Food

My favorite recipes

All recipes.com has a great feature that allows you to convert a recipe easily. Say, for example, you want to make chocolate chip muffins, but the recipe makes a dozen. You simply locate the "scale this recipe" box and put in the amount you wish to make and it figures the recipe out for you.

My detailed Thanksgiving Dinner Plan

Here is a site with a recipe for roasting garlic and peppers. MMMMmmmmm, roasted garlic!!

Hopefully you are lucky enough to live in one of the nine states that has a SouperSalad restaurant!! We discovered this place just last week. “All-you-care-to-eat” salad bar, breads, baked potatoes, soup and desert. Check their site for a location near you and check their low, low prices! Kids under 5 eat for free... kids under 12 eat for $1.99. Their site has their menu listed in its entirety.

Tucson Cooperative Warehouse delivers to AZ, CO, CA, UT and TX. They have great prices on many of the foods we use a lot. You can call TCW at 1-800-350-COOP for help finding a local food buying club in your area.

This link, The Pressure's On! has a lot of good information regarding pressure cookers. Want to spend less time cooking? How about a hearty lentil soup in a mere 15 minutes? Chili in 18 minutes? How about steamed potatoes for mashing in 8?

I know you've heard of pressure cookers. Today's second generation cookers have built in safety features and cut your cooking time in half or more.

When I first decided to buy a pressure cooker, I found that most of the inexpensive models were made of aluminum. Having heard of the possible link between cooking with aluminum and Alzheimer's Disease, I didn't want to take any chances, so I started looking for a pressure cooker made of stainless steel, rather than aluminum. I found the price went up quite a bit!!

If you are new to pressure cooking, I would highly recommend checking out pressure-cooking expert Lorna J. Sass's cookbooks; Cooking Under Pressure, Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure, and Lorna Sass' Complete Vegetarian Kitchen. There are some very important things that one should know about pressure cooking.

Here are some sites that give information concerning the adverse effects of aspartame (Nutrasweet).  My mother began experiencing symptoms of toxicity, and upon ingestion of aspartame experienced these symptoms:  accelerated heart rate, flu-like symptoms (feverish, all over aching feeling), panic attacks, and vision problems.  Since that time, we have become even more wary of using aspartame.

Aspartame / NutraSweet Toxicity Reaction Samples
Formaldehyde from NutraSweet