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Make Eating Be An Adventure - Keep It Interesting, Simple, Healthy, and Fun

I have been preparing my own meals for peanuts, coconut, cereal, baked beans,
many years. Like most people, I suppose, and fruit.
I would fix only familiar dishes. Use small quantities of an untested food
That has changed. For health benefits, I to begin with until you know how well
began eating more fruits and vegetables, your body deals with it. The body will
including some that were unfamiliar. I adapt to some foods over a period of
tried many foods that were new to me, for weeks or months but results vary from
example, whole grains, and various types food to food and, I suppose, from
of beans, seeds and nuts. Many of those individual to individual. A couple of
became favorites. years ago eating one spear of raw
I began to more often use unfamiliar ways asparagus was more than I could tolerate.
to prepare food. A few of my favorites Now I can cut up an ounce of raw
are pesto (pureed greens and oil), raw asparagus and add it to a salad without
foods that are normally eaten cooked, and any problem. Any food has limits; it's
unusual combinations such as bread with just that raw foods tend to have smaller
peanut butter, covered with pizza sauce. limits and more immediate penalties for
Eating became more interesting, more exceeding the limits.
enjoyable, and more of an adventure. To develop a liking for a new food, eat
The circumstances of my life encouraged it at the beginning of a meal when you
more changes. Making do with a small are most hungry. Being hungry greatly
amount of money gave me a liking for improves ones ability to appreciate the
oatmeal, beans, and other very low-cost taste of a food. Eat only a small amount
foods. Growing up on a farm and having a of the new food at each sitting. For some
garden each year provided new fruits and foods, a tiny bite, just enough to sense
vegetables to try and enjoy. Having been its flavor, is enough to handle at first.
raised to 'waste not, want not', helped Don't give up easily on a food that at
me not to pass up unusual foods: gifts first seems too strange to be enjoyed.
such as my sister's 'beans 'n' greens', Some foods will require dozens of 'get
the landlord's pierogies, and my son's acquainted' trials.
homemade deer jerky. The point is: The Other strategies for liking new foods:
changes in my diet gave me more foods to - Read about nutrition and health to know
enjoy. I now know that I can like a great the benefits of a changed diet.
many unfamiliar foods. At first some of - Make a decision to increase the
those foods may not be enjoyed because pleasure in your life. Your success in
they are so different and are enjoying new foods will encourage you to
unrecognized as a 'goody'. For me, that try other kinds of new pleasures.
recognition is typically made gradually Have reasons in mind to try unusual
by many small trials. Once that foods:
recognition is made, the food 'hits the - to be able to enjoy healthy foods.
spot' and can be nutritious, healthy and - to enjoy low-prep-time foods.
convenient. Then I have yet another food - to use what you can grow in your
to enjoy. garden.
The process of trying new foods and - for the satisfaction of acquiring new
having them become enjoyed fare, makes pleasures.
eating an adventure. Eating becomes more - to increase your enjoyment of eating.
interesting and more enjoyed. Meals Know why liking new foods is difficult.
become more than a time to enjoy what I This is the know-your-enemy principle. It
have enjoyed before. Awareness is seems to help me. People have an
heightened by experiencing the instinctive protection against eating
unfamiliar. There is anticipation of toxic foods. Nature has provided you with
discovery of a new enjoyment. Meals mistrust for new, unfamiliar food. If the
become pay-off times of previous food is enough different from what you
experimentation efforts. The food is more are used to, it will not be immediately
appreciated for having creative effort liked. This is a necessary instinct that
invested in it. Perhaps I have gained a keeps you from poisoning yourself by
health benefit, saved some prep time, eating the wrong mushroom, for example.
saved money that can be used for some Evolution along with chemistry eliminated
other purpose, and have added to my the gulp-down-anything individuals from
repertoire of pleasure. our gene pool. The little-by-little
A cookbook will give you ideas about what taste-developers survived.
