06T06:26:00.000-07:00

What is cookie?

The cookie here does not refer to the eatables ones but to the text files that are stored on your computers. The text files or the cookies are sent by websites that you visit and are stored on your computer at a specific location. These cookies are also referred to as web cookie, HTTP cookie or browser cookie. The web server sends the cookie to your web browser and it is retrieved every time you open a page from the particular server. It helps the server to identify the user with the help of the retrieved cookie. For instance, when you visit a website that asks you to fill an online form then the information is sometimes stored in the text file or cookie. Whenever you visit a website which is related to the particular web server then you don't have to fill similar forms the information is retrieved from the cookie.

It is mostly used to store a user's id so that when he visits the website again he doesn't have to retype it again.

The cookies can not essentially harm your computer or infect it with virus and are considered to harmless. However, hackers and spy ware software can get these cookies from your browser and use the information to invade into your privacy.

What is cookie buster?

Cookies are text files which stores particular information on the browser that can be used again. it is harmless but the hackers and spyware may however use them to add virus to your system or to get important information about the user. If you want to avoid this then you can use the cookie buster, which is special software.

The cookie buster blocks the server from placing a cookie on the user's browser or computer. Using the software would help you to maintain your privacy and does not allow the websites to track your activities online or to get information about you.

When a user visits a website then the web server sends some of the information related to the user to the web browser. This information is stored in the form of a text file which does not affect anyone. When the user visits a website belonging to the particular web server then it retrieves the information from the cookie to understand the user's preference. So the text cookie file does not harm the computer or gets it infected. But if a hacker or spy ware software gets hold of the cookie from your computer then that can cause harm to you. This is why the cookie buster was introduced that prevents the browser from saving the information on your computer.

Dallas Cookie Dough Fundraiser

2010-09-27T13:20:00.000-07:00

Cookie Dough Fundraisers: How To Make Them Effective

Raising funds for your activities in school, charitable organization and other social gathering is a good way to produce money easily; especially when people in your community support the good cause of your activities. One of the challenges that you have to deal when organizing this kind of project is where to start and what kind of fundraiser idea you are going to go with. For first time organizers of this kind of project, I would suggest that you should go with cookie dough fundraisers. They are easy, quick and very effective in terms of raising money for your activities.

Cookie dough fundraisers are one of the winners in the fundraising industry today simply because they can easily raise funds through sales and very quick to organize. You should consider this type of fundraising idea if you want a sure success in organizing a fundraiser. A cookie dough fundraising campaign is an order taker type of program in which you won’t be handing out your products upfront but instead you will be bringing order forms and brochures. When your team delivers their sales pitch, they will be handing out order forms and sales brochures to customers so that they can have a look at what kind of products you are selling. Since your sales brochures give them an idea about your products, it should be printed clearly so that they can understand.

Since you will be doing this for the first time, it is a good idea to acquire the services of an excellent fundraising company. The company should be professional fundraisers that are experts in doing these kinds of projects. The fundraiser company serves as both your supplier for your products and adviser. Basically, after your team has collected the order forms from your customers, you should forward these forms to your fundraising company and they will supply you with the pre-ordered products. The company should offer low-priced products but with very good quality. They should also provide you with excellent brochures so that you can encourage customers to take part on your campaign. You will be able to gain more funds if the company offers them at a reasonable price and in return you can sell these products to customers at a low price also. People will more likely to buy your product if they are priced cheaply but are very delicious. Make sure that they also offer a wide variety of cookie flavors so that your customers will have a lot of choices when purchasing from you. It has been shown that people are likely to buy products that have lots of variety since they have the freedom to choose and can also increase their curiosity. And that curiosity causes people to buy from you.

Most fundraising companies also offer assistance in terms of planning what is the most excellent fundraising idea you should incorporate in your campaign. This makes your project more effective in producing sales within your target marketing time. After choosing an excellent fundraising company, you should work on making a sales script for your team to become more effective and showing them how to do it properly. The sales script is one of the things that make customers interested and curious about your fundraiser campaign so be sure that they are excellent.

Recipes

2010-09-20T04:03:00.000-07:00

Chinese starter recipes can be a great option whether you are catering for a dinner party or a buffet. You can serve a Chinese starter recipe before any main course cuisine and you might even want to serve a Chinese starter before a traditional western main meal.

Examples of tasty Chinese starters recipes include spring rolls, prawn crackers with a homemade dipping sauce, wonton soup, chicken and sweet corn soup, Chinese stuffed mushrooms, steamed dumplings and more. Stuffed mushrooms or zucchini work well and you can use spiced rice as the filling. Chinese chicken wings are great at a buffet and you can add Chinese ingredients like water chestnuts, oriental mushrooms or bamboo shoots to any salad recipe to give it a flavour of China.

Recipe for Chinese Crepes

These tasty crepes are filled with spring onions, black bean sauce, fresh coriander and more for an authentic Chinese flavour. This recipe makes one Chinese crepe, so double it as many times as necessary, making one crepe at a time.

You can find these crepes on Chinese street corners, cooked fresh to order, and they also make a great starter before any kind of meal. They are hot, flavourful and spicy without being too spicy. If you prefer a mild flavour you can leave out the chili sauce.

You will need:

How to make them:

Whisk the soy milk with the vegetable oil and millet flour to make a batter. Add a teaspoon of water if it is too thick. Stir a teaspoon of water into the black bean sauce. Mix another teaspoon of water into the chili sauce. Double the crepe over so the crackers are on top of each other. Serve hot.

So many people associate venison with chili and stew, it never occurs to them that there are such things as venison oven recipes. I thought that too, and then I discovered that I could actually cook my venison inside the oven and not just on top of it.

All you have to do it get a 3 to 5 pound bag of coarse salt (table salt won't work). Mix the salt with some water so you can mold it. The salt will form a hard crust around the meat. Chisel it away for the most tender roast you've ever had.

My favorite Venison Casserole harkens back to my childhood. You'll need 1 box of egg noodles, 1 lb of ground venison, 1 can to cream of mushroom soup, frozen peas, and regular potato chips. Brown the meat and cook the noodles. Somehow when it came to your home filing system you just never got to the kitchen. Now is the time to take action and get all those recipes organized!

Paper Recipes: As I'm sure you have found printed recipes come in many shapes and sizes. In order to begin your recipe home filing system collect all your recipes together in one place. You will then begin by sorting them into categories. You can follow a similar layout to your paper recipes by creating categories with folders on your computer.

Storing your recipes in this way on your computer you have the benefit of making your recipes entirely portable. If you have your computer with you, you can access all of your recipes, no internet connection needed.

Enjoy Famous Filipino Food Recipes At Lutong Bahay

2010-09-12T11:59:00.000-07:00

Anyone interested in good food from anywhere in the world can now enjoy famous Filipino food or pagkaing Pinoy recipes because the Lutong bahay website now makes available Filipino food recipes to be accessed and downloaded online. The Lutong bahay website is separate from lutong pinoy.com.

Of course, the ones who have yet to discover and enjoy Filipino dishes are non-Filipinos. Filipinos who are currently outside the Philippines also have some remaining Filipino dishes to discover. The truth is that even those Filipinos who have never left the country may still find recipes that they have not yet enjoyed before.

Most if not all dishes classified under Filipino lutong bahay foods can be found at the Lutong bahay website. Pilipino cuisine is showcased for the enjoyment of all, with Pinoy breakfast recipes, viands or lutong ulam recipes, and snacks or merienda recipes. The free recipes even come with eye catching pictures from the Philippines.

