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Adding Variety To Vegetarian Meals

February 6th, 2012 by Owen Jones

People who are not vegetarians almost certainly ask themselves how a vegetarian cook can keep vegetarian meals stimulating with only vegetables at his disposal. This same thought may be preventing or at least deterring some meat-eaters from giving up meat and trying vegetarianism. The fact is, that vegetarian meals are not merely ‘meat and two veg’ without the meat, although forty years ago there were many vegetarians who started like that.

However, a routine of ‘meat and two veg’ without the meat is not sustainable. A person who eats meals such as these will soon fall sick, particularly if there is no fish, dairy or eggs in the diets either. Many vegetarians opt to eat a small amount to dairy, fish or eggs to help supply much needed protein, which can be difficult to replace in a met-free diet.

Vegetarians have to plan their meals far more than meat-eaters in order to get everything that a body needs to grow, repair itself and defend itself from disease. It will obviously take some time for the newcomer to vegetarianism to learn new recipes and how to cook them so in the beginning, lots of vegetarians do indeed cook meals which are of the ‘meat and two veg’ without the meat type.

This is all right if you know what to exchange for the meat. There are a number of things in the shops, but one of the most helpful is soya in all its various forms. Tempeh is a soya bean meat substitute and so is tofu. Both these can be used to supplant meat for a dose of protein.

The good thing about these substances is that they can be made to taste of anything you like – they take on flavours fairly readily. They can also be treated to resemble the texture of meat.

Seitan (wheat gluten) is a similarly adaptable and helpful product, but you have to be sure that you are not allergic to gluten first, because this allergy appears to be spreading. Soya bean products and seitan can be easily bought at health food shops and Oriental shops.

As you become more capable at cooking vegetarian meals, you will almost certainly rely less heavily on these things. Beans and nuts are also useful substitutes, but you will probably have to learn how to use them first. Take a look at chickpeas, lentils yet kidney beans.

Soya by-products like soya milk and soya yoghurt and even soya margarine can be used to take the place of regular dairy products. You can also create a type of healthy milk from rice water or / and blended nuts. Besides making milk and casseroles from nuts, some nuts are fantastic in salads. Have a go with walnuts, cashews and almonds and try seeds too like sesame and poppy. Sunflower seeds and others are great for snacks.

Bread and sandwiches are tasty vegetarian fast foods. Experiment with different kinds of flour. Get yourself a bread-making machine and bake your own bread. Preparation time is minutes but you can set the timer to cook the bread for when you like. Seven in the morning beats any alarm clock.

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What Is Bread?

February 5th, 2012 by Owen Jones

Bread is a vital ingredient in the diet of millions of people on a daily basis. However, there are as many kinds of bread as there are peoples’ eating it and most countries have more than one type of bread as well. In it’s most fundamental kind, bread is made by cooking a dough of flour and water. However, it seldom rests there except in children’s scout camps.

The flour can be manufactured from almost anything that can be dried and pulverized, so in Europe and America, flour is most normally manufactured from wheat, rye and corn, whereas in India it is often made from gram and in Thailand it can be made from rice but there are numerous other types of flour as well, besides all the possible mixtures obtained by mixing the different flours.

Often, whole grains or rough-ground material will become added into fine flour to improve texture, taste, roughage or / and aesthetics. Also, in the same vein, occasionally the dough will get rolled in seeds such as sesame, poppy or other kinds of crop like rolled oats. The second ingredient is water, but not always. You can use water, milk or even beer or yoghurt or a mixture of a few of them.

Then there are additives. No, not the E-numbers or chemicals such as flavour-enhancers or preservatives, they are completely uncalled for, unless you are using poor quality ingredients or you want the loaf to have a long shelf life. No, I am talking about natural additives. Yeast is the first additive. It makes the bread increase in volume and so makes it light. Bread without yeast is more like cake. Sugar, honey or molasses is added to help the yeast increase in size.

Salt is the first real additive. Salt is added to inhibit the action of the yeast and as a flavour-enhancer, and you could add celery salt (garlic or any other salt) instead or table salt. However, you do not really have to use it if you do not use yeast. After that, the world is your oyster, you can put what you want.

