Include Greens For A Healthy And Well-Balanced Diet

February 3, 2010
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Americans are not usually into eating greens but here, we discussed how important it is for people to include greens to their diet.

Green, leafy vegetables can actually fight disease, bring balance to your body, purify your blood, offer cancer prevention and increase your circulation. They can also strengthen one’s immune system and bring you excess energy. These vegetables are also helpful in treating depression and balance your intestinal flora, improve liver, gall bladder and kidney.

There are plenty of green and leafy vegetables you can choose from: there’s broccoli, peas, kale, romaine, bok choy, napa cabbage, kale, collards, watercress, mustard greens, broccoli rabe and dandelion.

However, greens like spinach, Swiss chard and…

Broccoli Quiche With Gruyere And Cheddar Recipe

December 8, 2009
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Quiche is like a blank canvas; you can do everything you want with it, put everything you want in it. It also makes for a perfect breakfast, lunch or dinner dish. It can also be served in a casual or elegant setting.

This recipe, from French Food Revolution, combines two of most delicious food in the history of mankind.

Ingredients: (serves 6)

1 pie crust

3 eggs

1 egg yolk

1 1/2 cups half and half

1/2 pound broccoli florets

2 ounces grated Gruyère

2 ounces grated sharp white cheddar

1/4 cup fresh chervil, roughly chopped

Salt and freshly cracked black pepper

Procedure:

- Preheat the oven to 375°F.

- Roll out the pie crust slightly, so it fits into a fluted 10-inch tart pan…

Sorrel Shrimp Rissoles With Artichoke Aioli Recipe

November 2, 2009
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My love relationship with shrimps started a long time ago… and so every time I stumble upon a good shrimp recipe (or any kind for that matter), I immediately has the urge to try them and see if it somehow compares to the best shrimp dishes I have tasted in the past.

Here is a recipe from French Revolution Food by Kerry Saretsky.

Ingredients:

Rissoles

Vegetable oil for frying
12 8-12 count shrimp, peeled and deveined, tails on
12 sorrel leaves
12 sheets filo dough
Olive oil for brushing the filo dough
Salt

Artichoke Aïoli

1 clove garlic
4.5 ounces thawed frozen artichoke hearts (1/2 packet)
1/2 cup mayonnaise
Zest and juice 1/4 lemon

Procedure:

- Fill a cast iron skillet halfway up with vegetable oil.…

Tapenade, Pistou, Aioli And More In France

July 15, 2009
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Toasted baguettes with spreads of olive oil-based pastes are always the best in France. Although you can probably find baguettes around every corner of your place, tapenades, pistou and aioli are still best made by the French.

Here’s a simple introduction to these pastes:

Tapenade

The most popular of all spreads, the tapenade is a mixture of olives, anchovies, capers, garlic and olive oil. It can be made with either green or black olives. To prepare: the olives and capers are finely chopped, crushed or blended. Olive oil is added to the mixture to turn it into a paste.

Olivade

Often referred to as olivada, this is a tapenade without the anchovies and capers. Simply…

How To Make A Proper French Omelet

June 4, 2009
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I love the all-American, cheese-filled omelets that I have gotten used to, but also there’s another kind of omelet out there—the one we cheese-devouring people forgot about. The French omelet—a thin, spare and just barely cooked past runny kind of omelet.

Laced only with a bit of cheese or some fresh herbs, the original French omelet is not about the fillings inside but it is about the eggs themselves.

Proper French Omelet

Ingredients:

  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 4 grinds of fresh pepper (preferably white, but only for aesthetic reasons)
  • 2 teaspoons cold water
  • 1/4 cup grated cheese (optional)
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs (optional)

Procedure:

1. In a mixing bowl or measuring jar, combine the egg, seasoning,…

How Schools In France Teaches Kids To Be Healthy

May 27, 2009
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I remember seeing the menu at my previous school and gagging for all the unappetizing food they expect us to eat there—macaroni, porridge and oh yeah… softdrinks for breakfast. What kind of system is that?

Cafeteria lunches are known to be horrible in probably all the corners of all the schools in this world. But the blog, School Lunch Talk, is making a comparative study on how other countries have been feeding their students.

In France, lunch is the time to teach students how to have healthy eating habits. An example of their “healthy eating habit” is a meal of Basque chicken thigh with herbs, red and green bell peppers and olive…

French’s Pate is no better than dog food

May 21, 2009
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Here’s a laugh out: As many of you know, pate is a French food made from mashed meat, liver, fat, wine and spices. It’s usually served in big city and high-end parties and is considered one of the finest food out of the French cuisine.

But in a recent study—titled “Can people distinguish Pate from Dog Food?”—made by the American Association of Wine Economists, it found out that only 3 out of 18 subjects were able to identify the dog food from the pate.

Although provided they did not choose the dog food over the pate but still, 3 out of 18? That’s a pretty disgusting figure. Taste-testers were made to eat…