Posted in recipes, tagged guacamole, healthy, homemade, salsa, snack on March 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Homemade guacamole and salsa
I’ve never been much of a sweet kind of guy. I’ve always preferred savory foods, perhaps this makes me lucky, i don’t know. I’ve still had many vices; junk food, butter, heavy french foods, salt, salt, salt… hehe
I’ve always managed to avoid giving in to my vices by keeping my cupboards bare of unhealthy [...]
Posted in cooking videos, tagged carrots, cheap, healthy soup, lentils, orange on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Video link here.
On today’s menu we have a quick, cheap and easy soup to make. There aren’t many ingredients, and they are all easily accessible during the whole year.
The soup is a nice mix of simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates, it offers lots of fiber, some protein, beta-carotene and other important vitamins and minerals. You can [...]
Posted in cooking videos, tagged fresh quinoa recipe on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
watch video here
RECIPE;
red and white quinoa, 1/2 cup
5 strawberries
small yellow mango, half
mint
1 shallot, or a bit of red onion
cashews
walnut vinegar, tbls
olive oil 2 tbls
salt + pepper
cook quinoa, let cool and mix in ingredients, adjusting flavors to your tastes
enjoy!
Posted in Health and society, tagged healthy ingredient, nutrition, Quinoa on March 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Quinoa is a cereal from South America which should be added to most diets. A staple food of Incans, today it is mostly cultivated in the alpine regions of the Andes. It is smaller than rice and round in shape. There are a few colors available which are a bit different in taste. The taste [...]
Posted in Health and society, tagged benefits, VITAMIN D on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Vitamin D has been in the news a lot lately.
It’s a fat-soluble vitamin which means that it can be stored in the body and is not excreted through your stool or pee. This means that there is a potential for overdose and toxicity.
Last summer, in 2007 the Canadian Cancer Society said that based on current research adults should [...]
