Ingredients:
2 envelopes unflavored gelatin
1 cup spicy mixed vegetable juice
16 ounces rinsed drained canned black beans, divided
1/4 pound chevre (French goat cheese)
2 tablespoons each finely chopped red bell pepper, green bell pepper, red onion, and celery
1 tablespoon each seeded and minced mild or hot chili pepper and minced fresh cilantro (Chinese parsley) or Italian (flat-leaf) parsley
1 garlic clove, minced
1/3 cup plus 2 teaspoons sour cream
Have you looked in on the mirror lately and saw a tired-looking person staring back at you? That is you with your skin at its worst. Dull skin tone has a way of creeping up on us without us noticing. We are too caught up in our fast-paced lifestyle that we usually fail to check the condition of our skin.
Dull skin tone is just one of the initial signs of skin aging. It is your skin’s way of saying that it is not healthy enough. If you want to instantly fix this problem, you have to exfoliate. Let me tell you a couple of great ideas on how to exfoliate your skin:
1. Use nuts.
Nuts contain a hefty amount of copper. Some of them even have bleaching properties that can instantly make your skin brighter. I highly recommend almond nuts. Get about half a cup of fresh almond nuts and grind them using your food processor. Grind them until the consistency resembles that of salt particles.
Continue reading “Fix Dull Skin Tone Fast – Effective Exfoliating Tips For Your Skin”
Long ago Chestnut trees were plentiful in North America. They actually made up about a quarter of the native forest when European colonists came to these lands. Chestnuts were abundant, delicious and free. This is why the chestnut was so prominent in early American cookery. I love reading old cookbooks and recipe collections. I often try to adapt those recipes to modern-day ingredients and cooking equipment as well as our evolved taste buds. That is exactly what I did with an old pork-wrapped chestnut fritter recipe.
Where are the chestnut trees now? The North American variety is close to extinction. It was wiped out by a disease carried on an imported tree in the early 1900s. Those abundant, wild chestnut trees no longer fill our forests. There are, however, many hybrid chestnut varieties that are grown on farms. So while you can’t pick free chestnuts from the forest like early Americans did, you can find fresh chestnuts at many health food and specialty stores. This recipe is a bit involved and time-consuming, so this is something I only make on holidays and other special occasions. Continue reading “Bacon Wrapped Chestnut Fritters – A Special Treat Cooked Perfectly In Your Toaster Oven”
Hand Juicer
For the simplest juices this is all that you will need. A small stainless steel manual juicer or a plastic one with collection cup can be found for $15 or less. Combined with a good knife and cutting board, this tool will be all you need for occasional juicing.
Optional Utensils
A citrus squeezer is handy for quickly juicing lemons and limes. A wheat grass juicer is a hand cranked extractor for recipes using wheat grass and other soft leaves. A mango corer is a handy tool to have when using fresh mango in your juices. Oxo makes one that sells in many grocery stores for about $12.
Electric Juice Extractor
When you want to make juicing part of your lifestyle or go on a juice diet, you will more successful if you have an electric juice extractor. Breville, Black & Decker, Hamilton Beach and Jack Lalanne are some of the most popular brands. The heavy duty juicers have a feed tube, much like a food processor, and a mesh filter that separates the pulp from the juice. Most fruits can be fed whole into the extractor, making juice preparation quick and easy. These units yield much more juice than a manual juicer, and the pulp can be composted or used in many recipes. Continue reading “Tools For Juicing”
Bugsy Carrot Cupcakes
When investigating how to make cupcakes of the Bugsy kind all you need to do is get into the kitchen and open up the larder. If the kids do not like carrots in their stew or salads, let alone cupcakes, they need not know that all the vitamin A rich carrots are in the cupcakes. Take 2 cups of self rising or all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 2 cups of refined sugar, 2 cups of shredded carrots (like you would have in a coleslaw – use a food processor), 1 teaspoon baking soda, shortening of your choice, 1 teaspoon of either ground cardamom, cinnamon or nutmeg, 4 eggs.
