Cooking advice

Buy Seasonal Food : Most food, from fruit to fish, has a season -a time when it is abundant and at its best. Knowledge about food's seasons was once essential to survival and became culturally ingrained over the centuries. Today, we have all but lost this accumulated wisdom, but it still matters! Buy local and seasonal to guarantee the best quality food you can get.


Buy Fairtrade Food : The FAIRTRADE Mark is an independent consumer label which appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal.

For a product to display the FAIRTRADE Mark it must meet international Fairtrade standards. These standards are set by the international certification body Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International (FLO).

Producer organisations that supply Fairtrade products are inspected and certified by FLO. They receive a minimum price that covers the cost of sustainable production and an extra premium that is invested in social or economic development projects.
  • Find out which fair trade products are available at which supermarkets
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Dieting 101

The Zone Diet
The Zone diet is a diet system initially detailed by Barry Sears in a number of books. The Zone diet is not distinctly a fat reduction diet, although many zone diet followers believe that they really manage to lose body weight by following this system.
The theory behind the Zone Diet is that if you gain control of the levels of insulin and glucogen (both hormones), then your body releases eicosanoids (anti-inflamatory chemicals) which, as a result puts the body in a state of equilibrium which is much more healthful than usual, which, not surprisingly, is known as 'the zone'.
Sears states that when in the 'zone', your body is working at its best and, as a consequence, does not build up fat.
The key technique of the zone diet is to monitor and control the exact ratio of carbs to proteins, and to dose yourself with large amounts of Omega 3 and omega 6.













Chocolate Cake Doughnuts Recipe
Chocolate Cake Doughnuts Category Baking Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

1 1/2 c Granulated Sugar

2 Eggs

4 tb Butter

3 oz Unsweetened Chocolate

1 1/2 ts Vanilla

1 c Buttermilk

3 1/2 c All-Purpose Flour

3 ts Baking Powder

1 t Baking Soda

1/2 ts Salt

-----ICING----- 1 c Powdered Sugar

1 Egg White

1/2 ts Vanilla

All the ingredients should be at room temperature (70oF.) Beat the sugar and eggs together until creamy and lemon colored. Melt the butter and chocolate together in a small saucepan over low heat. Beat into the sugar and egg mixture. Combine the vanilla and the buttermilk. Stir into the sugar mixture. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Stir into the liquid mixture. Chill the dough slightly to make it easier to handle. Roll out half the dough on a lightly floured board. Roll to a /" thickness. Cut into doughnuts. Allow the cut doughnuts to dry for 10 minutes. Heat 2" of oil to 370o in a large skillet. The dough should be at room temperature before frying. Dip a metal pancake turner into the hot oil each time before using it to move or turn a doughnut. Transfer the doughnuts to the skillet, one every 15 seconds. Fry each doughnut about 90 seconds per side. Remove the doughnuts and drain on paper towelling.

 
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