Among the most food loving people in the world are Filipinos. Every event is always celebrated with a lot of mouth watering dishes and is shared with friends, including non-Filipinos. After all, there will never be a lack of Filipino dishes to choose from in Filipino or Pinoy cooking. Most Philippine or Pilipino foods recipes are many decades old, inherited by several generations. Because Filipinos are such good cooks and have impeccable taste in food, the traditional recipes are being continually improved upon and even spinned off to create new dishes. The famous Philippine adobo dish, for one, has so many versions that several cookbooks have been published focusing only on these. One can actually enjoy a different Filipino dish at every meal day by day and not immediately run out of new dishes to try.

The magic words mga lutong Pinoy and lutong Pilipino mean Filipino cooking while mga lutong bahay and lutuing bahay mean home cooked food. The online collection of lutong bahay free recipes or lutong Pinoy free recipes from the Philippines will of course include the best healthy and easy Filipino foods recipes. People who do not have enough free time can still cook traditional Filipino recipes using Mama Sita recipes that feature convenient ready mixes.

There are many regional specialties such as Ilocano, Pampanga, Tagalog and Visayan foods, dishes and recipes, among others, to creatively combine in the creation of a lutong Pinoy menu. Among the most popular regional favorites are the Batangas bulalo recipe from Batangas province; the pancit chami recipe from Lucena, Quezon; and the pigar pigar recipe from Dagupan, Pangasinan. There are also vegetarian dishes from all over the archipelago such as sinigang sa bayabas, sinigang sa miso, ginisang togue and even a saluyot recipe.

For fish and seafood, some Filipino food recipes are the seafood kare kare recipe, the popular sweet and sour lapu - lapu recipe, the Spanish sardines recipe, the rellenong pusit recipe, the ginataang tilapia recipe and the crab Maritess recipe. If a palayok or earthen pot is available, this is best used for the ginataang tilapia recipe.

Other free Filipino recipes at Lutong bahay are a Jollibee style spaghetti recipe, a siopao sauce recipe, a hopia recipe, a sylvanas recipe and the best ube chiffon cake recipe, among others. An alternative to sweets would be fresh fruits like the lanzones from the Lanzones Festival 2010 in October.

healthy recipes and diet food

2010-09-02T21:29:00.000-07:00

You will find two meals components which can be most commonly consumed by people today attempting pounds reduction. These components are Aspartame and MSG and though applied in so known as food plan food, the negative effects on your body might counteract pounds reduction success.

Dangers of Aspartame

Quite a few people today on diets mistakenly consume food labeled as “diet” food. A single extremely well-known meals fitting this category is food plan drinks. Most of us have seen people today consume way too a lot meals at meals and follow up with a “diet” cola or other drink. The fact is that almost all sweet food plan food comprise aspartame which is a man made chemical sweetener. It is sold under Quite a few other names. The A single we know best is NutraSweet.

This chemical is known to lead to dizziness, hallucinations, nervous system complications and cancer.

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Stevia as a Substitute for Sugar

Stevia is a plant native to Paraguay and derived from a plant comparable to sunflower. This normal sweetener is said to be thirty times sweeter than sugar. Inside the US It is marketed as a dietary supplement but is widely applied in other countries throughout the world as a normal substitute for processed sugar.

Dangers of MSG

Other well-known food often consumed by people today on diets are soups and salads.

though homemade soup is wonderful for dieters, the majority of canned soups comprise MSG. Likewise, salads are beneficial for food plan but the average individual adds salad dressing. Like canned soup, most salad dressing contains MSG.

Extended consumption of MSG can lead to Kind II diabetes, rashes, and pounds achieve. A single of the most prevalent effects of MSG on your food plan is that it triggers meals cravings. This is why we crave potato chips or other food that comprise monosodium, even when we are full. Whilst you’re attempting to shed pounds by reducing calories, you’re truly causing Quite a few other serious wellness complications.

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Homemade soups or salads are beneficial healthy choices for anyone attempting to shed pounds. Some beneficial flavor enhancers for these dishes consist of normal herbs for example dill, bell peppers, onion, cumin, ginger, and Quite a few far more. For salads, use distinct varieties of cheese for example cheddar, parmesan, and feta are so rich that they replace the will need for salad dressing.

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How To Find Good Raw Food Recipes

2010-08-25T02:24:00.000-07:00

Although you might have the notion that the only people who use raw food recipes are those who dont like to cook, with each passing day you couldnt be farther from the truth! More and more people than ever before in recent times are abandoning their diets of canned, processed and boxed foods and opting instead to take advantage of the many delicious raw food recipes that are out there. Out where, you ask? On the Internet, of course. There are thousands of delicious and nutritious ideas floating around amongst hundreds of websites, with many more going live for the first time every day. When it comes to these foods, there are many benefits to choosing them for consumption as opposed to processed items, starting with nutrition.

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Grandma Hystad Recipes, Recipes, Food Information

2010-08-17T01:06:00.000-07:00

CONTENTAPPLE SLICE PANCKES

POLISH PYROGY

MEXICAN SALAD

CURRIED POTATOES

CORN BREAD

SPINACH AND MEAT CAKES

VEGAN INFORMATION

SUPER EASY VEGAN PASTA SALAD

APPLE CHUNK CAKE

GRANDA'S FRENCH DRESSING

FOOD INFORMATION

BAR MIXES, DRINKS

APPLE SLICE PANCAKES
1 Granny Smith apple
1 1/4 cup any type pancake mix
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 egg
2 teaspoons canola oil
1 cup low-fat milk

Lightly coat a griddle or skillet with cooking spray and heat over medium heat.
Peel, core and thinly slice apple into rings.
In a large mixing bowl, combine ingredients for pancake batter. Stir until ingredients are evenly moist. (Small lumps are ok! Over-mixing makes pancakes tough.)
For each pancake, place apple ring on griddle and pour about 1/4 cup batter over apple ring, starting in the center and covering the apple.
Cook until bubbles appear.

Turn and cook other side until lightly brown.

Serving Size: 2 pancakes.
Yield: 6 servings.

POLISH PYROGY
Everyone enjoys this dish. It's one I could eat every day.
Dough
5 cups flour
2 cups warm water
1 tablespoon salt
4 tablespoons oil
3 eggs
1 tablespoon vinegar
Mix flour and salt together.
Mix eggs, oil and water to make 2 cups.
Make well in flour add water mixture.
Mix well then knead. (the more you knead the better)
Roll dough flat, thin and cut into 2-3 inch squares
Put filling (below) in each, seal edge, and use flour to pinch
seal shut.
FILLING
Mashed potatoes.
Course cottage cheese.
Salt and pepper.
Mix together until course.

Drop into boiling water and boil for 5 minutes. Do not place to
many in boiling water at one time as they all should have enough
room to float to top.

After cooking place in different pot and add butter, or
place in frying pan, add butter, and (onions) if you
prefer. Fry for a few minutes until they start turning
a light brown. Can then be served with or without sour cream.

MEXICAN SALAD

2 cucumbers
2 oranges
1 lemon or lime (the juice)
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Wash the cucumbers, oranges and lemon or lime under cold running water.

2. Slice the cucumbers. Peel and cut the oranges into small pieces.

Place cucumber and oranges in a medium size bowl. Add chilli powder, lemon or limejuice and salt.
Serving Size: 1/4 of recipe.

Yield: 4 servings.