Prior to setting down to getting the ingredients together, preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Now, put all the dry ingredients in a cake mixing bowl. Keep mixing the ingredients for around 5 minutes. Add the eggs and shortening and pour the batter into the cup cake liners. Remember to fill the liners only 2/3 full. Bake the cup cakes for 20 minutes, cool and serve with a cream cheese frosting! The kids love it and you are instantly the best mom or dad in the whole world!
How to make cupcakes? Here is another recipe you can try: Continue reading “Easy Cupcake Recipes”
Zchug, a type of chili sauce from Yemen, migrated with Yeminite Jews to Israel. Hot with chili, pungent with garlic and fragrant with exotic cardamon, it has become the Israeli national condiment. Think ketchup to Americans and salsa to Mecxicans, kim chee to Koreans. Without these blessed sauces, national cuisines would be bare naked indeed. Why is tschug so popular? It’s hard to say, but it seems to be because its sweat-inducing fire is a good fit for the hot desert winds that blow intermittently in every country ringing the Mediterranean.
You may not have time to take a trip to Israel, but surely you can catch a taste of the land by making some tzchug. Make this right and you will start to get an idea of Israeli cuisine. Here’s how to make yourself a bit of delicious zchug. Watch out, though, it’s spicy hot! Continue reading “Zchug: Israeli Salsa”
From the time, a woman knows about the beginning of a new life within her body, she becomes a mother. The pain she bears and the sacrifices she makes in bringing a new life into the world, makes her the supreme epitome of love. In fact, the love between a mother and her child is incomparable. To make every mother feel loved and special for all that she did in shaping the world with her affection and efforts, Mother’s Day celebration has come into account.
This year on 13th of May, people will be thanking and honoring every mother for all that she deserves. Thus, it is quite obvious for many to feel perplexed over the idea of mother’s day gift. However, the right selection of gift is always important as she is the one who deserves the most wonderful and heart-winning token of love.
Here are some impressive and top mother’s day gift ideas that are sure to help everyone willing to gift the best to his/her momma on this Mother’s Day. These are: Continue reading “Top 7 Mother’s Day Gift Ideas – To Express Your Thankfulness to Her”
Sweet Chili Tofu:
Sweet chili tofu is an easy dish to cook. And it also goes well with rice. We suggest you use Firm Tofu or Extra Firm Tofu to prepare the recipe.
Ingredients:
• Firm Tofu/ Extra Firm Tofu (Diced)
• Cornstarch
• Salt
• Pepper
• Olive Oil
• Bell pepper (Red/green)
• Onion
• Sweet Chili Sauce (From supermarkets)
Preparation:
1. Add cornstarch, salt, and paper in a bowl. Then coat the tofu in it.
2. Get ready with your preheated pan and fry them with olive oil for about five minutes until they are slightly brown. And keep them on the side.
Continue reading “3 Delicious Tofu Recipes That You Should Try On Sunday”
Congratulations on your healthier new lifestyle! Plenty of things will change, including your diet. But don’t worry, nobody said that you can’t have your sugar fix when you crave for it! Although you have to be more careful with the ingredients of your desserts, it doesn’t mean that the delicious taste will be compromised!
Try these 3 guilt-free desserts that are incredibly mouth-watering:
Apple Extravaganza
What you need:
Continue reading “3 Guilt-Free Desserts For A Healthier Lifestyle”
Various forms of pepper have long been used to satisfy our culinary experience but as it turns out, there is a lot more to pepper than meets the eye.
Let’s have a look at some of the things pepper can be used for other than to spice foods:
1. If your old clunker is starting to get a slow leak in the radiator, pour some black pepper into it plug up small holes. This will buy you time to get it fixed properly.
2. Are you having trouble with biting ants in your yard? You don’t need to use harsh chemicals for this. All you need is about a half cup of black or cayenne pepper poured down the hole and voila, no more ant problem.
3. This also holds true for hungry ants looking for something sweet in your kitchen. You can put white pepper in their path and they will disappear thinking there are no meals here. Continue reading “12 Amazing Uses for Pepper You Didn’t Know About”
