The Best Carrot Cake Recipe on Earth

By Britt Gillette                           Growing up, friends and family always raved about my mom's delicious carrot cake. As a child, the idea of eating a cake made from carrots seemed a little odd, but once I got past the initial apprehension, I too found her carrot cake to be one of my favorite desserts.

Below is the exact recipe. I hope you enjoy it!

Mom's Delicious Carrot Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

(Cake)

2.0 Cups of Sugar

1.5 Cups of Vegetable Oil

2.5 Cups of Self-Rising Flour

3.0 Cups of Grated Carrots

4 Eggs

1 Teaspoon of Vanilla

1 Teaspoon of Baking Soda

2 Teaspoons of Cinnamon

(Icing)

8 Ounces of Original Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese

1 Stick of Margarine

1 Box of Powdered Sugar

1 Teaspoon of Vanilla

1 Cup of Chopped Peacans

Instructions:

Mix the sugar and vegetable oil in a large bowl. Add the eggs and vanilla, along with self-rising flour and cinnamon. Using a Kitched Aid or other mixing device, add the baking soda and carrots and mix until the batter is uniform. Pour batter into 3 round cake pans (makes 3 layers). Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Once done, put on racks to cool.

To create the icing, combine the cream cheese, margarine, powdered sugar, and vanilla, and mix until consistent. Add the chopped peacans and stir. Apply the icing in between layers and on the top and sides of the cake once the layers have cooled.

Finally, enjoy one of the finest tasting desserts ever created!

Britt Gillette is the author of 'The Dittohead's Guide to Adult Beverages' (Regnery 2005). He also educates people on the many benefits of Himalayan Goji Juice.

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Little Pizza Muffins With Parmesan Cheese - Ketchup is the Secret Ingredient!

By Harriet Hodgson   

Ketchup is staple in my kitchen, the condiment I use for hamburgers and when I run into cooking trouble. In fact, ketchup is a secret ingredient that has saved many recipes. I have added ketchup to soup to perk up the flavor. I have added ketchup to gravy to give it color. Ketchup is one of the main ingredients in my Sloppy Joes. In a pinch, I have even used watered down ketchup as pizza sauce.

This gave me the idea for pizza muffins.

I make the muffins with unbleached whole wheat flour, a relatively new item on supermarket shelves. King Arthur is one of the companies that makes this product and, according to its website, the flour is milled from hard white wheat. This flour has a lighter color and flavor than traditional red white, the website explains, but it "still has all the fiber and nutrition." According to the test kitchen bakers, this product looks, acts, and tastes like regular white flour.

When I created these pizza-flavored muffins I started out with a basic muffin batter. One of my bread recipes calls for ketchup, so I decided to add some. I did not add any sugar because ketchup is already sweet. But these tasty morsels still contain the basic pizza ingredients -- oregano, garlic, and pepperoni. Even better, you get the taste of pizza without all the calories. Call the kids and ask them to help you make Little Pizza Muffins with Parmesan Cheese.

Ingredients

2 cups unbleached white whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon dried Mexican oregano
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup ketchup
1/4 cup egg substitute (or 1 large egg)
1 cup fat-free milk
2 tablespoons extra light olive oil
1 cup diced pepperoni

Method

In a large mixing bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, oregano, garlic, and shredded Parmesan cheese together. In a smaller bowl, whisk ketchup, egg substitute, milk, and olive oil together. Add the wet ingredients to the dry, being careful not to over-mix the batter. Coat two mini muffin pans with cooking spray. Spoon batter into cups, filling them 3/4 full, and sprinkle each with diced pepperoni. Bake in a 400-degree oven for 12 minutes, or until the muffins start to pull away from the pan. Makes 24 mini muffins.

Copyright 2010 by Harriet Hodgson

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Harriet Hodgson has been an independent journalist for 30+ years. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Association of Health Care Journalists, and Association for Death Education and Counseling. Her 24th book, "Smiling Through Your Tears: Anticipating Grief," written with Lois Krann, MD is available from Amazon.

Centering Corporation has published her 26th book, "Writing to Recover: The Journey from Loss and Grief to a New Life" and a companion journal with 100 writing prompts. Hodgson is a monthly columnist for the new "Caregiving in America" magazine, which resumes publication in August. She is also a contributing writer for the Open to Hope Foundation website. Please visit Harriet's website and learn more about this busy author and grandmother.

