How to Cook Hot & Sour Soup
Hot & Sour Soup is certainly an Asian food favorite. This soup is almost always on your menu when you frequent your favorite Chinese restaurant, as well as other Asian restaurants. How to Cook Hot & Sour Soup: Type: Soup Recipe Serve with: extra rice vinegar & chili oil Prep Time: 12 min Steep Time: 30 min Cook Time: 15 – 20 min Yields: 6 cups Ingredients: 12 wood ear or cloud ear mushrooms 4 shiitake mushrooms 2...
How to Roast Potato Florets + Video
Tired of the same, old, boring potato recipes? Try out these Baked Potato Florets! Not only will they be a great side dish, but they are so beautiful to look at on the plate. How to Roast Potato Florets: I like to keep the skins of my potatoes on, if at all possible. Sometimes, there are blemishes or eyes that need to be peeled or removed, respectively, but the skin of the potato holds a lot of nutrients in it that we can eat....
How to Roast Radishes, Scapes, Beets & Parsnips as a Side Dish + Video
Roasting vegetables is likely my favorite way to cook them, and today I’m featuring Roast Radishes, Scapes, Beets & Parsnips. So simple, retains its nutrients, and develops such wonderful flavors as they are cooked in that long, dry heat. If you have the opportunity to purchase scapes at your grocer, and they look lovely, grab ’em up. They have a beautiful garlic flavor, and a lovely shape as well. Scapes grow from the...
How to Make Deviled Eggs: National Deviled Egg Day
National Deviled Egg Day has arrived and it’s time to make you some perfectly packaged Deviled Eggs. Eggs can allow a chef’s imagination to run wild… These little gems contain balanced nutrients from which a complete organism forms. They can transform bread doughs by allowing a structural framework, whereby leaveners grow, to thicken puddings & keep them smooth, bind meatloaf or burgers, and help in providing...
Mythology, Storage & Uses of Pomegranates: National Pomegranate Month
November is National Pomegranate Month is here, and first we’re going back in time… Then, we’ll cover pomegranate uses, as well as storage. The Pomegranate in Greek Mythology: How’s your recollection of Greek mythology? Do you remember sneaky Hades offering Persephone to eat only one pomegranate seed, and thereby tricking her into having to return for 1/3 of the year to spend the winter months in the...
Eating with Your Senses: Good Nutrition Month
November is Good Nutrition Month, and maintaining a healthy diet & lifestyle is essential to being in good health. We hear so much about nutrition and how important good nutrition is to the state of our health. We are organisms, which require large amounts of a variety of vitamins, minerals, fats, vegetables, fruits, grain, etc. to feed and maintain our bodies in a healthy condition. We eat to meet those needs, but also because we...
Global Perspectives on World Food Day
World Food Day is October 16th! The need for and availability of food is a certainty providing us with fuel & nutrients to sustain growth & promote repair. Food brings families & friends together to share in the delights of eating. When we celebrate Holidays, birthdays & special occasions, or just to appease our anxieties, it’s about so much more than just ingesting sustenance. Further, the growing &...
Vegetarian Awareness Month: Different Types of Vegetarianism
Vegetarian Awareness Month is an opportunity to not only brush up on our knowledge about being a vegetarian, but to eat some great vegetarian dishes too! Worldwide, there are millions, maybe even billions of people, who adhere to a vegetarian diet and sometimes not through choice, but because meats aren’t available to them. Others choose vegetarian or partially vegetarian diets for health, religious or philosophical reasons....
National Chocolate Milk Day – Celebrate the Goodness
National Chocolate Milk Day is on our agenda today, and we’re glad it is so tasty! Milk, or regular evaporated whole milk has 50% of the moisture content removed. Pasteurization is a controlled heating & cooling process preventing milk born diseases, and is a necessary treatment for milk producers to perform on our milk before we purchase it. Chocolate milk contains chocolate syrup to obtain the delicious chocolatey flavor,...
National Pecan Cookie Day: Recipe of Nostalgia
Are you “nuts about baking” cookies, cakes and breads? Good news, we’re celebrating National Pecan Cookie Day! I love baking, and especially with nuts… Ah, yes…Pecans, like most nuts, are high in fats and protein. Their oils carry nutrients & flavor, and that’s why they are so very delicious. Sometimes recipes indicated that nuts are optional, meaning that the recipe will be okay if you...
Happy National Peanut Day
This is National Peanut Day! Peanuts are very healthy & delicious. As well, peanuts are incorporated in a plethora of food products, which we enjoy daily. When you see a peanut in its shell, it is just a plain looking, dry, little thing…but when you crack that shell, the most amazing aroma is emitted. Then comes the taste — Ohhh, the taste…so very good. And then, another one & another & another —...
Cooking: Did it Make Us Human?
I just watched a most interesting BBC documentary called “Did Cooking Make Us Human?” This documentary had great information on food, how we used to eat it, and how we evolved due to us learning to use fire and cook our food. Fire allowed us to become predator and not prey. As well, in turn, cooking the food with fire allowed us to get more nutrients out of our foods. This allows our bodies to use less energy digesting raw...
How to Cook Russian Beef Borscht in Stoneware Ramekins + Video
Previously a peasant’s dish, this Russian Beef Borscht is now more of a delicacy today. A perfect Fall or Winter favorite, this Eastern European recipe is hearty, and full of love and comfort. Hearty beef with vegetables and Spices-of-the-Earth, we are taking you on a journey to Eastern Europe with this borscht recipe. Today’s borscht is made in stoneware ramekins, which are fantastic because they hold in the nutrients and...
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