This is one of many documents written on this enthralling subject. Each one struggles with a varied aspect of charcoal barbecue. When I was growing up, we had a gas grill in the backyard. My parents thought it was a great convenience. We could go outside and barbecue something without actually having to bother with charcoal. We never even used a charcoal barbecue. It required a lot of set up, was a little bit difficult to light, and it took forever. I have to say that I ate some pretty good food that came off of that gas grill. My mom would make this wonderful salmon steak that she would wrap ...

Let’s get this straight. ALL foods are healthy. Assuming the food has been grown, harvested and kept correctly. What is variable is the amount we eat, how the food is prepared, what is added, and the quality of the food. Two ancient sayings my grandmother was fond of encapsulate the eternal truth about food - “everything in moderation” and “variety is the spice of life”. Until the last decade, modern medicine neglected the medicine in everyday foods, viewing it as folklore, lacking in proven scientific validity. But now mainstream scientists are increasingly reaching back to the tr...

If you are making your own wines at home, you have to make sure that you are labeling them. This is important. This is the only way that you will know when you made them and what they are. This will make it easier when you are looking for the perfect wine to accentuate the perfect occasion. Making your own wine labels is easy and something that you can do in a short amount of time. You will need to know the bottles contents. You need to have written on the label the history of the wine, the vintage year, and the type it is. This will not only help you when you are trying to find t...

What is great about either tuna or chicken salads is that there is hardly any wastage (unless of course, the cook has already messed up the salad big time). Should the preparation for these salads exceed the expected consumption, they can be recycled the next day as a sandwich. Just throw in maybe feta or mozzarella cheese, place it on any bread of your choice, pop it in the oven and you are ready to go with a totally different dish. For your convenience, I have compiled the following must-try chicken salad sandwich recipes for all those salad left-overs. CHICKEN SALAD SANDWICH ...

The hot buzz words of this New Year are carbon footprint. It is used to mean what type of carbon waste you will leave behind when you are gone. Your amount of waste or the garbage/trash that you are responsible for in your local landfill is a typical carbon footprint. You are probably already doing some type recycling with your aluminum cans, plastics and paper. Recycling is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint. By recycling you limit the amount of waste that gets put in your landfill. Now imagine for a moment you can recycle even more than you already do. You are probably sa...

Pappy Peppadew (tm) View this article with photos at THE NIBBLE Gourmet Food Continuing Education: Peppadews. Peppy Peppadew (tm): The New Fruit Out Of Africa CAPSULE REPORT: We have been enjoying sweet-and-tangy Peppadews since they made their debut at the Fancy Food Show in 2002, touted as the first truly new fruit to be launched on the world market since the kiwi 26 years ago. We dont care if people have been eating it for eons: we really like it! Its a fusion of roasted red peppers and crunchy sweet gherkins: a versatile snack, garnish and hors doeuvre base that seems...

A nice cold glass of lemonade can be just the thing to make you feel better on a hot day. That same glass of lemonade can take refreshment to a whole new level when the proceeds from it are being used to fight deadly childhood cancer, though. When buying lemonade from a stand that gives to the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation you are doing just that, with the money from your purchase going to one of the leading children’s cancer charities. The money that these stands raise helps to fund research in hopes of finding a cure to pediatric cancer. If you do not often give to charities without a go...

The importance of protein in a healthy diet is well known to nutritional scientists, and widely understood by the general population. Indeed, every bodily system is directly or indirectly supported by protein. For example, protein supports the structural development of cells, helps ensure the integrity of tissue, aids digestion, carries hormones, and strengthens the immune system[i]. More recently, however, the motivation for people to choose protein-rich foods has been fueled by carbohydrate-free and carbohydrate-reduced diets, such as the Atkins™ Diet, South Beach Diet™ and Isometric...

Melting chocolate for baking is an exacting task, if not done perfectly you can end up with a burned or grainy mess and ruin whatever you are baking. Below are 3 methods for melting chocolate, each can be successful in it's own way and you need only pick a method that works for you and get cooking! In The Oven Chocolate can be melted in the oven quite easily but you will need to be very diligent about watching it. It's easy to get caught up in your other baking chores and not realize that you have overheated it until it is too late. To melt chocolate in the oven, heat the oven to 1...

Fats are an essential part of any well-balanced diet, including a vegetarian diet. Fats are made of smaller units - called fatty acids. These fatty acids may be saturated, monounsaturated or polyunsaturated. Saturated and monounsaturated fats are not necessary in a vegetarian diet as they can be made in the human body. However, two polyunsaturated fatty acids - linoleic acid (omega 6) and linolenic acid (omega 3) - cannot be manufactured by the body and must be provided in the diet. Fortunately, they are widely available in vegetarian/vegan plant foods. Evidence is increasing that omega ...