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Salads, Flavor Favorites
Even though salads have been enjoyed since ancient times, the variety can be both tempting and visually pleasing.
As we become more and more health conscious, salads become more popular, usually people think of vegetables when salads are mentioned.
However, there are numerous fruit salads at every family gathering and pot-luck in the country! Salads can contain anything from apples to zucchini and anything in between, just use your imagination.
Although lettuce has been the starting point for most salads, there are many other foods favorites you can start with:
*Watercress, cabbage or spinach
*Oranges, apples or grapefruit
*Beans or frozen peas
*Broccoli
*Potatoes
*Meats and seafood
Just about any food you can think of can be turned into a salad with a modest amount of creativity! You can create many kinds of salads:
*Jell-o salads with fruit
*Fruit salads with yogurt
*Green salads with every kind of vegetable imaginable
*Coleslaw
*Potato salad
*Tuna salad
*Chicken salad
Again, the varieties are endless, and the list can go on and on to eternity. One of my favorites includes a green salad with sunflower seeds or cashews, lettuce, tomatoes, celery, onions, carrots and ranch dressing.
With the dressings you can get just as creative, ranch, French, blue cheese and Italian are your basic dressings.
Now try some of these, mix a little concentrated orange or lemon juice to French dressing or mayonnaise for a delicious fruit salad dressing.
How about a dressing for grapefruit made with, sugar, pepper, paprika, dry mustard, grapefruit juice and catsup?
Add a little chili powder to concentrated juice, horseradish a cooked egg and mayonnaise for a spicy new taste.
Every nationality has their own favorite flavors in salads, get together with a few friends for a salad party; you would be amazed at the variety you will see.
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The History of the Fry Pan
The ancient Mesopotamians used copper frying pans; they were also available in Greek and Roman kitchens.
To the Greeks they were know as Teganon and the Romans called them patella, patella is used in its modern form in Spanish and is translated as paella and in Italian as padella.
Regardless of the name, they are all frying pans! Frying pans were originally deep like modern sauce pans, in North America they are also referred to as skillets.
In England and America fry pans with legs were commonly called spiders, and were used for open hearth cooking.
Little change was made in the fry pan for many years, they had broad shallow bodies and long handles to keep the cooks hand from being burned by the fire.
The first use of the word fry pan was in 1382 when it was used in the translation of the Vulgate Bible by John Wycliffe, other than that, the term fry pan is infrequently used prior to the 1950s.
Frying pans were typically made of cast iron, and even though cast iron is still in use, mostly for outdoor cooking, most pans today are made of aluminum or stainless steel.
Often frying pans are coated with Teflon for a non-stick surface; this does not apply to cast iron, which develops a non stick surface when it is seasoned.
The largest fry pan in the world was created by Mumford Sheet Metal Works in 1950 for the Delmarva Chicken Festival; they fried over one hundred tons of chicken in it before it was retired in 1998.
It measures 10 feet in diameter, which is 4 inches bigger than the previous 9.6 ft Washington fry pan built in 1941 for the Washington Clam Festival.
Considered a luxury because of the high cost of electricity at the time, frying pans were one of the first items to be electrified.
In 1898 Britain an element fitted below the pan, with the socket at the end of a wooden handle. They never gained popularity even when electricity became a normal part of everyday life. |
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Quick Healthy Snacks
Vegetables and fruits are some of the better know quick healthy snacks available today. Keep fresh vegetables, cut up and cleaned in the refrigerator with dip for the kids to snack on after school, they wont miss the candies and cookies if they never get used to them.
It doesnt hurt to have those once in a while as long as they do not constitute your main form of snacking.
Keeping fresh fruit in a bowl on the counter is another good way to provide healthy snacks for your family.
Whatever is in season at the time will work; fresh apples and peanut butter are a great snack with a lot of protein in them.
Fresh fruit and cottage cheese are also high in protein and allows family members to deal with their sweet tooth in a more healthy way. However there are other snacks available that are equally enjoyable.
Whole grain snack crackers (there are an unlimited variety of snack crackers) with an assortment of cheeses are one form or snacking.
There are many kinds of cheese out there for you to keep on hand; you can even buy them already cubed if you dont have time to cut them up yourself!
Celery and cheese spread are tasty and easy to put together after school, at during lunch at work or school or as an evening snack while watching your favorite movie.
Dehydrated fruits are available including raisins, dates or many other kinds of fruits, trail mixes are very popular.
Trail mix is another snack food that has a wide range of tastes, from tropical to nut blends, something for every finicky eater in your family.
They are also easy to customize for your particular tastes. Just buy your favorite fruits and nuts, cereals, and even candies and mix your own.
Be creative with snacks and you will notice a difference in what your family eats.
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