General cooking tips

Track down specials and buy in bulk. Buying in bulk means less trips, and can be a good way of reducing your food miles.


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.


Weight loss info

The South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet is a diet system invented by Dr. arthur agatston, a cardiologist from miami, usa, which stresses that one should eat "good carbohydrates" instead of "bad carbohydrates" and "good fats" instead of "bad fats"
Doctor agatston invented his system as an aid to patients with heart conditions, based on his analysis of scientific studies completed on other dietary studies.
"good" foods include, lean cuts of beef, turkey bacon, fish, feta cheese, pistachios, lowfat milk and certain vegetables, such as kidney beans, broccoli and spinach.











Syros Island Nougat Recipe
Syros Island Nougat Category Candy Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

Karen Mintzias 1 c Roasted pistachios & almonds

2 c Sugar

1 c Corn syrup

1 c Honey

1/2 ts Cream of tartar

3 Egg whites

1/4 ts Salt

1 ts Vanilla

1/4 c Oil for pan

Cornstarch (or see note) Note: Sweet rice flour or thin rice wafers may be used instead of cornstarch to line pan. Roast nuts on shallow pan in preheated oven at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes. Combine sugar, corn syrup, water, and cream of tartar in a deep sauce pot. Stir gently over medium heat until sugar dissolves and bring to a boil. After it comes to a boil, cover pot for 5 minutes, then wash down sides of pot with a clean brush to remove sugar crystals. Continue cooking on medium-high heat to 272 degrees F on a jelly thermometer. Remove from heat. In a separate pot heat honey to boil. Whip egg whites and salt until stiff and dry using a heavy electric mixer and large bowl. Add a small amount of honey at first in a thin stream, very slowly. Beat in vanilla and continue adding remaining honey and then syrup. Beat until batch thickens and the beater slows down. Add nuts and blend in. Oil a long shallow pan. Sift a thick layer of cornstarch or sweet rice flour over it or lay rice wafers over bottom. Pour out the nougat. Dust top with more rice flour or thin rice wafers and let stand overnight to set. Cut into rectangular pieces about 3/4" by 1" and wrap individually in heavy waxed paper. From: "The Complete Greek Cook Book" by Theresa Karas Yianilos. Avenel Books, New York. Typed for you by Karen Mintzias

 
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