Author: brucetretter
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Resetting New Year’s Resolutions & Microwave Cooked Kale In Pictures
I laughed the other day when I heard that February 1st is becoming the new start date for New Year’s resolutions. But then after I let the idea sink in, it began to make sense. By February 1st, the winter holidays and their tempting, flavorful excesses are all over. The football playoffs are over – or sometimes…
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Excellent Illustrated Guide to Cooking Oils and How to Use Them
Just got an email from fix.com with the concise, illustrated article printed below about the difference between cooking oils regarding their smoke points (temperature at which they start to smoke), nutrition, source, flavor, and best use – all in alphabetical order. Terrific reference that I’ll be sure to use. Thanks, Fix! Nut, Seed, and Flower Oils – Which…
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Microwave Cooked Fresh Hot Chocolate: Quick, Easy, and All in Pictures
There’s nothing much better than the warm rich flavor of a fresh cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter’s day. By “fresh”, I’m talking about using only real ingredients: cocoa powder, sugar, vanilla extract, maybe a light dash of salt, and milk. That’s it: pure, honest, and clean, which means using far fewer and much…
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Baked Kale Chips – Flavorful, Nutritious, and All in Pictures
I don’t know what you chose for your new year’s resolutions, but I did see online that losing weight, getting fit, and eating more healthy foods are 3 of the top 10 resolutions people make. I know from personal experience those 3 resolutions are about the toughest for anyone to start let alone maintain for…
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Oven Roasted Sweet Potato Fries – Easy to Make & All in Pictures
Oh baby, it’s cold outside! So how ’bout we warm things up with fully flavorful, richly nutritious, and easy to make oven roasted sweet potato fries. First, a few tips. Sweet potatoes are packed with beneficial antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and blood sugar moderating properties. For details, I highly recommend this link to the very comprehensive sweet potato…
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TV Celebrity Chef Help for Can’t Cook Daughter-in-Laws
Got a call yesterday from Alyson Difranco with The Meredith Vieira Show asking for help finding women, specifically daughter-in-laws who can’t cook, possibly to appear on an upcoming show with Meredith Vieira (pictured above). Before passing on the casting call details, I checked out Meredith Vieira at her site online and found out that, aside…