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Easy Chilled Cucumber Soup

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Fresh foods are full of nutrients and energy, so first of all remember that fresh foods are always best for your body. I’m sure you’ve seen the difference between a lettuce picked fresh out of the garden and one that has been sitting in the bottom of your fridge for a couple of weeks.  Frozen, canned, processed, reheated and leftover foods have much less ‘life’ than fresh foods – and organic food is free of chemicals. As you begin to appreciate the food you put in your body you might even feel inspired to grow your own herbs, fruits and vegetables in the garden! The Best Way To Satisfy Your Food Cravings Giving in to unhealthy cravings can sabotage your efforts.  If you experience cravings, it’s usually for sweet foods, and it shouldn’t be ignored. However you can make healthy choices from the ‘sweet’ family to satisfy your food cravings with more wholesome, healthy foods such as sweet fruits, whole grains and nuts. Eating well is a long-term healthy life choice , and there are some foods that can particularly help you to be a healthy weight and feel good about yourself.  Choose… Foods that are light, dry and warm; spicy, bitter and astringent (see the sense of taste chart for your health ).

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How To Choose Food That Nourishes Your Body And Emotions

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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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One of my most favorite easy diabetic recipes is a sugar free ice cream sundae because it’s a rich treat that you think is going to be deadly to your diabetes and it’s not. I created this when I was looking for a dessert to enjoy with my friend who has been a Type II diabetic for a long time. There are a lot of sugar free syrups and whipped creams that you can slather on this bad boy and have it taste exactly the same. While the calorie value still might be an upshot, it’s definitely sugar free. Since you don’t want to over do it, here’s a good sundae recipe to make that you can have a small helping of and share. Happy Sundae Recipe Happy Diabetic Sundae You start with, of course, a banana.

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Happy Sundae For Diabetics

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This holiday period is a time of over-indulgence in food and drink, and sometimes it can be difficult to keep up if you have particular dietary requirements, such as needing some easy diabetic recipes . A lot of diabetic recipes call for little or no sugar, and it can be very difficult to figure out how to make those tasty sweets with an artificial sweetener. How much of one equals the other after all? It depends on what type of sweetener you buy. Sweeteners For Use In Diabetic Recipes For sweeteners containing aspartame, about 24 little packets of the sweet stuff equals about a cup of sugar. This is about a ¼ cup

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How To Substitute Sugar For Easy Diabetic Recipes

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Finally, the day of my first ever pizza competition has arrived, and I was quite excited!  As it was a competition to find the best breakfast pizza , naturally the pizza contest was going to be held very early in the morning, so I had to prepare myself for this a couple of days ahead.  I often work late into the night, so getting up early is not always that easy.  I set my alarm for 5am, as I had to be there by 6:15am, and it was a good 30-40 minute drive to get to the location. I got up bright and early with the sparrows, and just as the sun was rising, and began to ready myself.  I didn’t really know what to expect, had no idea what my competition was going to be like, or how many people would turn up to watch!  I was mostly excited, but there were a few butterflies in the gut as well. Arriving At The Breakfast Pizza Challenge Breakfast Pizza Challenge Competitors I was the first competitor to arrive as I got there a little bit early (6am), and the radio team were still setting up the work stations and equipment.  All the ingredients were already supplied, so thankfully that was something that I didn’t have to worry too much about, all I had to do was rock up and cook Only a few minutes later my first competitor arrived, Emma, so we introduced ourselves and started having a sticky beak around the work area that was set up for us.  Emma was making a breakfast pizza with the lot, basically every big breakfast type ingredient that you could think of all on the one pizza, so she had a quick look around to discover that unfortunately a couple of her ingredients were missing. A quick dash to the shops, and a call out on the radio by the DJ solved the ingredient issue, however a bit of stress had set in to start off the day. In the meantime, Chris, our other competitor had also arrived, so we met and had a quick chat about the upcoming pizza challenge as well.  Chris was making a dessert pizza , with strawberries, chocolate, marshmallows and ice cream.  The whole day was very friendly, and mostly relaxed, aside from Emma’s issues missing out on some of her ingredients, so we all just had a bit of fun together cooking up some pizzas … The Breakfast Pizza Challenge Begins… We were asked to begin prepping our pizzas, and straight away Emma and Chris began furiously working away and chopping up their ingredients.  For me, I had made the Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza so simple and easy that I really didn’t have a lot to do, so I basically started putting some of the toppings on my pizza base and waited for some people to start arriving so I could cook the pizza and make sure it was hot and fresh for the first trials. Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza – The First Trial Breakfast Pizza Cooking In The Pizza Oven The first two pizzas were a bit of a disaster, as the pizza oven was a bit different to what I’m normally used to, and getting used to the Pizza Stone which was in the oven took a couple of attempts to get right.  I burnt half of the bottom of each base, but luckily half was still good to use, so I kept one side and sneakily threw out the rest so that no one ever knew Just as I pulled the first pizza out (I was way ahead of the other two, they still hadn’t put anything in their oven yet) , the DJ asked me to come up to the booth and speak on air.  So luckily for me I had my first piece to take with me and let him try, while I had a quick chat on the radio about my eggs florentine breakfast pizza creation .

