| A different look on light cooking | | Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 4:09:25 PM by Kate Grant | Light cooking. If you think about it, it's been here for ever, ever since Americans, and then the rest of the world became conscious about their weight. But for some reasons, it seems like it's the latest craze. 
Carbohydrate free, Atkins, the Zone, South beach, you name it, they all have special recipes for light cooking. You do need to be creative and find a healthy alternative for the pools of oil, rivers of butter, and mountains of flour and sugar, calling you from the shelves of supermarkets, or from the vendors carts on the streets.
But light cooking shouldn't be difficult. There are many substations you can use, and food technology is developing from day to day, allowing you to get the taste but not the calories. You can subscribe to one of the many many magazines dedicated to light cooking.
You'll find recipes for dishes you wouldn't have believed you can cook light, like New Orleans dishes, from corn bread to jambalaya. A good source to begin with is cooking light .com, a website full of ideas and recipes for cooking your favorite dishes the light way.
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| | | 'Cooking Light' Continues Cycling Team Sponsorship | | Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 12:50:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | Cooking Light will continue to sponsor The Colavita/Sutter Home Men's Cycling Team presented by Cooking Light during the 2007 racing season, as the team takes off with a powerful line-up of world-class champions and strong young cyclists. The Team, presented by Cooking Light, will kick off the 2007 season with ten days of intense training in the hills of Napa Valley, Calif., hosted by co-title sponsor Sutter Home Winery, the companies announced. Sutter Home will also be providing training facilities and accommodations for the Colavita/Sutter Home Women's Cycling Team, which includes 2006 Women's NRC Champion Tina Pic and Canadian National Champion Alex Wrubleski. As previously announced, David McCann, the three-time and current Irish National Road Champion, and Charles Dionne, two-time winner of the San Francisco Grand Prix have signed with Colavita/Sutter Home for the 2007 season.... | |
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| | | Your Neighbors Favorite Recipe | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 2:51:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | Nov. 8, 2006 - Say what you will about gender stereotypes - when it comes to cooking, women rule. That's hardly news to the hundreds of women who crammed into the Taste of Home Cooking School, which was held Tuesday night at the Yuba-Sutter Fairgrounds in Yuba City. But a few good men showed up, too, including John Lehmkuhl, who arrived early to scope out a front-row seat with his wife, Janet.“About three nights a week, I cook. We share duty," explained Lehmkuhl, 57, of Yuba City. When asked who's the better cook, he shrugged and pointed toward his wife. Matthew Lopez, 33, of Browns Valley also shares cooking duties with his wife, Monique. He's more of a barbecue specialist - think summertime steaks on the grill - but hoped to pick up some new tricks.For example, “I don't know how to do soups," Lopez said.... | |
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| | | Discover fabulous fungus, learn to hunt and hear stories of the ... | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 12:50:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | The mysteries of wild mushrooms will be unveiled at the Fungus Fair this weekend at the Oakland Museum of California. A focus on the harvest, cooking and consumption of wild mushrooms provides a reason to take a walk in the winter woods. Members of the Mycological Society of San Francisco and the museum's natural sciences department will present freshly gathered specimens, conduct workshops and cooking demonstrations and answer questions. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. $8 ($5 students and seniors). The museum is at Oak and 10th streets in Oakland, one block east of the Lake Merritt BART. (510) 238-2200, www.museumca.org. Walk toward the light There really is something that resembles a diamond as big as the Ritz, and that is an original Fresnel lens. These elaborate stacks of hand-polished prisms collected light from a lamp and shot it in beams to the sea to provide warnings and navigational aids to mariners.... | |
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| | | Have yourself a turkey for two | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 10:51:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | To many, Thanksgiving means getting together with the family and cooking up potluck-sized portions of roast turkey and stuffing. But what if you live away from the folks, can't get home for the holiday and simply plan on having a significant other over for dinner and dessert? Forget turkey sandwiches for a month. Try these simple Thanksgiving-themed recipes fit for two. .... | |