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White Fish Recipes For Health, Taste, and the Environment

By Allie Moxley

When shopping for dinner, either for yourself or your family, the number of options in terms of what to prepare can be quite overwhelming. There are so many different protein choices. Should you go with red meat, the family favorite, or the leaner white meats like chicken? Many experts suggest rejecting traditional meat altogether in favor of fish. But sometimes, seafood can be a bit more expensive, and there are always the problems of mercury that have many worried.

But if you have these issues on your mind, one great option to go with his Alaska sole, a delicious whitefish that will be good for your health and your waistline, while being lighter on your wallet than other sorts of seafood. Alaska sole is low in fat, and can be prepared in ways that keep it super healthy, like sautéing it in a small amount of butter, or baking it in a glass dish with lemon juice squeezed on top. This fish manages to be both scrumptious and super low in calories, a combination that is hard to find. Alaska sole is also high in protein, which is great if you are trying to lose weight, because it helps you stay fuller for longer, without loading up on calorie-dense carbs. This whitefish is also low in mercury when compared with bigger fish like tuna, which is important when you are considering your health. You can get all of the benefits of eating fish without the downsides!

Another great reason to try Alaska sole for your next meal is that it is one of the most sustainably-raised kinds of seafood that you can access at your local supermarket. Often, big game fish will be exploited to the point that the population becomes depleted to unsustainable levels. But luckily the state of Alaska has taken a lot of steps to ensure that its fish populations stay at sustainable levels, because the government has realized how important the fishing industry is to the state. If the fish population dies off, then so does the economy. So you can buy this whitefish without suffering from a guilty conscience!

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, has accurate, up to date information on the fish species off the coast of the most northern state. Check out the ASMI Facebook page for more information on Alaska Seafood!

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Home Made Recipes For Healthy and Glowing Skin

By Reshma Karimulla Basha

Generally, we all suffer from skin problems related to sun burns, post delivery, allergy etc., which results in black patches round our neck, face, underarms, elbow making it a dull and lifeless skin.

I have got for you some tried and tested recipes which can bring back glow in your skin and also helps in removing the dark patches from your skin.

1. The first and foremost thing is drink plenty of water and have one teaspoon isabgol mix in one glass of water every night before sleeping, it flushes out all the toxins from your body and thereby resulting in healthy and glowing skin.

2. Mix equal quantity of yoghurt and potato juice and apply for one hour.

3. Raw papaya has the properties of good skin whitener, it helps to lighten your skin.

4. Strawberry juice mix with honey is also a good facial whitener, mix in equal quantity and apply it for one hour.

5. one teaspoon cinnamon powder mix with one tablespoon honey and apply it for one hour.

6. one teaspoon glycerin mix with little lemon juice helps to lighten skin on the lips.

7. Use papaya, banana, milk or yoghurt as a body scrubber twice a week.

8. Mix 100gm til oil, 1 tspoon haldi, 2 tspoon corriander seeds and 2 tspoon red sandalwood paste with 200ml of water and let it cook on low flame for 1/2 an hour till the whole water evaporates. Before sleeping gently massage on the skin from down to up direction regularly for at least 6 months.

This will not only give you a healthy and glowing skin but also remove black patches from your skin.

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Natural Juice Recipes For Health, How To Lower Your Blood Pressure And Other Numbers

By Michael Griffin

Natural Juice Recipes To Add More Nutrition To Your Life

How is your blood pressure, cholesterol, and all of those other numbers that your doctor places so much importance on? Would you like to give your doctor a shock by putting those numbers in the right places? Juicing is one way to do that. All of those numbers are improved by the right fruits and vegetables being in your diet and if you eat them raw, it is the best way. Yuk, you say, and I agree, unless you juice them.

Juicing is a way to consume raw fruits and vegetables and get all of the nutritional value but avoid the great bulk and bad taste that many have. Instead by combining the good tasting ones with the nutritious ones that don't taste so good you can create a great tasting, healthy drink. This makes it possible for you to easily get your recommended daily allowance of fruits and vegetables.