Some individuals add an egg to give the bread more body or fruit such as raisins. Or you can add bananas instead or as well. Nuts are tasty in home baked bread too and so are dried plums and apricots. I used to like to add a handful of rolled oats for additional fibre.

A little oil (olive or other) or butter will help the bread’s elasticity and it will also keep longer as well, not that that was ever an issue in our household. Herbs and garlic is lovely in homemade bread and so is ginger or onions. In fact, one of the best breads I ever baked was done with the left overs from my Sunday lunch. I could not eat it but it was not enough to put in the fridge so I put it in the bread mixture.

I put in French green beans, a little potato, some cabbage, a bit of chicken, kidney beans and the gravy – only a little of |each. It was the best bread I ever baked, but I have spent the last ten years trying to replicate the loaf in vain, because I did not write down precisely what I did.

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Being A Social Vegetarian

January 28th, 2012 by Owen Jones

Lifestyle changes are the hardest ones to achieve and one of the toughest lifestyle changes that anyone can make voluntarily is to become a vegetarian. Frequently individuals find it more comfortable to become part of a support group when making lifestyle alterations; think of Alcoholics Anonymous, Weight Watchers or giving up smoking. Joining a support group can help the student vegetarian as well.

The advantages of being a member of such a support group are many, but some of them are encouragement, advice and friendship. You may not need the friendship, but you might like to socialize with other vegetarians so that you can see how they deal with eating out and basically simply mixing into a society designed by and for meat-eaters.

However, whether you propose giving up your old friends or not, you may find yourself gravitating away from them after a while quite naturally. Remember the old expression: ‘Birds of a feather flock together’? This is fairly standard.

You will have problems substituting something else for meat; you will get worried that your diet is lacking in some mineral; you will start wondering which restaurants serve truly vegetarian food and lots more.

Your newly discovered support group friends will be a immense source of encouragement and advice in this sphere. You might not like the concept of a ‘vegetarian support group’, yet you could just as easily join a vegetarian dining club or vegetarian cookery class, the impact will be the same – you will learn and you will create new friends.

If you have trouble locating such a group by the standard methods of your local Yellow Pages and an Internet search, try going to the local community centre, where there may be yoga groups – a couple of the attendees will be vegetarians that you can ask. Or go to you local health food shop and ask there Similarly you could ask at a martial arts club or a Hindu Indian restaurant. If all else fails, you could start your own club.

If you organize your own club, find a supportive bar or restaurant that will prepare your meal suggestions for that night at a reasonable price. After a time, I am sure you could build up a lovely little club of twenty individuals and the landlord might let you have your own room to dine in once a month like the Masons.

If you think that this is too much in the early days, you could just set up a blog. A blog is an interactive web site, where you and others can post relevant information. If you keep the name of the blog relevant to your town and vegetarianism, you should find that other people looking as you once did will find you, whereas you discovered no one. Once you have built up a group of local, on line vegetarian sympathizers, you could suggest meeting once a month in the flesh and take the dining notion from there. An advertisement in the local paper would help as well.

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Poor Eyesight These Days

January 14th, 2012 by Owen Jones

Not very long ago, it was not at all unusual to see blind people walking the streets tap-tapping away with their white sticks, being guided by a dog, normally a Labrador, but I have not seen anyone like that in Britain for years, as far as I remember.

That has to be a good thing; it has to mean that we are starting to cure or at least alleviate most types of blindness.

My aunty had cataracts for years when I was a child in the Sixties – it was just one of those facts of life. Some people got them when they were old and others did not.

My brother’s mother-in-law had cataracts in the late Nineties and she was put on a two year waiting list to have them taken away, but at least she had hope and they were going to be got rid of free of charge.

I do not know of anyone else that has eye trouble except myself. I could not get my glasses clean one day and then a friend said he saw a white spot in one of my eyes. He drove me to the hospital and the doctor said that I had ‘premature senile cataracts’.

Well, I live in Thailand now and he did not use those precise words. He told me that the cataracts were because I was prematurely senile.

I asked him if that was what he really meant; he looked it up in a book and we both had a hearty laugh about it, although he never really corrected himself.