CURRIED POTATOES
1/4 cup margarine or butter
1 small finely chopped onion
3 cups cold, boiled, cubed potatoes
3/4 cup chicken broth
1/2 Tablespoon curry powder
1/2 Tablespoon lemon juice

Peel the onion, and chop it into small pieces.
Peel the potatoes, and chop them into 1-inch cubes.
Boil the potatoes in a medium saucepan until they are soft. Drain off the hot water.
Add ice cold water to cover the potatoes.
Melt the butter on medium heat in a frying pan or skillet.
Cook the onion in the butter until it turns yellow.
Drain the water from the potatoes, and add them to the frying pan. Stir and cook until they absorb the butter.
Add the broth, curry powder, and lemon juice.
Cook until the potatoes have absorbed the broth.

Serving Size: 1/2 cup.
Yield: 6 servings.

CORN BREAD

1 cup cornmeal
1 cup all purpose flour
2 Tablespoons sugar
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1 egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup skim-milk

Heat oven to 425 degrees. Grease 8- or 9-inch square pan.
Measure cornmeal, flour, sugar, and baking powder into a large mixing bowl. Stir to combine ingredients.
Crack egg into a small bowl and beat with a fork to combine white and yolk.
Add egg, oil, and milk to flour mixture. Mix until ingredients are well blended.
Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake 20 to 25 minutes, until firm to touch or wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Serving Size: 2 inch square.
Yield: 12 servings.

Change flavour

Cheesy Corn Bread. Add 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese with the milk.

SPINACH AND MEAT CAKES
1 pound ground beef, or turkey, 7% fat (93% lean)
2 bunches spinach - washed and cut into pieces (may substitute a 1-pound bag of frozen chopped spinach, thawed and well drained)
1/2 small finely chopped onion
2 minced garlic cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
black pepper to taste
3 cups brown rice

Preheat frying pan (no oil).
Combine all ingredients except brown rice in a large mixing bowl. Mix well.
Form mixture into 12 small balls. Place in frying pan and flatten into patties using a spatula.
Cook over medium heat until cooked on both sides.
Serve over brown rice.

Serving Size: 2 meat cakes.
Yield: 6 servings.
Time: 25 minutes.

VAGAN INFORMATION
Vegan:
A person that chooses a lifestyle that aims to eliminate the use of products obtained from animals for food, clothing or any other reason. This means that they don't eat any meat, fish, dairy products or eggs. They also avoid products that are tested on animals and do not wear fur, wool or leather.
A Vegan's diet includes foods such as: beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, Soya products (for protein), whole grains, vegetables, fruits and healthy oils.
People choose to become vegan for various reasons, the most popular include -
-Ethical views concerning animal rights
-Concern for the environment
-To improve personal health
Super Easy Vegan Pasta Salad
2 cups whole wheat pasta, cooked & cooled
2 ripe tomatoes, chopped
1/2 green pepper, chopped
1 green onion, thinly sliced
1/4 cucumber, chopped
1/2 cup organic sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup ketchup
1/4 cup vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon paprika
Directions:
Mix together the sugar, ketchup, vinegar, oil, salt, pepper and paprika. Pour the dressing over the pasta and veggies, and stir well.

In a large skillet, cook onion in hot oil until tender. Add
Meat and garlic, brown lightly. Add remaining ingredients.
Simmer uncovered 1 ½-2 hours or until sauce is nice and thick.
Stir occasionally. Remove Bay leaf. Serve hot over spaghetti.
Top with Parmesan cheese.
YIELD: 6 servings.
Time: 2 ½ hours.

APPLE CHUNK CAKE
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
4 cups diced apple chunks
1/4 cup applesauce
2 cups sliced apple to place on cake

Preheat oven to 350° F.
In a large bowl, mix sugar, oil and eggs together. Beat well.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, cinnamon, and baking
soda. Add to egg batter and mix well

Add apple chunks and applesauce to the batter. Stir to combine.
Coat a baking pan with vegetable oil spray, and pour in batter. Bake until done, about 1 hour.
Place apple slices on top of apple cake and serve.

Serving Size: 1 piece.
Yield: 12 servings.

GRANDMA'S FRENCH DRESSING
1 teaspoon …………(5 ml)…………sugar
2 teaspoons………..(10 ml)………..salt
½ teaspoon………..(2.5 ml)………...pepper
½ teaspoon ……….(2.5 ml)………...paprika
1 ½ cup……………(375 ml)……….salad oil
½ cup………………(125 ml)……….vinegar
1 clove of garlic (if desired)
Put sugar, salt, pepper and paprika in jar. Add oil, vinegar and
garlic. Shake well. When dressing is thoroughly blended, pour
over salad.
YIELD: approximately 2 cups (500 ml)
CALORIES: 92 per tablespoon (15 ml)
TIME: 10 minutes.

FOOD INFORMATION.
How safe is our food supply?
Increasingly, the corporations that supply us with processed foods are unable to guarantee the safety of their ingredients. As a result, not just red meat and poultry, is now a potential carrier of pathogens, government and industry officials concede. As the drive to keep food costs down intensifies, most corporations do not even know who is supplying their ingredients, let alone if those suppliers are screening the items for microbes and other potential dangers.

Some concede that they cannot ensure the safety of items — from frozen vegetables to pizzas — and that they are shifting the burden of safety to the consumer. It seems the only time we know the products are unsafe, is when there is a problem, people get sick, and the product is recalled.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association has called for new safety initiatives. They include new training and more food safety audits. The grocers also want a new internet-based recall system to speed up the process of finding and removing recalled food products.

For information on receiving recalls by e-mail, or for other food safety facts, visit: www.inspection.gc.ca

Don't just guess to tell when meat, poultry and seafood are done. Instead, use a food thermometer to make sure foods have reached at least the following internal temperatures:
Steaks: 145 degrees F (medium rare)
Ground beef: 160 degrees F
Chicken breasts: 165 degrees F
Whole poultry: 165 degrees F
Pork: 160 degrees F
Fish: 145 degrees F

BAR MIXES
If you have teenagers, or in fact any adult, impress on them the risks of driving while intoxicated. Statistics demonstrate drunk drivers cause many fatal road accidents.

It should be known that like any other drug, addiction is a potential hazard. Excess of alcohol will affect organs such as the brain, heart, and liver.

Trader Vic's Rum Fizz
1 ½ ounces light Puerto Rican rum
1 ounce lemon juice
2 teaspoons bar sugar
1 egg
½ ounce cream soda
Grated orange peel
Shake all ingredients except orange peel in electric mixer (or in
shaker can with mixing glass) with ice cubes. Strain into fizz glass.
Sprinkle with grated orange peel.

Fresh Fruit Punch
8 ounces apiece of orange juice, pineapple juice, and grapefruit
juice.
1 bottle ginger ale. Sugar to taste.
Combine the juices with the sugar. Stir until the sugar is
dissolved and refrigerate. Add the ginger ale plus chunks of ice before serving.

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2010-08-08T17:21:00.000-07:00

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2010-08-02T08:51:00.000-07:00

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Dog Food Recipes for Allergies: A Recipe for Relief

2010-07-25T13:02:00.000-07:00

The most common complaint dog owners have when visiting their veterinarian are skin and ear issues. When exposed to an irritant, a dogs system reacts with skin and ear issues. As humans we typically react with nasal issues. Symptoms can include: itching, scratching, chewing, front paw licking, hot spots, shaking of the head, crusting, scaling, paw irritation, yeast growth in ears or pads, ear wax, ear rubbing, hair loss and scratching or rubbing the face.

