Since this month I'm trying to share Mexican recipes, I decided to bake some brownies. I know they aren't consider part of Mexican cuisine (even though we love to eat them), but I added a very Mexican ingredient: the avocado. Ya que estamos...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Sunday, September 27, 2015
lose weight in a healthy way
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015
| FRIED CHICKEN LIVERS | |
1 lb. chicken livers
1/2 c. flour 1/2 c. cornmeal 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. black pepper 1 sm. can mushrooms 1 lg. onion 1 med. green pepper (sweet) 1/2 c. cooking oil
Mix flour, cornmeal, salt and black pepper. Roll chicken livers in flour mixture. Fry livers in cooking oil until browned on both sides. Add rest of ingredients. Cook slow until vegetables are done. Serves 4. I think what works best for us as people is what we strongly believe. For me I strongly believe: . 1. Food is healing. 2. I crave what my body needs to heal ,Lately i have been craving huge salads, chicken livers and beets, dairy products.. | |
Monday, September 21, 2015
Baked Chicken Thigh, Acorn Squash and green grapes for desert
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Saturday, September 19, 2015
What a can of Coca-Cola REALLY does to your body in just an hour | Daily Mail Online
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Liven up water with an Aqua Zinger
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Saturday, September 12, 2015
To the test: a yogurt maker for your home
I'm always keen to try out a new kitchen gadget. So when the Judge Yogurt Maker landed on my doorstep I couldn't wait to start creating my own yogurt. I mean who doesn't love a big bowl of fruit, yogurt and nuts - a wonderfully refreshing way to start...
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Recapturing Your Health Pt 1: Exploring New Options
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Turkey and Pork Meat Patties (Kotlety) - Котлеты
When I got married we visited my husband's aunt, and she was serving this meat balls with mashed potatoes and salad. If you read my story, you probably know that my mom past away just shortly after I got married, so I really didn't have anybody to ask...
Fashion Pointers To Give You Great Style
Do you ever despair of style? The article will give you some crucial advice on how to achieve the look you have always wanted. Add a belt to your outfit if you want to add a little color or an accent piece. You can purchase any type of belt imaginable....
Friday, September 4, 2015
Anne Hathaway X Rihanna Flirts in DIOR
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Hunting wild herbs in a urban enviroment
Can you come up with a tasty, healthful salad, just by foraging the urban neighborhood That would be the ultimate in locally grown food. But most of us don't know the first thing about foraging wild greens.
the seeds taste like a cross between sweetened oatmeal and lettuce.
By a wall at the back of a parking lot, I discover edible dandelions. My biggest worry when foraging urban plants is that they may be contaminated with herbicides. How to avoid them? Know the area you're foraging, I suggests and check plants closely for damage that could be caused by spraying.
stumbles upon an overgrown planter box full of edible greens including prickly lettuce, shepherd's purse wood sorrel.
Henbit, a type of wild mint. Any place you live there's probably 75 different wild vegetables you can add to your diet over the course of the year,
I find some common chickweed good for salad-making along a fence.
I pull some tender young chickweed from next to a rock in Chinatown. One reason people get turned off by wild plants is that they eat the wrong parts or eat them at the wrong time of year.
I chomp on some common chickweed while digging for more wild treats in the green spaces
So we start out looking for wild greens in a hunt for wild greens. I am a leader in efforts to revive the ancient art of foraging. As we step out the door, I start scanning the landscape, then I run across the street, dodging cars.
"I'm looking for green," I say.
I hit the jackpot, right across the street: chickweed growing along a chain-link fence. But just because I am passionate about wild foods, it doesn't mean he'll eat any old plant. A block away, he tests the succulence of a patch of henbit and dead nettle by tasting.
A few plants are just too urban, like a prickly lettuce growing at the base of an office building.
Prickly lettuce is the ancestor of cultivated lettuce, pointing to the lone plant in a sea of blacktop. "This one is covered with some kind of dust from the building, so we won't be collecting this.
In another vacant lot lambs quaters grows proficiently.
wILD gREEN qUICHE
Serves 6
Milkweed flower buds available a few weeks earlier in the season are a fine, broccoli-like substitute for the milkweed pods. If wild greens are not available, you can substitute chopped spinach. The use of cottage cheese reduces the number of eggs otherwise needed.
feral green quiche
1/2 cup canola oil
2 tablespoons milk or cream
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon sage
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1. Mix together the liquids first, then add the dry ingredients. Press into a 10-inch pie pan. Bake 5 minutes in a preheated 425°F oven.
