General cooking tips

Buying an Oven : If you need to purchase a gas oven or range, look for one with an automatic, electric ignition system. An electric ignition saves gas-because a pilot light is not burning continuously.


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 low-cal diet

In simple terms, a low calorie weight loss regime says that if you plan to get rid of some fat, the important thing to eat fewer calories than you need.

So what is a calorie?
The calorie is a unit for measuring food's ability to produce heat and energy. The calorie is the the energy required to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at normal atmospheric pressure. If something contains more calories, then it will gives you a larger amount of energy when eaten.

Foods low in calories include cauliflower, swede, guava, steaks and burgers, and low-fat cheese.













Spicy Corn Pancakes Recipe
Spicy Corn Pancakes Category Spicy Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

2 c Whole wheat flour

1 t Salt

1 t Baking powder

2 c Corn kernels, fresh or

Frozen 2 Chipotle chili peppers,

Diced 2 Cloves garlic, minced

4 Scallions, diced

1 c Lowfat soy milk

These delicious pancakes make a terrific dinner when served with a bottled salsa for topping. I use chipotle chili peppers that are canned in adobo sauce, but you can also use dried chipotles. Let the dried peppers soak in warm water for several minutes before you dice them. Mix whole wheat flour with salt and baking powder. In a separate bowl, mix corn, chipotles, garlic, scallions, and soy milk. Gently blend wet ingredients with dry until well mixed. Spray skillet with vegetable cooking spray and preheat until it is moderately hot. For each pancake, use about 1/4 cup batter. Cook 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown.

Total Calories Per Serving: 302 Fat: 2 grams This article originally appeared in the March/April, 1994 issue of the _Vegetarian_Journal_, published by the Vegetarian Resource Group, PO Box 1463, Baltimore, MD 21203.

From: bobbi@clark.net (Bobbi Pasternak). rfvc Digest V94 Issue #204, Sept. 22, 1994. Formatted by Sue Smith, S.Smith34, TXFT40A@Prodigy.com using

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