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How To Test Yeast
Dec 2nd
Mmmm, I can smell them already.
With the holidays just around the corner, many families have a tradition of a special homemade bread for holiday morning breakfast, like cinnamon rolls or stollen. Nothing casts a shadow over the day more quickly than preparing the dough for homemade cinnamon rolls and then uncovering it after it’s had time to rise, only to find a hard, flat lump in the bottom.
Here’s a very quick way to test yeast, that’s been setting around for some time, to see if it’s still viable.
- Place ¼ cup of warm water in a small bowl.
- Add 1 tsp sugar More >
Keeping The Holidays Healthy and Raw
Nov 29th
Changing traditional holiday foods can be hard. Start some new ones with healthy raw treats.
Christmas is a time when we think of family get-togethers, memories and traditional treats and meals. With many of the traditional ingredients: white sugar and flour, dairy products, trans and saturated fats, and refined carbs, on the “no-no” list you may be wondering what you’ll eat this holiday season. We don’t want our families to feel deprived of the traditional treats they’ve come to associate with the holidays, yet we want to provide healthier choices.
You might want to try some raw food desserts and see how More >
Food Popularity And Price
Nov 25th
Pomegranates, once a shunned food, now a fad.
Over the past few years I’ve found some of my favorite foods skyrocketing in price. The reason? They’ve been found to have high nutritional values, especially when it comes to antioxidants. Let’s see… pomegranates. You know those weird fruits that you used to have at Christmas that hardly anyone knew what to do with, so they would just sit around until they shriveled up. Well, I’ve eaten and enjoyed them since I was a kid. A few years back you could get a really, really nice pomegranate for 99 cents. Now, on sale More >
More Vegetarian Holiday Ideas
Nov 22nd
You can make pumpkin pie from scratch. Just buy a pumpkin grown especially for that. They are usually small and sweeter than regular pumpkins.
Maybe this is your first holiday as a vegetarian, or your college age child just announced they’ve gone vegetarian. Maybe you’ll be having some vegetarian guests, or you just want to eat less meat yourself. Whatever the reason, having several options for a holiday meal is a good idea.
For main dishes there’s the mock turkey recipe from my last post, but you can also have winter squash. I remember attending my first vegetarian Thanksgiving. The people had More >
Fantastic Mock Turkey Recipe
Nov 18th
Enjoy a guilt free Thanksgiving. Enjoy vegetarian turkey instead.
When I first became a vegetarian I didn’t miss any meat, except turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I had it every single holiday that I could remember and the first without was interesting. What was I going to fix? At that time there was no Tofurky available. For a number of years we just ate butternut or acorn squash to replace the turkey. Then I found this recipe from Ann Gentry. I first used it about 15 years ago. I was amazed to find her sharing it in a recent blog post.
I’ll tell More >
Look Glamorous For Holiday Entertaining
Nov 15th
With the holidays just around the corner, there are going to be a lot of opportunities for entertaining. Often at least one of these parties requires evening attire. You’re probably fretting these events if you’re not a Make Up guru. The last thing you want to do is to host your gourmet group and feel like you look like somebody hit you in the eyes. If you don’t do the techniques right you can end up looking pretty bad.
Sometimes your friends can help you out with Cosmetics Tips. However, even they may not know all the make up tips for the More >
Enjoying Some Fall Baked Goods
Nov 12th
Guest post written by Erin Wooster
I am quite the cook. Or I guess that I would rather say the baker. See I’m not that into cooking, but I really love baking things. I just think it’s so much easier to mix something up and let it bake on its own instead of standing there and supervising it. To me, that’s just plain annoying and too much trouble.
Plus, it seems to be a general consensus that most of the things that you can bake are far yummier in comparison to things that you just plain old cook. I love to look More >
A Taste Of Italy – Gluten Free
Nov 8th
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Schar for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
Recently a friend of mine found out she’s gluten intolerant. Wow, what a change that has made in her life. She’s had to totally rethink everything she eats. Today gluten intolerance is one of the fastest growing segments of the population.
Sometimes finding gluten free products can be challenging, especially that taste good. Schär is at the forefront, bringing new and innovative gluten-free products to the consumer.
Recently they’ve re-launched some of there heat and serve items. Now you can have Ciabatta rolls, baguettes, or More >
Revenge of the Green Tomatoes
Nov 8th
Baby tomatoes in my garden.
Are you left with a kitchen full of green tomatoes due to an early frost? There are a number of things you can do with them.
- Wrap them individually in newspaper, store in a box at room temperature. Check them regularly and eat them as they ripen. We did this one year in a zone 5, where the first frost hit at the end of September and we had tomatoes all the way until after Thanksgiving. Really fun to actually be eating some of your harvest, since that what the holiday was originally all about, being thankful More >
Preparing For Holiday Feasts
Nov 5th
Piping hot rolls, fresh from the oven. A favorite treat on Thanksgiving.
Looking at the calendar today I was shocked to see we’re just two and half weeks away from Thanksgiving! Now’s the time to start looking through your cookbooks to pick out those just right recipes. Most families have their traditional favorites, but why not add a little something new and different. Maybe it’s just a new pumpkin pie recipe, that uses different spices than you ordinarily do. Or maybe you want to try something entirely different, something healthier than in the past.
Whatever it is, having the right ingredients and More >