While working in restaurants and entertaining at home, I am amazed how many people have told me they are vegetarians, yet request a boneless skinless chicken breast. Have I missed something about chicken over the years?
Sorry eathermaiden but you're wrong about the salt water. Salt actually raises the boiling point (temperature at which it will boil) so that the boiling water is hotter with salt than without. I'm not sure if the hotter water cooks pasta faster or if it is just that the higher temperature results in a better end product.
This is the same reason why cooking at high altitudes is a problem as the lower atmospheric pressure lowers the boiling point of water. Water boils at lower temperatures and so doesn't properly cook things since the water molecules can't get any hotter than the boiling point and still be in a liquid state.
eathermaiden "That adding salt to water will raise/lower the pasta water sufficiently to cook it faster.""
the reason for this is that by saltwater has a lower boiling point then regular water so it "boils faster" so they assume tha the food will cook faster as a result when in reality is jsut bubbles at a lower teperature
that said u should still salt it because thats where a huge amount of the flavor of pasta comes from
over all though im astounded at all the people that are badmouthing all these foods and trying to preach the vegitarian live well sorry to say not everyone wants to remove most of the enjoyment from there food
you only get one life and while we should eat healthy that doesnt meant we shouldnt eat some things or enjoymetn too its all about balance and controling our portions is the best thing we can do
personaly i dont think ive gone a day w/o meat in my life and im 6 ft 240 lbs but with less than 7 % body fat and in great health
so u cna eat meat and even junk foods and be healthy too so dont be so quick to judge us meat eaters my lil veg friends ;)
How about:
1) Olive oil has fewer calories than butter.
2) Drinking milk will make you lose weight.
3) You can't put yucca in soup (I bought yucca root and said I was going to put it in soup. My mother said, "You can't put yucca in soup." She perhaps meant, "You can't put yucca in soup and expect me to eat it").
Hi all - here's a list of the most pesticide-laden fruits and vegetables, from the Environmental Working Group:
http://www.ewg.org/sites/foodnews/
Just be sure to wash any produce thoroughly -- even organic produce has some pesticides.
@tracyd - I think the pesticide-thing depends on fruit/vegetable involved. For example, it's impossible to really wash everything out of your broccoli, but a smooth-skinned fruit might not be so bad. Ideally, I would buy organic produce whenever I intended to eat the skin. But, uh, I earn hourly wages, so I'm just happy to have fruits and vegetables!
@Editmom—Two words: Fig wasp.
I hate when people come up to me after hearing I keep kosher and are all "Oh, so that means all your food was blessed by a rabbi?" Man, that's annoying.
I have friends who won't even attempt to cook saying that it's too hard. But they won't even try! So they eat lots of pizza and other take-out foods all the time and then get bummed out about their clothing sizes. I offer to help them learn to cook and they turn me down. Gah!
I have a friend who insists that calories are not a factor in weight gain, but that the weight of the food determines how much weight you gain. So, you can eat a pound of brocoli or a pound of chocolate cake and it will have the same effect on your waistline. Oh, if only that were true.....
My mom insists that the skin on fruits and veggies is so contaminated with pesticides that the only healthy way to eat them is to wash and peel the skin first. It drives me crazy because I know that the vitamins are most concentrated in the skin. The pesticides can not be that bad, can they? Can't we just wash them off like we always have in the past?
But thimerosol contains mercury, and as KarynMC pointed out at the top of this thread, cooking temperatures can't vapourise heavy metals.
I think people are a bit fuzzy as to what an allergy precisely is, so it does seem like a good excuse for getting out of eating something disliked, particularly since simply saying 'I don't like ------' can feel rude, or is often dismissed or jeered at as childish.
@em- I've met folks that have those "allergy disconnects," and it drives me nuts, too. If you don't like something, just say you don't like it!
However, in your friend's defense, raw shrimp is often treated with thimerosol (sp?) as a preservative. When the shrimp is cooked, the preservative dissipates. If you wear contacts, you may notice that most liquid solutions say "thimerosol-free." It is a fairly common allergen, though I've never heard of anyone being "deathly allergic" to it. It usually causes hayfever-type symptoms.
When I used to bartend at a high-end steakhouse, I would have guests who were on low-carb diets (Atkin's or South Beach) eating a 16 oz. Sirloin, caesar salad (no croutons), steamed asparagus with hollandaise, and drinking martinis or a few glasses of wine. They would beg me to take away the bread basket, skip the baked potato, and heaven help me if I offered dessert. I guess they didn't realize that all alcoholic bevs are purely empty calories and many are loaded with carbs. Not to mention the 2,000 calorie dinner they just consumed. These are otherwise intelligent people with successful careers.
Remember that adage about all things in moderation...
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