5-Minute Quinoa Recipes By What To Eat Published Sep 16, 2014 Today’s guest blogger is Food Network star Melissa d’Arabian, who joins Recipe Rehab and Everyday Health for the Brown Bag Challenge! Quinoa is a little like kale — it raced into our lives with flourish and fanfare, and we went from not being able to pronounce quinoa to it being available at even small neighborhood grocery stores. What’s so great about quinoa? Here’s the plan: Make a large batch of plain quinoa and then keep it in the fridge, cooked and ready to go for super easy recipes all week (because if brown-bagging is a huge hassle, you might give up after a day or two, which I don’t want!). Now that you have your quinoa ready to go, you are less than five minutes away from any of the following portable lunch ideas:
How to Stop Wasting Food How much food do you throw away because of improper planning? During this process of Selling Our Home, we have been doing all we can to cut corners. I started noticing how much food we were wasting and we started a mission to stop throwing our money away! Here is how our family tries to use everything that we buy. Each month, I start with a menu plan. With just about an hour of prep work, you can have your pantry and freezer stocked! When we get home from the store, I separate out my items. Here's a tip! I cut out the bar codes from the packaging and make sure they are visible for easy scanning. Some of you don't know, but my boys are HUGE. I buy the larger tubes of sausage from Sam's. We measure out the serving size (remember, being healthy) and freeze them making sure to mark the date. The best part is, you can break off only what you need as defrost overnight. We measure all our meats and lay them flat in the freezer. *Tip* You can freeze all your vegetable scraps as well.
Great Recycled Craft- Yarn Wrapped Bottles with Decoupage! Do you like to craft with recycled items? I have huge collections of glass bottles in my storage because I never know what might come to mind. And there is nothing better than free craft supplies! A bright sunny project for a warm summer day. For this project I used: 3 Glass Snapple Bottles (cleaned) Yarn in three colors Decorative Napkins Mod Podge (Matte) White glue Silk Flowers Start at the bottom of the bottle, adding white glue and then wrapping it with yarn. Keep wrapping and gluing the yarn until you get all the way to the top. I used an off white yarn, bright green, and blue. Select a pattern from some designer napkins. Paint the section of the bottle that will have the design on it with a good coating of Mod Podge, and then press the design onto it. Here is the white bottle sitting to dry. I found that the lighter colored yarn had a neater effect, but they all came out pretty. The final touch was to add pretty ribbons to the tops of the jars and add some silk flowers.
Easy Roast Chicken Print Friendly Version Bookmark It! Print Friendly Version Log in to bookmark! Photo by: AlwaysButter.com Description This is what you do with that value pack :) Details Ingredients Related Tips 1 whole free-range or corn fed chicken, broken down into 8 pieces (or 8 of your favorite chicken pieces, skin on and bone- in preferable) 2 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp light brown sugar 2 tbsp red wine vinegar 3 tbsp olive oil 4 shallots, chopped 2 cloves of garlic, minced Handful of fresh parsley Salt and Pepper Directions 1. 2. 3. 4. submitted by AlwaysButter - much more here! Make A Year’s Worth of Laundry Soap for $30.00! Regular readers of this blog will know that I am completely sold on the No-Grate Laundry Detergent that I posted back in February of this year. But, like I’ve said many times on this website, I am always open to new ideas! And I really liked this idea that someone posted as a comment awhile back. A YEARS worth of Laundry Soap!?!? Here is the recipe that Anonymous posted (the text in red are my notes): Anonymous said… I make a dry version which works better for my family. To grate the bars of soap I decided to make it easier on myself and use my ancient Hamilton Beach food processor. My only other tip for this recipe has to do with the “mixing”. Since we are over the “family of four” limit, and I tend to think we have more dirty laundry than your AVERAGE family…I’m not expecting this to last a full year….but based on my initial use of this (2 Tablespoons per load)….it’s going to last us a GOOD, LONG time!
How We Plant a Tomato Love Apple Farm's tomato plant sale will be held at 5311 Scotts Valley Drive in Scotts Valley (near Santa Cruz, CA) and will begin on Saturday, March 28, 2015 and continue EACH day until the end of May. How do we plant a tomato, you might ask? With a ridiculous amount of stuff in the hole, is the answer. I think they're just either too overwhelmed by the real stuff we put in there, or they actually believe we're throwing in a sink. This is how we plant a tomato. We started this beauty in our heated greenhouse in late January. The tomatoes are placed three feet apart. We get them from the restaurant we grow for, Manresa. If you're reticent to put the fish head in the hole, or simply can't get your mitts on any, we recommend using fish meal as a substitute. The next thing that goes into the hole are a couple of aspirin tablets and some crushed chicken egg shells. The aspirin is to help jump start the plant's immune system. Bone meal is the next to go into the hole. Good luck, folks!
Tacos de Canasta Filled with Spicy Potatoes and Cheese – Hispanic Kitchen 1/3 cup cilantro, chopped 2 Roma tomatoes, sliced or diced 4 cups shredded lettuce 1 cup your favorite salsa Directions: 1. Preheat broiler to high for 5 minutes. Add poblano pepper to baking sheet and cook under the broiler for 5 to 6 minutes per side. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Curing Warts, Removing Splinters, and 19 Other Bizarre Uses for Banana Peels Popular in Food & Drink It all started with a rumor that banana peels could be used to polish silver and a bet among friends that it couldn’t. In trying to discover if there is any legitimacy to the silver-polishing properties of banana peels, I found dozens of other unusual applications for them, including splinter removal and wart treatments. Since banana peels aren’t particularly hot commodities, being able to put them to good use adds value to any household (and saves money on alternative treatments). Please note that any instruction to apply banana peel to anything (such as in many of the health & beauty applications) involves using the inside of the banana peel after ridding it of the stringy bits. Health and Beauty Banana peels are chock-a-block with antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins, so they're a natural cure for many an ailment and an aid for cell regeneration. Bug Bites Rub a banana peel on bug bites to soothe the skin and reduce itching. Bruises Teeth Whitening Warts Splinters Acne