Friday, January 27th, 2012 | Food and Beverage
Planning healthy meals can be difficult and time consuming, but
with some advance planning and some basic knowledge of
nutrition, it is easy to create a week's worth of healthy meals
that everyone in the family will love. The key to creating
healthy, delicious meals for the family is planning, planning
and planning. Planning the week's meals ahead of time is the
best way to create meals you can be proud of, while keeping cost
and time commitment to a minimum.
Convenience devices such as slow ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012 | Food and Beverage
Any healthy eating plan begins at the grocery store. Learning to
make smart choices when shopping for food is the key to the
success of any healthy diet plan. Learning to recognize the
healthiest, freshest foods is a skill every grocery shopper must
learn.
Of course, the logical place to start the healthy shopping trip
to the grocery store is at the produce section. Most large
modern supermarkets have huge produce sections, often taking up
a large portion of the store. It is not unusual for the ...
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 | Food and Beverage
If you only had $300 a month to spend on groceries for a family
of four, could you do it? What sort of food would make the list
and what would stay tauntingly on the store's shelves?
Whatever your reason for having a tight budget, the truth is
that going to the grocery store without a plan is a BIG budget
breaker. And sadly all that cash ends up vanishing into our
stomachs and then...let's stop there.
Could you save $25 a month on groceries? How about $50 or $100?
Possibly you could cut your ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 | Food and Beverage
Let them eat cake.
So said Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, upon being told that
the peasants were rioting in the streets because they had no
bread. It has been cited for over two centuries as an indictment
of the arrogance of the aristocracy - but in reality, the young
queen may simply not have understood why, lacking bread, a
person would not turn to cake. Such was the separation between
the tables of the privileged and those of the poor.
Nowhere was that separation so evident, though, than ...
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012 | Food and Beverage
India is known for its excellent cuisine, it's unique regions of
cooking, and a pleasant dining experience. India is
distinguished in the world's cuisine for it vegetarian dishes.
One thing all of the regional cuisines of India have in common
is it's use of spices.
Garam masala is an essential ingredient in the cooking of the
Punjab region of northern India. Loosely defined, "masala" is
any blend of spices, and "garam" means hot.
Generally, garam masala is added to the dish very shortly ...
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 | Food and Beverage
A well stocked kitchen pantry is a cook's secret weapon.
Prepare your next dinner with style and never run out of
ingredients, herbs, spices, extracts, sauces, and all kinds of
foodstuff.
Doing any job is easier when you have the right tools on hand.
One of a cook's best tools -- and secret weapons -- is having a
well-stocked kitchen pantry.
Cooking is much simpler if you know that you've already got what
you need on hand, and aren't going to have to run to the corner
market every time you want ...
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012 | Food and Beverage
Comfort food. It even sounds warm and welcoming - like cuddling
up by the fire on a cold winter day. Comfort food trends have
seen a real resurgence in recent years and our desire for
comfort food seems to be holding strong. So what is comfort
food? Generally it's the food we have good memories about, the
food we think of when we hear the word homemade, and that
reminds us of simpler times.
The list of favorite comfort foods can be different for each of
us. While homemade macaroni and cheese ...
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Friday, January 20th, 2012 | Food and Beverage
As the warm lazy days of summer give way to the cool crisper
days of autumn, a Northern Minnesota specialty finds its way to
the dining room table once again. Whether tossed into a
casserole, whipped into a hearty soup, baked into warm bread, or
simply missed with gourmet spices and seasonings, wild rice has
long been a Minnesota Favorite.
While true authentic Minnesota Wild Rice is not always easy to
come by, using a gourmet wild rice seasoning is an easy way to
replicate the taste. The ...
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012 | Food and Beverage
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Don't have the money to make delectable dishes?
Or just
don't know the
secrets of flavoring with spices and
herbs, and making food stretch?
The former is
never right no matter what your income is.
If
you have the money to buy enough food to at least feed your
family then you have enough money to make whatever you feed them
enjoyable, even if it's a vegetable dish.
Yes, with the
right spices or herbs, and recipes, the children in your family
will come to love vegetables. My ...
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 | Food and Beverage
Food history has always interested me. We can learn a lot about
our present eating habits from what our ancestors ate. I've read
up on the subject and I've even hosted a few parties serving
period foods. Today we'll talk about the Vikings. With the help
of our friends the archaeologists, food finds have been made.
The Scandinavian people of the 8th through 11th centuries were
not as limited in terms of their diet as some might think. They
were masters of the sea and ate everything from oysters ...
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