What Do You Really Know About Cashews?
The cashew nut grows far differently from most other nuts. Rather than a nut encased in an inedible fruit, cashews grow outside of an edible fruit called a cashew apple. This fruit is actually not a fruit at all, making it quite confusing.
Healthy Food Includes Grains and FiberThe first important piece of information to know about grains is that there are two types of grains available to us at the supermarket; whole grains and refined grain. We want to eat as many products from whole grains when choosing a food made from grains as possible and avoid as many refined grain foods as possible.
Eating Healthy Can Save Your LifeThese are the four new food groups recommended. This actually happened about ten years ago so it may not be new to some of your. Guess what was changed? Yes, the protein group. Here are the four new food groups:
Five Best Bacon Wrapped AppetizersBacon makes things taste good, most will agree. Appetizers are always in demand, being the ultimate party food. Anything that is easy to pick up with fingers or toothpicks is good for parties. Here are five simple bacon wrapped recipes.
Oriental Dish With Couscous RecipesCouscous recipes bring the best of the North African dishes to the world. The meal is made of semolina flour, a type of pasta ground into fine particles and normally served with meat or with vegetable stew for vegetarians. The particulate nature of its ingredients lends to a wide variety of cooking methods, but the recommended methods as used traditionally by inhabitants of the Maghreb region is rubbing the semolina flour with moisten hands until it forms into grains and then proceeding to drying them on the sun or open air.
Deliciously Healthy Typical Guatemalan FoodsTypical Guatemalan foods are healthy, full of vitamins due to the freshness of the ingredients, high in protein with black beans as a staple, eaten with rice and or corn tortillas to make complete proteins, and fiber added in unusual and delicious ways. Enchiladas are not the only typical Guatemalan food to be high in nutrition. Black beans are a staple food, eaten one to three times a day, offering lots of protein and fiber. The addition of rice and corn tortillas to that meal makes a complete protein.
Vegetable Lasagna Recipe – Cooking TipsPreparing vegan dishes has never been easy; it takes the precision of a chef to get the ingredients right and have the taste in check. Vegetable lasagna recipes vary in ingredients across countries but one common constituent ingredient that never misses to make it in the dough is cheese and particularly the parmesan cheese. Other ingredients include tomato, ricotta, mozzarella, onions, oregano, bell pepper and spinach.
A Whole Other Kind of Enchilada – A Guatemalan TreatWe in the US have come to know enchiladas as a mixture of meats and cheeses rolled into a tortilla. Though the name is the same, in Guatemala it means a totally different food, more like a salad served on a fried corn tortilla.
The Versatility That You Can Get With Recipes for GarlicGarlic has long had a reputation as a cure-all for many ailments. Although not all of them have been substantiated by scientific evidence, there is a wealth of solid data pointing to garlic as one of our most versatile natural substances we can consume to promote good health. It is rich in alliin, which is quite odorless. Once it is crushed or minced, alliin converts to allicin, which has the characteristic odor and taste we associate with garlic.
Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs – Reminiscences From Childhood Revisited As AppetizersWe all have grown up having one food or other that later on seems to slip from view. Once in a while it may come up into memory. One of these is a bacon wrapped hot dog with cheese that my Mom made for us as kids.
Basic Comforts – Make Hemp Seed Bread and Gather Pecan NutsHow bread has traditionally been a ‘comfort food’ of little or no nutritional value. What we can use to replace traditional bread recipes and get many more nutrients that are of greater value to the human body.
If You Change Anything In Your Kitchen, Change Your SaltUnrefined Sea Salt is hand-harvested, sun-dried sea salt. This is SUPER GOOD FOR YOU! And delicious! Our body’s electrolyte system needs salt – REAL salt – as does our kidneys and hormones. We sweat salt. Our cells are full of salt. We cry salt. We need all the minerals and things that science has not yet discovered, that are in the sea. We all need this salt for ideal health.