12/31/10

Cooking At Home With Famous Restaurant Recipes

A good place for Mexican food, is Don Pablo’s for dinner, if you have one in your local town. One of their most famous restaurant recipes is the Burrito Grande, which is filled with fajita meat and vegetables.

To make this dish, you need the marinated and grilled beef or chicken (you can add your own spice combination), as well as pico de gallo and guacamole.

A combination of cheeses, including sharp cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese, should be used in the dish in an authentic Mexican flavor, and you can use lettuce and tomatoes to improve the nutritional value.

You can add side dishes like Mexican rice, and refried beans to create a filling meal for a dinner. The main meal is served with chips and salsa, and you can garnish the plate with tortilla strips and a serving of sour cream, so you feel you are enjoying a meal at Don Pablo’s famous restaurants.

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12/28/10

Better Ideas For Barbecuing Steaks

The better choice of cuts for barbecuing steaks are Flank steak, Rib Eye, Sirloin and T-bone. Rib Eye is a great choice if you have guests coming over to your house and you want to treat them to a better quality meal.

The most tender cuts come from the loin - the meat that runs along both sides of the spine. Porterhouse and T-bone steak comes from this area.

For you final decision, you may choose a cut of steak with a little bit of marbling for added flavor. When you take it home, cut off the fat to about a quarter of an inch and slash the edges of the steak at one inch intervals.

When choosing chips for the grill, you may consider hardwood chips, to add more flavor on the barbecued steaks. These chips can be small, large, or even pellets or chinks. If you have a gas grill, then stick with the chips and pellets. Time to think about the taste of your steak.

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12/23/10

Bottled Tea Sold As Health Drinks

Before you buy any product, including health drinks, always read the label, to confirm this is the product you need and you are happy with the contents of the package. If you’re on the go and do not have the time to brew a pot of tea at home, try to find a brand of bottled tea with the least added sugar.

Some contain fruit juice, but beware, because these contain a high amount of sugar, possibly to sweeten the fruit flavor.

The news is not all bad though. The level of antioxidants in bottled drinking tea may be similar to fruit and vegetables, depending on the type of tea used and how it is brewed.

There are antioxidants in bottled tea drinks that are due to more fruit flavor than the tea itself! For example, black tea flavonoids reduce the production of LDL - the "bad" cholesterol that can lead to stroke and heart attack.

It is also said to have the ability to improve the function of blood vessels within two hours of drinking just one cup!

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12/21/10

Become A Better Cook With Top Secret Restaurant Recipes

When you go to the top secret restaurant website, you can watch videos that will give you all the instructions you need to create good recipes that can become a better choice of a meal in your home.

There is also the latest news on which companies will sell cooking tools, making it easier to copy your favorite recipes at home.

A number of cookbooks are also available on the top secret restaurant site, to buy and get more ideas for making dinner interesting, in addition to herbs you can buy from the site that make your food taste just as the real thing.

You can surprise your family, with your new recipes. Everyone can help in the kitchen to create family favorites at a fraction of the cost you pay in restaurants.

You may be surprised to realise that you and your family can eat the same meals at home, rather than pay top dollar at restaurants, with a little effort in your kitchen.

One tip, is to keep coming back to this site, as new top secret restaurant recipes are always being added.

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12/19/10

Authenic Ingredients In German Beer

More beer is consumed per capita by the Czechs and the Irish than the Germans, but the breweries in Germany are isolated from the rest of the world because of a German principle known as Reinheitsgebot, which means purity order.

Using this principle, brewers want to ensure that German beer includes the freshest and most authentic ingredients, and this process goes as far back as 15th century. The main ingredient in many German beers is barley malt, and beers not made with barley malt must be top fermented.

The other ingredients in most of the original classic and modern German brews are water and hops. The taste of these beers are popular around the world.

You can visit a brewery in Germany or try a number of varieties of German beer at local pubs and bars when traveling around Germany. There are a number of popular varieties you can try while on your beer tour of Germany.

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12/15/10

Surprise Your Guests With Barbecue Side Dishes

Salads are the most versatile barbecue side dishes. They can be prepared ahead of time and will taste better if they are in the refrigerator overnight. A better option, is to prepare the salads on the morning of the barbecue, to maintain that freshness.

You can add flavors to salads, depending on the type of salad, you may add a little mayonnaise, and other rich ingredients. If you serve a green salad, then you need to wait until the last minute before adding the dressing and croutons.

You may also consider making salads for those who do not want the calories of mayonnaise and add olive oil or vinegar instead, depending on the ingredients in the salad.

