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Easy Chilled Cucumber Soup

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I’ve been on a bit of a theme lately – getting and staying healthy, with plenty of easy food recipes that are also good for you.  Now this doesn’t really have anything to do with New Years resolutions (I don’t believe they really provide much long-term benefits) , it’s more about just feeling fitter and healthier to enjoy a better lifestyle. People usually focus on either exercise or eating healthier, but it tends to be rare that both of these are taken into consideration at the same time. I’m not going to make out that I’m some sort of expert on this matter, but I do keep a very active lifestyle, as well as obviously being very aware of the sort of food I’m eating.  So I’d like to share what I know about the benefits of eating healthy , as well as plenty of easy food recipes to get the process started for you, and I hope that this helps to give you more energy and time each day.

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The Golden Rules Of Healthy Eating

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Pay Attention To Your Appetite And Only Eat When You Are Actually Hungry Now this is one of those healthy eating habits that sounds like common sense, but you’d be surprised how often people will eat when they’re not actually hungry.  Your appetite is your friend, don’t think of it as the enemy .  A strong appetite is an important sign of good health , and if you listen to your body it will tell you when to eat and how much so that you can feel healthier and happier! Don’t fight your body’s messages, instead be grateful about its fantastic ability to tell you what it needs through your appetite, and you’ll feel much better for it. A lot of times people will tend to eat out of habit, to be social, because they are stressed or lonely, or because someone tells them that it’s time to eat. What Is Hunger?

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Healthy Eating Habits – Golden Rule Number 1

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Christmas is a time for getting together with family, sharing gifts, reflecting on the year that was, and of course, indulging in large amounts of food and drink!  A traditional Christmas Day lunch in my family usually consists of a great big roast cooked up, often lamb or pork, with plenty of sides of salads overflowing on the table.  However this year, Christmas day is a very hot, sticky and humid 38C here in Perth , so something a little different was needed. Christmas Lunch Ideas Basically once I heard the weather reports coming out in the previous week, I just knew it was going to be way too hot for a roast Christmas Day lunch.  Out of all the Christmas lunch ideas I had, it really came down to a seafood feast for Christmas Day lunch . The Christmas Day Lunch Seafood Feast The reason I chose to have seafood is simply that it’s quick and easy to cook, as well as being a classic type of food to eat in Australia on any hot day, and seafood makes a great gourmet feast to indulge in.  I got myself some Pink Snapper, a good thick fillet, and fresh from the seafood market early in the day.  I also picked up some tiger prawns, all of the seafood is local produce for the freshest possible quality. Christmas Lunch Preparations Begin… Cooking Christmas Day lunch I start by marinading the prawns in some crushed garlic, chilli, basil, and a little olive oil and lemon juice.  This is probably the hardest part of the day, which shows you why this is one of my favourite easy food recipes.  Cooking the seafood is as easy as heating up a frypan to a medium-high heat, add a touch of oil, before adding the fillet of Pink Snapper. Just before adding the Snapper to the pan I seasoned it with some herbs and spices that I had lying around in my kitchen, like lemon pepper, just to add some nice flavour.  Sear the fish for 3-5 minutes on each side, and because it was quite a thick piece of seafood I actually decided to finish it off in the oven to make sure it was cooked through properly.  To do this I just added a little bit of water, almost poaching it in liquid, to keep the Pink Snapper nice and tender, moist and juicy (there’s nothing worse than dried out overcooked seafood).

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Christmas Day Lunch – Seafood Feast 2010

