While I work on other posts that help you make real food, please take a few minutes (it is long, but riveting) to read this New York Times article how the junk food industry formulates their products! Illuminating, scary, weird science, indeed! Just click on the header, or the picture and you should get there.
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Whether it’s Memorial Day, Fourth of July, or Christmas, the following dishes – most of them quite easy to prepare and using ingredients available in regular supermarkets (especially those that carry Goya products) — are a medley of the best of Puerto Rican food. This is not a complete list, of course, but mix and […]
Some of you have reported hunting down my bean recipes. Well here are some of my faves, all gathered in one place! Just click on the image to get to the recipe.
I had a butternut squash from way back in the fall and a desire for real arroz con habichuelas (Puerto Rican pink beans and rice), which may seem not to have anything to do with butternut squash soup, but after I boiled the squash, I realized I had about twice as much as I needed! […]
It’s a sad irony that I finally have perfected Latin white rice (thanks to my dad’s technique) and the doctor tells me that I have to reduce carbs for my triglycerides or somesuch! Terrible. But Leandro received no such warning, so he gets to enjoy my now fantastic rice with any number of dishes. Here’s […]
You may ask whether I am cooking at all lately, seeing as I have been posting more of my dad, Pedro’s recipes than my own. Truth is, I have been cooking as much as usual, but sticking to my go-to recipes like Spinach Pasta, Pollo Guisado (Stewed Chicken), and the like. I am prepping for […]
The sad thing is that most people buying junk food know it’s bad for them!
We currently have a huge ready meal scandal in Europe – they’ve been finding horse meat in beef burgers, lasagne, bolognese, ravioli, etc. Personally I don’t object to eating horse, but when the label says beef the product shouldn’t contain something else.
People need to get back in touch with what they eat and not rely on unscrupulous manufacturers.
I cook from scratch everyday, or at the very least, freeze my own food to eat on days when I’m in a hurry. I know it’s better quality, but my main reason for doing so is that it tastes superior to mass produced junk
This is why Jamie Oliver is such a hero of mine. He encourages people to actually cook. It is rapidly becoming my life’s mission. People like us know how to make good decisions and have the power of the kitchen utensils behind us. So many people today do not have that power.
Sadly I think that some people eat to live while others live to eat. If you are just eating to live, you don’t necessarily care what the food is
true. but “to live” can be very much enhanced by decent food (even if you are not fussed about how it tastes!)
Fascinating stuff! I am actually planning to do a revamp of my eating habits… articles like this inspire me, even though I do eat loads of veggies and almost exclusively home cooked meals/treats. I know I could eat far healthier and more consciously than I already do.
Part of what kills me is how they manipulate our baser natures…Thans for the visit…and WELCOME BACK!!!
Absolutely! It’s quite evil!
Thank you so much- I hope to be around more! xx