General kitchen advice

Buy Local Food : The most local food of all comes from your own garden. Plant a new garden, enlarge the one you already have, or extend your growing season by using row covers and cloches.


Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.


Diet types

The Zone Diet
The Zone diet is a weight loss program primarily invented by Barry Sears in a number of books. The Zone diet is not expressly a weight reduction diet, although many zone diet fans discover that they actually manage to lose weight by following the zone diet.
The main theory of the Zone Diet is that if one were to limit the levels of two key hormones, (insulin and glucogen), then your body releases eicosanoids (anti-inflamatory chemicals) which, in turn puts one's body in a state of equilibrium which is a lot more wholesome than it normally is, which followers of the diet, refer to as '"he zone".
Sears holds the theory that when in the 'zone', your body is perfectly balanced and, as a consequence, doesn't convert energy to unsightly fat.
The main technique of the diet is to maintain the precise ratio of carbs to proteins, and to ensure your diet has increased amounts of Omega 3 and omega 6.













Blackberry Blackheads^ Recipe
Blackberry Blackheads^ Category Holiday Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

1/2 pound Butter -- at room temperature

1 tablespoon Butter -- at room temperature

2/3 cup Sugar

2 Egg whites

4 cups Flour

Blackberry jam -- with seeds -----TOOLS----- Bowl Mixer Pastry brush Cookie sheet Spatula Wire cooling rack

sm Spoon With an adult's help, preheat oven to 325F.

Beat 1/2 pound butter until creamy., Add sugar, a little at a time, until all the sugar has been used.

Add the egg whites and flour to the butter and sugar. Beat until the dough is well blended.

Dip a pastry brush into the tablespoon of butter and lightly brush a very thin layer onto the cookie sheet.

With clean hands, roll the dough into golf ball sized balls. Flatten the balls slightly, and using your thumb, press a dime size dent into the middle of each one. Place cookies, dent size up, about 1" apart on cookie sheet. Bake aobut 12 minutes or until Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for a few minutes before moving them to a wire rack with a spatula. When the cookies are completely cooled, use a small spoon to fillthe dent in each one with jam. Makes about 3 1/2 dozen blackheads.

From the Book: Gross Grub by Cheryl Porter Random House ISBN 0-679-86693-0 Shared by Carolyn Shaw 10-95

 
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