Thanksgiving Party Menu Ideas For A Traditional Thanksgiving Feast
Posted on March 28, 2008 - Filed Under Food and Drink | Leave a Comment
Thanksgiving is a time where all the family traditions come out to share with friends and family. Here are a few tips for planning your celebration:
Many people spend the day, or more often just the afternoon, preparing their Thanksgiving meal. This meal generally includes the turkey, beets, mashed potatoes, stuffing, dinner rolls, candied yams, and of course dessert.
Read More..>>Chinese New Year Menu Ideas For A Delicious Chinese New Year Feast
Posted on March 27, 2008 - Filed Under Food and Drink | Leave a Comment
Tradition is how we have gotten many of our menu items for holidays. Chinese New Year is no different. Delicious Asian delicacies form a big part of Chinese New Year, and here are just a few ideas:
Some items you may find during Chinese New Year are a vegetarian dish called jai, whole fish, chicken, nian gao, rice pudding, and man tou. The menu items have more meaning than most foods available at a traditional New Year in the United States. The Chinese believe their food symbolizes many things. Among the symbolization of food is the attitude that the amount of food prepared shows abundance and wealth for the household.
Read More..>>Sick Of Eating Healthy?
Posted on January 18, 2008 - Filed Under Health and Fitness, Travel and Leisure | Leave a Comment
When I read package labels in the supermarket, am I the only one who thinks I’m reading about “health” food? A food manufacturer makes his products low fat. That sounds healthy, right? Wrong. The products have so much sugar I could serve them for dessert.
I recently read that the average American eats two and a half pounds of sugar a week. First, who are these average Americans? If they eat that much sugar, shouldn’t they be easy to see? By eating natural sugar in things like apples - plus anything that means sugar because it ends in “ose” - plus man-made sugars like high fructose corn syrup, I supposedly see an average American every time I look in the mirror. How come if I’m constantly on a sugar high, I find this depressing?
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