Cooking is a pleasing exercise, a revealing activity of the chef’s or cooker’s creative cooking, decorating and serving ideas. Now, the best chef is one who takes into account healthy tips to fix delicious and healthy meals.
If you want to maintain a good physique and satisfy the desires of your stomach, then drop those pre-pack healthy meals. These prepackaged weight loss meals are of no nutritional value nor effect on your weight.
You can instead get fresh vegetables delivered to your home or even organic veggies delivered to your door. You can use these fresh vegetables to prepare exquisite meals that you can enjoy without feeling guilty when you are on a diet.
The secret of any recipe is fresh ingredients. For instance, how would you enjoy a tasty fig cake without fresh turkish figs. Fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as many other fresh foods, ensure that you get the best nutritional values from what you eat.
Spoiled foods will produce more waste and will make you regret spending money on it in the first place. Plus, even if you try to consume them, you will likely end up in the ER. So here are 10 ways to keep food fresh for longer periods.
Brushing avocado halves with lemon juice or olive oil
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Have you ever tried a nice sandwich made of brown bread, tomatoes, mayonnaise with some catalina salad dressing and smashed chickpea? The taste is irresistible and the nutritional values are numerous as well.
But did it happen to you when you felt so hungry, you thought you could eat two avocadoes all at once, but as you were fixing your sandwich, you felt that half of an avocado is already enough?
You probably did, not just when it comes to Avocado, but also other fruits, vegetables and foods. How would you then preserve the other half which can easily spoil? Use lemons.
The latter contains a citric acid which would prevent your avocado from browning. You can also use olive oil which will function in the same way, protecting your avocado from oxidation.
Wrapping cheese in a vinegar-soaked paper towel
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Be honest! Can you resist the taste of a stouffer’s scalloped potatoes covered with tastee cheese? Perhaps nobody can. Sometimes you might buy a whole cheese ball for it is irresistible anyways. You can use it when fixing pasta, gratin or a simple sandwich.
Cheese adds always a unique flavor to your food, making the taste even better. Don’t you agree? Cheese can, however, spoil if you do not keep it fresh. Some people tend to buy cheesecloth, but there is no need to purchase anything.
Grab a paper towel and soak it in vinegar. You can put your cheese wrapped in the vinegar-dampened paper towel in a plastic baggie to keep it fresh. Based on what users said, vinegar will not affect the taste of cheese.
Avoid washing the produce before putting it in the fridge
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After a long day in the town’s market, you must have got some really good fresh organic fruits and vegetables. Planning to prepare a fully healthy meal? Right? You could steam some potatoes, carrots, broccoli and beans. Make sure you chop them in small pieces then add salt, pepper and some mayo.
A perfectly healthy meal which is quite simple to fix. But question: do you wash only the veggies you are going to use or all what you bought?
If you do, then you got to stop. You should never rinse your produce before putting it in the fridge. Otherwise, it will get easily spoiled. What matters is that you wash the veggies before cooking or eating them.
Putting berries in a vinegar-water bath
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What makes a good pie is certainly the secret recipe of the baker. The decoration is what catches the eye of sweet cakes’ lovers. Can you resist a creamy cake covered with spartan blueberry or lowbush blueberry?
Berries can be used in all different types of cakes and pies either as the primary ingredient or as in decoration. The lively shades of colors, ranging from blue, to red and black, give a dessert an extraordinary outlook, plus the remarkable taste.
The thing about berries is that they mold very quickly and prematurely, that is why you are advised to give them a bath in a solution made of 1 cup of vinegar and 3 cups of water. Wash them once more and then dry them. Thanks to this vinegar-water bath, your berries will be clear of any bacteria before putting them in the fridge.
