Food Guide and Recipes

Sports drinks are beverages that contain high amounts of carbohydrates and vitamins to help the body replenish the fluids and nutrients burned during exercising and sporting events. The general notion that sports drinks are only beneficial to our body is wrong, for the most part because the overconsumption of sports drinks can cause real harm to our health.

One of the major advantages of sports drinks is that they replace the fluids we lose while exercising through sweating. Through sweat, we lose a lot of vitamins and nutrients that are vital for the proper functioning of our organism. By consuming sports drinks, we can replenish many of these vitamins. This is the most common reason athletes and active people consume sports drinks. Continue reading ‘Pros and cons of consuming sports drinks’ »

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Although soft drinks are often the culprit for a series of health issues, they are, admittedly, vital vehicles of a balanced diet. After intensive work out, soft drinks are quicker absorbed than water providing to human body hydration and energy, while replenishing all the key vitamins and minerals that the body loses during exercising. Soft drinks typically complement fast food meals or pre-packaged foods, but the can also complement a healthy diet and be real catalysts to health and fitness. Besides, their balanced taste of sweet and acid, matched with their variety of pleasant flavors makes soft drinks appealing to all ages of consumers.

Being well aware of the effect that soft drinks have on consumers and the direct effect of advertising on them, soft drinks corporations and large beverage companies target from elementary school children to elder individuals aiming to meet their tastes and increase their profitability. From their point of view, soft drink corporations have a ‘competitive advantage’ over consumers in terms of being aware of the nutritional significance of soft drinks. Although they often exaggerate in the context of promoting their products and achieve highly profitable operations, still they have a point when they stress the nutritional value of soft drinks. Continue reading ‘Soft drinks: Ingredients and their nutritional value’ »

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If you like cheese cakes and peaches, I think you will enjoy this dessert cake recipe.

The cake is very rich and sweet, and made in the 2 layer technique. The first layer is like that of a traditional cake and the second layer is more like a cheese cake. If desired, you can completely omit the cinnamon sugar topping. Continue reading ‘How To Make A Peaches and Cream Dessert Cake’ »

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Ingredients:

-2kg chickens ( 1kg each chicken)

-Lemon wedges,

-hot potato chips,

For chilli sauce:

-3 roughly chopped garlic cloves,

-1/4 cup olive oil,

-5-7 small fresh roughly chopped red birdseye chillies,

-1 tablespoon sea salt,

-2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice Continue reading ‘Portuguese Barbecue Chicken Recipe’ »

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Ingredients

2 lemon grass stalks
3 fresh green chiles, seeded and chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped
3 scallions, chopped
1 handful cilantro leaves
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground white pepper
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 tsp ground coriander
grated zest 1 lime
3 tbsp fresh lime juice
2 tsp grated fresh ginger root
1 tbsp fish sauce
1/2 cup (120ml) coconut milk
4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, butterflied
salt, black pepper
1 recipe fresh papaya sambal (see Sauces), optional Continue reading ‘Barbecue Thai Lime and Coconut Chicken Recipe’ »

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Living in Pennsylvania Dutch Country means we often enjoy German cooking and recipes. Several years ago, I met a German woman down in Lancaster County who gave me her recipe for Beef Rouladen.

What is Rouladen you might ask? It is a thinly sliced beef steak that is wrapped around onions, bacon, mustard and pickles and then tied shut to form a roll. Traditionally it is served with potatoes, dumplings or cabbage. Continue reading ‘How To Make Homemade Beef Rouladen For Dinner’ »

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I found a great recipe for Champagne cake when I was searching the internet the other day. I generally make boxed mixes and add ingredients to them to spice them up, but I decided to live on the edge and try making a cake from scratch. Also my husband and I don’t drink but were given a bottle of champagne as a gift and didn’t know what to do with it, so we found a great recipe for this champagne cake.

It uses cake flour, which I used King Arthur unbleached cake flour for this recipe, 6 egg whites, which I seperated myself instead of using powdered egg whites, champagne, sugar and other ingredients (listed at the link below). Continue reading ‘Champagne cake’ »

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This recipe makes a refreshing, very pretty, and tasty Vegetable Congealed Salad. This recipe is easy and make a perfect salad to serve at lunch or dinner with family or friends. This salad is also good for office lunches, church dinners, potlucks, brunch, etc. This vegetable salad is pretty whether you choose to make it in a large mold or in eight individual molds. The individual molds works great for a buffet-style meal. When serving individual salads, line eight salad plates with a nice lettuce leaf and unmold the salads onto the center of the leaves. If you aren’t worried about serving sugar and have no diabetics among your family or friends, you can serve this as a regular salad by using regular lime flavored gelatin. This salad makes a pretty salad for holiday tables and buffets.

VEGETABLE CONGEALED SALAD

1 pkg (.6-oz) sugar-free lime flavored gelatin*

2 cups boiling water

1 3/4 cups cold water

1/4 cup cider vinegar

1 cup chopped celery

1 cup shredded carrot

2 tbsp chopped sweet red pepper

2 tbsp chopped green onion

vegetable oil cooking spray

Dissolve gelatin in boiling water in a medium-size bowl. Stir until all the gelatin is dissolved. Stir in cold water and vinegar. Chill until mixture is the consistency of unbeaten egg white. Fold in the celery, carrot, red pepper and green onion. Pour the gelatin mixture into a mold that has been lightly sprayed with the vegetable oil spray. Chill until firm. Continue reading ‘How to Make a Vegetable Congealed Salad with both Regular and Diabetic Instructions’ »

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