new foods to try. A recipe book about a If it's the sugar, salt and spices you
particular ethnic food or some other depend upon to enjoy food, other flavors
unfamiliar category of food would be will go unappreciated. To help your
particularly helpful. Buy one or get one fondness for new foods come easier, ease
from the library. Some ethnic categories up on spices, salt, and sugar. That
are Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, encourages your taste to appreciate a
African, soul food, Southern, and greater variety of flavors. You then can
Mexican. Other categories are health more appreciate the sweetness of cherry
food, quick and easy recipes, weight loss tomatoes, the sweetness of raw pumpkin,
diets, vegetarian recipes, and using food and the sweetness of sweet potatoes, for
from the garden. You might even enjoy example. You can enjoy the mild flavor of
some obscure categories such as pioneer raw chestnuts, the richness of nuts, and
early American food, Native American the subtle starchiness of cereal grains.
food, wild food, early European food, Your palate will be more adept at
food from storage, and low cost food. I experiencing the pleasures of subtle
particularly like quick and easy recipe flavors. A great many foods that
books. previously seemed mostly tasteless, can
If you need help becoming comfortable then be enjoyed for their unique flavors.
with trying new foods, try small changes: Your enjoyment of strong tasting food
- Eat breakfast foods at lunch or supper. will also be helped by reducing sugar and
Or try a vegetable at breakfast. If you salt use. You will be switching from
normally have a sandwich at bedtime, have depending on saltiness and sweetness to
a salad instead. getting pleasure from other flavors.
- Try different brands from the ones you Finding new foods:
normally use. - Browse at a health food store, a
- Leave out one or more ingredients from farmers market or an ethnic food
your standard recipes. Or change the festival.
proportions - a little more of this or a - Take the time to look at all the items
little less of that. at a local supermarket.
- Substitute a similar ingredient for a - Browse at local ethnic food markets:
usual ingredient, for instance, orange Middle Eastern or Greek, for example.
juice concentrate or lemon juice instead - Try raw foods, whole grains and other
of vinegar on a salad. unprocessed foods. Typically, they have
- It may help to eat smaller portions but more texture and flavor. These foods are
include a greater number of foods at each higher in fiber and so produce more
meal. That may help you develop a liking intestinal gas. Limit portion size to
for variety. reduce gas production. Load up when gas
- Try unusual combinations such as cooked will not be a problem. I allow myself to
chicken and raw fruit cut in small pieces pig-out at a before bedtime meal. If the
and mixed together...or pizza sauce on a meal is low in calories, that large meal
peanut butter open-face sandwich...or a doesn't keep me from having a good
teaspoon of honey or pancake syrup on a night's sleep.
dark green, leafy salad. - Use native plants foraged from lawns,
Salads are great to experiment with. Many fence lines, woodlands and growing as
vegetables can be enjoyed in a salad. Try weeds in gardens. Know what you are
various amounts and combinations of doing, there are poisonous plants that
carrot, tomato, cabbage, broccoli, bell resemble edible ones. A few plants are
pepper, cucumber, or other vegetables you toxic even when eaten in small
enjoy. Use other types of greens: romaine quantities.
lettuce, Bibb lettuce, collards, mache - Do your own cooking. Restaurants have
and basil. Dressing can be just oil, menus that appeal to a majority of
pesto, syrup, tomato sauce, ketchup, people, not to people wanting something
fruit juices, mayonnaise, peanut butter different. Even the person who cooks for
softened with oil, and even jam or jelly. their own family may be unlikely to
The subtle flavors of many vegetables are prepare other than familiar and popular
easily hidden with anything more than food.
tiny amounts of vinegar, lemon juice and - Have a garden, if you have the time and
tomato sauce. Try a salad without any space. Every year I can try out new
dressing to enjoy the full flavor of the recipes and a new vegetable or two.
vegetables. The vegetables can be Otherwise, take advantage of the variety
proportioned to subdue or enhance the large supermarkets offer.
particular flavors - use less basil to A few unusual recipes can be found at
lessen its pungent flavor, use more encourages people to discover new ways to
carrot to boost its flavor and texture. enjoy themselves.
Other salad ingredients can be nuts,




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