If your dog has allergies there can be a few different sources.

Seasonal: mold, spores, dust mites, ragweed and pollen can all affect a dog and cause an allergic reaction. If this is the case with your dog, Benadryl can be a good way to keep the symptoms under control. Consult with your veterinarian if you suspect seasonal allergies and be sure to use the appropriate dosage for a dog.

Fleas: flea saliva can be very irritating to a dog that is allergic. Often you will see a dog go into a scratching and chewing frenzy when trying to deal with the reaction from a flea bite. Dogs will chew themselves raw trying to find comfort from flea saliva, its common to see dogs with bald spots on the tail and the general hind area as a result of flea allergies. There are many good products on the market today to help combat flea allergies from topical ointments, sprays, medicated shampoos, dips and even home defoggers.

Food: If your dog is experiencing year-round allergies it’s quite possible that it’s caused by an ingredient in his or her food. It is fairly common to see dogs with some degree of allergic sensitivity to commercial dog food. The brand or quality of a given dog food may have no bearing in the allergic reaction that your dog experiences. The cause would more likely be a specific ingredient or a combination of ingredients. Commercial dog food contains soy products, grains, gluten, corn, preservatives, colorings and either a meat or meat by-product. Most of these ingredients alone could cause an allergic reaction, but all together it is a lot for a canine’s system to handle. It becomes very difficult trying to pin point a specific ingredient that may be affecting your dog. There are too many substances and additives in commercial dog food that a dog was never meant to eat and are not appropriate for their physiology.

The best way to overcome food allergies is to put your dog on a diet that is more in line with the canine physiology. Homemade prepared meals ensure that you know exactly what is in your dog’s food. It’s the only way to be in total control and provide optimal nutrition and well-being. Dogs require diets that are high in protein and low in carbohydrates. It’s best to start them off slow, gradually weaning them off their current food by reducing the amount they eat while increasing the amount of prepared cooked food over about a period of 10 days. Once your dog is 100% on a homemade diet, keep the ingredients that you use to a low number, maybe only 3. If your dog has no issues with those ingredients you can start to add some more nutritious items, but do so one at a time and give your dog a few days to make sure that the newest ingredient is ok with their systems. You should start to use a good vitamin and mineral supplement. Do a little homework and be aware of the foods your dog cannot eat. Grapes, raisins, avocado, onions, garlic, caffeine, chocolate, alcohol, macadamia nuts and mushrooms can all be toxic and poisonous. Find some homemade dog food recipes and dog food recipes for allergies and start out slowly.

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2010-07-18T13:28:00.000-07:00

Any Filipino or non-Filipino who wants to see the breadth of Philippine culinary traditions can make a sweeping survey of famous Filipino food or pagkaing Pinoy recipes online at the lutong bahay website, rather than at lutong pinoy.com. The Filipino food recipes at the lutong bahay website can easily be accessed from any point in the world with an internet connection. At any time of the day, anyone can try out any of the recipes according to his or her craving.

Practically any of the Filipino lutong bahay foods that most Filipinos have either grown up with or heard of are at the lutong bahay repository. There are Pinoy breakfast recipes, viands or lutong ulam recipes and snacks or merienda recipes. With all the free recipes presented made even more tempting with pictures from the Philippines, Pilipino cuisine is indeed spotlighted.

Hearty food is the hallmark of every Filipino home and gathering in the Philippines and around the world. Non-Filipinos who have been invited to share in such feasts know this too well. It is a natural result of such a passion for food that Filipino or Pinoy cooking has produced hundreds of Filipino dishes. There are traditional Philippine or Pilipino foods recipes that have been handed down through history, there are variations from such classics and there are also entirely new recipes created by the new generation.

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From the wide selection of Ilocano, Pampanga, Tagalog and Visayan foods, dishes and recipes, along with other regional specialties, anyone can create a full lutong Pinoy menu for a year long calendar of everyday meals and special occasions. This may include favorites like the Batangas bulalo recipe, originally with Batangas beef; the Dagupan, Pangasinan pigar pigar recipe, originally with carabao meat; the Lucena, Quezon pancit chami recipe, originally with freshly made noodles; and vegetable recipes such as an Ilocano saluyot recipe, sinigang sa bayabas, sinigang sa miso, and ginisang togue. Filipino food recipes for fish and seafood will also surely be included, such as the seafood kare kare recipe, the popular sweet and sour lapu - lapu recipe, the Spanish sardines recipe, the crab Maritess recipe, the rellenong pusit recipe, and the ginataang tilapia recipe.

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Can Cookies Cure Diarrhea?

2010-07-08T23:06:00.000-07:00

Yes, it appears that cookies can cure diarrhea, if they're the right kind of cookies.

I first read about it in a newspaper article a few months ago, and have since come across more references and testimonials.

The cookies in question are coconut macaroons, and even people who have suffered from Irritable Bowel Syndrome or Chrohn's Disease for many years are finding relief by eating just a couple of cookies per day.

But it's not just for chronic sufferers. Several people mentioned using it for occasional digestive upsets - and some keep it on hand for their dogs - although the dogs got half a cookie rather than two cookies.

Why does this work?

It's the coconut oil. Macaroons are mainly composed of dried coconut, which is 60-70% fat (coconut oil.) Unlike polyunsaturated oils such as soy, corn, and other vegetable oils, coconut oil contains "medium chain triglycerides, or fatty acids known as MCT's.

These MCT's are more easily absorbed in the intestines, and apparently help other nutrients become absorbed as well.

Polyunsaturated oils contain longer chain fatty acids (LCT's), which increase inflammation in the intestines. Interestingly, studies done in Denmark and Belgium have shown that when eaten along with MCT's, the LCT's are absorbed more readily.

Thus, the coconut oil puts the brakes on diarrhea by helping your body absorb the food you eat. But you don't have to limit yourself to coconut macaroon cookies. Pure virgil coconut oil is available for use in cooking, and is actually superior to olive oil for frying because it doesn't degrade at high heats.

For many, the use of coconut oil for cooking has allowed them to resume eating fried foods and baked goods that had become off-limits due to their body's reaction to the LCT's in other oils.

Others found that they were able to regain weight lost as a result of chronic diarrhea.

Vegetarian Food Recipes - 5 Reasons You Should Try Them!

2010-07-01T11:57:00.000-07:00

Why go vegan? You'll be surprised how many benefits you can reap from trying vegetarian food recipes. Here are five of them for starters.

Eating dairy products and meat can make you fat. If you think you can load up on meat and still stay lean, think again. Super-sized meals and a greasy fast food diets have made the U.S. a "fatter" nation as a whole. 18 percent of meat-eating Americans are obese. In contrast, only 2 percent of those who are on a pure vegan diet have to worry about their weight.

Heart diseases usually start in childhood. Meat is laden with cholesterol and fat, and has no fiber. It increases the risk of coming down with heart diseases; and this is precisely why Dr. Benjamin Spock urges parents not to feed very young children meat.

A vegan diet may reverse heart diseases.In a study, it was found that vegetarian food recipes can go a long way in helping unclog arteries.

This information is not entirely new, though. The medical community has acknowledged the role that one's eating habits play on one's health.

Meat has a high risk of contamination. In the U.S. alone, over 50 million cases of food borne illnesses relating to meat have been documented. This isn't new information, either. For years, people have known animals accumulate dangerously high levels of harmful chemicals in their fat and flesh.