My condition turned out to be a little more problematic than only cataracts, but when I went from the local hospital to a major hospital in Pattaya, the doctor saw me within 30 minutes and asked me if I wanted the cataracts removed.

I said that I did and she was willing to do the operation there and then. I got it postponed for 24 hours, but she would have sorted my eye out that day in a 30 minute operation, which does not need anaesthetic. I think that that was wonderful.

We have come a long way from habitually seeing blind people on the street and putting up with cataracts through a two-year waiting list to immediate removal of cataracts by laser surgery in 40-50 years.

At least we have in the West and in the East too, if you have the money. There are still millions of individuals in Asia and particularly in Africa suffering blindness and partial blindness for the sake of an easy 30 minute operation.

Two weeks after my surgical treatment, my other eye commenced to cloud over. It was as if it had been holding on with its last scrap of strength until I got the other one sorted out.

I had that one treated last year and when I was allowed to take off my patch and look about me with two good eyes again for the first time in a decade, I could not believe that I had forgotten how bright the world actually is and that I had not noticed how drab my world had gotten.

If you are worried about an eye operation, do not be. What you will experience when you are able to see properly again will make all the apprehension seem ridiculous and if you have the opportunity to give someone their eyesight back, please do it.

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Some Reasons Why Grilling is Very Popular

January 9th, 2012 by Dexter Coroila

Barbecuing is an American tradition. Statistics show that 90% of families attend at least one barbecue celebration every year. As well, around 40% of families regularly organize parties centered around barbecuing. So why is barbecuing such a popular activity. First, barbecuing or grilling allows you to create a meal that is unmatched by any other type of cooking. Every one I know starts to salivate at the first whiff of a steak grilling on a barbecue.

Barbecuing is suitable for any type of meat. There are many tasty side dishes that are also easily created on a barbecue grill. Fish, pork, beef are traditionally the most popular types of meat for grilling. Some grocery stores will have meats cut and packaged for barbecuing. If you like to do your own flavors stock up on tasty marinades and spices to prepare your own culinary delights.

Some of the more traditional side dishes might be coleslaw, potato salad, beans and coleslaw. Most people expect these side dishes as a minimum at barbecues. These sides work well with the variety of meats available and are easy to prepare and store until it is time to eat. Pickles, relish and onions are the traditional condiments that should be available at every barbecue gathering. For different flavors in your meat you can try different styles of grills. The grilled ’smoked’ flavor is probably one of the most well known flavors and favorite of barbecuing. With a smoker barbecue you can have fun getting different flavors in your meat by simply changing the type of wood you use. For a faster grilling time you can use a propane grill but you won’t get the nice smoky flavor.

Some grills have the ability to come with many different types of cooking surfaces. These different cooking surfaces include a brazier grill, a flat grill, and a ribbed grill. For even more types of food cooking options these surfaces are also available as non-stick. By planning correctly you should be able to cook an entire meal on the barbecue.

With the many options of addon cooking surfaces you can cook anything from stir fries to rotisserie chickens. Barbecuing might also be popular because it’s a great excuse to have a get together or a party. With a barbecue you have the room to gather around and chat with friends during the actual cooking of the meal. It’s a great social atmosphere. Everyone loves a themed party and barbecues can fit this style of party perfectly. Throw up a few festive decorations which can be purchased cheaply from a party or general store. You may also consider purchasing decorations that can be stored and reused at a different time, such as reusable tablecloths and torches. Tropical music and a bit of sand can do wonders for a beach themed party.

Barbecuing is considered to be a hobby as well which might be helping to add to its popularity. Barbecuing, like anything else in life, takes time and practice. if you experiment with recipes, techniques and different styles of barbecues you will make it more interesting and fun. Once you have developed a liking for barbecuing, then you can focus on creating your own variations on traditional recipes and ideas.

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How To Cook For A Vegetarian Visiting You

December 22nd, 2011 by Owen Jones

If you are giving a dinner party soon are you worried about cooking for a vegetarian that you know is coming? Of have you been reluctant to invite a friend or colleague to dinner because you do not know how to go about catering for them? This piece is about how to cook for a vegetarian visiting you.

