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Tomato Salad Recipe with Basil

Warm additions to cool greens is a great combination for anytime of year but especially when the grill is handy. The base salads can be topped with any protein you like. Come on, you know the drill. Think outside the recipe!

This spinach salad is a healthier version made with turkey bacon and chunks of sautéed tomatoes. Complete it with slabs of rustic whole grain bread brushed with olive oil.

Hey, I used to feel that way.

On my first diet, when I was a very overweight teenager, I was told that I could eat lots of salads as long as I did not put any dressing on them. What? Are you kidding? Salad without dressing? Talk about boring and tasteless! The only salad I wanted to eat when I was overweight was one that was drowning in some full-fat ranch salad dressing!.

Friendly Burmese faces are all around me smiling happily that a foreigner is enjoying their favorite food with them. I am trying to get a good look at what is going on behind the bottles of crispy-fried garlic, turmeric-garlic oil, sliced onions, chopped coriander, sliced tomatoes, MSG, salt, bean powder, sesame seeds, peanuts and a variety of sliced vegetables. Slender fingers are dipping quickly in and out of the jars, sometimes hovering for half a second before changing direction, reminding me of a hummingbird you only catch a glimpse of when least expected.

And when all the ingredients are all gathered into one place the light fingers start mixing and turning, tossing and sometimes squeezing very lightly until the flavors and textures mix, mingle and explode into an unsurpassed flavor combination.

Suddenly there is a small bowl on the table in front of me with a tiny spoon poked into one side. I am about to join the tea-party. My saliva enzymes are already well primed and I dig in.

Just as I remembered it and more.

Completely unforgettable. With the golden stupa of Sule Pagoda shining out in the background and my mouth full of personally-touched rice salad, I am content.

Once the fish is on the grill set another medium sauté pan on a medium high heat and add the other ¼ Cup of olive oil. When it is hot but not smoking add the tomatoes. Toss them repeatedly, season with salt and pepper. Turn off heat.

Place the bacon vinaigrette pan back on the heat just to warm it. When it bubbles around the edges pour it over the spinach and mushrooms. Use a rubber, high heat spatula to scrape all the goodness onto your greens.

When I first tried Burmese salads I was simply taken with the freshness and the flavor of them. As I learned more about how healthy traditional diets are I began to realize how sophisticated these salads are. Salads from all over Myanmar contain either sesame seeds or peanuts, both of which are a good protein complement for rice. They also contain high amounts of good quality fat and calcium. Infusing oil (usually peanut oil) with turmeric and garlic and having it on hand to use in the dressings, adds powerful anti-oxidants and anti-microbial powers to the salads. Some salads include tiny, pink, dried shrimp, which are very high in protein and nutrients needed for growth and reproduction.

The Burmese only use the freshest of ingredients and toss them lightly together at the last possible minute with the quick touch of the chef. The finale is the flourish of the hand as the salad is laid down before you.

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Three Restaurant Reviews

I would have never heard of Ruth’s Chris except that I sometimes watch a local cable television show which highlights all of the area restaurants on its weekly program. They did a review of Ruth’s Chris steaks, and while practically drooling on camera, they described how the steaks are drizzled in butter and cooked in a 5000 degree oven that literally makes the butter sizzle all the way to the table. While I enjoy steak as much as the next person, I’m not that much of a steak fanatic. Given that I’m rather picky about having a quality cut of meat that’s cooked just so, and since I try to watch my calorie intake, more often than not I go for a salad or a nice salmon rather than a steak. The restaurant stuck in my mind however, because I was intrigued by their oven. 5000 degrees? I never knew such an oven existed! How do they even take the steak out? Fireman’s gloves? I’m not sure if pot holders would quite do the trick.

In New England, our nearest restaurant location is in Boston. For me, raised in the suburbs of New Hampshire, Boston is something of a logistical nightmare to navigate with its one-way streets, traffic jams, parking nightmares, and outrageous prices. I wanted a special birthday for the man I love, however, so I swallowed my resistance and we headed off on the hottest day of the year for an afternoon of a Boston Harbor cruise followed by dinner reservations at Ruth’s Chris Steak House inside Boston’s old City Hall.

Even though I take issue having to pay for parking in any way shape or form, it was a relief knowing a valet would be there to collect the car and free us from worry other than the inherent worry of handing over the keys of my sole means of transportation to a stranger who might pop the clutch or worse, pop a wheelie as soon as they round the corner out of sight.