Chicken is not clean. Sure, you love your broiler chicken. But, would you still feel the same way if you knew that 98 percent of all broiler chicken carcasses have detectable presence of E.Coli? This bacterial presence points to fecal contamination. In other words, every chicken package you get for yourself and your family comes with a little poop.

If you value your health, try to eat less meat and use vegetarian food recipes more.

Your body will thank you for it!

LG Cookie

2010-06-23T00:20:00.000-07:00

The LG Cookie is the first touch screen phone to target the market consisting of customers with budget constraints.

How it looks?

The LG Cookie has a slim profile and stylish looks. The LG Cookie fits comfortably in your palm. The phone has nice plastic buttons that are quite comfy to use. It is light weight and has a 3 inches wide touch screen on its face. The touch screen is haptic and provides a vibratory feedback when you touch it with your finger or stylus.

User interface

The LG Cookie which is also known as the LG KP501 and KP500 has a very user friendly tactile responsive user interface. The menus are large in size and look appealing. This interface allows you to affix a friend's photograph in the speed dial feature. You can browse the portraits and touch the contact that you want to call. The interface is highly customizable and intuitive.

Stylus

The LG KP501 Cookie is probably the thinnest phone with a stylus compartment on the market.

The stylus located in a compartment at the base of the handset can be used for writing text memos and messages. You can also use the stylus to edit photos on the display screen.

Camera

The Cookie phone has a 3.2 Mega pixel camera. The camera enables you to adjust the exposure and white balance. You can opt to choose night settings. The camera supports still photography and moving photographs also. The camera gives decent quality photographs only in good light conditions as it has no flash. In poor light conditions and fast motion shots it fails to deliver the goods.

Entertainment

The phone has an audio player that supports WMA format, MP3 music format & AAC format.

You can transfer music files to the audio player from a PC or laptop using the USB connectivity port of the LG Cookie. There is a radio for added entertainment.

The LG KP500 Cookie supports video playback in 3GP video format & MPEG4 format. The phone has modest video footage recording abilities.

The phone supports Java games, embedded games and downloaded games for entertainment.

The Cookie from LG has a wap 2 internet browser that helps to access the internet to browse sites and buy ring tones. In fact the phone supports polyphonic and MP3 ring tones. The phone supports SMS and E-mail sending and receiving. You can share photos taken on the mobile and video footage recorded on the LG phone with family and friends using the MMS facility.

Other features

The KP501 has a hands free speaker call feature that lets you hear your contact talking on the speakers for a hands free call. Blue tooth technology allows wireless listening and sharing of files with friends as well.

It also has GPRS to aid navigation.

The phone has 3.5 hours talk time and a stand by time of up to 15 days. Memory is confined to 48 MB but can be augmented to 8 GB using a micro SD memory card slot.

The LG KP500 Cookie provides great value for your money with its spectacular array of features.

Sample Homemade Dog Food Recipe

2010-06-14T12:23:00.000-07:00

More and more dog owners are making the food for their dogs from home. Health wise it is much better for the dog but it is also much better for your wallet. Not just in cost of food but also in trips to the vet. The reality is it isn’t as hard to prepare as you think. I started making homemade dog food for my dogs over a year ago and within 3 months I could see improvement in not just their health but coat. Below is a very simple homemade dog food recipe to show how easy it can be. Plus this recipe is a good starting point and can be customized into a lot of different meals.

This recipe is designed for a 25 pound, neutered, adult dog.

8 ounces chicken thigh meat (cooked)

½ ounces chicken liver (cooked)

1 large egg (hard-boiled)

4 ounces sweet potato (boiled)

2 ounces plain low-fat yogurt

1,000 mg fish oil

700 mg calcium (3/8 teaspoon ground eggshell, or any other form
of plain calcium)

This recipe provides 700 kcal, 72.3 grams protein (15.8% as fed, 54.8% dry matter), 32.6 grams fat (7.1% as fed, 24.7% dry matter), 24.5 grams carbohydrates (5.4% as fed, 18.6% dry matter).

This recipe is designed for the average 25-pound adult dog; puppies have special requirements not addressed here. Dietary intake, proportions, and ingredients must be adjusted for your dog’s weight, health condition, and activity level. The amounts can be increased proportionately for larger dogs, and decreased for smaller dogs, but keep in mind that large dogs require less food for their body weight than small dogs. (A 50-pound dog requires less than twice the amount needed for a 25-pound dog; use a little more than half the amounts for a 12-pound dog.) Observe your dog’s weight and adjust the amount you feed as needed to keep him slim and trim.

This recipe is not complete and balanced. It is good for occasional use, but like most homemade dog food diets, it requires supplementation and variety to fully meet a dog’s nutritional requirements. For adult dogs, this recipe is short on some vitamins (B1, B12, choline, and vitamins D, E, and K) and minerals (copper, magnesium, manganese, zinc). A multivitamin and mineral supplement can help ensure that your dog’s nutritional needs are met, though it’s not a substitute for feeding a balanced diet with a lot of variety.

Now that you see how easy it is to make food for your dog yourself, why buy the food that is nowhere near as nutritional from the store?

BBQ Food & Recipes for beginners

2010-06-07T10:47:00.000-07:00

Do you want to impress your friends? You can try BBQ food to impress them. BBQ food is very popular among people. Almost in every party people make BBQ recipes. You can do lots of experiments with BBQ food, it’s all about grilling your favourite BBQ recipes. You can cook your own BBQ recipe in your own style, with ideal ingredients, pizzazz and sauces in creating your BBQ food. Yet of course the authentic taste of food is still the number one option

Get a jar of BBQ sauce and put the sauce in a warm fondue pot and cut hot dogs then drop into the sauce. Cooking some pork ribs with BBQ sauce is a good idea. It is so easy that you are able to have a delicious food to add to starter table.

You can Find different types of BBQ sauces that come in jars with unlike smoky tastes. This is the actual type of sauce you require for your food recipes. Cooking grilled BBQ recipes is a perfect way to impress your friends and guests. You can strive succulent chicken, beef and pork BBQ recipes.

Yet don't strive, because the food recipes do not just bellyache. Vegetables, fruits and potatoes are able to also be grilled and mixture into food. Shish kabob skewers full of meat, squash, onions, peppers and tomatoes are a big yummy food favourite. If you are a vegetarian, you can still enjoy BBQ recipes by avoiding pork yet you still possess a full and filling meal. You are able to attempt thousands of BBQ sauce recipes for ribs, steak, chicken, brisket and pork.

One more thing, You can also add or substitute the above ingredients to create some very unique barbeque or bbq sauces on your own. You may prefer to add items such as peppers for a nice flavour or even Tabasco sauce for a spicy style.

Red Cookie Jar

2010-05-29T19:12:00.000-07:00

Red cookie jar is one of the sort of cookie jar that's color is its specialist. There are a large amount of cookie jars that are produced every day in the different pottery or kitchen accessories companies. The main purpose and use of all kind of cookie jars are same that to keep the cookies and food stuff of human beings and pet animals, but they all have dissimilarity among them of shape, design, size and colors. Red cookie jar are differ from other sort of cookie jars by its color that they have red color. They can be of any shape, any size, any designs but they must have red color paint that's why these cookie jars are called as red cookie jar.
Which things are required to make red cookie jar at home?

