General cooking tips

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.

Buying an Oven : In gas appliances, look for blue flames; yellow flames indicate the gas is burning inefficiently and an adjustment may be needed. Consult your manufacturer or your local utility.

Weight loss info

The South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet is a diet system invented by Cardiologist arthur agatston which emphasizes that dieters should be eating "good carbohydrates" instead of "bad carbs" and "good fats" instead of "bad fats"
Agatston developed this diet for people who have cardiac problems, based on his detailed analysis of scientific research on other weight loss systems.
"good" foods include, canadian bacon, skinless poultry, prawns, feta cheese, pistachio nuts, lowfat or nonfat milk and some vegatables, such as green beans, lettuce and turnips.

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Ingredients And Procedures

16 Macaroons

1 c Madeira

1/4 c Lemon juice, fresh

6 tb Sugar, preferably superfine

1 ts Lemon peel, finely grated

1 pn Cinnamon

1/2 ts Almond extract

2 c Cream, heavy

Crumble two macaroons into each of eight 1-cup parfait or sherbet glasses. Set aside. In a large chilled bowl, combine the Madeira, lemon juice, sugar, lemon peel, cinnamom and almond extract, and stir until the sugar dissolves. Pour in the cream and beat with a whisk or rotary beater until it forms stiff peaks on the beater when it is lifted from the bowl. Pile the cream on top of the macaroons and chill for at least 30 minutes before serving. Source: Time-Life Books "Foods of the World: The Cooking of the British Isles"

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