Food Tips

From our Local Paper: Food to protect your heart: Fruits and vegetables Fiber Low Fat Dairy "Shake off some Salt" Free Foods to Avoid in Restaurants: Bread Chips and Salsa Free Refills Pickles; bad for high blood pressure The others are all high in fat and calories 25 Tips to Make Meals simpler, tastier, healthier: 1. Homemade vinaigrettes are three parts oil to one part acid liek vinegar or lemon juice 2. Convenience costs money; do the peeling, shreedding and chopping, plan for time. 3. Buy extra loaves of bread and freeze them. 4. To protect nonstick skillets, put a paper plate between each one before you stack them 5. Let mea rest when it is out of the oven or grill for ten mintues so juices settle. Ten with foil. 6. Buy herbs with roots attached and put in a glass of water. 7. Add fresh vegetables to pickle brine after pickles are gone, and put in the fridge for two days to pickle. 8. Avoid cooking it all on high heat. 9. Use a garlic press to mince chipotle peppers and jalapenos. 10. Baking soda and pwoeder are not interchangeable. 11. Fresh and dried herbs are often interchangeable. 12. wehn filling a tube pan, put a small paper cup over the hole in the middle so you don't drip batter into it. 13. Use stale french bread to make panznella sald of bread cubes, fresh mozzarella, halved grape tomoatoes and chopped basil with balsamic vinaigrette. 14. Use a pie pan or 7 by 11 baking dish for meatloaf. It gets a crusty outer layer many like. 15. Don't cook prok beyond an itnernal temp of 160degrees. 16. Put a dsitwoel under the cuttingboard to keep it from sliding. 17. sprinkle grated cheese on various dishes for flavor. 18. Look for ground turkey labels; if it says breast, it is white meat, but if not, it has dark meat, which makes it less try and tastier. 19. Steam or stir fry veggies. 20. use goat cheese or other soft cheese, salad dressing or horseradish sauce in place of mayo on sandwiches. 21. Tor ehat chicken, cover with a loose tent of wax paper so tiw on't dry out. 22. Deli meats are good on salads, too. 23. Keep a slice of bread in the jar or bag with cookies that have hardened to keep them soft again. 24. Soak raw onions in salt water before serving; they won't be as pungeant. 25. Use flavored ice popos in smoothies, especially no sugar ones.