Learn
to
Prepare Tasty and Nutritious Food and Have a Fun
Overcome
Your Food Prejudices - There is no better
way to
overcome food prejudices than by learning to prepare foods well, to
make
them tasty and nutritious and to fully appreciate their nutritive
value.
Most people have decided likes and dislikes for certain foods. These
opinions
very often have no reasonable foundation Usually taste of a food poorly
prepared or a disparaging remark heard in childhood may be the cause
for
a lifetime's aversion for a food. Food prejudices like most others may
be overcome by a thorough knowledge of the subject. Start with learning
more about Weights
& Measures
Discover
the Beauty of Italian Cookery - You
could have the pleasure
of experiencing beautiful flavors of Italian food in your home and
learn
how to prepare tasteful meals by using our easy to prepare recipes.
Italian
cuisine is characterized by its flexibility, its range of fresh
ingredients
and its many regional variations, which is an important element
of
the Italian lifestyle, and mainly reflects the rural culture and
history
of the many peoples of the country. If you are interested to find out
more
about Italian cousine, click on the link to browse our Italian
Cookbook. Buon Appetito!
What You Need to Know
About Pies & Pastry - Did you know that
originally
pies were not intended for desserts? Rather, they were used as the main
dish of the meal, as they contained a filling of meat or fish and
vegetables.
Such pies are still made, but they are not usually the ones intended
when
pastry for pies is mentioned. It should therefore be understood that
most
of the pastry and recipes considered in this Section is that which is
used
with sweet fillings and employed particularly in the making of pies and
similar foods that are used for desserts. Click here to find out more...
Baking Powder Breads
- Baking
Powder may be used instead
of yeast to leaven bread. It does precisely the same work; that is,
raises
the dough, making it porous-spongy. The great advantage of bread made
by
this method is in time saved, as it can be mixed and baked in less than
two hours. Everything you need to know about breads, just one click
away! Find recipes, tips and more...
Friters,
Doughnuts, Crullers, etc. - Success in making
good fried
cakes depends as much on the cooking as the mixing. In the first place
fritters, doughnuts and crullers should be fried in kettle of deep fat.
There should be enough of boiling fat in the kettle to free them from
the
bottom of the kettle, so that they swim on the top, and the fat should
never be so hot as to smoke or so cool as not to be at the boiling
point;
if it is, they soak grease and are spoiled. If it is at the right heat,
the doughnuts will in about ten minutes be of a delicate brown outside
and nicely cooked inside. Click
here to find out more tips and recipes...
Use of Water in the Body and Food
-
Water aids in regulating our body processes. We
might live for a number of weeks
without eating food, but we could live only a few days without drinking
water. Most foods we consume contain water. Not only moist foods such
as
milk and watermelon, but solid foods such as potatoes and rice contain
water. The water present in foods, however, is not sufficient for the
needs
of the body. Find out more...
The Onion Story -
Onions
are incredibly versatile and each cuisine has its own rules regarding
the
treatment of onions. Yellow onions are the most common cooking onions
and
have the strongest flavor. White onions have a sharp fresh taste and
red
onions are slightly milder and crisper. Leeks are related to both onion
and garlic but milder in taste and excellent in soups or braised. The
flavor
of Welsh onions lies between leeks and onions. Spanish and Bermuda
onions
are chrisp, sweet and mild. Vidalia, Walla Walla and Maui are super
sweet
varieties and often eaten raw. Pearl onions are very small and mild and
usually cooked whole in stews, pickled or braised. Shallots taste like
a cross between a mild onion and garlic. More...
Puddings and Related Dishes -
Proper
attention to the
rules, some practice, and excellent quality of ingredients used will
ensure
success in pudding preparation every time. Puddings are either boiled,
baked or steamed. All sweet puddings require
a little salt to prevent insipidity and to draw out the flavor of the
several
ingredients, but be very careful because too much salt will spoil any
pudding. Browse more
tips and recipes...
Healthy
Tomatoes - Lycopene
is considered one of the more effective antioxidants because it is not
converted to vitamin A when ingested. Conversion to vitamin A weakens
the
antioxidant properties of carotenoids like beta carotene. While
tomatoes
are the best source of lycopene, many studies have suggested that
tomato
products such as tomato sauce, ketchup, tomato paste and coctail sauce
seem to contain a much higher concentration of the chemical. Processing
and cooking, because of the high temperatures involved, release
lycopene
from its food matrix and make it more easily absorbed by the body.
Researchers
have also found... Find
out more...
The Magic of Coffee - Since its discovery in an Ethiopian
rainforest centuries ago, coffee has brewed up a rich and troubled
history,
according to Uncommon
Grounds, a sweeping book by business writer Mark
Pendergrast. A good cup of coffee can
turn the worst day tolerable, can provide an all-important moment of
contemplation,
can rekindle a romance," he writes. "And yet, poetic as its taste may
be,
coffee's history is rife with controversy and politics." For example,
coffee
bankrolled Idi Amin's genocidal regime in Uganda and the Sandinistas'
revolution
in Nicaragua. Find out more...
Favorite Kitchen Tools
-Wüsthof-Trident of
Solingen Germany is a favourite knife manufacturer among chefs (and
home
cooking enthusiast) and also known the worldover for it´s unique,
uncompromising quality of these valued and cherished kitchen tools.
Each
knife is hot-drop forged by skilled craftsmen from a single piece of
the
finest surgical, alloyed, high-carbon, no-stain quality steel. Each
edge
is honed by hand, perfectly curved, and laser tested for uniformity.
They
have lifetime warranty against manufacturer's defects. Tools like that
must be used to be fully appreciated.More...
Learn
to Eat Healthy is not a traditional diet book with strict rules
and limitations. Here you will find great tips and ideas for healthy
cooking and good guidelines to control your health, your eating habits
and your weight without strict dieting rules. You'll discover that
preparing your own food is fun and easy and your healthy diet is
delicious. In fact, the main reason why most of those quick fix diets
will fail you from the start is because they ignore the way normal
people want to live. This book is simply an easy to read and follow
guidebook with over hundred, easy to prepare, healthy, and tasty
recipes
with full nutritional information, and step by step instructions. More...
Helpful Tips
Cold cookie dough is much
easier to handle. The very good plan is to prepare dough several hours
before attempting to roll it. In fact, a cookie mixture may be made in
the evening and allowed to stand covered in refrigerator until the next
morning before being rolled
out and baked. More...