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Today our local radio station, 96fm , launched a competition to find the ultimate breakfast pizza .  Naturally my mind straight away went into overdrive coming up with all sorts of ideas to try out.  After some debate, and discussion with colleagues, I’ve narrowed it down to 3 different breakfast pizza options to test.  It was quite busy tonight and I didn’t get a chance to make any of them, but over the next few days I will make them and post the results. In the meantime, here are the breakfast pizza ideas I came up with, please feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments! Full Works Breakfast Pizza My initial thought was to put every kind of big breakfast ingredient together on the one pizza.  I mean really, what’s better than a big breakfast in the morning to start off your day anyway?! This will include a napoli sauce and cheese base, with pieces of bacon, slices of mushroom, slices of a nice spicy sausage like chorizo, and a few cherry tomato halves scattered around.  Add a few slices of par-cooked potato (to represent hash browns), crack a couple of eggs, and if you feel like it you could even dollop some baked beans around for good measure too! Egg And Bacon With Vegemite Breakfast Pizza To those uninitiated in the ways of the salty spreadable delight that is vegemite , this may sound quite strange as it is very much an acquired taste.  Even when I brought this up with other vegemite-loving Aussies, a slight look of bewilderment was noticeable. For a long time, I have been a happy little vegemite , growing up with the stuff from a very young age.  I remember my dad introducing me to eggs on toast for breakfast, with vegemite spread on the toast.  I don’t often hear of others going to such extremes to get their vegemite fix, but to this day if I eat eggs on toast without vegemite, it just seems like there is something missing. So this was my next breakfast pizza idea .  I have tried a vegemite and cheese pizza before, and it worked out wonderfully.  This time I plan to add eggs and bacon to the mix, and see if that will also live up to my high expectations Eggs Florentine/Eggs Benedict Breakfast Pizza Ok, so this definitely comes in at the more “gourmet” end of the spectrum.  I would probably like to make a half/half pizza and try both sides to see which I like better. Now, quite obviously there would need to be some hollandaise sauce on top, I’m just not sure if the hollandaise and the napoli sauce will work together, so I may end up trying both ways, with and without napoli sauce on the base

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The Ultimate Breakfast Pizza Challenge

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The great thing about chocolate fondues is that not only are these great ways to feed unexpected guests but these are easy dessert recipes , too. You need not slave away at the stove stirring to make the right dip just to take a bow when your guests compliment you on it, when you can have an easy chocolate fondue set up in no time at all! Chocolate Fondue Is Back In Town! Chocolate Fondue Fountain These were a big hit in the 70′s (so my parents tell me) , and there’s a good reason that they’re coming back into fashion.  Chocolate fountains can now be found at some of the trendiest restaurants around the world, they look spectacular (it always brings back childhood memories of Willa Wonka’s Chocolate Factory for me) , and they are so easy to do! But you must remember to keep the chocolate fondue as warm as possible but not hot. A ceramic fondue pot, the butter warmer placed over low flame, or a warm bowl all works well.

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Simple Recipe For Easy Chocolate Fondue

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There are four very important elements to any great pizza – the pizza base, the pizza sauce, the cheese, and the toppings.  I’ve covered how to make pizza dough in a previous post, so today I thought I would share how to make pizza sauce! Easy Pizza Sauce Making pizza sauce can be easier than you might think. You can always buy a jar of prepared tomato sauce and use that as a pizza topping but why should you? A fresh, homemade pizza sauce has lots more flavour than any of those leading brands that are perched on the shelves of your local grocery store. Mick Reade Shows How To Make Pizza Sauce Just imagine the tang and savoury goodness that you and your family will taste when they sample that perfect pizza sauce that you prepared right in your own kitchen. Homemade foods beat packaged products any day of the week and creating the right balance of flavours is simple and easy to do

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How To Make Pizza Sauce

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Are you searching for the finest pizza recipe in the history of the planet? There are tons of pizza chefs and eateries out there who maintain that they have the best pizza recipe . Making pizzas has a sense of alchemy about it for me, the way that you can easily turn simple flour and water with a bit of yeast into a pizza dough, and fits somewhere between an art and a science.

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How To Make The Best Pizza Recipe

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Chicken Cacciatore : Fennel extract compares favorably to mefenamic acid, a prescription medicine for PMS-related pain. It has been found to be just as effective. In some studies, fennel has been shown to reduce intestinal spasm.

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Chicken Cacciatore

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Monday, May 5, 2008, 12:41 PM Many in the pizza community were pleasantly surprised to see pizza as the first challenge on Hell’s Kitchen last week. And, while some don’t care for Gordon Ramsay (I happen to love him), they were willing to put their feelings aside to see how the competing chefs were challenged to put together a high-end pizza worthy of a high-ticket price tag and the approval of Ramsay. In Ramsay’s Maze restaurant in London, he charges more than 0 for his White Truffle pizza . The contestants were given 45 minutes and 130 ingredients to choose from in making their pies

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Pizza in Hell’s Kitchen

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