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.











Quinoa with Leek And Currants Recipe
Quinoa with Leek And Currants Category Vegetarian Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures
Ingredients
1 3/4cupquinoa
2 2/3cupstock, vegetable, or water
4eachleeks, small
1/2cuptomatoes, canned, or 2 roma tomatoes
5tablespooncurrants
1tablespooncumin, ground
1teaspooncinnamon
1teaspoongarlic powder
1/2teaspoonturmeric

Directions:

Slice leeks in half length-wise. Wash all of the larger leaves very well (leeks are very dirty. If you don't wash it well enough your final dish will be gritty). Chop washed leeks cross-wise into thin slices.

Place quinoa in a fine-meshed colander and rinse well for several minutes. You want to remove the bitter coating of saponin that quinoa sometimes has. You can also do this in a regular bowl if you are careful (Fill with water, swirl qunioa around, pour out water, repeat until water is clear).

Place leeks in nonstick pan and cook until limp and reduced (No need to add liquid, leeks will have some water from being washed and tend to give up liquid as they cook).

Add spices to the leeks and stir until well mixed. Add quinoa and cook for a couple minutes. Add stock, currants, and tomatoes, bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer, covered, for 15-20 minutes until done.

Serves 8

Calories: 186.6 Fat grams: 2.6 %CFF: 11.9%
 
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