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.

Oven Tips : If you don't have one, consider buying a self-cleaning oven. They use less energy for normal cooking because of higher insulation levels. They also save on your rubber glove and cleanser purchases! However, if you use the self-cleaning feature more than once a month, you'll end up using more energy than you saved. When you clean the oven, do it right after cooking to take advantage of residual heat.

Dieting 101

The South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet is a diet system created by Florida-based cardiologist arthur agatston which stresses that dieters should be eating "good carbohydrates" instead of "bad carbohydrates" and "good fats" instead of "bad fats"
Doctor agatston invented his weight loss system for people who have cardiac problems, as a result of his analysis of scientific studies completed on other weight loss studies.
"good" foods include, broiled ham, turkey breast, shrimp, feta cheese, pistachios, lowfat or nonfat milk and certain vegetables, such as asparagus, cucumbers and mushrooms.

Pad Thai (Clark) Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

16 oz Noodles

- vermicelli or rice noodles 2 tb Peanut butter

5 tb Soy sauce or tamari

1 tb Brown sugar

2 Eggs; scrambled

6 Scallions; diced

5 Garlic cloves; pressed

Peanuts 1/3 c Vinegar

Lime wedges Cook, rinse and refrigerate the noodles ahead of time. In a bowl mix the PB, soy, and sugar. In the wok, sautee the scallions and garlic. You can add bean sprouts at this point too. After a few minutes, add the noodles, and stir-fry them for about 5 minutes. Then add the stuff in the bowl, and the vinegar. Cook this for a couple more minutes. Last, add the eggs and peanuts, and heat until hot. Serve with the lime wedges on the side. From: qc@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Quentin J Clark)

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