Archive for April, 2008

The Family Dinner Table is Found in the Heart of the Home

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Anmol Taneja asked:


Family Dinners are a beneficial way to increase the overall commitment of each family member to the other. In a world of two income families that translates into both parents having to work outside the home and the kids are at daycare or home alone. If both parents get off work after 5pm, getting dinner on the table any earlier that 6:30 is a dream or the night the family eats takeout while seated at the dinner table. In a world that moves this fast, kitchen gadgets make getting dinner on the table that much easier.

Pampered Chef is a kitchen company that strives to create products and recipes for the family that promote and facilitate the family meal every night of the week. Pampered Chef focuses their recipes and kitchen gadgets on the idea that every family should have dinner together every night. Many of their items are job focused kitchen gadgets that help the family chef get dinner on the table fast.

Micro-Cooker, An Innovative Kitchen Gadget That Gets Dinner To The Table Fast

An innovative product that they introduced a few years ago is the Micro-Cooker. This specially designed micro-cooker comes in a small and large size. The 2-quart size is ideal for all microwave ovens and provides a quick easy method to get dinner on the table fast. The Micro-Cooker is a kitchen gadgets that is designed to rapidly cook meat, vegetables, melt chocolate or butter. It is a very quick and easy way to create a side dish or main course in a matter of just a few minutes. The dual handles and pouring spouts make it easy for left or right-handed chefs to use. The micro-cooker is dishwasher safe when placed on the top rack and it comes with a one-year guarantee.



Bryan

What are your personal quick & easy recipes?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
mauricecaselle asked:


I just bought some frozen boneless, skinless chicken fillets. Any suggestions for a nice dinner?

Alice

I need some good recipes for a romantic dinner?

Monday, April 28th, 2008
chemikalie08 asked:


Just a warning–this is a few questions combined in one! I saw a couple other questions similar to this but here is MY problem: I am not the best cook ever…so simple recipes with EASY-to-find ingredients are the best :) I want to make a main dish, side dish, and dessert. For the main course I think I want to make this http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/?q=recipes/drunken-pasta-with-beets-and-swiss-chard (if the link doesn’t work it’s called drunken pasta)– do you think it looks too complicated? Anyways, I still need a side course (maybe a nice salad or something?) and a dessert. Any suggestions or website links would be helpful. Thanks guys!!

Crystal

Great Tasting Low Carb Recipe

Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Greg Haehl asked:


The liver is an amazing organ. Tasked with removing toxins from the body, the liver acts as a natural filter. However, with today’s poor, overly processed dietary habits and overindulgence, it is easy for your liver to become overwhelmed and “clogged”.

Many people are beginning diets that encourage low carb recipes these days. But, what are low carb recipes? What things can and cannot be made into a low carb recipe? Following your diets strict guidelines is important, but using the Internet as a tool will help you. For instance, you may do a search for quick recipes and come up with many low carb options. There are many different diets to choose from that have low carb rules.

But, many recipes may also be able to be changed into low carb by making simple changes. Meat recipes are probably the most oblivious choice including chicken as it is such a healthy option in most cases. But, what about other choices? Cookie recipes may be the most difficult to find, but choices for sweets will be found. What about a special occasion? Yes, you can easily find easy gourmet recipes as well. Make in advance crockpot recipes? Yes, those too will be found with a little devoted looking.

The best option in finding these hard to find recipes would be too look on your low carb diet’s website. You can also do a search for the exact thing or just a category using the Internet. Whatever means you choose, you will find many options to low carb recipes out there. Low carb recipes need to be healthy as well as follow the guidelines specified in your diet’s plan. So, it is safe to say, that you will need to research what items you may and may not eat when following these diets by looking through the materials you have purchased or visiting the websites sponsored by those diets. Questions to asked and get answered include knowing the difference between good carbs and bad carbs. Dietitians recommend eating complex carbs because these are full of fiber, phytochemicals, vitamins, and minerals. Other carbs are ones, usually the ones to avoid are simple carbs which contain lots of sugar! There are more things to ask about your diet as well such as the different phases or just how to live a low carb life.

So what is detoxification (detox)? To put it very simply it’s “getting the garbage (toxins) out of your body without putting any more in”. Toxins can be heavy metals, pesticides, too much vitamin A or chemical residues from the polluted air we breathe or the junk food we eat, which contains sugar salt, artificial colors and flavors. All these are stored mainly in the fatty tissues of the body and can play havoc with your health if they build up to excess or if you have a sensitivity.

Once you know the information you need to choose which low carb recipes you are allowed or those that you are restricted from, changing your favorite recipes into low carb gets easier. Chicken and other meat recipes will be the easiest to switch maybe with very little effort. In certain diets, you are allowed to eat more vegetables, but are restricted on which ones. So instead of having a baked potato with your dinner, you have a baked sweet potato instead. The sweet potato has less of the “bad carbs” then the sweet potato. Maybe instead of fries at your favorite restaurant, you get a salad. When it comes to making things at home, you need recipes that contain good carbs in the correct amounts for your diet.

A crock pot meal may contain a meat choice and fresh veggies, but leave out the potatoes or noodles. There are many choice you will need to make when looking for low carb recipes, but overall, it will be easy to find ones that will fit your taste buds. The most important things to understand are the rules of your low carb diet or lifestyle. Knowing which carbs you can and cannot eat, is the entire battle! Detox diets are used to refer to diets, herbs, and other methods of removing environmental and dietary toxins from the body for general health.

To detoxify one must assist the body in its natural cleansing process, or accelerate it. By following a healthy diet thus enabling the body’s organs to flush out the toxins more effectively, taking exercise and particularly long saunas to sweat out the toxins then the process is greatly effective.



Andrea

What’s any easy dinner my boyfriend and i can make?

Monday, April 21st, 2008
=)) asked:


We live in an apartment and we don’t have a lot of kitchen supplies, but we have the basics. We both love chicken and like to eat pretty healthy and for not too much money. What’s something that we can make together that I can easily remember the recipe but is very tasty?

Irene