Food and cooking tips

Have a Local Food Party : Instead of counting time or distance, simply enjoy the pleasures of local food by organizing a potluck meal in which everything must be local. Keep your fingers crossed that someone will splurge on handmade goat cheese, and don’t forget some local wine, beer or juice. If you’re organizing a big catered event, the Society for Nutrition Education has a downloadable brochure to help you line up local food resources.


If you're eating foods out of season, it's likely that they have come a long way - try to eat food that is both locally produced and can be found at that time of year, locally!


Losing weight

The Atkins’ Diet
Developed by dr. robert atkins in the 1960s, the atkins diet achieved most of its fame during the last decade. Although highly controversial, it claims to allow weight reduction whilst allowing you to eat many foods that are not normally available to dieters, for example meat and hard cheese.
Unlike other diets, with the atkins diet you are encouraged to eat meat and fat, it is carbohydrates that need to be avoided. Because of this, it is known as a low carb/high protein, weight loss program.
With this diet, the foods you should avoid are processed and refined sugar, milk, white bread, starchy vegetables, white rice and white flour, including cereals and pasta made from white flour.
Unlike other diets, with 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 & olive oil.

The Atkins’ Diet Theory
The 'science' behind the popular atkins diet is that if we eat less carbohydrates, we will consume the fat we already carry and we will achieve weight loss













Seviche Acapulco Recipe
Seviche Acapulco Category Appetizer Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

1 lb Turbot fish,

-in fillets 1 Onion, chopped

2 Tomatoes, chopped

1 Avocado, chopped

1 c Green olives (small)

6 tb Olive oil

2 tb Parsley, chopped

1 c Lime juice

1 Serrano chile, chopped

1 tb Ketchup

1 tb White wine

2 Jalapeno chilies,

-chopped 2 oz Capers

Cut the fish fillets into about 1-inch cubes. Marinate it for at least 6 hours (preferably overnight) in about 1/2 cup of lime juice. Rinse the fish in a colander and let it dry for 5 minutes. Put it in a large bowl along with the rest of the lime juice. Put in the rest of the ingredients. Add salt, pepper and oregano to taste. Mix. Serve with salted crackers. NOTES: * A tasty, marinated fish appetizer from Mexico -- This recipe comes from the Delicias Culinarias cookbook that I brought from Mexico. The introduction to the recipe reads: "Seviche is prepared with raw marinated fish. It is very popular in Ecuador, Peru and in the north of Chile. Depending on the region in Mexico, there exist several different styles to prepare it. This recipe comes from the Acapulco region". I am sure that you have tasted this appetizer if you have ever been to a beach in Mexico. It is usually served right where you are "roasting" in the sun or swimming. Yes, the fish in this recipe is raw. However it is "cooked" by marinating it in lime juice. * Use fresh lime juice. You can use any kind of fish that you like with the condition that it does not fall apart after marinating. For instance, it does not work with white fish. : Difficulty: easy. : Time: 20 minutes (after marinating the fish). : Precision: no need to measure. : I. Arieh Cimet : Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA : {ihnp4,chinet}!nucsrl!cimeti : Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust

 
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