Adding A New Touch To An Ordinary Salad

May 27, 2009
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Usually when I think about models, nutritionists and diet-addicts, I imagine them eating nothing but pure greens. And when I think about pure greens, my mind immediately wanders to the salad bar. For most part, I believe salads are usually composed of lettuce, large chunk of tomatoes, onions, red cabbage, etc.

But here, Chef Davis gave us a new twist to what was normally a boring and tasteless concoction of greens and, okay, reds. In addition to the usual base of your salad, you can add asparagus, green beans, snap peas, beets, corn, baby corn, radishes, sprouts, avocado, broccoli, artichokes and mushrooms. The list is actually endless, according to Chef Davis.

The…

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Spring Tagine Of Chicken With Potatoes And Peas

May 27, 2009
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I love creating dishes from chicken but I’m not much fond of it when it’s basically soup-based. But the Spring Tagine of Chicken with Potatoes and Peas works for me the way fried chicken does.

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 pounds skinless chicken thighs
  • 2 pounds new potatoes, peeled
  • 2 medium onions, diced
  • 1/2 bunch fresh cilantro, tied with string
  • 1/2 punch fresh parsley, tied with string
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 3 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • 2 cups frozen petite peas
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt

Procedure

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Meanwhile, pour the oil into a tangine or dutch oven set over medium heat. Add the chicken and brown on…
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How To Perfectly Poach An Egg

May 27, 2009
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I have always been a fan of eggs, or any poultry products for that matter. If I can have it my way, I think I’ll crack an egg on almost everything I have to eat. But of all the delicacies you can create with an egg, I was never much a fan of the poaching it.

My cousin though, who’s into inventing diet foods, made something akin to how to poach an egg perfectly. However, seeing as I lost her recipe, I decided to browse the net for some secret recipe a netizen might be able to reveal.

The “perfect” method comes from the Complete How to Cook by Delia Smith. According…

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Nintendo’s WiiFit Released For The Health-conscious

May 27, 2009
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After a year, the Nintendo team finally released a new and improved version of the WiiFit. It hopes to improve the previous negativities of the last version of the fitness video game.

So yeah, the Wii is no longer only for EA Games like tennis, golf, etc. Provided that those games make you lose some pound too, not to mention mental and physical exercise, the WiiFit is intended and especially made for the health buffs.

Here are some of the new features in the released version:

  • Sports Active boasts a wide variety of exercises such as running, dancing, basketball, tennis, boxing, inline skating, and “gym” workouts like bicep curls and lunges.
  • Exercises are programmed…
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Spiced Lettuce Cake Bars—A Surprising New Way To Enjoy Cakes

May 25, 2009
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There was a time when one mentions cake, numerous possibilities of obesity and compiling body fats would take us to our worst nightmare. But with the health buffs lately spreading healthy cake recipes, we can now find “healthy” sweets like the unsweetened, sugarless and fat-free pastries out in the market.

The carrot cake is probably one of the most famous vegetable cake that many are patrons of but recently a zucchini-based cake made its way to the hearts of sweet-toothed health buffs. Anyway, now there’s the lettuce cake bar. Made from iceberg lettuce shredded into tiny pieces, you won’t even taste or feel the lettuce in these bars as it is…

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Strawberries In Season

May 25, 2009
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In some parts of America, strawberries are now in season. This lovely berries are usually incorporated into desserts or some other sugar-based sensation—shakes, frappes, crepes, pancakes, etc.—but the one good thing about strawberries are they are versatile even when it comes to using them to savory recipes like in this post’s sake, salads.

Here’s a lovely concoction of spinach and strawberries in a healthy and tasteful salad.

Spinach Strawberry Salad (serves 2)

Ingredients

  • 1/2 shallot, minced
  • 2 tablespoons raspberry vinegar
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 6 ounces baby spinach leaves
  • 5 strawberries, sliced
  • 2 ounces blue cheese
  • Salt and pepper

Procedure

  1. Mix together the shallot and raspberry vinegar. Slowly whisk in the oil.
  2. Rip the spinach leaves into bite size pieces. Toss in a…
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Mouthwatering Menu At The Great American Food and Music Fest

May 24, 2009
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Alright folks, the peeps over some sites has just released the menu for The Great American Food and Music Fest. As you know, the fest will commence on the 13th of June at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View, California. As early as now, three weeks before the grand fest, the organizers have released the menu that folks would be salivating over at the fest.

Here is The Great American Food and Music Fest’s gastronomical treat:

  • Pink’s Hot Dog: $6 with your choice of toppings
  • Katz’s Pastrami Sandwich: $12 for a whole sandwich, $7 for half
  • Anchor Bar Original Chicken Wings: $5 for 5 wings, $10 for 10 wings
  • Barney Greengrass Bagel: $5 with nova…
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Weber’s Go-Anywhere Grill and Smokey Joe Tuck-N-Carry: A Must for Charcoal-loving Urbanites

May 23, 2009
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Apartments and condominium units in urban areas (or in the metro) can barely fit a double-sized bed, what more for full-sized charcoal grills right? So what can grilled food-loving peeps can do but to check out portable charcoal grills. Weber’s Go-Anywhere Grill and Smokey Joe Tuck-N-Carry is just about the right size for a kitchen cabinet storage. Take it out when you need to and throw it inside a cabinet if you don’t. Saves precious time and space.

The Go-Anywhere Grill weighs about 14.5 pounds. It makes a great companion for camping and tailgate parties. This one has a huge grilling space, large enough to fit four medium-sized steaks. You can…

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Shake Your Weight Off With The New Power Plate

May 22, 2009
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As I read an accompanying article with the new vibration plate machine, I remember a movie starring Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone called “Blast from the Past.” In a scene from there, Christopher Walken (who played Fraser’s genius / lunatic father) was filmed riding a plate machine with a belt strapped to his waist while it vibrates. This gives an effect of maybe burning belly fats (just a wild guess).

Anyway, the Power Plate is an innovation to the vibration plate machine. All you need to do is to step onto the plate and gyrate your waist as it vibrates. Researchers are claiming the vibrating machines is especially effective for weight…

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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…

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