Archive for June, 2011

Easy Chicken Recipes Benefits and Versatility

There are so many great things you can do with chicken. You can actually have chicken dishes up to three times per week, and your family will not even notice, because you will be using different easy chicken recipes all the time.

If you start with the side of a chicken, or perhaps several breasts or thighs, you can boil these parts of the chicken, adding some vegetable chunks and a bit of spice to them. When they are almost completely cooked, just add rice to the water, and when the rice is done, you have a chicken and rice meal that is healthy and that your family will love. The spices to add would be chopped onions, garlic, celery, carrots, and perhaps some dried oregano, parsley, thyme and basil.

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Quick and Easy Party Foods: Beer and Cheese Dip, BBQ Cups and Sweet Berry Brushetta

Nothing gets the party going any quicker than good food and cold drinks. To help you succeed at your next pool party, barbecue, game night, etc., here are some great recipes to get people nibbling and getting acquainted. Beer-Cheese Dip is a perfect starter with an assortment of crackers, bread sticks, tortilla chips and/or veggies for dipping. These tasty little BBQ Cups make a great finger food and can easily be changed into Taco Cups by using salsa instead of barbecue sauce. Sweet Berry Brushetta is a light, refreshing treat for the sweet tooth. Warning: Your family and friends will be hinting to be invited back over!

BEER-CHEESE DIP

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Free Soul Food Recipes Growing Controversy: Healthy vs. Traditional Soul Food Recipes

There’s a quiet controversy growing on more websites featuringĀ  free soul food recipes that’s starting to catch the attention of more industry experts and watchdogs. The battle is increasing between the health conscious and theĀ  traditionalist who resist the changing landscape and direction soul food cooking is going in.

The healthy recipe crowd has formed a crusade of using healthier ingredients and eliminating traditional soul food recipes, which contain high calories, sodium and fat. For example, those ingredients they’re attempting to eliminate include fat back, ham hocks, bacon and other pork products that have been traced to many health ailments. For instance, high blood pressure, strokes, obesity and other medical ailments.

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