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The 96fm Breakfast Pizza Challenge

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Tomorrow is the day for the Big Breakfast Pizza Challenge , and I’m a little nervous but mostly excited.  It’s the first pizza competition that I’ve ever been in, and I think it will be lot’s of fun!  The battle lines have been drawn, and my weapon of choice will be the Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza . The Eggs Florentine Pizza Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza The concept is reasonably simple – a traditional eggs florentine is an English muffin, topped with wilted spinach, smoked salmon, poached egg, with some hollandaise sauce poured on top.  The trick is, how do you put this on a breakfast pizza? Well, this is how I did it… There will no English muffin of course, that will be replaced by the pizza base.  I cover the base with some spinach leaves, and then add some shredded Caboolture cheese over the spinach (it’s better to put the spinach under the cheese, to protect it from burning in the pizza oven) . Then I crack an egg, and carefully spread it around the pizza as best I can.  This part is a bit messy, but that’s half the fun of it sometimes! Putting a poached egg on the breakfast pizza is out of the question I think.  If you put a cooked egg on a pizza and then cook it again, it will just end up rubbery and terrible

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Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza

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Last week I mentioned that I entered a competition to find the ultimate breakfast pizza , and that I would test out a few different kinds.  As a big lover of vegemite from a young age, this was always going to be the first place that I would start Breakfast Pizza With Vegemite – The Concept I love bacon and eggs on vegemite toast for breakfast in the mornings (I don’t do it very often, it’s just a special treat for every now and then) , and this seemed like a natural progression.  It also should be noted that bacon and eggs work really well on a pizza.  I’m not sure about whether other countries and cultures would traditionally have this combination on a pizza, but in Australia you can find this just about anywhere that sells pizzas, and it’s known as the Aussie Pizza! I’ve made all sorts of strange combinations of pizza, most have worked out pretty well, and some have been a total disaster .  I’ve even made plenty of dessert pizzas, however breakfast pizza is a very new concept to me – but I’m loving it!  (I’m even thinking of adding a new chapter to my pizza cookbook , a whole section dedicated to breakfast pizza). Vegemite, Cheese, Egg And Bacon Breakfast Pizza – The Result Breakfast Pizza - Vegemite, Cheese, Egg And Bacon My excitement was building as I began to put this new concoction together, and I was starting to gather some interested onlookers made up of the restaurant staff who wanted to see what I was up to. Their initial responses were a bit less than enthusiastic, but I took it all in my stride and carried on anyway. Anyone who knows vegemite knows that you really don’t need a lot, so I was careful to start with just a thin layer on the pizza base, before spreading the cheese on top.  I cut up 2 rashers of bacon into cubes, which were then spread around.  Lastly, I cracked two eggs, and spread them around as best I could (Note: 2 eggs is probably too much, one would have been enough).

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Breakfast Pizza – Vegemite, Cheese, Eggs And Bacon!

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Ice cream cakes can satisfy just about anybody’s sweet tooth but it looks like plenty of trouble to make. Fortunately, you can find easy dessert recipes for these sweets. Call it instant gratification, if you will. Here then is an easy recipe to show you how to make ice cream cakes your family will enjoy

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How To Make Ice Cream Cake

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As I’ve mentioned in the previous post, there are four important elements for making pizza:- the pizza dough, the pizza sauce , the pizza cheese, and of course, the toppings. Today I’m going to share with you the best pizza cheese in my opinion, and why it is my favourite.  There are of course many kinds of pizza cheese you can use, and mozzarella is traditionally the most popular going back through the ages, even right back to when pizza was first invented. There Are Many Varieties Of Pizza Cheese… I’m not just talking about the kinds of cheese that can be added as a topping in this case either, because really, any type of cheese that you can think of can be used to top a pizza, so long as it also works with the other toppings you’re using.  For example, goats cheese works really well on pizza with pieces of roasted pumpkin, caramelised onion, and spinach leaves, however spreading goats cheese over the entire pizza would overpower everything else (plus it’s really expensive!).

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What Is The Best Pizza Cheese?

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