How to Make Homemade Bread

How to Make Homemade Bread

Food & Recipes / Food How to 101

by Jared Garrett The Western world loves bread. It’s hard to find something better than the sliced version. But have you ever considered making your own bread? Doing this at home, let’s say without a breadmaker but with a bread mixer, can be a deeply satisfying experience. Just imagine: It’s…

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Vegetarian Dishes for Meat Lovers

Vegetarian Dishes for Meat Lovers

Food & Recipes / Healthy Bytes

There are many meat substitutes on the market, such as veggie burgers, sausage, bacon and even hot dogs. But just the idea of fake meat may turn off your carnivore. However, there some tasty “real food” options you can try that just might turn some heads at your table. The…

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Prepping & Cleaning Fruits and Veggies

Prepping & Cleaning Fruits and Veggies

Food & Recipes / Healthy Bytes

If your diet includes a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, you are on the road to good health. If you have a hectic schedule-and who doesn’t?-you may be tempted to cut corners when preparing foods. You also may not always remember that “fresh” or “organic” doesn’t necessarily equal “clean.”…

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Classic Comfort Foods Made Healthy

Classic Comfort Foods Made Healthy

Food & Recipes / Healthy Bytes

What’s more comforting after a bad day — or a good one for that matter — than grandma’s homemade chocolate-chip cookies? The memories of those sticky sweet indulgences take us back to our childhoods or keep us company when we’re blue, but consuming these traditional comfort foods can often times…

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All About Tequila

All About Tequila

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It was once a ritual usually performed by a man. He would put some salt where the bottom of the thumb met his wrist. After licking the salt, he would take a swig of tequila from a shot glass and then bite into a piece of lime. Ladies were not…

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The Newest Fast Food Offenders

The Newest Fast Food Offenders

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Fast food restaurants are great, aren’t they? You only need to drive through, throw some money at the people in the window and they happily throw grease, salt, and sugar back at you. We all know fast food joints are necessary evils. Everybody is short on time and they can…

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Prevent Food-borne Illnesses

Prevent Food-borne Illnesses

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Food safety is something that every cook needs to take seriously. With 81 million cases of food-borne sickness occurring every year in the United States, it’s important to understand how food poisoning can be prevented. Thankfully, most people who get sick as a result of contaminated food recover quickly and…

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Which Beans Are Best?

Which Beans Are Best?

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Often (unfairly) overlooked in the typical American diet, beans are something of a nutritional-and economical-powerhouse. Some studies have indicated that they could actually reduce the risk of developing certain chronic diseases, such as colon cancer. They can also help lower your cholesterol, which is one of the leading causes of…

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The Art of the Marinade

The Art of the Marinade

Food & Recipes / Healthy Bytes

It’s a sad fact that these days it has become almost essential to marinade most cuts of meat, unless you intend to casserole them. I’ll go into why that is the case a bit later on, but for the time being let’s just examine why we use marinades at all….

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