General cooking tips

Buying an Oven : If you need to purchase a gas oven or range, look for one with an automatic, electric ignition system. An electric ignition saves gas-because a pilot light is not burning continuously.


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.


Diet types

The low-cal diet

In simple terms, a low calorie weight loss regime says that if you plan to get rid of some fat, the important thing to eat fewer calories than you need.

So what is a calorie?
The calorie is a unit for measuring food's ability to produce heat and energy. The calorie is the the energy required to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at normal atmospheric pressure. If something contains more calories, then it will gives you a larger amount of energy when eaten.

Foods low in calories include cauliflower, swede, guava, steaks and burgers, and low-fat cheese.











Vospapur (Armenian Lentil and Spinach Soup) Recipe
Vospapur (Armenian Lentil and Spinach Soup) Category Appetizer Recipes 
Views 68 
Ratings 0 
Ingredients And Procedures

1 lg Onion, chopped

3 ea Garlic cloves, minced

1 ts Ground cumin

1/2 ts Ground coriander

1 ts Hungarian paprika

6 c Vegetable stock

1 1/2 c Dried lentils

-- rinsed & drained 20 oz Frozen spinach, thawed

29 oz Tomatoes, chopped

Salt & pepper 4 tb Lemon juice

Heat a non-stick soup pot or Dutch oven over high heat. When the pan is very hot, all at once add the onion, garlic, cumin, coriander, and paprika. Let sit for 30 seconds without stirring, then add 1/4 cup of the chicken stock. Saute over high heat, stirring, for 4 minutes. Add another 1/4 cup of the chicken stock and scrape the bottom of the pot. Add the lentils and spinach and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add the remaining 5 1/2 cups of chicken stock and the tomatoes and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, season with salt and pepper, and simmer, covered, until the lentils are tender, about 50 minutes. Season with the lemon juice and additional salt and pepper, if needed. Let sit for 5 minutes before serving. Serving Ideas : Serve with a good dense hearty bread.

 
Rate this recipe!
1   2   3  4   5  
 
Post this recipe to your site




Search Recipe Database: