Buffalo Meat – Family Friendly Dinners

Feeling a little brave, and want to venture out from the beef, chicken, and pork, that is so heavily consumed by our society? If you have never tried buffalo meat before, you are in for a wonderful treat. Some people are a little bit hesitant to try buffalo, but once they do, most people like it very much. Unlike some wild game, buffalo does not have a strong gamey taste, and its flavor is often described as very similar to beef, yet more rich tasting and savory. Buffalo can be used in all the popular ways that beef is served, including, hamburgers, ribs, roasts, steaks, stews, and even buffalo jerky.

Buffalo, also known as bison, once numbered in the millions, and they were a life sustaining food source for the American Indians. They were almost hunted to extinction, but luckily their numbers have came up, and their prized meat is now available for you to purchase at affordable prices. However you decide to use this meat, it will certainly be enjoyed if it is cooked right. Because buffalo meat has less fat, and more protein than other meats like beef and pork, it is easier to overcook it. No one likes overcooked, tough meat, but thankfully with a few considerations, it is easy to make buffalo meat that is naturally tender and juicy.

Buffalo Meat is Great Roasted, or Burgers on the Grill

You will have the most success by cooking the meat slowly at low temperatures. If you are roasting it, make sure to have it ready ahead of time so you can cook it for several hours. Buffalo is can also be absolutely delicious when grilled or fried. Just make sure to check and turn it often. When the meat is done, it should be dark brown on the outside and lighter and juicy on the inside. Not only will you enjoy the taste, but also your body will thank you because of the high nutritional value of eating buffalo.

Pasta done quick with a blender

A speed blender is going to help make life for your kinds and yourself a lot more easier than you would have ever imagined. Not only is it going to be easier and faster to cook meals that you’ve been used to eating fro a whole, but the immense versatility of any blender that you get is going to let you cook a lot more dishes than what would have been possible without a blender. Italian food takes a lot of time to cook if it has to be done right, sure I can whip up italian anything in a couple of minutes is the time and the kids demand it, but usually I like to spend atleast an hour making and cooking the sauces, dressings and the condiments for the dish.

The thing with pasta is that in order to make it taste like the way the Italians intended it to be all the ingredients for the dressing need to be prepared fresh. The major component of spaghetti and meatballs or pasta in general is the tomatoes that go into them. While pretty much everyone uses tomato puree nowadays, the truth is and I know deep down inside you know it too that they taste nothing like real tomatoes. Coming from someone who has tried pretty much every available brand of tomato puree, the taste is off by a few factors namely the tanginess of the tomatoes as well as the sauciness of the puree. And some of the bad ones are so saucy to taste that the tanginess is missing altogether.

Once you’ve got the tomatoes and the herbs into the blender (I prefer to use the Vita Mix 1300 TurboBlend 4500)  and are done chopping all of the inions sauté the resulting paste and plop it into a pan with your boiled pasta for the best tasting pasta that you children have ever eaten.

Digital Kitchen Scale: Your Absolute Measure For Consistency

One of the best ways to make sure that you can make the same good tasting recipe over and over again is by using a kitchen scale. This very simple instrument can significantly change the way you prepare food. It can help you gain back your confidence in making consistently delicious menu that your family and guests will surely enjoy. This can also help you budget better in buying and using ingredients. Because you can set standards of volume for each ingredient you will have no problem in making sure that everything goes to plan. Today the kitchen scale is innovated to meet more demands in food preparation. The digital kitchen scale is a feature-laden scale that overshadows the use and utility of analog scales used for decades.

An electronic kitchen scale can pack its own memory chip that allows it to store vital food and weight information. This can give you the ability to automatically detect excesses in your ingredients that you previously saved on its system as unfit. This can be a major step towards a healthier way of preparing food. The nutrition scale, a digital scale hybrid can detect net carbohydrate content and calorie count that can also aid people with sensitive medical conditions to carefully watch for the food they eat.

Regardless of what you want to get in a digital scale, through technology these wants are slowly answered. With taste and health issue addressed, the digital scale’s efficiency is also very impressive. Because of its numeric LED display, you can go away with reading analog dials that can sometimes be very difficult to do, especially in fast paced cooking. The digital scale is made up of low maintenance materials like stainless steel and plastic. With enough care and maintenance the electronic scale can last for a very long time.

The Woman’s Guide to Orange Juicers

Everybody knows that there is nothing like a nice cold glass of freshly squeezed orange juice.  This is one of the best tasting drinks in the world, and is one of nature’s sweet gifts to us humans.  While most of us like drinking fresh orange juice, the problem is that many people just aren’t strong enough to press the juice out of lots of oranges.  While many people just give up and head over to a juice bar to purchase orange juice, don’t give up hope yet.  The truth is that there are many inexpensive orange juicers available that don’t require you to have huge muscles.

For simple home use, your best option is most likely going to be an electric orange juicer.  This type has a motor that spins around, so all you need to do is press half an orange against the rotating part and it will get the juice out.  While it may be true that the harder you press, the more juice comes out, you actually don’t need to press hard at all usually.  In fact, just a little pressure will do the trick in most cases.

A simple electric juicer will work great for making a few cups, but if you are going to be juicing more than that, you would be wise to look into getting something a bit better for larger amounts.  One of the best options is to get what is called the orange x juicer, which is a stand up pressing machine.  Although this type isn’t electrical, it is easy enough for most people to operate.  It works great because it has a long handle that leverages your strength.  Simply put half an orange in the holder, press the lever down, and voila, the juice comes right out.  Although these press juicers typically cost around a hundred bucks or more, they are well worth it for making large quantities of orange juice.  You can even juice some lemons and store it in the bar fridge to whip up  some margaritas later.

What can an Angel Juicer do for your family that other juicers can’t?

If you have a family you have probably thought about getting a juicer.  It’s not easy to get healthy food into your family these days and that’s why a juicer can really come in handy.  But what is the best juicer?

There is a juicer on the market that is surprising to hear about.  The Angel Juicer or Super Angel Juicer. All stainless steel, twin gear masticating fruit, vegetable, wheatgrass and seed juicer, and the price!  Phew!  Many people on seeing the price get scared and run off to Target to buy themselves a plain old Breville juicer.  And that’s understandable, but what else needs to be understood is that the Angel Juicer does a whole lot more than just juice your average orange and apple.  This is the juicer of all juicers, which can not only juice apples, oranges, carrots, potatoes (yep potato juice is both safe to drink and has many health benefits!!), celery, wheatgrass, pine needles (another surprise – these are in fact extremely high in vitamin C and are very good for you in small amounts), and all the other regular foods you would expect to juice in a juicer, it will also do:

• seeds (it will extract the seed oil from seeds, making it the only juicer in the world to effectively do this in your own home)
• it will remove 95% of the pesticide residue from fruits’ and vegetables’ surfaces by its unique mechanism of juicing
• it will unlock the nutrients found in the actual cellulose fibres of vegetables
• it is super quiet to run and will never wake up the dog/baby/shift worker/parrot/kids with its superior quiet operation – try saying that about a centrifugal juicer – nuh-uh!!
• it is a super easy to clean juicer, as there are no sieves or fiddly parts to get a brush into – all stainless steel parts do not rust or discolor and are cleaned with regular washing or dishwashing
• you can make soy bean juice and tofu with this machine
• you can grind soaked grains, coffee beans, soaked pulses/beans, and nuts to make porridge grits, coffee grounds, bean dips, and nut butters
• simple operating means small kids can help you and older kids can use the machine themselves

As you can see, this juicer has the potential to replace a huge lot of work and appliances in your kitchen, thus making it a very wise investment.  Because the Angel Juicer is also under patent and is continually produced without being upgraded with silly unnecessary features all the time (it has all the features it could possibly have already!), in the supremely unlikely event that a part breaks, you will easily be able to get a replacement, under it’s excellent 5-year warranty.

Is the Angel Juicer the best juicer? Well, you have to decide for yourself… but it is definitely an asset to your kitchen, as an Angel Juicer will boost you and your family’s health, look great in your kitchen setting, and save you money when you can now make all of these wonderful drinks and foods from the comfort of your own home.  What do you think?

Sourdough Starter Made Simple

There is nothing to compare to the tangy taste and chewy texture of sourdough bread. Buying a loaf of it in the grocery store will set you back $3-$6 depending on the brand. You can make that some bread at home — it’s simple. Making sourdough bread from scratch takes time and some patience, but it is easy.

First, in case you don’t know, sourdough bread uses wild yeast instead of store bought yeast to make the bread rise. The sourdough starter captures and feeds the wild yeast. It takes longer to rise since the wild yeast isn’t as vigorous as store bought, on the other hand the long fermentation allows the bread to really develop that unique taste and texture.

We start with the starter. To make a good and strong sourdough starter, we start with two simple ingredients — flour and water. You put 4 ounces of each in a bowl. Here’s the catch — that’s ounces as in weight, not ounces as in volume. Water is heavier than flour so 4 ounces of water is like a half of cup, maybe and 4 ounces of flour is over a cup full. The sour (the sourdough starter) needs lots of food, so you need lots of flour. You mix the two ingredients, cover with plastic wrap and let it sit for two days. After that you’ll need a kitchen scale to help you with the feeding the sour. (Once you have the hang of the look and feel of the right amount of water and flour to sour, you can fore go the scale, but it is handy for all bread making, so spend the $25 if you don’t have one.) To feed the sour use 1 part sour (it will take over your kitchen if you don’t discard some of it), 2 parts water and 3 parts flour. So, for instance, you decide to use 4 ounces of sour. That means you need 8 ounces of water and 12 ounces of flour. That is a lot, by the way. You will find that you get tired of swirling sourdough starter down your drain and quickly shift to 1 ounce of sour to 2 ounces of water to 3 ounces of flour.

You have to feed it every day, or store it in the fridge for use on the weekends. You can easily store the sour in the fridge for three weeks without worry. To make bread on the weekend, take the sour out on Thursday night. Leave it to sit and warm to room temperature until Friday evening. Feed it like usual. Saturday evening you’ll be ready to bake!

What kind of sourdough bread to make is the next question. There are tons of recipes out there, so experiment and see which one you like and find easy.  The best sourdough recipes call for overnight, in the refrigerator, fermentation. This allows the bread ample time to rise and ferment and develop the distinctive flavor and texture.  There are some shortcut sourdough recipes out there that use yeast in addition to the sourdough starter. These are fine, but you will lose almost all of the sour taste. It still makes lovely bread that tastes good, but it is nowhere near real sourdough bread.

Healthy and delicious smoothie recipe

Smoothies makes great snacks – they are delicious and refreshing. The only problem is finding one that is both healthy and yummy. Most of  the health smoothies these days tastes funny and almost fake with all the added healthy ingredients. And the smoothies that do taste great, are most of the times not that good for your figure.

The good news is that I will share with you one that is not only healthy and yummy, but it also good for your figure.  It also contains lots of fat burning foods that may help you to lose some fat. Fat burning foods can also keep you fuller for longer and help you with cravings.

Here’s one of my favorite healthy, figure friendly smoothie recipes that may help you lose some weight. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do.

Banana smoothie

The frozen bananas make this smoothie extra creamy and satisfying. This smoothie is also a great way to use up extra bananas that may be going off any second. Just peel those bananas and place them in a container in your fridge to use for this smoothie later.

Info:

Serves: 2
Number of fat burning foods: 6 (all the ingredients except the orange juice)
Calories per serving:181
Fat per serving:1g

Ingredients:

• 2 bananas, frozen
• 120ml fat free banana yogurt
• 250ml fat free milk
• 2 teaspoons banana whey powder
• 5 ml vanilla essence
• 6 ice cubes, crushed

Instructions:

Blend everything together in a smoothie machine on high. Pour into a smoothie glass and enjoy!

Hopefully you also enjoyed my smoothie recipe as much as I do. It makes a great snack and you can even have it for breakfast if you like.

Just remember that if you want to lose a few centimeters or just get healthier, you also have to include regular exercise. The best combination for weight loss is cardio and weight training. One of my favorite cardio machine is the eliptical machine and my favorite weight training equipment is the adjustable dumbbell system.

Choosing The Right Pestle And Mortar

A mortar and pestle set is invaluable in the kitchen. There is no doubt that it makes life just that little bit easier. But many people do not pick one that is suitable for their needs and they also fail to pick one made from the right materials.

Without doubt one of the best possible choices is a Molcajete mortar and pestle.

Let’s take a look at just why this is such a good choice. The fact is that apart from anything else aesthetics play a big part in kitchen items. If you get a mortar and pestle set that looks ugly you will never use it. It will be hidden away in a cupboard somewhere and never get taken out. But with the molcajete you will be giving it pride of place on the counter and this means it will be used on a daily basis.

But the real reason why it is such a good choice is because of a few other factors. It is heavy and this is important. It means that you will be able to use it properly. It will stay in one place rather than be moving about as you are trying to grind up items. And with a heavy pestle the job is done much quicker. The pounding and grinding is performed with ease and minimum effort.

It is also the fact that you get a slightly rough interior that makes it a great choice. It means that there is a great surface for grinding. This is important as the larger the surface area the better the friction and the easier it is to use. If it is too smooth it is not as easy to use. All of these points make buying the molcajete about the best possible choice to make if you want a quality set that will last and that will be used often.

Why families love their Mini Oven

Small, also called mini, ovens are especially appealing to families. Why do you ask? Lets look at some scenarios:

Mommy alone at home

Dad takes the kids out for a day of “kids and daddy only quality time”, spending the day fishing, hunting, cycling or whatever the dad and the kids in your family love to do together. Leaves mom alone at home. So, throw yourself into the home spa and indulge yourself with one of your favorite meals, cooked quickly in a small oven. Gratin of asparagus with new, boiled potatoes and sauce hollandaise anybody? You will be fresh and relaxed when they come home, not having have to clean the big oven after you cooked a small, one person meal!

Learning to cook

Using a small oven gives your kids the opportunity to cook their very own meal from scratch and completely on their own. Whilst you have still to supervise the smaller ones, imagine the pleasure of hearing your teenager say to their friends “These brownies I have baked in my own kitchen!” You truly will teach them life skills with this and they will be able to feed themselves in a healthy way when being at university.

Teaching your kids the importance of being responsible with the environment

Kids, like dads, think often that “bigger is better”. By teaching them to use smaller tools for smaller tasks you have taken an important step teaching them the value of energy saving and energy conversation.

Re-heating food the healthy way

I don’t know about you, but I was and am suspicious about how micowaves change the structure of our food. I prefer to re-heat leftovers the natural way, bigger portions in a conventional oven and smaller ones in a smaller oven.

Summary

If you think your family is too big to have a mini oven, think twice. There are a lot of good reasons and situations that justify adding a small oven to your “normal” kitchen. Dualit anyone?

No Nitrate Hot Dogs that Actually Taste Good!

I am so excited! I have FINALLY found a hot dog that seems to be as healthy as possible AND it actually tastes good! and the kids like it too! I have fed it to four kids, ages 5, 6, 7, and 8, all of whom are totally familiar with regular hot dogs. They all ate it the whole hot dog, and none of them even said anything. They just thought they were regular hot dogs.

The hot dog is Applegate Farms The Great Organic Uncured Hot Dog. The ingredients on the package are organic grass-fed beef, water, sea salt, spices, garlic powder, paprica, celery powder, onion, lactic acid starter culture (not from milk).

No nitrates, no preservatives, no gluten, and no FILLERS.

To me, they taste just like hot dogs except they aren’t as soft as regular hot dogs – I think regular hot dogs must achieve that softness with some sort of fillers or major processing. These hot dogs obviously strive to be as healthy as possible so they forgo a bit of softness for that healthiness. I say YES, and good for them.

I found them in a regular grocery store.

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