Filling
1 medium onion diced
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 cup grated gruyère cheese
1 1/2 cups 1-inch milkweed pods, cut in half and parboiled
1 cup loosely packed chopped lamb s-quarter leaves
2 eggs plus two additional egg whites
2 ounces small curd cottage cheese
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
1 teaspoon each fresh basil, tarragon, and oregano
Salt and pepper to taste
1. Lightly sauté the onion in the oil (do not brown), and place in the baked pie shell.
2. Next, add half the grated cheese, then all of the milkweed pods and lamb s-quarters.
3. In a separate bowl, beat together the eggs, egg whites, cottage cheese, herbs, and salt and pepper.
4. Pour the egg mixture over the ingredients in the pie shell and top with the remaining grated cheese.
5. Bake at 350°F for 35 minutes. If the top of the quiche browns too quickly, cover it with aluminum foil and continue baking. Let the quiche stand for a few minutes before serving.
From a fast running creek, I pick some watercress.
A little while later, we happen across a clump of weed-like greenery with an intense garlic aroma which Identifies as hedge mustard.
Sorrel, a zingy, lemony green that comes back year after year, makes an interesting addition to fresh salads and is the star of fresh, lemony sauces and creamy sorrel soup. In a small shady woodlot, I find sorrel growing.

NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF WILD GREENS
While perusing a seventeenth-century book on cultivating, I was struck by the way present day greens, add them to blend
In previous times, wild greens were not looked downward on as weeds, but rather were gotten together as potherbs for good eating and wellbeing. In the Old World and in right on time America, wild greens accumulated from woodlots, pasturelands and knolls were a critical piece of the every day diet. However, when nineteenth century industrialization moved dietary patterns toward meat, white bread and prepared nourishments, states of mind toward plants like chickweed and dandelion changed. These wild potherbs, once savored even by the rich, got to be marked as destitution nourishment.
The fact of the matter is, consumable wild plants still are fortune troves of good flavor and wellbeing. You just need to know when to assemble them and how to set them up to draw out their best qualities.
Flavor Factors
All through quite a bit of Europe, especially parts of the eastern Mediterranean, homestead markets still offer wild plants amid their brief season of accessibility. Plants like bladder campion and white mustard are acknowledged as much as new wine or naturally squeezed olive oil.
Albeit a few creators portray the kind of every single wild green as something much the same as spinach, each of these plants offers a particular flavor and surface not found in greenery enclosure vegetables. In particular, they have terroir: Their flavor is resolved to a great extent by the dirt in which they develop. Wild plants, which ordinarily need to battle in poor or rough soil, contain less water in their leaves, so their flavor is more focused than that of patio nursery plants.
Three Potherbs to Try
North America contains a wealth of wild palatable greens, however I especially like bladder campion, chickweed and dandelion. Each of the three can be found in each locale of the United States, or, in the event that you incline toward, could be developed in your own greenery enclosure. Dandelion greens likewise are sold in many markets. For extra wild greens usually found in the United States, see "A Sampler of Edible Wild Greens."
BLADDER CAMPION (Silene vulgaris)
This escapee from the Old World initially was developed in pilgrim kitchen gardens on the grounds that it was viewed as useful for processing (also its whispered notoriety as a love potion). In the wild, this exceedingly nutritious plant develops in all around depleted, gravelly areas, delivering alluring white blossoms from April through September.
The name originates from its unmistakable bladder-like seed units, which look alluring in dried decorative designs. I've generally asked why this really plant with brilliant green leaves hasn't been created into something more awesome, however then, the first thing to be yielded would be its flavor, which I like to portray as a blend of cabbage and walnuts. Bladder campion tastes best before it sprouts. Accumulate it in right on time spring, when the plants first rise, or late fal. at the point when new leaves show up. Pick the littlest, most delicate shoots from plants close to 3 to 4 inches high. Stay away from the biggest leaves, which can be stringy and intense. Eat the youthful shoots crude in plates of mixedook them in omelets (see "Breakfast of Champion
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