SweetAdditions

There are not many who wouldn’t like to scoop, melt-it-in-the-mouth and swallow loads of ice creams on a hot day, and there are also many who wouldn’t mind whether it’s sunny or rainy to reach for an ice cream, most often at the end of a meal as a dessert. Although ice cream is typically American the US and Europe are still at war about its origins. But there is no such doubts regarding the Fried ice cream, which had its roots in Mexico and now is an Americanized Mexican desert. You might not find Fried ice cream recipe in Mexican cookbooks, meaning it is not a traditional Mexican recipe.

Ingredients

• 1 quart vanilla ice cream
• 1 cup crushed frosted cornflakes
• 1 cup sweetened coconut flakes, or 1 cup chopped walnuts, or 1 cup cookie crumbs
• 2 large eggs
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• Vegetable oil, for frying
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From time unknown Italian breads have been one of the staple foods in Italy and as compared to any other European city bread baking in Italy is considered a serious affair. The Italians typically have their own standards when it comes to bread-making. The basic recipe for a standard family-size whole bread consists of an unsweetened, yeast-leavened thick oblong loaf with tapering ends made up of salt, flour, water and yeast. It gained quick popularity around the world during the 18th century.

Following is a recipe for homemade crusty Italian bread:

Ingredients:

2 ½ teaspoons of active dry yeast

1 ¼ cups of warm water

3 cups all purpose flour

2 teaspoons sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon olive oil

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Recession period affects all the budget of your spending. Whatever  you can save is your plus point in survival. This depression period taught us many lesson of life style improvement. From the all waste of U.S kitchen, we can feed many small & hungry countries. Also, the wastage of resource will impact on global warming and climate change. One research says 14-15 per cent of US edible food is untouched or unopened, $43 billion worth wastage and £10.2 billion wastage in U.K. It is not just wastage of food only, it is wastage of all natural resources used to produce that food. You can get all the nutrition within half of your grocery budget if you can think about it. Here are some tips to manage your food budget. Read the rest of this entry »

Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals are fundamental requirements of body functions. Foods & drink can fulfill all nutrition if consumed with awareness. Most of the processed foods stick a label of “Nutrition Facts”, but you might not know about fresh fruits and vegetables. Nutrition requirements may vary according to age, sex, dieses and deficiency. Growing child and Pregnant woman needs more protein than average people. Diabetics people needs glycemic index of all food to maintain their blood sugar while anemic person needs more iron rich foods in diet. Your nutrition requirements also depend of your body mass index. Find out first that your weight is ideal for your height or not?

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Raw Food List for Diet & Weight loss

Fat peoples are always considered as dumb and funny. But it is fact that obesity has covered more than 50% of U.S population. So many people are health conscious because they want to stay younger,  beautiful and smart  and they want to loose weight by following proper Diet schedule, exercise or any other way. There are many theories, diets, recipes and books from this you can get information about proper diet to loss weight. If you want the list of raw food weight loss diet then it has been given here. You people will enjoy by following this diet schedule. List of all Raw Food for diet and weight loss is mentioned below.

There are various varieties of foods that could be a part of raw diet like:

• Raw Almond
• Raw Filbert
• Raw Cashew
• Raw Brazil Nut
• Raw Pistachio
• Raw Pumpkin Seed

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If you have diabetes, you are one of the 171 million peoples in the world who have that. This is not a disease but a condition in which body doesn’t produce enough insulin to restore balance of sugar in blood. This condition can leads you to many serious problem and dieses if it is not controlled. Diabetic patients need to change way of living and have to take care more about health.

Uncontrolled diet can leads diabetic patients to blindness, nerves damage, heart attack, kidney problem, blood pressure and infections. To understand diabetic diet you must know that almost every food can produce glucose in body.  Sweet and sugar products can do this instantly.  Carbohydrate, protein and fat can also digested in to glucose in descending order of amount and time.

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We refer fat as a one of food compound that is solid at room temperature. But actually fat can be in any state (Solid or liquid) with composition of fatty acid and glycerol. Fat is one of the major sources of energy and heat. Vitamin A, D, E, and K are soluble only in fat and it plays vital role in body functions.

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“It is always better to drink a cup of tea rather than take medicines” is famous traditional saying in china. Credit goes to Chinese people as the first founder of Tea as beverage. It was used as medicine at the time of discovery in china. Still it is a first morning sip for millions of people in the world. Tea are available in market with four variety named as black tea, oolong tea, green tea and white tea as according to their process and property.

Green tea is at first position for not loosing large amount of antioxidants during processing. Unlike other Tea, Green Tea is not fermented, it is steamed soon after been plucked to maintain antioxidants. Extensive amount of research and medical studies have been performed for green tea and still under research. Read the rest of this entry »

Fifteen Fascinating Facts About Salt

Food Without the Salt is nothing in test. Here some fascinating facts about Salt are given. Here some well known and common facts are mentioned so list is restricted. If you have any other facts to add to this list, be sure to do so in the comments.

1. Salt is so essential to the body that if you drink too much water it can flush it out of your system and cause fatal Hyponatremia. This is what killed Jennifer Strange who entered a “Hold your wee for a wii” competition.

2. Right up to the 20th century, pound bars of salt (called amoleh) were the basic currency in Abyssinia (now called Ethiopia). Read the rest of this entry »

Sweet potato casserole recipe

Sweet potato casserole recipe is liked by children and all people. With mashed sweet potato and a crunchy pecan topping made sweet potato casserole. This recipe is delicious and easy to make.

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