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| | | Franz Ferdinand Write Book, Tour, Turn Down Ad | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 2:54:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | You can eat it so much better... with Alex Kapranos. Despite Franz Ferdinand's nonstop 2006 touring agenda, frontman Kapranos has somehow found time to share his cooking expertise in a food column for British newspaper The Guardian. According to NME, Kapranos plans to collect his columns into a book, Sound Bites, due out later this year. Andrew Knowles, touring drummer and keyboard player for Franz, will put his Glasgow School of Art education to use by illustrating the book. In the meantime, it's ramen noodles and mac 'n' cheese for the band, as they'll spend the majority of summer on the road to various festivals. While most of the trek is scheduled for Europe, Franz Ferdinand will also play a few gigs in California, as well as Japan's Fuji Rock Festival. In late August, they'll reel it in with the Carling Weekend in Reading and Leeds.... | |
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| | | Mangiamo Italiano | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 6:57:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | Traditional Italian cooking conjures images of heavy sauces, thickly battered entrees and the need for a nap after a multi-course meal. Two new Italianheritage restaurants do it differently.CORSA CUCINA & BAR AT WYNN LAS VEGASCorsa has undergone a major transformation. Its new incarnation is open, airy and elegant. Burgundy and white dominate the color scheme. Hanging lamps have oversized shades. The effect is to baffle the sound and ceiling sightlines, and to provide visual drama. .... | |
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| | | Healthy cooking for the season | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 6:55:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | Now that Halloween is officially over, the rest of the holiday season can crank into gear. If you're searching for a new dessert to serve at your party, or want to try a different stew for cool fall nights, you can find ideas in three recent installments of Cooking Light's Essential Recipe Collection: "Slow Cooker," "Dessert" and "Italian" (Oxmoor, $17.95 each). As with other Cooking Light books, these emphasize preparing healthier meals without compromising the yum factor. You also could give the books as gifts. At my home, two Thanksgiving recipes from Cooking Light books have become mainstays one for mushroom gravy and the other for potatoes au gratin. Lisa Liddane, the Register .... | |
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| | | For the love of latkes | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:48:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | When the low-carb dieting craze reached its peak a couple of years ago, Jodi Schwartz of Davie was stymied. She couldn't entertain for Hanukkah without latkes, the potato pancake served during the holiday. "You have to have latkes for Hanukkah," Schwartz says. "So I decided I had to do something about it." Even with a traditional holiday such as Hanukkah, Schwartz says it's fun to get creative in the kitchen. Co-owner of a cooking school for children called Tummy and Soul in South Florida, Schwartz says she developed a latke recipe using green and yellow zucchini in place of some of the potatoes, and leeks instead of onions. Leeks add a sweeter, bolder flavor, she says. Vidalia onions will bring out a different taste. To spice things up a bit, she recommends adding curry or chili powder.... | |
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| | | Tiffany Collins 'Making Time for the Good Stuff' at cooking show | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 6:57:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | Get comfortable with cooking and use food to reconnect with those you care about. That's one of the goals of the Brookshire Brothers Fresh Harvest Cooking Show. "Making Time for the Good Stuff" is the theme for this year's cooking extravaganza, slated for Thursday, Nov. 9, at the Pitser Garrison Civic Center in Lufkin. .... | |
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| | | Ethnic clubs keep cultures alive | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:56:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | PHOENIX (AP) -- Born, reared and married in Brooklyn, N.Y., Joanne Motola remembers walking from one block to the next, knowing whose neighborhood she was in just from the smells of who was cooking what. "You could tell what neighborhood you were in, whether you were in an Irish neighborhood, Italian neighborhood or a Jewish neighborhood," says Motola, 62. Had it not been for the Arizona American-Italian Club and a few Italian specialty food stores that stocked authentic ingredients, the Motola family members' Italian heritage could have evaporated quickly when they moved to the desert in 1971. Ethnic and cultural social clubs quench the nostalgia for the old neighborhood and extended family "back home." Voices punctuated with familiar accents fill the clubs where people share a love for the food and music of their heritage.... | |
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