The first thing to do is to find out what type of vegetarian your friend is because there are a number of kinds. A strict vegan is a vegetarian that will not eat any animal produce whatsoever, not even honey. Some will not even eat yeast, however there are others less austere who will eat fish, dairy products or eggs.

So, hope that they are not stringent vegan, because it will make your task much easier.

There are a number of questions you can pose to find out what your dinner guest will eat. You should get this stage sorted out long before the day comes to cook your meal as you may have to get in some specialities.

Ask whether they will eat any sort of meat or fish at all. Numerous vegetarians will eat dairy products and eggs; a couple less will eat fish and a very small number will eat chicken or turkey. If there is something they will eat, you could either prepare that for everybody or only for your guest.

Ask whether they object to eating with utensils and cutlery or from crockery that has ever been in contact with meat. Some do, most do not. Their reasons for not wanting to mix the two might be medical rather than philosophical, so it is worth finding out.

Enquire how strict they are about eating things that include milk or eggs, because as I am sure you are already know, cake and most sweets contain milk, cream or / and eggs. This is not difficult, you can serve fruit of some kind instead, yet again, it is worth knowing in case you have put your heart and soul into your piece de resistance only to find that they can not eat it.

It is also a good idea to find out whether your guest will eat yeast or honey as this obviously has an effect on bread and some cakes, sweets and puddings as well. A fantastic alternative to yeast bread is Irish soda bread.

If you can not find enough common ground, you could ask them to bring their own food or even to come around early to help you cook a vegetarian course that everyone can taste. Many vegetarians will happily bring something with them or join in the cooking in order to share their taste for vegetarian food with their fellow diners.

One last thing, is that some vegetarians do not take salt or have special sauces in bottles that they like. Enquire whether this is expected to be a difficulty, and whether they want to bring any specialties along with them.

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Vegetarian Diets For Your Cat Or Dog

December 22nd, 2011 by Owen Jones

Vegetarians are fond of animals as well – they simply do not eat them. Or perhaps that is why they do not eat them. Whatever! There is a question that bothers some vegetarians that own pets, and it is: do I have to feed them meat or can I provide vegetarian diets for my cat and dog. It is well worth thinking about this dilemma before buying a usually carnivorous pet.

Domestic carnivores such as cats and dogs are omnivores, which means that they will eat pretty much anything If a domestic animal goes ferule (wild) it will revert to its primitive form, which means that it will hunt and forage.

Cats and dogs will eat grains and grasses but they prefer them semi-digested, which is why, when they make a kill, they normally rip the stomach open first and eat that and the internal organs. The meat comes last on the list.

You can see by looking at the pets’ teeth that they have fangs for killing and gripping (for ripping) and molars for grinding and crushing. The grinding and crushing refers to grains and bones.

This means that you might be able to sustain your pets on a vegetarian diet, |but it probably will not be easy. There has been a lot of research into the dietary needs of human beings and so someone on a diet, measures what he consumes against what his body needs and takes supplements to match the deficit.

However do you know precisely what your pets’ requirements are and how you can provide them? If you do not, where will you find out? I am sure you can with quite a bit of study, yet do you have that degree of commitment? And do you think that your pet would thank you for making it a vegetarian? It might even turn your pet into a voracious killer to make up the deficit or fulfill its desire for meat.

Cats and dogs need a high percentage of protein, so do you think that you will be able to sneak enough nuts and tofu into its diet to supply enough? You might find your pets chasing every bird in your garden trying to catch some meat, instead of watching them lazily from under your seat.

All in all, a vegetarian diet is not a good idea for domestic animals such as cats and dogs, and if you have trouble opening the cans or giving it raw meat, maybe you could ask someone else in the family who is a little less delicate to feed the animals or you could feed them meat less frequently, say just if you take them to your friend’s or mother’s house, then you can let them do it for you.

The other approach is to get rabbits or gerbils and tropical fish. Cats are not useful animals as dogs are in the sense that a dog will deter burglars and if you are just thinking of pets as stress-reducers or a way of introducing your kids to the animal world, a rabbit will do that equally as well.

