Quick Homemade Bread

If you, like me, are struggling to eat less pre-packaged, colorant and preservative-filled food, but you also lack the hours and hours to prepare the wholesome meals you’d like, Catherine Newman offers a recipe for quick, easy loaf of homemade bread. “Quick” is relative, of course, as the bread does need time to rise, but it could easily be part of a Sunday dinner preparation.br /br /blockquoteYour friends will not believe you made it, and they certainly won’t believe that you didn’t need to knead it or fuss with it or do anything other than stir it together with a wooden spoon while you were watching angel-sized snowflakes drift past your window. In fact, it will so totally not occur to dinner guests that you yourself baked so stunning a loaf that you may need to say a little modest something, such as, “Is the bread okay? I worried that it was a little too…” Delicious? No. “… crusty.” That’s a nice, humble way to alert them, don’t you think? It is crusty–and also tangy and fragrant and beautiful./blockquotebr /Get the recipe for yourself at a href=”http://family.go.com/blog/catherinewman/fantastic-fearless-five-minute-bread-889536/”Fantastic Fearless Five-Minute Bread Blog | Disney Family.com/abr /br /div class=”zemanta-pixie”img class=”zemanta-pixie-img” alt=”" src=”http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=1b3a2057-27a4-88d7-a3a8-89161d22cdc6″ //div

How Do You Take Your Coffee?

We know coffee isn’t the most healthy food, but in moderation, it’s a great luxury.

I’m not a coffee purist. I know some people think that adding
hazelnut and caramel and amaretto and so forth dilutes the flavour of
the beans, and to those people, I say, hello? Do you not realize you
can drink coffeedrink desserts all day? You are SO missing out! Anyway,
the Chocolate Bean has a long list of specialty coffees or you can add
flavors to regular drinks. In the interests of a fair review, of
course, I had to try a bunch of coffees, and the boring Americano is
nice too, but a cappuccino with hazelnut is definitely my favorite. The
prices are better than Starbucks, too.

Via The Chocolate Bean on Simpson’s Paradox.

Mangosteens For Health

Simpson’s Paradox writes:

We found mangosteens in the supermarket today! I recognized them from the Yihai market, but I really didn’t expect to find them in such close proximity to drive-thru hush puppies.

Mangosteens are quite rare in the US but they are a healthy and sweet fruit. Enjoy one to satisfy your sweet tooth, and know that you’re getting antioxidents in every bite!

Via Mangosteen Disconnect on Simpson’s Paradox.

Ways To Cook Veggies

Artichokes can be healthful and delicious, as long as this doesn’t happen to you! Don’t get all artichoked up!

My recipe said that if you don’t have a steamer, you can boil artichokes, placed upright and arranged snugly in saucepan with a few inches of water. I think there was a typo, and what it meant was if you don’t have a steamer, don’t even think about boiling artichokes, placed upright and arranged snugly in saucepan with a few inches of water!

From All Artichoked Up on Simpson’s Paradox.

A Splurge

I saw this over on Boy and Girl Eat Out

Let me throw it out there: I love Southern food. I love biscuits,
grits, hush puppies, and sweet tea. I love Chik-Fil-A and the Boy loves
Waffle House. Goodberry’s is another Southern taste that our friends
and family told us to try.

I was first disappointed by the scarcity of flavors. Chocolate, vanilla, a rotating special flavor, and a sugar-free vanilla. All this excitement for four flavors?

What do you think?

Via Goodberry’s Frozen Custard on Boy and Girl Eat Out.

Vegetarian Options

A review of the new Unaabi Grill on Kildaire Farm Road.

Our waiter, Driss, was very knowledgeable about the different dishes, which was great because neither of us had tried Afghani food.  We like Middle Eastern food and love Indian food, so according to the map, we’d like this.

The pumpkin bolanee, flat fried turnovers, were amazing, served with a cool yogurt sauce like an Afghani version of cucumber raita. (Did you see how I just dropped that in there? Like bolanee is something everyone knows, and not a word I heard for the first time a couple hours ago!) There were quite a lot of vegetarian options, hearty main dishes with eggplant and cauliflower, not just a token salad.

Read more at Unaabi Grill.

Coupons For Organic Foods

I saw this post on organic foods coupons over on Organic Coupons on Affluent Pauper. This is awesome because usually trying to buy organic means doubling your grocery bill. (Sad but true!) Here are a couple coupon options:

Arizona Beverages

If you sign up to be an ambassador, they will send you special offers.

Barbara’s Bakery
Sign up to get coupons in the mail (cereal, snacks).

Burt’s Bees (skincare, lipcare, suncare, babycare)
Sign up for special offers. Free lip item with any purchase over $25.

Get more at Organic Coupons - Where to Get Them (Stage 2) | Affluent Pauper.

Cute Tea Infuser

I saw this over on Shark Fin Infuser, Possibly The Most Evil Tea-Maker Ever | Technomix | Fast Company and I had to share it.

We know I love tea, even if I’m not all that good at making it. Is there anything more relaxing than a cup of tea? Maybe you’re an evil genius, and tea-drinking just isn’t evil enough for you. Do you think about devious schemes, like sharks with frikken lasers on their heads, even when you’re enjoying a nice hot cup of tea? Then the Shark Fin Tea Infuser is for you!

Sharky is a floating tea-infuser that looks like a shark
fin marauding through the dangerous waters of your tea mug that
simultaneously releases streamers of steeped tea that look suspiciously
like the detritus after a nasty shark attack.

It is in fact possibly the most brilliant tea-maker ever made: It’s better than the teabag auto-undangler, better than the clip-on mugside infuser, better even than the masterpiece that is the sorapot.
That’s because it’s a brain-twisting blend of the refined qualities
associated with tea-drinking, and the menacing “whoops, there goes my
leg” blood-thirstiness of the killer of the deep. And that mix is a
classic emblem of great design.

What do you think?

Via Shark Fin Infuser, Possibly The Most Evil Tea-Maker Ever | Technomix | Fast Company.

Avocado Shopping

We also ought to be banned from buying avocados, as I can never catch that minute between green, alligator-skinned rocks and smooshy mess, and I feel ridiculously wasteful every time I throw them away. We were better off in China, when we would carry our avocados and gouda back from Jenny Lou’s, and then wait, checking the avocados for that perfect sandwich ripeness each time before we went out for dumplings.

Via Simpson’s Paradox » Blog Archive » Victory Milk

Cutting Down On Coffee

Have you tried the awesome hot apple cider at Starbucks?

8 ) Caramel Apple Crack at Starbucks

I don’t know if the Starbucks in China has this, because I was too busy slurping up all the real-bean coffee and then getting the jitters. I don’t know what’s in it, either. I asked Stick and he thinks maybe it’s sunshine and rainbows and highly addictive chemicals.

Note: This is not a paid advertisement, but if Starbucks would pay me I would totally advertise the Apple Crack. In fact, I’d even call it by its proper name.

Via Simpson’s Paradox » Blog Archive » Thanksgiving

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