Juicing strips out all of the main nutritional elements and leaves most of the fiber behind. While fiber is important it is easily obtained whereas the other more important nutrients that you would have to eat great quantities of fruits and vegetables to obtain.

Fruit And Vegetable Juice Recipes

There are many great health benefits from juicing fresh fruits and vegetables. These items are great individually but when blended in juice recipes their nutrients combine and the whole becomes greater than the parts.

I'm going to give you a tasty recipe and we will analyse it's elements and see the great nutritional value it contains.

The Juice Recipe analysis

This juice contains carrots, spinach, Asian pear, and watermelon. Together these super nutritious elements combine for added health benefits.

Spinach is loaded with Vitamin C and phytonutrients and has been shown to prevent prostate cancer, it also protects you stomach from damage and reduces inflammation. It's mild flavor makes it a great addition to any juice. Spinach contains folate, potassium, and magnesium which are important for blood pressure.

A quarter of a cup of carrots a day can help you put the check on cardiovascular disease eating even more reduces your risk more and by juicing them their nutrition is released and your body won't have to use up energy to get

Watermelon is an underrated addition, watermelon has the highest source of Lycopene of all the things you might juice it has healthy benefits for men, women, children, and even pregnant women.

Asian pear is loaded with fiber and contains micronutrients that are helpful to protect against cardiovascular problems and support bone and blood health. This means lowering blood pressure too.

Here is the recipe

1 carrot

1 handful of spinach

1 cup watermelon cups

1 Asian pear

This juice will help keep you healthy as well as providing nutritional treatment for the conditions listed above as well as many others. Juices unleash the nutrition directly into your blood stream by avoiding the need for digesting it.

I'd like to invite you to view our free video on the benefits of juicing. The video will introduce you to a resource that will tell you everything you need to know from a juice fast to juicing for weight loss. You will learn how to make the most effective use of juice in your life. Visit www.eJuicingBenefits.org/book.html

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Christmas Dinner Ideas

By Barry JamesIs it your turn to host Christmas Dinner this year? Are you stumped for ideas on what to serve? Don't worry, you're not alone. Millions of people around the world are working on their Christmas Dinner menu right now. In this article I will give you a few ideas to help you on your way to making the best Christmas Dinner for your family and friends.

It is best not to over complicate this. Keep it simple and you will be able to enjoy your Christmas day. If you are a novice cook then you will want to plan a menu that is easy to execute. If you are a more experienced cook then you can get a little bit more creative with the menu. Planning is probably the most important part of the dinner preparation.

The first thing you need to do, is to work how many people are coming. This will let you work out how much food you need to buy. To lighten the load a bit you could always ask everyone to bring something to contribute to the dinner, you could even work out what you want each person to bring so that you don't double up on certain foods.

You can't go wrong with a traditional Christmas dinner. What is traditional? Well, it is turkey with all the trimmings followed by the traditional plum pudding for dessert. This sounds like a lot of work and in some parts of the world, such as Australia where it is summer, it's not really very practical. So what do you do then?

Well, one idea is to serve an informal buffet. This allows people to eat at leisure and it gives the cook more free time to spend with loved ones and less time chained the kitchen. A buffet also allows you to be more flexible with the type of food you serve. For instance, you can serve finger foods that are easy to eat while you are mingling with the family. In fact, the food choices for a buffet are practically limitless as you can choose from a host of different ethnicities, like Chinese, Italian and even American or Australian. You can even serve vegetarian if there are members of your family that don't eat meat.

These ideas are great if you have a large family, but what if you don't? What if there are only the two of you? Do you have to forgo a lovely Christmas dinner because all of the Christmas dinner menus cater for large gatherings? Of course you don't. I have some ideas here for you if there are only going to be two of you for Christmas dinner.

You have the opportunity here to turn the Christmas dinner into a romantic occasion. You can set the table formally and by adding candles you will give the meal a romantic glow. You and your partner can even dress formally if you want to, just to give the meal that added special touch.

If you are having a Christmas dinner for two it doesn't need to be a solemn occasion. It can be fun. You can prepare the menu in advance and as it won't be a big operation you will have more fun if you do it together, which will add to the romance. You can make it even more fun by reminiscing about past Christmases or of the time when you were dating.

