General cooking tips

Buy Local Food : It’s easy to take locally abundant foods for granted when they’re in season, but you can enjoy many locally produced foods out of season by stocking up. Storing big baskets of hazelnuts (in the Northwest) or pecans (in the Southeast) will come naturally if you start thinking like a squirrel. Look for foods that keep well, such as nuts, honey, winter squash and sweet potatoes and stock up.


Oven Tips : Close the oven door gently - slamming forces out the hot air.


Weight loss info

The Atkins’ Diet
Now nearly 5 decades old, the popular atkins diet has been one of the most popular weight loss systems over the last few years. Although not accepted by all scientists, it enables fat reduction whilst allowing many of the foods you love, for example beef and some dairy produce.
With the atkins diet it is considered good to eat fat and protein, it is the carbs that must be avoided. Because of this, it is known as a low carbohydrate/high protein, weight loss regime.
With this diet, the foods you should avoid are processed and refined sugar, milk, white bread, starchy vegetables, white rice and white flour, amongst them, cereals and pasta made from white flour.
Unlike other diets, with the atkins diet the foods you are encouraged to eat are nutrient-rich unprocessed foods such as meat, fish & poultry. You also can eat shellfish, regular full fat cheese, butter & olive oil.













Turtle Pecan Cheesecake Recipe

Turtle Pecan Cheesecake Category Baking Recipes 
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-ROSE RAY DSJN00A- 8 oz Chocolate cookies -- or

- vanilla wafers 1/4 c Butter -- melted

20 oz Cream cheese -- softened

1 c Sugar

1 1/2 tb Flour -- all purpose

1/4 ts Salt

1 t Vanilla extract

3 Eggs

2 tb Whipping cream

-----CARAMEL TOPPING----- 1/2 pk Caramels -- 14-oz package

1/3 c Whipping cream

-----CHOCOLATE TOPPING----- 4 oz German sweet chocolate

1 t Butter

2 tb Whipping cream

1 c Pecans -- toasted, chopped

Preheat oven to 450~. Place cookies in resealable plastic bag. Squeeze out excess air; seal bag tightly. Roll over cookies with rolling pin until finely crushed. Combine cookie crumbs and butter in medium bowl; press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan. Beat cream cheese in large bowl until creamy. Add sugar, flour, salt and vanilla; mix well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Blend in cream. Pour over crust. Bake 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 200~. Continue baking cheesecake 35-40 minutes or until set. Loosen cake from rim of pan; cool before removing rim of pan. Prepare Caramel Topping and Chocolate Topping. Drizzle over cheesecake. Refrigerate cheesecake. Sprinkle with pecans just before serving. Caramel Topping. Combine ingredients in small saucepan; stir over low heat until smooth. Chocolate Topping. Combine ingredients in small saucepan; stir over low heat until smooth. Decadent Cheesecakes from Cooking Class Magazine, March 1993.

 
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