Archive for October, 2009

This recipe, from my vintage collection I received from my mother’s estate, was in an old newspaper column at the first of a year.
It was in a column about dieting and eating better in the new year. It makes a good soup for anytime of the year but especially on cool
or cold days when you want to be warmed from the inside out. Serve with a crusty whole grain bread, if desired. The fruity stuffed
cantaloupe recipe below is perfect for a light dessert or for a breakfast treat.

SUPER HAMBURGER SOUP

1 lb lean hamburger
2/3 cup diced celery
1 bay leaf, crushed
dash of cayenne pepper
1 cup diced onions
1 cup shredded cabbage
1/2 tsp thyme
1 1/2-quarts water
1/2 cup cubed raw potato
8-oz can tomato sauce
2 tsp salt
1/2 cup frozen peas
1 cup sliced carrots
1/4 cup raw rice
2 beef bouillon cubes

Brown hamburger and onion in Pam sprayed soup pot. Brain off all fat. Add potatoes, carrots, celery, cabbage, water and tomato sauce.
Bring to a boil. Add remaining ingredients, except peas. Cover and simmer 50 minutes. Add peas and cook another 5 to 10 minutes. Put
into soup bowls and sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese. Makes 6 servings of about 200 calories each.

To continue on a light and healthy theme, here is a delightful fruit dessert.

FRUITY CANTALOUPE
1 large cantaloupe
1 cup fresh strawberry halves
1/4 cup blueberries
1/4 cup chunked kiwi (peeled)
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp sugar

Cut cantaloupe in half and remove seeds. cavity with fork. Combine remaining ingredients, toss, and spoon into cantaloupe halves.

When you have a history of heart disease in your family, it is important to take good care of your heart. Exercise is a main part of
taking good care of your body, including your heart. Eating is important as well. But sometimes it seems like finding tasty food that is
good for you can be difficult. And besides, who has time to prepare it? You do! Here are two delicious recipes that can get you started
on the road to healthful and tasteful eating for your heart. And they’re easy to make!


Baked Dijon Chicken (4 servings)


Ingredients:
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast (or you can use turkey), removed of visible fat
2 Tbl. lemon or lime juice
1 Tbl. course-grained or Dijon mustard
1/8 tsp. black pepper
1/2 tsp. minced garlic (from a bottle works nicely)
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
Rinse the chicken and pat it dry and arrange it in a glass baking dish.

Using a small bowl, stir together all the remaining ingredients and spread over the top of the chicken. Do this piece by piece.

Bake uncovered for 15 to 20 minutes. The chicken should be tender and no longer pink.

Rosemary Turkey With Mushrooms (4 servings)

This is a treat that you can serve company. It is an elegant and delicious dish.


Ingredients:
1 pound turkey breast tenderloin slices
1/2 c. chicken broth, low sodium
1/8 tsp. each black pepper and salt
1 Tbl. cornstarch
2 Tbl. balsamic vinegar
8 oz. chanterelle or button mushrooms; these should be cleaned, trimmed, and sliced
1/4 c. shopped onions or shallots
1 tsp. fresh rosemary or 1/4 tsp. dried rosemary
Rinse and pat dry turkey and set aside.
Use a small bowl to stir together broth, salt and pepper, and cornstarch. Set this aside.
Use vegetable oil cooking spray to coat a large skillet and place it over medium-high heat.

Add half the turkey to the hot skillet and cook about two minutes on each side. The turkey should be tender and no longer pink. Set
aside and do the same to the other half of the turkey. Remove the skillet from the heat, and keep the turkey warm.

Add the vinegar and rosemary to the skillet. Scrap up all of the brown bits from the bottom of the pan. Then, put the skillet back on
the heat and use it to cook the mushrooms and onions (or shallots). It should take about five minutes for the mushrooms to become
tender.

Stir in the set aside broth mixture. It will take about three minutes for it to become a sauce, thickened and bubbly. Cook for two more
minutes after that, stirring constantly. This sauce is served with the turkey. For an elegant tough, the turkey can be served on a bed
of fresh rosemary.