We can make a red cookie jar by simply using home and kitchen accessories like a blank jam jar or any other kind of glass or ceramic bottle with cap, pencil or marker to make sketch over the bottle, paint of red color is compulsory, other different paint colors, paint brushes of different sizes.

These are just the few things that can help you to make yourself a red cookie jar.
Make your own red cookie jar

It's really simple to make yourself a red cookie jar. As we all know that a cookie jar can be of any shape so to make a red cookie jar just have a paint of red color on it. You can make yourself a cookie jar to keep your cookies and food stuff in it. So why you are waiting let's take a jar of your choice shape made of any material such as ceramic or glass, or simply you may take a blank jam jar of glass and paint it completely with red color and then allow it to dry after that take a marker and make sketch over it of your choice then put the paint on the sketch, and like this you can make number of red cookie jars yourself and can craft on it according to your desire.
Styles of red cookie jar

Like other cookie jars, red cookie jar also have a number of styles and design but the most prominent color that is used for them is red, that's why they are called as red cookie jar. They are mostly in the fashion of those things which have red color like cherry, apple, and etc
Red Cookie Jar

Cookie Decorating Ideas | Christmas cookie ideas

2010-05-22T01:26:00.000-07:00

As the Christmas season starts to step in, perhaps you start to get excited about setting up your Christmas tree. You begin thinking of a design that could give you a new looking tree. Did you know that the style of your Christmas tree reflects your family's personality?

Decorating the tree varies from casual traditions associated with the celebration of Christmas. In our innovative world, where almost all things are changing, Christmas lights in faceted glass bulbs to make the tree appear brighter are already preferred than candles. You will see a bunch of Poinsettia at the top of a tree instead of the traditional angel, or a star that represents the host of angels, or the star of Bethlehem from the Nativity scene. No matter what tradition you wish for your tree, it should bring your family together and unites everyone around the Christmas tree in celebration.

Today, decorating Christmas trees with cookies and candies is a new way to give your tree a more personal touch.

The homemade goodies could be an expression of a delightful expertise that results to the impact of creativity to the young mind and healthy alternative to the usual holiday sweets. Decorating your Christmas tree with baked goods is the best way to make it look incredibly homey. Imagine a Christmas tree that dazzles in wrapped candies and cookies with colors that dances with the snowy colored Christmas lights. There is truly nothing like sitting beside a glorious Christmas tree on the holidays.

Decorating Christmas trees with food go back to the old times before Christ was born. People would put offerings of food along sills and windows to feed the good spirits and protect from the evil ones. The first Christmas trees were said to be imitations of the pyramid shape real conifers where placing pickles and cedar foods on the steps of the cedar pyramids of wood became a norm. The upright tree lit with candles began to be brought indoors when Martin Luther came along. This was how we became familiar with the Christmas tree we have today.

Shortbread and ginger breads are among the most favorite cookie decorations today that children would adore for their Christmas trees. In fact, there are many kinds of cookie cutters that definitely can intrigue one's imagination in making cooked Christmas cookies. You will love fascinating novelty cookie cutters with the shapes from nativity scenes, Santa's stockings, reindeers, presents and stars for the holidays. Children will love adorning a large angel-shaped cookie with edible gold, glitter and ribbon for a brilliant Christmas angel on top of their tree.

Natural Dog Food Recipes - Does That Help With Oral Health?

2010-05-12T21:13:00.000-07:00

Is it really important to provide natural dog food recipes or just buy commercial pet food?

Is this your dog? You walk through the door and your dog is so delighted to see you that he has a smile on his face and his tail is wagging so hard you think it is going to fly off? What about his smile? Are his teeth and gums healthy and pink or are they disgusting and smell foul?

If your dog is having challenges with fresh breath and a nice healthy mouth, then this is probably due to his diet. Natural dog food recipes and general diet can help improve it immensely.

Like humans, dogs too have similar problems with bad breath and unhealthy teeth and mouth. We clean our teeth and gums regularly and we need to pay special attention to our best friends mouth too.

Have good natural dog food recipes can relieve any problems that may otherwise mean have teeth extracted and the chore of physically cleaning his teeth all the time.

You will find when your dog's diet is nutritionally sound and contains all the essential nutrients including enzymes, then your dog's health will be at its peak.

Dry dog foods like kibble is better than the canned moist varieties. The hard surface of the kibble rubs against the teeth and removes and reduces plaque and tartar.

Raw dog bones are essential for a healthy smile, teeth and gums of your best friends mouth. A bone will clean his teeth like nothing else and will improve oral health simply and easily resulting in a happier dog with nice breath and sparkling teeth.

Like humans, it is essential to pay particular attention to your dogs diet if you want him to live a long, healthy, vital life and to avoid the cancers and other health risks that our dogs are facing every day which is due mostly to the absolute junk they are fed.

Homemade Dog Food Recipes For Your Pet

2010-05-05T00:37:00.000-07:00

Do you want to be sure that you are offering your dog the best food to keep him healthy and strong? If you want to be sure that you will keep your dog healthy and strong, you have to give it time and attention. You have to follow variety of homemade dog food recipes.

There homemade dog food recipes are sure to keep your dog healthy and strong. Most of the recipes that you can cook at home will be in good combination of healthy and delicious food that your dog will sure to love.

The variety in recipes that you can cook will help you control the meals served. You will be able to ensure that the foods you serve your dog are clean and served with nutritional benefits in tact. Your dog will have healthy skin and coat, strong and lean and will surely be able to avoid diseases.

What are the homemade dog food recipes that you can serve to your dog? In this article, we will give you a couple of homemade dog food recipes, which you can serve to your dog occasionally.

Before we move on, while serving homemade dog food to your best friend is good, you can combine it with occasional feeding of raw meaty bones will be quite helpful as well.

Do you want to serve him occasional commercial dog food? This may help but is not necessary. Now, here are two tasty homemade dog food recipes you can try.

Doggy Hamburger Helper

Ingredients are hamburger meat stir fried in canola oil, chopped boiled eggs, cooked plain oatmeal, a jar of baby green beans, a jar of baby food carrots and cottage cheese. Combine all of these ingredients and serve it at room temperature.

Remember that in the recipe you have to use baby food vegetables. The reason is that most of the vegetables may cause your pet to suffer from gas and digestive problems.

This is often discomforting and may cause your dog to be weak.

On the other hand, discarding the vegetable from your pet’s diet will not be good as well. Because vegetables provide vitamins and mineral that your dog needs. You are using baby grade vegetables to avoid gas and digestive problems.

Doggy Casserole

Ingredients are boiled chicken chopped, cooked brown rice, boiled mixed vegetables and unsalted chicken broth. Stir all of the ingredients together and serve them to your dog in room temperate. Be sure to cook the food well.

From time to time, you may replace the chicken with salmon and when you do this, you will need to take way the chicken broth from the recipe. If there are unused portions, you may need to cover it and put it in the refrigerator.

Serving your pet with these homemade dog food recipes will provide the nutritional benefits that your dog needs. It may also be helpful to give your dog vitamin supplements to ensure that he will be healthy and strong.

Homemade dog food recipes will be good to your dog. You will be sure to keep the food clean and healthy that will help you dog to be come strong and alert.

What is the Best Home Made Dog Food Recipe?

2010-04-27T20:49:00.000-07:00

For today’s dog owners ‘What is the best home made dog food recipe?’ seems to be the hot topic and the most popular answer seems to be homemade recipes for dog food. In my opinion homemade recipes should be the most popular. In my house it’s the only answer to the question. I’ve tried a lot of things over the decades and doing it myself has been far superior in every way to any other solution. I haven’t had a single reason to consider trying anything else and I make it a point to stay on top of these things.

