Cooking tips

Try Eating Raw Food : You need a balance of three basic food groups as most of your diet:
  • sweet fruits (apples, oranges, berries, melons, etc.)
  • green leaves (dark lettuce, kale, collards, spinach, etc.)
  • raw plant fats (avocados, olives & their oil, coconuts & their oil, nuts & seeds, durian)
  • Eat lots of sweet fruit, lots of green leaves, and some fat (as dressing, pâté, hummus, etc.). Add vegetables as desired, and sprouted grains and legumes occasionally. Try fruit for breakfast and snacks; greens, veggies and fat for lunch and dinner.


    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.












My Recipe File

Hi, I'm Anya and I love cooking tasty meals for my family - its more than just a hobby, its a passion.

I used to collect recipes from the many cookbooks I own, (many in my native language, 'Russian') translating and typing them into my computer and then printing them off as required.

What a tedious job that was! .... but then came the internet, and I found that thousands of other people have been doing the same thing.

Pretty soon we started swapping recipes and building up our collections, exchanging recipes via e-mail and recipe news groups.

This site lists all the recipes in my personal collection, and has categories for various different styles of regional cooking, different ingredients, diets etc.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.


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Teff Cakes
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Mississippi Mud Bars
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