Reach Beyond Your Limits: Food

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Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

09 October 2012

Hardboiled Eggs – Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Hardboiled eggs are inexpensive, handy, versatile, and take no special talent to prepare. They also keep well in the refrigerator, and could be had for breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks. They have also provided employment for thousands of small entrepreneurs who sell them in various forms as street food in almost all the cities and major towns all over the country.

PERFECTLY HARDBOILED – Start with eggs at room temperature; those that came from the refrigerator should be immersed in tap water for at least 30 minutes to warm them up. The reason for this step is to prevent the shells from breaking or popping during cooking.

12 August 2012

High-Energy Biscuits For Flood Victims

The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) has donated 52.5 metric tons of high-energy biscuits to help feed 262,500 people affected by the recent widespread flooding in Metro Manila and outlying provinces.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development has been distributing the wheat-based biscuits fortified with vitamins and minerals, the WFP said Saturday.

18 July 2012

Delta passenger thought needle was a toothpick

Jim Tonjes was high above North America when he bit into a hot turkey sandwich aboard a Delta Air Lines flight and felt a sudden jab in his mouth.

Glancing down, he noticed what looked like a sewing needle in the food. Another passenger on the plane reported the same thing.

At first, he thought a toothpick meant to hold the sandwich together had punctured the roof of his mouth. When he pulled it out, "it was a straight needle, about one inch long, with sharp points on both ends."

28 May 2012

Kitchen Shortcuts On Schoolday Mornings

Here are discovered kitchen shortcuts by Sol Vanzi that made her mornings easier for the entire family by cutting kitchen preparation time and reducing the amount of pots and pans that had to be washed after the kids were picked up by the school bus.

BISQUICK-LIKE MIX – In a big bowl, sift then mix thoroughly 6 cups all-purpose flour, 3 tablespoons baking powder and 1 tablespoon salt. Cut in 1 cup solid vegetable shortening, if available. Or substitute 1 cup vegetable oil. Mix well until crumbly and grainy. Store in airtight container in a cool place. This keeps in the refrigerator for several months.

30 April 2012

Burger King makes cage-free eggs, pork promise

In a boost to animal welfare activists looking to get livestock out of cramped cages, Burger King will be the first major U.S. fast-food chain to give all of its chickens and pigs some room to roam.

On Wednesday, the world's second-biggest burger chain pledged that all of its eggs and pork will come from cage-free chickens and pigs by 2017, hoping to satisfy rising consumer demand for humanely produced fare and increase its sales in the process.

07 March 2012

Cheap Fish Keep Brains Young

Hugging the news around the world a few days ago was the finding that omega-3 fatty acids keep brains healthy and may slow the mental decline that leads to dementia; among the young, omega-3 improves brain function and memory.

02 March 2012

To Eat Or Not To Eat

Just when the University of the Philippines in Diliman is being plagued by calls to improve its campus security following a violent incident that endangered the life of a student, here comes another issue that threatens the health safety of the UP community – food scare!

17 February 2012

New Veggies In Our Kitchens

There has been an influx of new produce in the market for the last few decades; these are still unfamiliar and considered foreign, especially by the masses who classify them as “pangmayaman” or high class.

02 February 2012

Fetuses Use In Food Banned

An Oklahoma lawmaker has proposed legislation to ban any use of fetuses in food in one of the more bizarre twists in the emotive US battle over abortion.

The bill comes after wild rumors began circulating online and among anti-abortion groups that soft drink giant, Pepsi, was using aborted fetuses in its products. The company has denounced the urban legend as completely false.

24 December 2011

Noche Buena traditions through generations

Filipino Noche Buena traditions have evolved through the years, just as the country underwent socio-political changes in the various eras since the start of the 20th century, when the Philippines went through peacetime (before WWII), wartime (the Japanese occupation), liberation (the Commonwealth era under the Americans), independence (1946-1972), martial law, EDSA1 and EDSA2.

01 December 2011

The Largest served pizza

Largest pizza commercially available: On the menu at Big Mama’s and Papa’s Pizzeria in Los Angeles, California, USA, is an enormous 1.37 m wide (4 ft 6 in) square pizza. Retailing at $199.99 (£121) plus tax, this mammoth meal can feed up to 100 people and can be ordered for delivery – as long as you give the pizzeria 24 hours’ notice!

10 October 2011

Crispy Pata

I bought a pig's leg last Saturday and I asked my hubby to cook crispy pata for me yesterday for lunch.

Crispy Pata is a famous Filipino pork dish that uses a whole pig’s leg. The leg (or pata) is made tender by simmering in water along with other spices. It is then rubbed with seasonings and deep-fried until the texture becomes very crunchy.

03 September 2011

Vitamin D levels tied to colon cancer risk

A new analysis of earlier research finds that both higher vitamin D intake and higher blood levels of the vitamin's active form are linked to lower risk of colon and rectal cancers.

In 18 studies that included more than 10,000 people, colon cancer risk was as much as 33 percent lower in subjects with the highest blood levels of vitamin D compared to those with the lowest levels, researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Those with the highest intake of vitamin D through supplements and food had 12 percent lower risk than those with the lowest intakes.

30 August 2011

Tallying the Benefits of Chocolate

Chocaholics may have more reason to indulge in a chocolate truffle or two today. New research from scientists at the University of Cambridge suggests that the heart-healthy benefits chalked up to regularly indulging in chocolate treats may not be all hype. The research involved more than 100,000 subjects and included data from a half dozen studies.

McDonald's burgers and fries don't decompose

The reason for the lack of change in the year-old McDonald's Happy Meal is the number of preservatives in the food. Preservative calcium propionateis what keeps the food looking the same...even after a year.

13 July 2011

Winners of the 39th Sofi Awards for Outstanding Specialty Foods and Beverages

The winners of the 39th Sofi Awards for the outstanding specialty foods and beverages of the year were announced by the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT) at the Summer Fancy Food Show.

The awards were presented at a red carpet ceremony hosted by Celebrity Chef Cat Cora. You can see photographs of the delicious looking winners here.

11 July 2011

Nice Egg for Breakfast

Everybody knows the old saying: "Have breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper." I am not sure if everybody realizes the fact, that the healthy breakfast is the most important meal of the day. If you ask me, I am for eating breakfast.

06 June 2011

Japanese astronaut plans to grow space cucumbers

Unfazed by the European E. coli outbreak originally blamed on cucumbers, a Japanese astronaut says he plans to harvest the vegetable in orbit.

Satoshi Furukawa is set to blast off early Wednesday for a half-year stint aboard the International Space Station along with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and NASA astronaut Michael Fossum Wednesday. Their mission will see the final arrival in orbit of a US shuttle.

24 May 2011

Is Horse an Acceptable Meat Course?

Eating horse meat hasn't always been a taboo in the United States. During World War II, it was sold as an alternative to meat rations, and, until at least 1954, a dedicated stall at Pike Place Market in Seattle sold horse meat. But any legal U.S. market for horse meat came to close in 2007, when the three last remaining equine slaughterhouses were essentially forced to shut down. That didn't stopped the debate over eating horses.

26 January 2011

Health Benefits of Eating Crabs

I love shrimp and crab. Crab is my favorite seafood and since it is in season, I've been eating a lot of them lately. However, I wonder why I get a headache after eating a lot of crabs.

Crabs are rich in sodium, potassium and phosphorus with good amounts of calcium, magnesium and small amounts of iron, zinc, copper, manganese and selenium. Crabs have good amount of vitamin A, C, B6, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and panthothenic acid with small amounts of folate and vitamin B12.

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