admin | October 22, 2010
It’s great when food manufacturers include gluten-free info on their packaging it makes it easy to identify gluten-free products that way. Many foods that contain gluten in one or more of the ingredients are not being properly identified on food labels. I just started a gluten-free diet and after doing some research found that many [...]
admin | April 1, 2010
Gluten-free samples are available every third Thursday of the month from 3-6pm at Valley Natural Foods in Burnsville,MN. You’ll join the gluten-free experts in preparing foods without gluten. For you who have never tried gluten-free foods this is an excellent opportunity to explore and taste cokking without gluten. This is a free event held every [...]
admin | April 1, 2010
There is a rumor that you should not wash mushrooms because they soak up to much water. Infact, most mushrooms do not absorb liquid. The exception is morel mushrooms because they capture water in their crevaces. I like to wash all of my mushrooms and use a mushroom brush to get the dirt off. Mushrooms [...]
admin | March 9, 2010
You can substitute honey for sugar in most recipes. Honey is sweeter and stronger than sugar so replace half the quantity of sugar with honey. Honey can get cloudy and thick making it difficult to get out of the bottle. Put the honey jar in a bowl of very hot water for a few minutes [...]
admin | June 8, 2009
I save money on chicken by buying whole chickens and cooking them in the crock pot. I freeze the excess and so can make several meals from one chicken. My cat particularly likes this, frequently begging. So I was pretty pleased when I went to Sams Club and saw that whole chickens were only 89 cents a pound. Since I often pay $1.39 [...]
admin | May 12, 2009
I’ve often wondered why some oils smoke when I cook with them until I did a little research and found out they did not hold up under the high heat of stir frying. This article compares the good oils with the bad oils as they pertain to your health. So if you want to eat [...]
canman | March 17, 2009
Big box retailers are positioning themselves to crush local natural and co-op food stores with “natural” and “organic” foods that are not environmentally friendly, that disrupt local economies, and that have the potential to stress many thousands of local farmers or even put them out of business. According to the USDA, since 1960 more than [...]
goodfood | March 11, 2009
Realizing the lifetime of a product and it’s environment footprint can make you aware of the greatest impact you can have on the world. The term “Lifetime of a product” means how many times it is used before it is tossed out in the landfill or dump. The shortest lifecycle of the top contender s [...]
goodfood | February 23, 2009
People that need to drink tap water should to be aware of basic tap water safety precautions. Alway let water run for at least a minute in the morning before you drink it or use it for cooking. Water will absorb ingredients from the pipes when water sits in the pipes for a few hours. Always use cold water [...]