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3 Recipes For Cantaloupe

December 22nd, 2011 by Owen Jones

The variety of melons called muskmelons consists of a juicy, edible fruit that is characterized by its round shape and a ribbed exterior. Cantaloupes are a variety of muskmelons..

Extensive variation occurs in this fruit. Some cantaloupes are large yet others are small; some have pink or yellow flesh yet others have white or light-green flesh. The flesh of these fruits contains a large amount of water; therefore, their food value is not high, being only a little over half as much as that of apples.

If melons suitable for the table are desired, they should be selected with care. To be just at the correct stage, the blossom end of the melon ought to be a little soft when pressed with the fingers. If it is very soft, the melon is perhaps over ripe; yet if it does not give with pressure, the melon is still young.

Various ways of serving cantaloupes exist. If they are to be served plain as a breakfast food or a lunch dessert, cut them crosswise into halves, or, if they are big, divide them into sections lengthwise.

With the melons cut in the desired way, remove all the seeds but keep the melons on ice until they are to be served. The pulp of the melon may also be cut from the rind yet then diced and used in the making of fruit salads.

Again, the pulp may be partly scraped out of the melon and the rinds then packed with fruit mixtures and served with a salad dressing for a salad or with fruit juices for a cocktail. The pulp that is scraped out may be diced and used in the fruit mixture.

Recipe 1

FRUIT IN CANTALOUPE SHELLS

During cantaloupe season, a delightful fruit salad can be made by combining a number of different types of fruit with the flesh of cantaloupe and serving the mixture in the cantaloupe shells. Such a salad is a fantastic one to serve if light refreshments are desired or when something unusual is required for a light lunch.

Cut cantaloupes in half crosswise, yet, using the French cutter, cut some of the meat into round balls. Dice the rest and mix with any combination of fruit desired. Position this in the cantaloupe shells after cutting points in the top edge. Garnish with the balls cut from the cantaloupe but serve with any desired dressing. You can also sprinkle nuts on top to add a variation of textures.

Recipe 2

FRESH FRUIT COMPOTE

1 cup fresh blueberries 1 cup fresh strawberries, halved 1 cup sliced fresh peaches, peeled 1 cup fresh blackberries or raspberries 1 cup watermelon balls 1 cup cantaloupe balls 1 cup seedless grapes 1/2 cup sparkling wine (or sweet) wine, chilled 2 tbs thawed orange juice, frozen, concentrated, undiluted

Mix together all of the fruit in a large glass or ceramic bowl then gently stir to mix. Add the orange juice and wine and gently stir again. Chill with a wrapping on it for at least 20 minutes. Mix again lightly before serving.

Recipe 3

ERDBEER BOWLE (Strawberry Wine Punch)

1/2 pt strawberries, stemless, rinsed, cut in half 1 tbs granulated sugar 1/2 bottle German Riesling, well chilled 1 tbs brandy (preferably Alsbach Uralt) 1/2 bottle German Sekt well chilled

Bowle is a typical German party wine punch. During the month of May, throughout Germany, bowle is served flavoured with fresh woodruff (Waldmeister), a sweet scented herb with white flowers, which grows particularly well in wooded yet shady areas away from hot sun. Later, during strawberry season, bowle is made with strawberries which grow abundantly everywhere. As German summer season progresses, bowle is willing with other fruits like peaches, chunks of juicy watermelon, cubes of bright orange cantaloupe, or plump raspberries.

Put the strawberries in a substantial covered glass jar (a sun tea jar is fine), sprinkle them with sugar and drizzle them with the brandy. Put them aside to marinate for two hours to allow the sugar to draw out the juice from the berries.

Add white wine, stir, then set aside for two further hours. When finished to serve, pour into a punch bowl. Add Sekt and serve chilled in wide champagne style glasses, making sure to dispense strawberries with the wine.

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Dental Problems For Diabetics

December 12th, 2011 by Owen Jones

The main problem for diabetics is not the lack of insulin, it is the result of the deficiency of insulin and that result is that the blood becomes over-saturated with sugar (or glucose).

Everyone’s blood has sugar in it, the blood carries this energy to the limbs and organs to keep them working, but there is a fine balance between sufficient and too much.

