General kitchen advice

Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.


Kitchen Tip : Even though they are like magnets for spills, keep stovetop reflectors clean. They will reflect heat better and save energy. If you need new ones, buy quality. The best on the market can save as much as 1/3 of the energy used with inferior reflectors.


Weight loss

The Glycaemic Index Diet
The gi index diet is based on the glycaemic index, a list showing food types and a score illustrating the rapidity with which the energy in the food gets changed to sugar in the dieters blood stream. The believe is that slow release types of food (ie those foods with a low Glycaemic index score), keep you feeling full longer and help you to take in fewer food without feeling you are always hungry.
It is also extremely effective for folk with diabetes, as the low GI foods are helpful in reducing rises in blood sugar levels.











Chicken Avocado Melt Recipe
Chicken Avocado Melt Category Cheese Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

2 Chicken breast halves

1 tb Cornstarch

1/2 ts Cumin, ground

1/2 ts Garlic salt

1/2 Egg; lightly beaten

1/2 tb Water

3 tb Cornmeal

1 1/2 tb Oil

1/2 Avocado; peeled, sliced

3/4 c Cheese, monterey jack;

-shredded 1/4 c Sour cream; divided

1/8 c Onion, green, tops only

1/8 Pepper, red bell; chopped

Tomatoes, cherry Parsley sprigs Skin and bone chicken breasts. On hard surface, with meat mallet or similar flattening utensil, pound chicken to 1/4 in thickness. In shallow dish, mix together cornstarch, cumin and garlic salt. Add chicken on piece at a time, dredging to coat. In a small bowl, mix egg and water. Place cornmeal in another bowl. Dip chicken, first in egg and then in cornmeal turning to coat. In large frying pan, place oil and heat to medium temp.; add chicken and cook 2 minutes on each side. Remove chicken to shallow baking pan; place avocado slices over chicken and sprinkle with cheese. Bake in 350?F oven about 15 minutes or until fork can be inserted in chicken with ease and cheese melts. Top chicken with sour cream, dividing equally; sprinkle with chopped green onion and red pepper.

 
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