For someone who enjoys history as much as I do, getting to eat dinner at a restaurant located inside such an historical building was a treat in and of itself. The entryway was romantically dim. Despite the fact that we had reservations right at 5:00 (when the restaurant opens) and the fact that there were no other patrons standing in the reception area other than the two of us, I was mildly annoyed that the two hostesses still found a way to make us wait there for a few minutes before someone finally ushered us down into the belly of the building where we were seated in one of the dining rooms. Since it was early, we had the room to ourselves. We were offered a wine list which we declined, and water and bread were served to us by not one but two attentive waiters who stood just outside the dining room throughout the entire dinner. It was comforting to know they were there to attend to our needs, but slightly unnerving that all they had nothing to do but stand there and watch us eat. Even though I think of myself as a princess, I’m not accustomed to actually being treated like royalty.

The menu is eclectic, including a variety of steaks, seafood, and chicken dishes. Salads are fresh, topped with dressings made at the restaurant, and desserts are heavenly, especially the homemade butter pecan ice cream and the bread pudding, which can be ordered as a combo. Service is attentive and polite without being obtrusive, and ordered items come at appropriately spaced intervals to allow you to finish the previous selection, whether it be an appetizer or a salad.

During the summer months, lunch and dinner can be eaten outside under a beautiful veranda that looks out over the Kanawha River and its falls. A popular site for weddings, it is always wise to call the Glen Ferris Inn for reservations.

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Pasta Dishes: Mediterranean Pasta

Americans and many other countries in the world have only recently warmed to term pasta. Having made only spaghetti and macaroni for generations the term authentic Italian pasta recipes was truly a blank canvas.

Home cooks and chefs today are becoming more sophisticated about what really are authentic Italian recipes. Well, Italian recipes are and can be simple or elaborate, practical or as foolish, store bought or made at home. But even more today, Italian recipes had become the world’s most important culinary art, and almost where ever you go you will find an Italian restaurant on the corner of a road.

In the beginning people didn’t knew much about how to boil pasta, missing some of the basic information. At the question: “How much water and salt does one need for one pound of Italian pasta?” S/he wouldn’t  probably answer at all.

The Cold Water Trick

Do not have oil to use, or cannot use it? Then try using the cold water trick when cooking Italian pasta. What you do is boil your pasta as usual. Then rinse it thoroughly with cold water. This is can be tricky if you are making pasta as a main dish and want it hot. But what you are doing is rinsing the starch off the noodles so that you can easily separate them without breaking them.

Lets move now to Italian pasta sauces determining the best  kind of tomatoes for making sauces, which is of course the diced tomatoes packed in water, not puree are best. When making “pesto” best is to pound the leaves to release the oil, blanch the garlic, and toast the pine nuts. The range of Italian sauces goes well far from simple cream sauces. Had you never tasted those made with beans and lentils? Seafood? Poultry and meat?.

Simple

For hundreds of years Italian cooking has followed a very simple principle: food is best when it’s cooked fresh and in season. The reason for this culinary fragmentation is simple: With the exception of the nobility and the clergy, before most Italians simply didn’t travel, and as a result every town and every valley has something unique. The main benefit of Italian cuisine is its healthy balance, the basic ingredients being cooked in a simple style whilst retaining their original goodness and freshness.

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Healthy Breakfast Food Recipes - Nutrition by Natalie

I would like to write an article about easy recipes for meals for everybody. I would like to talk about advantages of it. As you know there are many easy recipes for a lot of meals. I want to give you some information about it. Read this article to the end and you will probably find some interesting information in it. Remember that this article is presenting only my opinion and you can have your own mind of course.

The first big advantage is that easy recipes are very cheap. There aren’t so many ingredients that you need to obtain and these ingredients are very cheap. Of course the taste of easy meals is great. You only have to find a good easy recipe (for example recipe for a tasty soup etc). In my opinion you should try one of these great recipes.

The next advantage of using easy recipes for meals is that the dishes made from this recipes are easy to prepare. A low amount of ingredients and an uncomplicated way of preparing it are the biggest advantages of using easy recipes. I hope you are going to try them. It’s really worth it.

But there are some important elements to a true weight loss shake that differ them from, say, a milkshake at your favorite burger joint.

As I written in my previous articles, healthy food can help us to fight with obesity. We can keep fit and feel better thank to healthy recipes for food. They have got a lot of vitamins and other food nutritious ingredients that are important for us. They are also not fat, so we don’t have to worry about heart diseases.

As you can see the biggest advantage of healthy food is that healthy food is … healthy. There are many healthy recipes for this kind of food. For example salads and soups are very healthy, but we can also eat meat (especially boiled meat from chicken and other birds). In my opinion everybody should include healthy food in his/her everyday diet.

That’s all I wanted to write in this article. I hope this information can be really helpful for you now or in the future. I believe that this text was really interesting for you. I’m going to write more of them in the future and I hope that you are waiting for them with patience.

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