General tips

Buy Local Food : Begin by taking baby steps, such as committing to spend £10 pounds a week on locally grown foods.


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.


Oven Tips : If you don't have one, consider buying a self-cleaning oven. They use less energy for normal cooking because of higher insulation levels. They also save on your rubber glove and cleanser purchases! However, if you use the self-cleaning feature more than once a month, you'll end up using more energy than you saved. When you clean the oven, do it right after cooking to take advantage of residual heat.


Safety in the kitchen

Electrical appliances - especially those that work at high speeds, such as the washing machine - should be serviced each year.
If you're called away from the cooker - by the phone, say, or by someone at the door - take pans off the heat. It's the easiest thing in the world to forget about them.











Tabbouleh (Lebanese Style) Recipe
Tabbouleh (Lebanese Style) Category Vegetarian Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

2/3 c Bulgur

2 c Water

2/3 c Minced red onion

1 ts Salt

1/2 ts Ground allspice

1/2 c Finely chopped fresh mint

-leaves or 1 tb dried, -crumbled 2 1/2 c Finely chopped fresh parsley

-leaves (preferably flat- -leafed) 1/2 c Finely chopped scallion

1/4 c Fresh lemon juice

1/4 c Extra-virgin olive oil

1 1/2 c Finely-diced seeded seedless

-cucumber Put bulgur in a heatproof bowl. Bring water to a boil and pour over bulgur. Let bulgur stand 1 hour. While bulgur is soaking, in a large bowl, stir together onion, salt, allspice, and dried mint, if using (do not add fresh mint now), and let stand 30 minutes. Drain bulgur in a sieve, pressing hard to extract as much water as possible, and add to onion mixture with remaining ingredients, including fresh mint, if using. Toss salad well and season with salt and pepper. Appeared in the Jan 1995 issue of Gourmet magazine.

 
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