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Italian Veg Recipes

// November 12th, 2011 // No Comments » // Chefs, Cooking, Cooking Books, Recipes For At Home, Vegetarian

Italian cuisine is one that is probably the most popular world-wide and features in many people’s restaurant picks. Nowadays in order to get healthier or even move to an entirely meat-free dietary lifestyle, Italian veg recipes are all the rage.

Vegetarian Italian recipes abound with easy to make tweaks to change the meals to your preference without sacrificing on flavour and satiety. All you need to do is look online and you will find a wealth of such recipes to help you.

If you thought that you could only enjoy this food with meat laden dishes, it is a pleasant surprise that while meat was considered the starring ingredient in most dishes, you can find Italian veg recipes that will easily please your palate.

Growing Food In The Front Yard

// July 12th, 2011 // No Comments » // Farming, Food, Grow Your Own Food, Vegetarian

If you are thinking of growing a vegetable garden and either have no room or not enough sun, don’t eliminate the front yard just because it is unusual. Lots of people are now Growing Food In The Front Yard.

Think about your whole yard. Where do you have enough sun or easy access to water? If the answer is the front yard, consider it. You can have an edible landscape in the front yard that is just as beautiful as a traditional vegetable garden.

You can plant some vegetables in ornamental pots and mix them with some herbs. Attractive raised beds can be planted up with both ornamentals and veggies. Consider interplanting vegetables among your ornamental plants in a regular bed. Scarlet runner beans on trellises are stunning in the garden. Onions work well, and have beautiful flowers if you leave a few to bloom. Many herbs are both beautiful and edible and not only mix well with other plants, but often attract beneficial insects. Consider also, the ornamental flowers that are also edible, such as day lilies, nasturtiums, and even roses. (just don’t use pesticides on those you want to eat.)

There are many options as well as quite a few books on making an edible landscape. Your Garden can be both beautiful and good too eat too.

Cooking Up Your Garden Recipes

// July 4th, 2011 // No Comments » // Farming, Grow Your Own Food, Healthy Food, Vegetarian, Veggies

Are you growing vegetables in your garden? If you are, chances are you are growing things that you like to eat or want to try. One of my favorite vegetables is tomatoes. I find all kinds of things to do with tomatoes and I don’t give away many.

Chances are you already know at least some ways you want to fix what you plan to grow. But when you run out of things to do with those zuccinis or tomatoes or beets, you turn to a cookbook for some garden recipes for all that produce. Or you look up recipes on Epicurious to find out how to cook rutabagas. How do you cook them anyway? A recent favorite of mine is tomatillos…they make great salsa.

Another garden recipe to use is no recipe at all. I just take what I have at any one time and put them all together with whatever herbs sound good to me. Just don’t ask me to do the same thing a second time. Actually, using your own creativity with cooking food is half the fun of having vegetables that come from your own garden. So be a little creative, both in selecting what you plan to grow in your home garden and in cooking what you grow.

Low Fat Low Cholesterol Low Salt Diet

// April 27th, 2011 // No Comments » // Easy Recipes, Fast Recipes, Healthy Cooking, International Cooking, Vegetarian

Sometimes I seize to wonder how these celebrity health experts have become so rich in such short span of time. Don’t we all know that low fat low cholesterol low salt diet is the best? Do we really need to pay someone to tell us? Or does it mean more when you pay someone an extravagant amount to tell you what to eat? Eating healthy can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. Easy – if you know why you are eating low fat low cholesterol low salt diet. Complicated – if you don’t know why you are eating low fat low cholesterol low salt diet but are simply doing it to get some “desired” body image, you have been chasing ever since your teen years.

Here are some eye opening facts about these diet fads:

• Just because something is low fat, it doesn’t necessary give you green signal to hog it like it’s getting out of style. If you finish a giant pack of low fat, potato chips and expect not to pile on pounds then there is only one word to describe you – deluded!
• Bitten by the cholesterol bug? Hey here’s a good idea. Why not switch to extra virgin olive oil for all types of cooking; yes even deep frying. Wake up! Extra virgin olive oil is definitely an A grade oil, but not for cooking. It is best used for salads or low heat cooking. Quit mass mentality and see how your body is reacting to different things.
• Know that salt is present in everything – ketchup, soy sauce, preserved food and even diet chips. So instead of cutting back on little salt used in cooking at home, reduce intake of the previous things.
• For more healthy vegetarian recipes.

Inexpensive Vegan Recipes

// April 19th, 2011 // No Comments » // Cooking Experts, Healthy Cooking, Recipes, Vegetarian

With the flurry of information about food and health and diet and nutrition it’s difficult to know which way to turn. Here are a few tips:

Be aware of what you’re putting into your body. Use fresh and simple ingredients to achieve different and exciting flavors with healthy, tasty results.

If you’re just getting started with your plant-based diet and vegan or vegetarian lifestyle, just try a recipe or two at a time and build up your pantry as you go. Before long, you’ll find you have a good base of reference and an inventory of everything you need on-hand and the confidence you need to branch out and create your own dishes.

Green is good, and be sure to add other colors, flavors and textures to your dishes too! You want to get the very best of everything so don’t skimp on quality and freshness. A great way to eat healthy and save money is to shop at a farmers market or produce stand or keep to the outer edges of your grocery store for your fresh and perishable food once or twice a week. By maintaining a list of all the dried, canned or otherwise packaged items you use regularly, you can look for them on sale and stock up when it’s convenient. You’ll find it easier to cook something spontaneously without all the running around.

The key is to stay organized. You can find the vegan food pyramid, meal menus and grocery lists as well as references and sources for vegan and hard-to-find ingredients on line. We found this website: inexpensive vegan recipes. It also provides health and nutrition information with each recipe and lots of tips, hints and pearls of wisdom.