Food and cooking tips

If you're eating foods out of season, it's likely that they have come a long way - try to eat food that is both locally produced and can be found at that time of year, locally!


Time for cooking is often in short supply, but you can cut cooking time in half by making large batches and eating the leftovers another day. In an age when the average American spends only 32 minutes a day preparing food, strategy is crucial to increasing your consumption of local food.


Dieting 101

The Atkins’ Diet
Now nearly 5 decades old, the famous atkins diet achieved most of its fame during the last few years. Having many well known film stars amongst its supporters, it allows weight reduction whilst still eating many of the foods you love, such as meat and eggs.
On the atkins diet you eat protein and fat, it is carbohydrates that need to be avoided. It is often referred to as a low carbohydrate/high protein, diet.
With this diet, the foods you should avoid are processed and refined sugar, milk, white bread, starchy vegetables, white rice and white flour, including cereals and pasta made from white flour.
Unlike other diets, on the atkins diet the foods you are encouraged to eat are nutrient-rich unprocessed foods like meat, fish and poultry. You also can eat shellfish, regular full fat cheese, butter and olive oil.

The Atkins’ Diet Theory
The logic of the atkins diet is that if we consume fewer carbohydrates, our bodies will consume our fat and we will diet successfully













Split Pea Soup C/P Recipe

Split Pea Soup C/P Category Slow Cooker Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

6 md Carrots; sliced

1 md Onion; chopped

1 Ham bone; cracked

1 1/2 qt Water

1 c Split peas

1 ts Salt

1/2 ts Accent

1/8 ts Pepper

2 Egg yolks; slightly beaten

1 tb Sugar

1 c Milk

Croutons This recipe requires a 5-qt. crockpot. For a smaller pot, halve the recipe but use the same slow-cooking times. Combine veggies, ham bone, water and seasonings in slow cooker. Cover and cook on HIGH for 4 hrs., then on LOW for 3-4 hrs. OR on LOW for 9-10 hrs. Remove ham bone. Prepare and add egg yolks by vigorously stirring some hot soup into the slightly beaten yolks with the sugar added. Blend into the soup and cook on HIGH until thoroughly heated (about 20 min.) Reset ot LOW until serving time. Serve with croutons.

 
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