Even if it is just the two of you, you can choose to have a traditional or non traditional meal, just do it on a much smaller scale. You may even choose to have someone else cook your meal. You will just need order it and then pick it up when it is time. This way you don't even have to cook it, just eat it.

These are all great ideas but what if you just don't want to cook this year. Like I said you have the option of ordering in but that may not appeal to you. Why not consider going out to a restaurant for your meal. Most restaurants offer Christmas dinner. If this is something that sounds good to you just be sure to make your reservation well in advance as these venues get booked out very fast.

Whatever you decide to do for your Christmas dinner this year just remember to have a good time and not get stressed out over it. Christmas is the time of year to enjoy spending time with loved ones so don't let the cooking of the dinner overshadow this.

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Discover Easy Ways to Decorate Your Christmas Cake

   
By Pat LockFor many people Christmas time is a hectic round of shopping, cooking, writing cards and wrapping presents. And very often decorating the Christmas cake is left to the last minute, so here are some tips to help you along the way.

One of the quickest designs is a pattern using any of the following: semi-dried fruits, glace fruits, angelica, cherries and different types of nuts. But keep to three or four varieties, otherwise the design becomes too cluttered. If the top of the cake is rounded, cut off, and upturn the cake so the base becomes the top surface. Boil half a jar of apricot jam and press through a sieve. Brush the top surface of the cake with the jam, and cover with a design of fruit and nuts - a circular design for a round cake and straight lines for a square cake. To give the decoration an attractive shine (and to hold the fruit and nuts in place) brush over with jam, and lastly, tie a wide, red or green ribbon around the cake. A similar decoration can be made with marzipan fruits.

If you wish to spend slightly more time, decorate the top of the cake with soft icing, and as before, use ribbon, a cake frill, or a strip of Christmas paper to place around the sides. Again use the base of the cake as the top surface. Roll out sugarpaste (rollout icing) or marzipan, until it is slightly larger than the top of the cake - make sure the paste moves freely. Brush the top of the cake with apricot jam then upturn the cake onto the sugarpaste, and cut away the surplus paste. Place the cake on a cake board. Roll out a length of paste, approximately half inch deep, and cut a strip the same size. Moisten the paste around the edge of the cake and carefully position the strip on the moist surface. Make a design on this edging with cake crimpers - if you have them. Failing that, press the decorated handle of a spoon into the paste. Make an unusual decoration for the centre of the cake by colouring some marzipan red and modelling it into a candle shape. Use a flaked almond for a flame, and then surprise everyone by lighting the almond on Christmas Day - as nuts contain oil the almond will flame for a few moments!

Make Christmas trees from a cone-shaped piece of green marzipan. Use sharp scissors and beginning at the top, make small snips all around the tree. Make snowballs from balls of sugarpaste, very slightly moistened and covered in castor, or granulated sugar. To make holly leaves, roll out the paste and cut into a diamond shape. The sharp points are made by cutting out sections from around the edge of the leaf, with either an icing nozzle or the tip/handle of a small spoon. Mark veins on the leaf with the back of a knife.

For those who wish to venture into the field of royal icing, a quick way to use this icing is by making a 'snow scene'. First, apply a layer of marzipan to the cake and leave to dry for two days. The traditional way of making royal icing is with egg white and icing sugar, but icing sugar is now available which already contains the correct quantity of dried egg white - however, the icing still needs a good beating!

Test the icing before applying to the cake. Using a palette, or table knife, apply the icing about half an inch deep to the cake. Then, using the flat surface of the knife makes a slow 'bouncing' movement on the icing. The icing will stand in peaks if it is the correct consistency. Leave until firm and sprinkle with edible glitter for a sparkling cake. HAPPY Christmas

Pat Lock is a cake decorating expert with over 25 years experience who runs the excellent Cake Decorating Tips website. She has won awards at the prestigious international competition at Hotel Olympia, London and is also an accomplished author.

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Christmas Cake Boxes - Creative Gift Ideas

By Lyn Ashby

Different Christmas cake boxes can be used creatively to add variety to many of the festive holiday events. This requires a bit of creative thinking and a willingness to try something different. These bakery boxes, which include Christmas cupcake boxes, are considered popular accessories for many of the events surrounding the holiday period.

