Food and cooking tips

Buy Organic Foods : There are 12 foods where buying organic makes even more sense than normal.
According to the EWG (Environmental Working Group) the 12 most contaminated foods are:
  • apples
  • bell peppers
  • celery
  • cherries
  • imported grapes
  • nectarines
  • peaches
  • pears
  • potatoes
  • red raspberries
  • spinach
  • strawberries
All tested positive for pesticide residue – even after having been washed! Sweet bell peppers were the vegetable with the most pesticides overall, with 39 pesticides detected on a single sample. Conversely, if you're going to buy conventional, peas, broccoli, onions, pineapples, mangoes, bananas, kiwi and papaya had the lowest occurrence of pesticide residue.


Buy Local Food : The most local food of all comes from your own garden. Plant a new garden, enlarge the one you already have, or extend your growing season by using row covers and cloches.


Weight loss info

The Atkins’ Diet
First invented by doctor atkins in the sixities, the atkins diet is still one of the most popular diets today. Popular with many famous celebrities, it enables weight loss whilst allowing many foods that would not be part of a normal diet, like fatty meat and eggs.
Unlike other diets, on the atkins diet it is considered good to eat fat and protein, avoiding carbohydrates almost completely. It is referred to as a low carbohydrate/high protein, diet system.
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.
On the atkins diet the foods you are encouraged to eat are nutrient-rich unprocessed foods like meat, fish & poultry. You also can eat shellfish, regular full fat cheese, butter and olive oil.













Juniper Marinated Medallions Of Caribou Fillet Recipe
Juniper Marinated Medallions Of Caribou Fillet Category Game Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

10 Juniper berries

2 tb Oil

2 lb Fillet of caribou

1 Onion; chopped

1 Carrot; diced

2 c Red wine

2 Cloves

1 Bay leaf

1 Sprig rosemary

Salt Fresh ground black pepper Flour for coating Butter for frying 4 tb Cream

1 tb Black currant jam

Fry the crushed juniper berries in the oil until they change colour slightly. Cool. Marinate the caribou fillet in this oil and juniper mixture overnight, in a cool place. Cut the caribou fillet into steaks, or medallions, about 3/4 inch thick. Trim the edges then set the medallions aside. Fry the trimmings in a little oil until brown and crispy. Add the chopped onion and carrot and fry gently until onion is golden brown. Pour in the red wine, add the cloves and herbs and reduce gently til half volume. Strain and set sauce aside. Season the medallions with pepper, toss in flour and then fry in butter until well browned but pink inside. Salt them and put on one side to keep warm. Pour some of the sauce into the frying pan and scrape to mix in the meat juices. Add the cream, and stir to incorporate it into the sauce; do not allow to boil. Finally, add the black currant jam. Pour the sauce over and serve.

 
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