Cooking tips

When you are travelling, you should have a quick think about where your food has come from. When/if it is locally produced, your food is likely to be tastier, better for the local economy and fresher.

Oven Tips : Stagger pans and baking sheets on upper and lower racks to improve airflow, and don't cover racks with foil. Food cooks more quickly and efficiently when heat circulates freely.

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.

English Muffins (Lerner) Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

1 c Warm water

1 tb Dry yeast

2 tb Vegetable oil

1 ts Salt

2 c Unbleached white flour

1 c Whole wheat flour

In a bowl, mix water, yeast, oil & salt. Beat in the white flour, followed by the whole wheat flour. Mix well. Oil the dough's surface & allow to proof till light, about 25 minutes. Knead dough slightly, till soft. Cut into 6 poeces & roll each piece in cornmeal. Form each ball into muffins, 3 3?4 inches in diameter. Place on a cookie sheet. Preheat oven to 350F & bake for 15 minutes. Anne Lerner, "Breads You Wouldn't Believe"

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