Hello All,
I'd like to introduce you to a salad you may not ordinarily think of, it is a fresh berry salad, and with the abundance of berries that can be found here at your local Roswell grocery stores, I'm sure you'll find some of your favorites to make this easy salad your own!
To begin you'll need: 5 cups of mixed salad greens
1 1/2 cups sliced strawberries
1 1/4 cups fresh raspberries (or blueberries or blackberries)
2 tablespoons toasted almonds, chopped
1 tablespoon crumbled bleu cheese
1/2 cup raspberry vinegar
1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
freshly ground black pepper to taste
Place about 1 cup of salad greens on each plate, top evenly with the berries, nuts and blue cheese.
Wisk the vinegar, oil together in a small bowl, sprinkle with the black pepper to taste and serve.
This is a cool and refreshing summer salad that you can serve every summer once the berries are in season for a light lunch or dinner.
Enjoy, much love to you all!
J
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
New Plates!
Hello All,
Don't know if you all know this but the US Dept. of Agriculture introduced a new way to make healthier food choices by replacing the Food Pyramid with a Plate. The new tool is called "My Plate" and I've included the link here for your review! http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
To the folks who felt like the old pyramid was confusing, the plate is far simpler and just as colorful as the foods you eat daily should be. Fruits are RED, vegetables are GREEN of course, (my favorite color, LOL), protein is PURPLE my second favorite color and it starts with a P which I'm thinking was done on purpose to make it easier to remember that you need some protein in your diet daily, grains are sort of an ORANGE color and dairy is BLUE (can't explain that one, ;-) In addition to the colors on the plate, the color's also suggest portion size so that you don't overeat, while you're following this suggested balanced diet!
I hope you'll take a look at this and make some modifications to your diet and the diet of your family, so you can be around for a long time!
On a separate note, many of you feel that cooking from scratch takes too much time. Now to be honest it does take longer that opening a package of some frozen item and putting it in the microwave or having something delivered from your favorite delivery restaurant, however when you make your food from scratch you know exactly what's in it!
So, here's my take on that theme. I make pancakes from scratch and use maple syrup, because there are no fillers and stabilizers in them when I make the pancakes from scratch. If you've ever read the pancake box, no matter which brand you use, there are items in the mix other than flour, baking soda, baking powder, an egg and buttermilk. You may know what those items are, but the vast majority of the population may have no idea what is in most of the foods they eat, they eat them simply because they like the way they taste! Same thing with some of the items you may eat at your favorite restaurant. One of the things I love to do on the rare occasions that I eat out is to try to taste all the flavors in the dish and come home and recreate them. I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty good at it, and even if the dish doesn't taste exactly like the restaurant's I like to think that mine is better because not only am I using fresh ingredients, I'm adding love to the dish, which the folks enjoying the food can taste! Now you may think well, this can get expensive, all this cooking and stuff, but think about it, in the long run isn't your body and your health worth taking a little extra time to prepare a meal from scratch. If you don't take care of yourself now, you'll be taking care of yourself later with lots of medications and such that may have been able to be avoided if you took better care of yourself now! Pay for it now, or pay for it later!!!! Just a thought.
Well, that's all for now.
Much love to all of you!
J
Don't know if you all know this but the US Dept. of Agriculture introduced a new way to make healthier food choices by replacing the Food Pyramid with a Plate. The new tool is called "My Plate" and I've included the link here for your review! http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
To the folks who felt like the old pyramid was confusing, the plate is far simpler and just as colorful as the foods you eat daily should be. Fruits are RED, vegetables are GREEN of course, (my favorite color, LOL), protein is PURPLE my second favorite color and it starts with a P which I'm thinking was done on purpose to make it easier to remember that you need some protein in your diet daily, grains are sort of an ORANGE color and dairy is BLUE (can't explain that one, ;-) In addition to the colors on the plate, the color's also suggest portion size so that you don't overeat, while you're following this suggested balanced diet!
I hope you'll take a look at this and make some modifications to your diet and the diet of your family, so you can be around for a long time!
On a separate note, many of you feel that cooking from scratch takes too much time. Now to be honest it does take longer that opening a package of some frozen item and putting it in the microwave or having something delivered from your favorite delivery restaurant, however when you make your food from scratch you know exactly what's in it!
So, here's my take on that theme. I make pancakes from scratch and use maple syrup, because there are no fillers and stabilizers in them when I make the pancakes from scratch. If you've ever read the pancake box, no matter which brand you use, there are items in the mix other than flour, baking soda, baking powder, an egg and buttermilk. You may know what those items are, but the vast majority of the population may have no idea what is in most of the foods they eat, they eat them simply because they like the way they taste! Same thing with some of the items you may eat at your favorite restaurant. One of the things I love to do on the rare occasions that I eat out is to try to taste all the flavors in the dish and come home and recreate them. I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty good at it, and even if the dish doesn't taste exactly like the restaurant's I like to think that mine is better because not only am I using fresh ingredients, I'm adding love to the dish, which the folks enjoying the food can taste! Now you may think well, this can get expensive, all this cooking and stuff, but think about it, in the long run isn't your body and your health worth taking a little extra time to prepare a meal from scratch. If you don't take care of yourself now, you'll be taking care of yourself later with lots of medications and such that may have been able to be avoided if you took better care of yourself now! Pay for it now, or pay for it later!!!! Just a thought.
Well, that's all for now.
Much love to all of you!
J
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