Insulin controls that balance, so if you do not produce enough insulin, as diabetics do not, your blood becomes thick and sugary. That does not sound too bad on the face of it.

Maybe a diabetic should be able to run further and faster than others with all that extra energy being pumped about the body.

However, it does not work like that. The thick, syrupy blood cannot get into the fine veins and capillaries, which means a deficiency of energy in these places, which are often at the very ends of your body and in internal and external organs.

Skin, hair, eyes, teeth and toes are all starved of the sugars they need to keep them going, not just to keep them super-fit. The places with the finest blood vessels start to go first.

Not only that, but where the blood does reach will be more easily infected, because the bacteria think it is party time with all that extra food/energy in the blood.

A small infection that the body;s immune system could usually have dealt with in a day or two soon gets out of hand. This is a major problem for diabetics and one of the areas that is easily infected is the mouth.

Without the scheduled dental check-ups that affluent people can afford, the mouth would often become infected, as it still is in poorer countries and among poorer groups in rich countries. Children and older people are always needing fillings, extractions and infections sorted out.

For diabetics who do not seek appropriate dental care this can soon become a major problem. Smoking worsens the problem. The concerns really start to mount up for smokers over the age of 45 when dental problems usually start to resurface after 20 odd years of relatively healthy teeth and gums.

Periodontitis is especially dangerous for diabetics. Periodontitis is an infection that affects the bones and gums in the mouth. It manifests itself in receding, bleeding gums. This exposes the blood rich in sugars to infection. Diabetics ought to inform their dentist of their condition and go for a check-up every six months.

Diabetics can easily lose all their teeth if they get periodontitis and it is easily done with high blood sugar levels. The first sign of such dental concerns is bleeding teeth or gums.

It is imperative to regulate the blood sugar level to as close to normal as possible to avoid these and other complications and the two first keys to try are diet and exercise, otherwise you may have to resort to medication.

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Finding A Good Home Blood Pressure Monitor

December 6th, 2011 by Owen Jones

If you would like to check your blood pressure at home, you will require a blood pressure monitor. These monitors are not necessarily very expensive and are within the budget of most households. There are in essence two types of home monitor: aneroid and digital.

The aneroid monitor has a dial-type gauge and you read off your blood pressure statistics from that. It also has a cuff, which you wrap about your arm and which you pump up with a rubber bulb. The digital monitors also use a cuff, but it can be manually or automatically blown up. The results are read from a small screen. The choice is yours, but most individuals prefer the automatic digital monitor.

An aneroid home monitor is portable and necessitates neither batteries nor electricity so is somewhat cheaper than the digital version. It also has a stethoscope built into the cuff for easy monitoring. A difficulty could arise in noisy surroundings or if the user is hard of hearing. Someone with arthritic hands or fingers may have problems squeezing the bulb as well.

Digital monitors are more expensive, yet they are more well-liked too despite that, because they can be completely automatic. The screen is also easier to read and some units come with a small printer to create a physical record of your readings. Other digital home monitors have a memory.

The one I use has three memories of thirty spaces each so that you can compare records for a month. Having three memories means that you can monitor and record readings for three separate people or three distinct time slots for one person for the period of a month. If you choose three time slots they could be morning, noon and night, as blood pressures differ during the day.

Whichever type of monitor you decide on, make certain that the cuff is the right size for you. Be especially cautious if you have very substantial or very thin arms. Check the age range for the monitor too. Mine says for use only on people more than 18 years, yet does not say why.

If electricity or batteries is ever likely to become a difficulty, then the automatic digital home monitor may not be for you, although you may be able to rig it up to photovoltaic cells to exploit the sun’s rays.

Neither of these units are difficult to use, if you know how, so be sure that the instruction book does not seem as if it was translated by machine. It is of course vital to know how to take precise readings and how to understand them. In order to check the accuracy of your device it is worth taking it with on your next visit to your GP.

You can compare your readings against those of his sphygmomanometer, which is considered the gold standard of blood monitoring devices. Your doctor will also be able to tell you what your systolic and diastolic pressures should be.

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