Once you know what you can do to enjoy healthful meals without sacrificing the flavor, you can take better care of your body and of your
heart. And that is a delicious proposition.

Cooking a good nutritious meal does not have to result in torture for your taste buds. In fact, aside from it being pretty easy to
prepare, adhering to experts’ cooking tips and tricks can turn you into cook extraordinaire. All you have to do is know which types
of food you should choose and find out how many meal verities you can make out of them.

Even your favorite cooking recipes can be modified to their healthier alternatives without compromising on taste and texture. For more
help visit to: www.classic-dessert-collection.com.Just figure out where to cut on calories and fat so it won’t turn out a gourmet
disaster.

Of course, cooking healthy food does not really entail having to start from scratch. Why, you can even use convenience store fare and
transform them into semi-homemade masterpieces by just adding healthy pinches of ingredients here and there.

Healthy cooking also does not mean that everything has to be raw and involve only vegetables. Healthy means the meals carry a balance of
vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, no matter how they are prepared. So whenever you think healthy cooking simply means chopping up a
few things and tossing them together, you are wrong.

To spare yourself from the so-called hidden fats, or fats that aren’t easily visible, it’s best to use reduced-fat dairy goods
and lean meats for ingredients. The good dietary fats usually come from unrefined products, such as fish, olives, nuts, soy, avocado and
seeds. Such kinds of fat also come with other necessary nutrients so it’s okay to crazy with them.

When cooking, use a non-stick pan to minimize your oil usage. If you really need to use oil, use menstruated oils applied with pastry
brushes or cooking sprays so you don’t go overboard. Also, if your recipe book requires you to brown some veggies, try dunking them
into the pan first before spraying oil. This will help lessen the amount of fat absorbed by your ingredients.

Some healthy cooking experts recommend that you use substitute liquids for oil, like water, stock, fruit juices, so you won’t strip
your ingredients of their vitamins and you won’t run the risk of having excess fat. And if you’re really serious about a healthy
diet, use vinegars and salsas, instead of creams and butter, for more detail go to: www.delicious-sandwich-recipes.com.when you serve
fish or meat dishes.

This is a tricky question. While there are schools of thought that say vitamins and minerals are best preserved when vegetables are
served raw, there are some that also contend that certain nutrients only surface when they are cooked. For instance, the anti-cancer and
anti-heart illness antioxidant called leucopenia is present mostly in cooked tomatoes and ketchup.

When cooking vegetables, just make sure they don’t stay boiling or frying too long to keep the minerals locked inside. Vegetables
contain vitamins that are also soluble in water, it is not advised that you use too much of this liquid.

As with anything else in this world, things work when done in moderation. The secret the healthy cooking is knowing what you want to
take out and what you want to preserve. It doesn’t really take rocket science to learn all these, but it does require some amount of
research and patience. After all, your body is your temple. You must love it by giving it a delicious and healthy reward.

This has forced families, including children; to depend more on fast food like burgers, pizzas, and soft drinks, rather than wholesome
home cooked food made in different styles with Recipes from different countries.Nowadays, emphasis is being made on
quitting fast food and switching to healthy homemade food. Fast food is not only costlier but may also lead to higher cholesterol and
blood pressure levels and in turn to heart attacks. Eating fast food on a regular basis in place of a healthy home cooked food can lead
to many other health issues. Some women dislike cooking, while others may not know about the different styles of cooking and the
thousands of Free Recipes for different dishes, available online and in books, which can be made with hundreds of
different ingredients, herbs, and spices.

You must have heard of ‘Eat healthy Stay healthy’, and if you want to lead a healthy life, you have to eat healthy food. This is
possible with Home Cooking as cooking at home has its own pleasures and allows you to maintain a healthy diet, prepare
a variety of dishes, try out new and Easy Recipes from different countries, a great way to spend some time with your
family at lunch and dinner, and much more. Cooking at home ensures that your family gets proper nutrition to lead a healthy life. Fast
food may look enticing, but it lacks the proper nutrients in proper proportions. Dining in restaurants on a daily basis, along with the
family, is not something that an average family can afford.

