Articles tagged: "spices"

1: Salads, Dressing, Spices And Deserts In A Raw Food Lifestyle

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni 's The Healthiest Year of Your Life, which can be found at http://thehealthiestyearofyourlifecom

2: Taste of Wisconsin Chocolate

Artist/cartoonist John Q. Tullius said "Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person always lies." Long ago, chocolate became the go-to indulgence for a large portion of humanity. We eat it when we're happy, when we're sad, when we're celebrating, and for no good reason at all. Americans consume 11.7 pounds per person annually. Most chocolate is consumed as candy bars and similar mass-produced treats, but for a growing number, the hunt for high-quality confections made in small quantities by hand using the best ingredients has become a mission.

3: Flavors of Norway -- Syttende Mai

Ask most people what the biggest day on the Norwegian calendar is and they would probably say the first day of the ice fishing season. If you're in that group (come on, be honest) you may be shocked and surprised to find out you're WRONG...close...but WRONG! If you live in Dane, Rock, or Green Counties, you should be run out of town on a rail.

4: Diamonds, Gemstones Go East, Silks,Spices Go West - 7,000 Years Of A Silk Route

The Silk Route predates written history as we know it, and much of it would be more dangerous to travel by camel today than back then. But goods went east while silk would arrive and be made into Damask Silk in Damascus, at 7,000 years the oldest steadily inhabited city in the world.

5: Healthy Eating Guidelines - Alternatives To Salt

Food tastes better when it is properly seasoned to bring out all the flavours The seasoning of choice was always Salt which we now know is not the best thing to have in excess and healthy eating guidelines suggest that we avoid adding it

6: The Scoop on Local Ice Cream

One of my fondest memories of growing up was the ice cream truck slowly cruising through my neighborhood on those hot summer days. The sound of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down or The Entertainer played through tinny speakers would send kids scrambling in every direction to get a quarter before the truck got away. Nothing in the world ever tasted as good as those frozen treats during the hazy summers of so long ago.

7: The Little Dairy that Did

I'm a Wisconsin boy, born and bred; I never met a dairy product I didn't like. My wife and son both drink skim milk but the lowest I would ever go was 2%. I felt, as many do, that skim was just blue water, even if it was healthier. However, recently something happened that changed my mind. That something was Blue Marble Dairy.

8: Commonly Used Spices A Chef 's Spice Guide

This guide is a quick look-up table for the commonly-used spices.Oregano - A peculiar leafy green herb, in that it is one of the few which is more potent dried than fresh. Taste like a cross between mint and lemongrass. Famously used in much of Italian food, especially pizza and pasta sauces, b

9: A Chef 's Spice Reference

This guide is a quick look-up table for the commonly-used spices.Allspice - Comes from the unripe berry of the Pimienta dioica tree. It has a flavor that is similar to cinnamon, pepper, cloves, and nutmeg, and so it gets its name from the effect of combining those flavors. Mainly used in the "J

10: Protect Your Plants!

The devices and implements used for fighting plant enemies are of two sorts:(1) those used to afford mechanical protection to the plants; (2) those used to apply insecticides and fungicides.Of the first the most useful is the covered frame. It consists usually of a wooden box, some eighteen inc

11: How To Care For Fruit Trees

If you have just recently planted a new fruit tree, I think it is safe to assume you are not yet an expert on the subject. More fruit trees die in their beginning years due to poor care habits than any disease or pestilence. Therefore it is vital that you understand how to care for trees in a w