Fast food

Can I substitute regular grits and/or polenta for fast-cookIng grits?

Posted by admin 5 June, 2009 (2) Comment
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1amgourmet asked:

The fast-cooking grits are in a souffle recipe. I don’t want to buy them because I’d never use them for anything else. The recipe starts with sauteeing onion and leek, and then you mix in 1 1/4 cup milk, salt, and 1/2 cup of the grits, and cook until thick, ‘about five minutes’.


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The Indian cuisine

Posted by admin 15 March, 2009 (0) Comment
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Ingrid Sure asked:

Indian cuisine is diverse and extraordinary, with different colors and flavors, an interesting mixture of culture, history, religious beliefs, climate and availability of different ingredients and spices. All these create special subtleties and, because it is considered that drinking water should not overshadow the taste of the food, fresh water is mostly consumed at a meal for keeping the fragrance of dishes.

There are thousands of restaurants all over the world serving Indian cuisine and the most common style of presenting food is on a large plate with samplings of different dishes, accompanied by various kinds of bread. In India, as tradition goes, food is eaten without any kind of cutlery, using instead the fingers of the right hand. However, the dining habits are influenced also by other styles from all over the world.

If you are an Indian cuisine lover, but you are not in the mood to go to a restaurant and eat there, you can opt for a takeaway menu that can be delivered to your home. It will be a great dining experience with extraordinary food, realized with minimum effort. You might think that take away menus are not healthy enough. Well, you should be aware that Indian recipes are made with ingredients of high quality and cooked with very little Indian vegetable oil, which makes food not only tasty, but healthy too. And if you are in a big hurry and you’d like to eat snacks, you can buy anything from an Indian fast food menu. These dishes are usually fried and most definitely spicy.

One interesting aspect of Indian recipes is represented by the numerous ingredients used. And for this reason, it is most wisely to measure them out before you start cooking something. It is a well known fact that sauces, chutneys and pickles are always present on an Indian table. Also, many Indians are lacto-vegetarians, eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains, milk, plant based proteins. And even if meat is rarely used in different dishes, this doesn’t mean that meals are less consistent or less aromatic. Using so many spices in the cooking process, it gives food an amazing taste, without the taste of meat being missed.

If you are an Indian food lover and you want to go out dining, you can choose the best restaurant that serves Indian cuisine and enjoy the rich flavors and textures from this spectacular food. You will taste subtle and diverse flavors and it will be an exquisite experience for everybody who tries these dishes, even if it is for the first time in each’ lives when the person tastes Indian food. Being made mostly from vegetables, Indian food offers lots of good nutrients for the health of people and it also helps digestion. This means that these dishes have positive effects on one’s health and also over the senses. You will most definitely don’t regret that you ate Indian cuisine.


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Fast Food?

Posted by admin 11 March, 2009 (10) Comment
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Dani ((Bom Chicka)) asked:

Should i stay away from fast food or is is okay?
[i'm a vegetarian]
There are things i can order like fries and stuff, but is it safe. Do they deep fry the fries in the same oil as they may fry chicken? and things of that sort.


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How do you cook fast-cooking rice? What is the ratio of rice to water?

Posted by admin 9 February, 2009 (1) Comment
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Bumbo asked:

I have some quick-cooking Uncle Ben’s brown rice but I no longer have the box in came in. Help…I’m making dinner tonight!
Thanks!!
I know the ratio for regular brown rice is 2 to 1, but I thought it was different for quick-cooking brown rice.


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