Even if fast foods like pizzas and burgers may be cooked properly, eating these foods on a daily or regular basis, leads to health
issues, as they do not provide all nutrients required to lead a healthy life. Most fast foods contain chemicals and other ingredients,
which may be harmful for a person’s health. Rapid weight gain is one of the major results of daily consumption of fast food. That is
why doctors encourage home cooking and eating wholesome home cooked food. In many countries of the east and Middle
East, eating home cooked food is normal and food can be cooked in hundred different ways with the thousands of recipes that have been
handed down through generations. There are hundreds of home cooking recipes for vegetarian and meat dishes and most of these are
prepared with different herbs and spices.

Variety is the spice of life and cooking a variety of dishes at home is easy enough with many Easy Recipes available
for free. All it needs is the will to cook at home and ensure that your family gets proper nutrition and stays healthy. Even if you are
not experienced or an expert in cooking, you can still start with the easier home cooking recipes and then go on to the
more difficult and time consuming dishes. You can also throw a party for family and friends and surprise them with your cooking prowess
and prepare everything from starters, appetizers, soups, main course dishes, and desserts, with the Free Recipes
available. Most of the ingredients are available in supermarkets and you may not have to look too far for supplies. But some of the more
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cooking and wean your family and children away from fast food.

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Breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day. Since you are still sleepy from a good night’s rest, it is only right
that you should know some quick and easy recipes that you can come up with in a few minutes.

If your kids love milk, then offer them something by combining milk with some cereals and fruit. To do that, you pour cornflakes from
the box and into the bowl. Add milk and then slice into small pieces a banana or some strawberries and then serve.

For adults, you can substitute cereal with oatmeal which is quite healthy since it has been proven to lower your cholesterol. You can
add with your bowl of oatmeal some fruits as well which are also good for you.

You can’t have cereal or oatmeal everyday so why don’t you try something else like an omelet. There are different ways to make
it and the simplest one is to cook 2 eggs and add margarine into a frying pan. You can add flavor to it by also putting in some sliced
mushrooms, onion and sliced sausages.

Once the omelet begins to set, use a spatula to push the edges of the egg mixture in. Keep doing this until you can flip one side of the
omelet over the other one and then serve on a plate.

Do you want some bread for breakfast? Well you can by making blueberry French toast. To do that, you will need some eggs, milk, cream
cheese, blueberries, vanilla and cinnamon.

Using a blender, beat together the milk, cream cheese, and blueberries until smooth then set aside. Using a medium mixing bowl, beat the
eggs then add vanilla, and cinnamon. When you are done, add the blueberry mixture.

The last thing to do before serving is to dip the bread in the batter, and fry in a pan or griddle until slightly browned.

Another all time favorite is the waffle and if you want to add some spice to it, don’t just make any and go for the German waffle.

The ingredients for the German waffle include half a cup of butter, some sugar, egg yolk, milk, flour, baking powder, salt and gratings
of lemon.

Now cream the butter and add the sugar until this turns into a cream then add the egg yolks and beat thoroughly. Next, sift the flour,
salt, and baking powder together and add this to the creamed mixture alternating with the milk. Add the lemon peel and blend thoroughly
then cook using a hot waffle iron and serve.

Pancakes anyone? Well try out the French Jelly Pancake. If you know how to make pancakes, we can already skip forward and move on to the
best part which is adding the jelly. You have to do this while it is still hot and spread this evenly to keep it from spreading.

Next, dredge this with sugar and to make it look attractive, burn some lines around it using your toaster before serving.

Breakfast is important and fortunately, there are a lot of great quick and easy recipes that you can serve when you get up in the
morning. As refreshments, always serve it with a cup of coffee or tea for the grownups and milk or juice for the kids.