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Mostly Plant-Based
Plant-based eating is a diet focused on consuming plants for the majority of your food intake. This means you get most of your calories from fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds instead of animal products. There are several reasons why people choose to follow plant-based diets: Plant-based diets are often lower in fat and calories than non-vegetarian diets. They also tend to have higher fiber content, which has been linked with lower obesity risk. Plant foods contain many essential vitamins and minerals that the body cannot produce. They also contain antioxidants, which may help prevent cell damage caused by free radicals — molecules formed when oxygen interacts with other molecules or…
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Chain Reaction Season-All, Casa M. Spice Company
Summer is finally here. Last summer, I was unemployed and struggling to find my passion, so we didn’t do much outdoor entertaining. This year is a very different scenario. I have a thriving copywriting business and my blogs, and we can now enjoy family time. Ideally, summers are filled with family, fun, camping, grilling, swimming, and much more. This is becoming the summer we have dreamt about for a long time. Today we broke out the blow-up water slide, and everyone had a blast. Followed by dinner cooked on the grill with chicken, steak, hamburgers, hot dogs, corn, potatoes, and so much more! Casa M. Spice Co. made tonight’s grilling…
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3 Reasons Why Family Cooking Together Matters
In today’s fast-paced society, “making dinner” typically entails tossing a pizza in the oven or reheating a ready-made lasagna. With a job, transportation, school, and after-school activities, finding time to make a whole dinner may seem impossible. Making some time for family cooking together is vital because there are numerous benefits for your family! Your family is a team, and strengthening that link can only strengthen your family. The Importance of Family Cooking Together Form And Reinforce Bonds Michael Canzian believes cooking together allows families to connect, bond, and work together. Work, school, kids’ activities, homework, and other duties eat up the majority of our time in today’s household. Setting aside…
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America’s Test Kitchen CookBooks
The Complete Autumn and Winter Cookbook Autumn and winter cuisine are not just about ambitious project recipes that serve a crowd. It’s also about every day: simple, warming dinners easy enough for a weeknight, and slow-simmered dishes hearty sufficient to satisfy the enormous appetites. There’s The Complete Autumn and Winter Cookbook, your one-stop cold-weather cooking resource no matter the occasion. From seasonal-ingredient-focused meals and desserts to one-pot dinners designed to help you eat well on those quiet, in-between days, The Complete Autumn and Winter Cookbook has a recipe to keep you and your family feeling recharged and satisfied no matter the occasion. Even when you’re not preparing to host, our Food Gifts…
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5 Foods Every Home Chef Should Prepare Using A Griddle Pan
For home chefs, the joy of using a high-quality griddle pan is one of the experiences that make cooking for friends and family such a pleasure. There can be no substitute for that smoky flavor and sear. Those grill marks not only look great, but they also elevate the ingredients above the fat on the bottom of the pan – making the end result even more delicious – and healthy. Achieving that sear is important – however, those parallel lines are not the be-all and end-all of using this vital piece of cookware – there are griddle pans that are flat – and also provide a great cooking experience. The…
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How to Cook with Semi Dried Tomatoes
Early humans weren’t aware of the taste of tomatoes for years. However, the edible grew to become a kitchen staple in the 21st century. Today, the world has several species of the plant that chefs worldwide use to add a delicious flavor to their dishes. Tomatoes taste the best during their peak of ripeness (mostly in summers). They are full of flavors, unlike the ones grown in winters. To enjoy the juiciness of tomatoes in any season, they can be conserved. Sun-dried and semi-dried tomatoes are the preserved form of tasty summer tomatoes. Several Italian brands preserve herbs-flavored dried small tomatoes in containers. Also, there are rare San Marzano peeled…
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Factors to Consider Before Choosing a Blender Jar
Do you want to make tastier but healthy smoothies? Then invest in a quality blender to blend your fruits and veggies. It’s no doubt that a blender is a vital appliance in your kitchen. However, there are so many blenders in the market. Deciding on which to buy or leave is quite a hassle. But not anymore! In this article, you’ll find useful tips on how to buy the best blender. Understand the Different Types of Blenders There are several types of blenders available to buy in the market. Some of these perform necessary tasks while others can cook soup or process hard foods. However, jar blenders are the most…
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Sweet Potato Lasagna – A Better Lasagna!
I absolutely love this period in my life. When I first got married I was determined to be a dutiful wife and make huge meals for my husband and I. Seriously, just two of us and I cooked for an army. Then kids came along and careers that didn’t allow us to be home nearly as much. Cooking a large supper was no longer much of an option – at least not during the week. But I have never lost the love of just cooking and feeding my family a nice meal and even introducing them to new ideas, flavors, textures and colors. It really started with me insisting that…
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5 Tips To Improve Your Cooking
Do you love spending time in the kitchen? If you do then I am sure you will agree that anything to do with following a recipe, baking, frying and flipping is really good fun. The best thing about cooking is being able to share your creations with others, like when you bake a batch of deliciously gooey chocolate chip cookies and get to see the look on everyone’s faces as they try to mop up every last fallen crumb. Or the feeling you get after cooking a great dinner, something that everyone loves that really unites the family and has everyone happily digging in and chatting away. But I wasn’t…
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If You Are A Gourmet
We’re used to hearing ‘gourmet’ each time restaurants, advertisement or people around us want to impress us with someone’s high-end lifestyle or eating habits. But what really is gourmet? It is just that – being posh and fancy about what you eat or is it more? I think it’s definitely closer to a philosophy, a way of living. Gourmet – this really is high-class food or a person who appreciates this food, as I classic chicken salad. It is certainly an artistic and aesthetic approach to everything food-related, starting from growing and making food and ending with eating as a wholesome, life-enriching experience. This way, gourmet may or may not…
