General kitchen advice

Oven Tips : Cook with the oven door closed. A partially open door wastes energy, costs you money, and warms you instead of the food.


Buy Organic Foods : There are 12 foods where buying organic makes even more sense than normal.
According to the EWG (Environmental Working Group) the 12 most contaminated foods are:
  • apples
  • bell peppers
  • celery
  • cherries
  • imported grapes
  • nectarines
  • peaches
  • pears
  • potatoes
  • red raspberries
  • spinach
  • strawberries
All tested positive for pesticide residue – even after having been washed! Sweet bell peppers were the vegetable with the most pesticides overall, with 39 pesticides detected on a single sample. Conversely, if you're going to buy conventional, peas, broccoli, onions, pineapples, mangoes, bananas, kiwi and papaya had the lowest occurrence of pesticide residue.


Dieting 101

The South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet is a diet invented by Miami-based cardiologist arthur agatston which encourages that one should consume "good carbohydrates" instead of "bad carbohydrates" and "good fats" instead of "bad fats"
Doctor agatston invented the south beach diet for his cardiac patients, based on his detailed analysis of scientific studies on other nutritional studies.
Examples of good foods include, broiled ham, turkey breast, oysters, ricotta cheese, almonds, eggs and certain vegetables, like asparagus, celery and spinach.













Red, White, and Blue/Black Casserole Recipe
Red, White, and Blue/Black Casserole Category Casserole Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

1 Large Eggplant

3 Large Tomatoes -- sliced 1/2-in thick

1 1/2 Pounds Mozzarella Cheese -- sliced 1/4-in thick

1 Large Onion -- sliced thin (optiona

Red, White, and Blue/Black Casserole (Eggplant casserole with tomato and cheese)

Cut the eggplant lengthwise once, then slice crosswise into semidisks about 3/4 inch thick.

In a shallow casserole dish (2 in deep), stand some slices of eggplant on the narrow cut edge, to make a row, then fol- low this with slices of tomato, then slices of mozzarella cheese. Repeat until the whole dish is full. It should appear from the top to have bands of red, white, and black.

Use your favorite seasoning (basil/oregano is the default), and bake until bubbly (about 25-30 minutes at 350 deg. F.

contributed by Richard Newman-Wolfe, University of Rochester, Rochester NY, Nemo@Rochester.ARPA, from The Victory Garden Cookbook(?)

Serves 4-6. 5 minutes preparation, 30 minutes to bake.

You may wish to put a layer of onions on the bottom, horizontally, before you put the eggplant in the pan.

This only works with European-style eggplant; Japanese and Asian eggplants are too narrow.

 
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