General kitchen advice

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.


Buy Local Food : ...but at the same time, figure out what makes sense. It is more energy efficient to raise lambs in New Zealand and ship them to the UK than to raise them in the UK, because New Zealand lamb farming is more energy efficient. It is also more energy efficient to buy produce raised in Spain, than produce that has to be grown in greenhouses in the UK. Baby steps require figuring out which things make sense and which don't.


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.












Skinny Chili Recipe
Skinny Chili Category Beef Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

1/2 lb Red bell pepper, stemmed,

Seeded and deribbed 1/2 lb Yellow onions, peeled and

Cut into 2 inch chunks 2 Cloves of garlic, smashed

And peeled 2 c Canned Italian tomatoes with

Liquid 1 lb Lean ground beef

2 ts Ground cumin

2 ts Oregano

1 tb Chili powder

1/4 ts Hot red pepper sauce

1/2 ts Kosher salt (optional)

2 ts Cider vinegar

Freshly ground black pepper To taste

1.Finely chop pepper, onion, and garlic in a food

processor. Scrape into a 13x10x2" oval dish and stir in tomatoes, breaking up any whole tomatoes. Cover tightly with microwave plastic wrap. Cook at 100% for 9 minutes (in a 650-700 watt oven). Prick plastic to release steam. 2.Remove from microwave. Uncover carefully and stir

in beef and remaining ingredients except vinegar and black pepper. Cover tightly with microwave plastic wrap. Cook at 100% for 5 minutes. Prick plastic. 3.Remove from oven and uncover. Stir in vinegar and

pepper to taste. Stir well, breaking up any large chunks of beef. Serve over baked potatoes or rice. NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS (PER 1/2 CUP SERVING): calories 186, fat 12g,

sodium 244, protein 11g, carbo 7g, cholesterol 43mg

 
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