ChooseMyPlate.gov
Nice idea - replacing the food guidelines pyramid with a plate instead. I would suggest, cutting those grains by half and assigning that half to add up to an eighth more of vegetables.
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Finding time to cook?
If I cooked and planned ahead like this woman wants us all to, I'd never cook anything. http://www.rwood.com/Articles/Finding_Time_to_Cook.htm My favorite way to keep grains, beans and herbs is labeled and stored in gla…
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Raw Applesauce as butter substitute
Do you think raw applesauce as in 1. Chop apples 2. Blend it like hell. Will work as well as regular applesauce as a substitute for butter? I have successfully used store-bought applesauce almost completely as a butter …
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Calcium! Calcium!
The best way to beat cramps is by increasing calcium intake. I know that yogurt is the BEST way to get calcium in my diet but I keep forgetting to eat yogurt and end up with the most vicious of cramps. I can get 80% cal…
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Best Dark Chocolate Bar at Walgreens
Is Lindt 85% Dark chocolate. It is probably the only chocolate bar at Walgreens (@Delaware & North) that does not have cloying amounts of sugar and soy lecithin and whatnots that yuck-ify all dark chocolate. It would ha…
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Pots and Pans: nth iteration
I have been learning a lot about stainless steel cookware these past few days. The best guide to pots and pans on the whole internet is arguably this page: http://www.cookswares.com/discussions/pancon.asp Apparently, wh…
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Make coffee with broken coffeemaker
My coffeemaker broke LONG ago and I didn't really want to get another coffeemaker because I drink so little coffee anyway. So usually I try one of the million ways of making coffee without a coffeemaker as documented on…
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Oven-Baked Spicy Cranberry Open Sandwich
I was absolutely obsessed with the smell of cranberries all week and was determined to have a cranberry-themed dinner today so I created this eccentric-combination warm open sandwich from scratch. I also went slightly c…
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Norpro Krona Stainless Steel Saucepan
Soups are perhaps my most favourite kind of food. I really want a deep three-quart saucepan because I want to make them really fast and more often. When a soup is really thick, the large shallow all-purpose frying pan I…
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#1 Bestseller in Kitchen and Dining Sales
at Amazon is apparently this weird looking thing called the Trudeau Bottle Cap Catcher: http://www.amazon.com/Trudeau-0978029-Bottle-Cap-Catcher/dp/B004TF79WO/ref=zg_bs_kitchen_1 REALLY?! Since when did the people shopp…
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The BEST roasted almonds recipé EVAH
You might think roasting almonds is no big deal, right? You just toss them in a skillet or pan on high or medium heat, wait till they are slightly brownish or maybe put them on a cookie sheet for 15 minutes at 350-400 d…
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Chef's opinions on Cast Iron Pans
How many of you cook in cast iron pans and pots? What do you cook in them? My parents have always made their flatbreads and dosais in cast iron skillets. I always thought they were too unwieldy, uncomfortably heavy and …
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Cauliflower comfort
Lunch is served... Ãœber-tasty cauliflower stew: * Season olive oil with mustard seeds, urad dal, karuveppelai, coriander seeds, cardamom, dried red chillies and cumin. * Add finely chopped garlic, ginger, jalapeños an…
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Cheesy fact.
According to wikipedia, the US was the world's top producer of cheese in 2006, making about 4,275 metric tonnes of cheese every year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese However, the US didn't quite make it to the top t…
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Pizza Pizza
I was craving pizza yesterday night so I made my own for lunch today. 10X tastier and awesome and I bet, around 14X cheaper.
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Eggs on toast.
A cute breakfast for once... Cals...............251 Fat................12g (39%) Cholesterol.....205 mg (143%) Sodium..........532 mg (38%) Carbs.............21g (15%) Fiber..............6g (50%) Protein...........18g (…
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Neufchâtel Cheese
I just discovered that I like eating... Neufchâtel Cheese! with salt or maybe a little pepper or homemade garam masala or all by itself. 100x more tasty and 10000x more awesome than those ridiculous Greek yogurts.
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Awesome Arugula Alternative
What is the single most awesome, infinitely more nutritious, 1000x more delicious, 10x cheaper and 10^6 nuttier alternative to Arugula? Turnip Greens. They top my all-time-favourite greens-list in mixed salads and fun s…
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The meal that defines who I am the best
I think if I had to choose the one meal that probably defines me the most, it has to be this: The colourful and absolutely unexpected bhelpuri. Come to think of it, it's not unlike e:Paul's bowl-mania. The base is a spi…
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Papaya Plot
I developed a crazy craving for papayas over the past couple weeks and luckily found that they sell fabulous Caribbean Reds from Belize at Pricerite for $1.29/lb. I couldn't resist and grabbed three big ones off the dis…
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Food processor Vs. Blender Vs. Wand Vs. Knife
So I had this interesting argument about the functions of a food processor vs. a Blender vs. a Stick/Wand Blender and a knife today afternoon with a couple department-mates. Do you think a food processor can completely …
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Tassajara Bread - Part II
I started making the Tassajara bread yesterday e:tinypliny,53377. Unlike the no-knead bread that I can now make with my eyes closed without recipés or measurements, this was pretty involved and required a million risin…
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Tassajara Bread - Part I
I am making a modified version of the Tassajara Bread right now. http://books.google.com/books?id=3CSkNr82k38C&lpg=PP1&ots=1vOOANLI-e&dq=tassajara%20bread&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q&f=false I got tired of the chocolate pepper …