You really only need to come up with one generic recipe for main meals and by that I mean a generic blueprint that spells out the quantities and ratios of the primary and secondary nutrients required for your dog.

This recipe requires 2 sources of input.

The first sources of information are the requirements for your breed in general (obviously the needs of a Great Dane might differ from those of a Chihuahua).

The second source will be provided by the veterinarian of your choice; making sure that he is well grounded in nutrition and well as medical expertise.

You may discover that your dog has food allergies or other health issue that requires an adjustment to your generic recipe.

I call it a generic recipe because with it you can produce a lot of variety by simply using a different source food for each nutritional component from meal to meal so that your dog gets plenty of variety of taste and texture. You just make a simple list and vary it as you see fit or as your vet suggests.

One thing many articles pass over but is very important is to have a source of clean fresh water made readily available for whenever your dog wants it.

The primary components are:

Protein
Carbohydrates
Fats

The secondary components are:

Vitamins & Minerals
Medications (if any)

Your list might look something like this.

Protein:

Beef = xx amount of ounces = xx grams of digestible protein per serving
Pork
Fish
Chicken
Lamb

Do the same for the other ingredients and just take turns as you go down the list.

The details will vary some from dog to dog. This also makes it easy to see where you are with shopping (at least for the dog).

If you are currently feeding your dog commercial dog food and want to switch then you will need to follow a set plan for switching out the ingredients over time. Some dogs will need to adjust a bit at a time or they will have digestive problems such as bloating, gas and or diarrhea.

This topic is pretty well covered and easy to find. In general you would switch out a measurable portion of the old food with an equal measure of the new food starting with the proteins. When your dog is comfortable with the new protein source then keep going with the same measures by introducing the carbs and then the fats until the commercial food has been completely eliminated.

You should consult your vet about what you intend to do before starting so that he can help you identify any foods that are commonly a source of allergies as well as a list of foods we eat all the time but are actually very toxic to dogs. You want to be sure that you never give any of these foods to your dog.

Once started, you should be watching your dog closely for signs of distress. If you notice any discomfort you will need to either reduce the portion to half of whatever it was. If it persists, then switch to a different ingredient. If it still persists consult your vet. By discomfort I mean non alarming reactions like vomiting once or twice but no more or the signs mentioned above.

Also while you are doing this you want to keep your dog from being able to roam and possibly find other things to eat. To be honest this is a very good practice in general.

Once you have compiled the above information you will be able to determine for your self the best answer to the question “What is the best home made dog food recipe?”

Christmas Santa Cookie Decoration | Christmas cookie ideas,Christmas Cookie Decorating

2010-04-20T23:02:00.000-07:00

Cut down on holiday baking and have fun with your friends and family by hosting a Christmas cookie swap or exchange. The basic premise behind the swap is that you invite a group of people to bring dozens of their favorite home-baked Christmas cookie and then the participants exchange cookies (either 1/2 or full dozens) with each other. That way each participant ends up with a wide variety of cookies to enjoy during the holiday season. Here are some tips on how to host an exchange.Cookies must be homemade! This avoids disappointment when many participants lovingly spend a day baking cookies only to end up swapping for a bag of store-bought cookies. If you want to be somewhat flexible on this rule, you could indicate that cookies from local bakeries or places like Cookies by Design are acceptable.b. Christmas cookies only! While you may love your oatmeal scotchies, a Christmas cookie exchange is not the place to share them with friends.

Ask that everyone bake and bring a Christmas themed cookie. It avoids dozens of chocolate chip cookies and will get the participants creative juices flowing.c. Bring dozens of cookies! Decide up front if participants will be exchanging 1/2 or full dozens of cookies with each of the other participants. For example if you have 10 participants, each guest will either need to bake 5 or 10 dozen cookies depending on how many they will be exchanging with each of the other participants (although they won't need cookies for themselves, the extra 1/2 or full dozen in the tally can be shared at the party as a snack).d. Pre-package the cookies! To make the swap easy and to avoid having everyone handling each others cookies, ask each participant to pre-package their cookies in either sets of 6 or 12 in cello bags, tins, holiday favor bags, or even a zip-loc bags. It is amazing how creative people can be with their presentation.

FAQ's on Food Recipes for Diabetics

2010-04-12T09:23:00.000-07:00

A lot of my patients throughout my years of experience have asked me similar questions with regard to food recipes for diabetics. My patients, after being diagnosed with diabetes (usually type 2 diabetes), are required to undergo a well-balanced and controlled diet to prevent themselves from getting further risks.

In order to answer your questions on food recipes for diabetics, I have compiled these frequently asked questions to hopefully guide you.

What are the important factors to consider when trying out recipes?

For diabetics, it is important to consider the amount of calories, carbohydrates, fiber, and salt that you take in for every meal. Thus, for each recipe, count the calories that you will be taking in, as well as those other factors so that you know what you are putting in your body.

What kind of carbohydrates should I take?

Eat foods that are full with complex carbohydrates and avoid those with simple carbohydrates.

Complex carbohydrates are digested slowly so that you can have a more balanced absorption of glucose into your cells. On the other hand, simple carbohydrates are easily broken down so you might have an influx of sugar in your blood stream.

What are some examples of foods with complex carbohydrates?

Try brown rice, whole grain foods (like wheat bread and cereals), fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, and legumes (like nuts and beans).

What is the role of fiber in this diet?

Fiber helps in digestion as it helps move the food along the intestines and puts bulk into stool to allow for easier passing through the bowel.

What are some examples of fibrous foods?

There are a lot of fibrous foods such as bran products, whole grain products (like wheat bread), and fresh fruits.

Tea has also been dubbed as full of fiber depending on the kind of leaves or herbs used.

How can salt affect a patient with diabetes?

Salt can affect the occurrence of risks like heart diseases and high blood pressure, so as much as possible it is better to keep sodium intake low. Eliminate or decrease salt intake by avoiding salty food such as canned and processed meat.

How can I look for food recipes for diabetics?

As long as you keep in mind the basics of diabetes diet, you will not find it hard to experiment on food recipes. You can also consult books and websites for specific recipes that are friendly for diabetics.

Fresh Cookie Dough Fundraising

2010-04-03T15:26:00.000-07:00

Cookie Dough Fundraising: Be Up-To-Date With Your Own Personal Fundraiser

Holding a written documentation of all of the specifics regarding your fundraising event is an essential part not just in cookie dough fundraising but other similar activities as well. You can find it valuable in creating a better strategy and also at the same time, you can preserve track of the significant details of your fundraising event.

You must write down in your records the exact duration of your cookie dough fundraising event, a detailed discussion of your tactics, a little checklist of the things you'll be needing and selling, the number of volunteers you have, and also the what number of your products are still available for your disposal. It’s just like you are writing your own journal. Next up, present to your team the duties that they will be doing throughout the campaign through flow charts. A simple organizational chart will work so long as it's clear and easy to understand. It might be also better for your part to group them and assign a leader, since this way it will be easier to control the undertakings of the team. Although a situation where in your team fights over who's dominant above the others must strictly be avoided; always conserve a good environment conducive for working. Before sending them out of the field to carry out their tasks, you have to collect any way of communication you will get with your team, such as their mobile phone numbers, to enable you to broadcast further announcements or your volunteers to contact you about important matters as regards to your fundraising event. Make it a regular habit to make contact with them and inquire any type of development happening. It may well also be a tremendous help to get your personal site to directly post vital information, schedules, along with other important details. It will usually easily accessible for your team and never hard so they can navigate through your website. Provide each one of your team members with the overview of whatever they should be doing. At least, they know what tasks are needed to be done.

