Food and cooking tips

If you're eating foods out of season, it's likely that they have come a long way - try to eat food that is both locally produced and can be found at that time of year, locally!


Time for cooking is often in short supply, but you can cut cooking time in half by making large batches and eating the leftovers another day. In an age when the average American spends only 32 minutes a day preparing food, strategy is crucial to increasing your consumption of local food.


Dieting 101

The Atkins’ Diet
Now nearly 5 decades old, the famous atkins diet achieved most of its fame during the last few years. Having many well known film stars amongst its supporters, it allows weight reduction whilst still eating many of the foods you love, such as meat and eggs.
On the atkins diet you eat protein and fat, it is carbohydrates that need to be avoided. It is often referred to as a low carbohydrate/high protein, diet.
With this diet, the foods you should avoid are processed and refined sugar, milk, white bread, starchy vegetables, white rice and white flour, including cereals and pasta made from white flour.
Unlike other diets, on the atkins diet the foods you are encouraged to eat are nutrient-rich unprocessed foods like meat, fish and poultry. You also can eat shellfish, regular full fat cheese, butter and olive oil.

The Atkins’ Diet Theory
The logic of the atkins diet is that if we consume fewer carbohydrates, our bodies will consume our fat and we will diet successfully















Three Cheese Chicken Breasts In Tomato Sauce Recipe

Three Cheese Chicken Breasts In Tomato Sauce Category Pasta Recipes 
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1/4 cup olive oil

6 skinless boneless chicken breast halves

1/2 large onion -- chopped

2 large garlic cloves -- chopped

1 tablespoon dried oregano

15 ounces tomato sauce -- canned

14 1/2 ounces Italian style stewed tomatoes

1/3 cup dry white wine

2 bay leaves

8 ounces penne pasta -- cooked

1 cup mozzarella cheese -- grated

1/3 cup asiago Cheese -- grated

1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese

Prehat oven to 375?F. Butter 13x9x2 inch glass baking dish. Heat oil in heavy large skilet over high heat. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Add chicken to skillet; saute until outside is white, about 1 minute per side. Transfer to plate. Add onion, garlic, and oregano to skillet and saute until onion begins to soften, about 4 minutes. Add tomato sauce, stewed tomatoes with their juices, wine, and bay leaves and cook until sauce thickens, breaking up tomatoes with spoon, about 8 minutes; discard bay leaves. Line prepared dish with penne. Arrange chicken over. Spoon sauce over, covering chicken and pasta completely. Mix cheeses in small bowl. Sprinkle cheeses over sauce. Bake until chicken is just cooked through and sauce bubbles, about 20 minutes.

Source: "Bon App?tit, April 1995"

 
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