Many vegetables and fruits can be safely cooked right on top of the grill, wrapped in foil. You can place peppers, bananas and cantaloupe on top of the grill and these are delicious when served hot off the grill.

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12/13/10

Choosing And Eating Health Foods

If you are looking for a low-calorie source of fiber and vitamin C, then your better option is blueberries. Consuming approximately a cup of fresh blueberries contains 84 calories, 3.4 grams of fiber and 14mg of vitamin C.

They also contain a healthy dose of phytonutrients, helping to prevent urinary infections and are therefore highly recommended for consumption. Blueberries are a cheap option for delicious health foods.

Eating red beans, allows you to consume plenty of fiber and low fat and low calorie protein. They also include plenty of minerals like iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and copper.

Eating health foods like red beans, can help to prevent chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer. You can buy either the small red beans or the dark red kidney beans to gain their many benefits.

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12/11/10

The Real Deal With Pomegranate Juice

There are some companies that strive to include all the health benefits of pomegranate fruit in their juices. One of the better known brands is Arthur’s Fresh Company.

This company began as a small family run business in Godrich, Ontario, Canada, and has been farming and making the juice naturally since way back in 1893. The company uses fresh and high quality ingredients in their juices.

Their aim is to maximize both nutrition and freshness in their products. They have recently introduced two antioxidant-rich juices, they are blueberries, and the famous pomegranate.

Arthur’s Pomegranate Super Juice is 100% pure pomegranate juice, not made from concentrate. This means, it does not include fillers, sweeteners and no preservatives (often added in many other juices).

It tastes like the real deal - slightly sweet with some bitterness in the aftertaste. The juice is flash pasteurized to preserve freshness and nutrients and has a richer color than most competitors juice, as much more of the fruit is in the juice.

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12/9/10

More Protein In Soy Milk

If you do not have the time to make your own soy milk, then you can purchase soy milk from a local food store.

Read the nutritional information, including ingredients on the packaging as some brands add oil, sugar, flavorings and stabilizers to improve texture and appearance of the product.

The appeal of soy milk is the high amount of protein. It is one of the highest of all non-animal sources.

As the milk is made from beans, it is also an excellent source of fiber, to help your bowel movements.

Isoflavones are also found in soy milk and these are helpful in slowing the aging process with its anti-oxidant effect.

Not to mention, soy milk has been shown to help reduce menopausal symptoms and to reduce the risk of many cancers, heart disease, osteoporosis and helps to strengthen bones by improving calcium absorption.

Even if it helps the absorption of calcium, soy milk does not contain much of its own calcium, although some soy milks have added calcium to compensate.

If you prefer the taste of soy over cow milk but still crave calcium, then look for the calcium added version at the local food store.

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12/6/10

Action Taken To Ban Coffee

The first known action to ban coffee came from conservative clerics, sometime around 1511, when they disapproved of the stimulating drink. But that ban was overturned by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I in 1524. There was also a coffee ban in coffee houses in Egypt, in 1532.

For the rest of the world, coffee was long considered an Islamic drink, with a strong connection to Turkey.

There was a suspicion about coffee houses and were probably forbidden until Sultan Selim I overturned the first ban. But the drink was banned again in Turkey in the 17th century. This time, for political causes, because coffee houses were places where people gathered to criticize the government of Sultan Murad IV.

He even put the ban in place, with the excuse that the Muslims were forbidden to consume intoxicating substances. The banning of the consumption of coffee led to thousands of executions of people caught drinking coffee. Then Murad died at the age of 28, as an alcoholic. So much for the ban on intoxicants.

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12/3/10

Making Your Own Treats With Chocolate Candy Recipes

Truffles are one of the more popular chocolate desserts. Although they may seem intimidating to some chefs, there are plenty of chocolate candy recipes you can find online, to show you how to quickly and easily make delicious chocolate truffles.

All you need is chocolate shavings and whipped cream, add the variety of chocolate you want, depending on how sweet or bitter you want your truffles to be, then scoop the chocolate with an ice cream scoop to create the truffles, let them chill in the fridge, to keep their shape.

Then add the toppings as you like. Some people roll their truffles in cinnamon, others choose to use chopped nuts or cocoa for the presentation and a rich flavor. You can use this recipe on the day of the party, and it will a big hit with your guests.

Toffee is another popular option at dinner parties. There are chocolate candy recipes with toffee as an ingredient, and you can find varieties of ingredients to include like dried fruit, caramel, or your favourite selection of nuts.

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