Beforehand, create a schedule with their task just for them to inform you before the fundraising event whether they can do the job or not. There are cases of clashing schedules between your prior timetable and their very own daily tasks. In this situation, you will need to be the one to adjust the schedule and not your volunteers since they are just assisting you out without any compensation or payment. Never forget to value your team, the team which will support you with the entire fundraising event. Also set aside some time to do a little seminar about the proper ways of doing their tasks. Do make sure to train properly the ones who will sell to the customers because the results of their work will greatly affect your profit. They must be aware of basics, share to them about some useful techniques and cause them to become exert all of the effort they can.

Halloween Food Recipes For Everyone

2010-03-26T02:51:00.000-07:00

October 31st is approaching and everybody is busy picking up suitable Halloween food recipes to complement their Halloween party theme. It's good to have traditional things in your party, but it's also good to conjure up some modern and innovative ideas to make your party more interesting.

Halloween Party Ideas For Kids

Kids' parties demands entertainment. You must have lots of games and fun things to do. You can keep the scary quotient a little on the downside to not let small kids get the fright of their life. After all, you're throwing a party to make the kids happy, not scare them out of their wits. Bobbing for apples is a favorite activity since the kids can eat those apples, too.

For example, the Harry Potter theme is one of the popular ones. You can dress kids up in their favorite characters.

Cook up some fantastic Halloween recipes that go with this theme, like lemon sherbet, flavored beans, chocolate frogs and other delights.

Halloween Party Ideas For Teenagers

It's tough to scare teens nowadays. Even if they are scared, they won't admit it. Although skeletons toppling out of closets and false floors are age-old tricks, they still work. You can combine them with the right eerie sounds and screams.

Food is where you can capture the interest of teens. Prepare some ghastly Halloween food recipes and dare the teens to eat them. For example, eyeballs in a dish, brains sticking out, cut fingers, and other recipes are horrifying to look at.

Other food ideas are pizzas with deathly looking toppings, soups with false eyeballs floating in it, sausages with blood, and lots more. However, make sure that the recipes taste good. You should use organic food as much as possible.

Halloween Party Ideas For Adults

You can have couple themes. Let them get dressed like Dracula and his dame, Frankenstein and his Bride, and more. Adults may not like to play games, but they would notice your decor. So, make sure you have scary props all around to make your guests jump out with fright with every step they take. Hey, it's Halloween – no mercy!

For an adult's party, food is important. You must have some filling Halloween party recipes, along with light treats, cocktails and soups. Don't forget the dessert. Pumpkin cakes and pies, apple pies and other delicacies make for a great party. Your guests will remember the food more than anything else. If the food is bad, the whole party gets spoiled, no matter how real your hanging vampire looks.

Halloween Party Ideas For Seniors

Please spare the horror here. The ideal way is to go traditional. Play some good music, have modest lighting, and place pumpkin lanterns around the house to get the Halloween feel. Setting up surprises and shocks is a bad idea at this kind of party.

Indian Food : It's Demographic Recipes

2010-03-18T15:38:00.000-07:00

India is largely dispersed over the huge geographical area. Every region of India has its own special foods with which it has been recognised within India and abroad. Every major region of India brings its own unique dishes and subtle variations to popular dishes. India has plenty of festivals and celebrations. Food is an important part of any festival and the flavour of each is accentuated by the dishes that are closely associated with it.
If someone wants to eat north indian buffet that would usually consists of Naan(Indian bread), Basmati rice, Daal, vegetable dishes, chicken dishes, pickles, salads and deserts. These are the main constituents of North Indian buffet that is very famous amongst many of US residents. Similarly the south Indian buffet usually consists of Idli, Sambar, Dosa, Vada, Chatni etc. This buffet usually be enjoyed as snacks but not as main course food.
According to regional diversification of India there have been large number of variety of foods is available for the people of US.

Every region has been representing by a unique dish or recipe for its identification. The regional or demographic recipes are discussed here as follows.
Kashmiri cuisine has evolved over hundreds of years. The most notable ingredient in Kashmir cuisine is mutton, of which there are over 30 varieties. Kashmiri Pandit food is also very elaborate, and is an important part of the Pandits' ethnic identity. The food usually uses a lot of yogurt, oils and spices as such turmeric, but avoids onion, garlic, tomatoes, and chicken.
Punjabi cuisine can be non-vegetarian or completely vegetarian. One of the main features of Punjabi cuisine is its diverse range of dishes. There are certain dishes which are exclusive to Punjab, such as Mah Di Dal and Saron Da Saag (Sarson Ka Saag). The main masala in a Punjabi dish consists of onion, garlic and ginger. Tandoori food is a Punjabi speciality especially for non-veg dishes.
Bihari cuisine is predominantly vegetarian because traditional Bihar society influenced by Hindu and Buddhist values of non-violence did not eat eggs, chicken, fish and other animal products.
Maharashtrian cuisine covers a range from being mild to very spicy dishes. Wheat, rice, jawar, vegetables, lentils and fruit form important components of Maharashtrian diet. Popular dishes include puran poli, ukdiche Modak and batata wada. The staple dishes of Maharashtrian cuisine are based on bread and rice.
Gujarati cuisine is primarily vegetarian. The typical Gujarati Thali consists of Roti, daal, rice, and sabzi. Cuisine can vary widely in flavor and heat, depending on a given family's tastes as well as the region of Gujarat they are from.
A wide variety of Indian food is available to the people of US to choose from regional aspect so as to get perfect blend of taste. One can get the same food as it has been prepared in India.

Christmas cookie ideas,Christmas Cookie Decorating | Christmas Cookie Decoration

2010-03-09T08:27:00.000-08:00

A cookie is a flat, small bakery treat made of eggs, milk, flour, sugar and a plethora of ingredients that add flavor and taste to it. The word cookie has been derived from the Dutch word koekje which means 'little cake'. Cookies are easy to bake and use few basic ingredients. There is such a wide collection of cookie recipes from scratch, that if one decides to make them regularly, one need not ever repeat a recipe! Baking is an art that needs practice for attaining perfection. For a novice, start with easy sugar or milk cookie recipes, and as you get a good hand on it, you can try out the ones that use exotic and unusual ingredients. Freshly baked cookies have an aroma that sometimes not even a bakery can beat. So what one needs to do is to fill the house with that freshly baked aroma and you will never see an empty dining table. As with all foods, cookies can be full of health benefits or can be simply eaten to enjoy a glass of warm milk.

I have listed some very easy cookie recipes from scratch that not only use some really yummy ingredients but come from all over the world. Read more on cookie decorating ideas.Chocolate, irresistible chocolate, dark or white, is a favorite among adults and children alike. There is no one I know who can ever refuse a chocolate filled cookie. Some of the chocolate cookie recipes from scratch listed below makes interesting use of peanut butter. So, go ahead and bake some of these yummies! More on Chocolate chip cookie recipe.For all those health conscious people, eating a sweet bakery item can prove to be very difficult. Where one has to satisfy the taste buds, the weighing scales also need to be kept down. So, what does one do? Well, it is easy to make cookies that are not only healthy, but tasty too. Try the ones listed below.