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How to keep leafy greens fresh for a longer time
After you air-dry the leafy greens, wrap them in paper, put them in a plastic bag and place them in the crisper of your refrigerator. They will last several weeks.
#food#kitchenBest orange juice
Best orange juice is obtained from freshly squeezed oranges without adding any other ingredients. Juice can be used when you want to drink something sweet or when you want to add some flavour to sweets and other type of food.
Due to the high content of vitamin C (ascorbic acid), orange juice can be sprayed on fruits and vegetables that turn quickly brown upon exposure to air, to avoid damaging them.
Here are the steps to follow when preparing orange juice. These are some tips that perhaps you didn't know about!
- Oranges should be kept at room temperature or warm before preparation of juice. This will facilitate spinning. In this way, oranges will release more juice.
- If oranges are not kept at least at room temperature, warm them in the oven. First, prick the crust with a fork, but without touching the pulp. Oranges should stay in the oven for 20-30 seconds.
- In addition, they can be heated if left in a pot in which boiling water is poured. Oranges will have to stand in boiling water for 30 seconds.
- Another way to "warm" oranges is to leave them for three minutes in oven heated to 150 degrees. Wait for some minutes before handling them.
- Roll the fruit on a table until you feel that the fruit is soft.
- After that, cut each orange in half. Put them in the squeezer, press down and rotate to release fruit juice.
- Remove seeds from the squeezer.
- If you like, you can also add some pulp, collected at the bottom of the juice squeezer, once the seeds have been removed.
- Serve cold.
My new Apple cutter
This is a great present for someone who likes apples. :) I bought it from Fackelmann
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Read the food labels
Beer contains E210, benzoic acid, causing gastric irritation.
If you are curious to know what E numbers are and how/if they can be dangerous for your health, go to http://www.ukfoodguide.net/enumeric.htm.
#food#healthGet a FREE coffee & princess cake at IKEA on 19th of June
On the 19th of June the Swedish Princess Victoria will marry. IKEA restaurants world-wide give a voucher for a FREE coffee and 1 FREE princess cake on this day. And more: between 14th-19th June any child who comes to IKEA dressed as a prince or princess will receive 1 FREE kids meal including a drink & princess cake.
Check out your local IKEA website for details.
#food#restaurantsEating beans helps lower cholesterol
The gas after eating beans comes from soluble fibers that help you get rid of bad cholesterol.
#food#healthGarlic heaven
Bröderna Olssons Garlic & Shots is a must visit for garlic lovers.
No dishes are served without garlic. You can always order extra garlic, but never less. As you leave the restaurant you should feel like you've been garlic marinated. This is our mission from God.
The food is fantastic and they serve garlic in everything. You have to try garlic beer!
#food#restaurantsAvoid eating fresh fruit after meal
Fruit is marvellous, but our society has taught us a bad habit regarding the time we eat it. We often finish our meal by eating an apple. As this fruit digests quicker (in about 30 minutes) than most of the other cooked food (meat, pasta, cheese etc), it will cause fermentation and indigestion and our body will be unable to absorb the essential nutrients that we wanted to get from the fruit.
What we consider to be a desert it is in fact a snack or a meal by itself that should be taken separately. The correct time to eat the fruit is an hour before a meal. This way, vitamins will be correctly absorbed.
#food#healthSqueezing lemons
When squeezing lemons, if you put them in the microwave for half a minute or in hot water makes them release more juice.
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