With Christmas boxes, it is simple to display a selection of cakes, cupcakes or pastries beautifully, for a very small financial outlay. Cake presentation boxes, cupcake boxes and other bakery boxes are an inexpensive way to present cakes by enhancing the visual effect and overall presentation thereby adding a higher perceived value that the actual cost of the box. This makes cakes, beautifully presented in Christmas cake boxes a very personal gift for someone special.

They make a lovely gift for a special aunt or friend. Grandparents will be especially thrilled with a cupcake in a Christmas themed box that has been lovingly decorated by their grandchild. Another good idea is to provide Christmas party guests with specially packaged cupcakes in beautifully crafted Christmas cupcake boxes.

For people who pride themselves on their ability to bake exquisite and aesthetically appealing cakes, transparent cake boxes are a great option, gaily decorated with Christmas themed ribbons. These boxes show off the beauty of the cakes during formal presentations. Another party option to make the invited guests feel special is using these boxes to house other items. The guests can be pleasantly surprised when their host presents them with party favors in the form of little boxes that contain a selection of candy or other small gifts.

A handmade Christmas cake box kit is also a fun gift in itself. A creative spin on traditional gift ideas, it makes people feel special and children love craft kits.

You can get cake box making kits that come with the cardboard, stencils and decorations for making your own Christmas cake boxes. They are inexpensive and are a great item to purchase in advance. That way you have them on hand for some of those cold wet days leading up to Christmas. They will keep the children occupied for hours as they turn them into a handmade gift for one of their friends.

In summary Christmas cake boxes can be used in many, varied ways at Christmas. Use your creativity to think of some more. They can be bought at department stores, bakery stores or online. They stand out as special gifts that are not only fun to make, but also fun to receive.

Lyn is a passionate snow skier and loves cooking. In her spare time she likes writing on a wide variety of subjects. Visit her latest website all about cupcake boxes at http://www.cupcakeboxessuppliers.com/cake-boxes/

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Christmas Cake Decorations With Fruits, Nuts and Many Other Things

By R. Rekha

If you do not have time to go to the market to shop for a nice Christmas cake, then you can use a little creativity and create nice decorative items at home. You can start with boiling or baking sugar to bring out amazing shapes like candles and then you can use food color to add to color to the shapes you make with sugar. These shapes can be used for decorating different types of cakes you make for Christmas. You can even make provision to light up the candle made from sugar and surprise everyone.

Use fruits or nuts

In general, when you decorate your Christmas cake, you make use of icing and fruits, but this time you can try something different to add a unique touch to the cake. You can go for an online search to find some nice and creative ideas for Christmas cake decorations, and then you can pick the ones, which are easy for you to make at home. It is better to try using decorations such as dried fruits, cherries, fruits, and different types of nuts, as these decoration ideas never fails to impress, and the components used in such decorations are easily available as well.

Make different cake shapes

No matter whether you make a square cake or a round one, you can give new dimension to it by adding stunning Christmas cake decorations. You can experiment with different types of decorative items, and then finalize the one that you like the most. If you want to make a nice cake and decorate it for your spouse, then you can bake a heart-shaped cake and then use heart-shaped decorations for decorating the cake. You can also opt for decorations, which are based on some particular kind of theme like cartoons, or fantasy characters, etc.

Use different shades

Normally Christmas is associated with two colors, which are red and green, so you can also choose Christmas cake decorations with these colors to bring out the festive feel in your cake as well. However, there is no need to restrict yourself to these two colors only, as you can also perk up the festive mood with shades such as pink, gold, yellow and white and you can add some glitter to your cake decorations by opting for the silver shade. You can use these shades while making shapes from sugar for cake decorations, as these will make the shapes look even better.

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Cooking Food - Different Methods For Different Foods

By Emilie Nicola

Cooking food will be the topic that will lead your mind to the several techniques to ready the foods before serving them on your dining table. Certainly, the foods will be cooked based on people's taste or will depend on the meal you want to prepare. For example, you can steam, bake or grill the foods.

Cooking Food by Baking

Baking is the first method you can try. It is done by using oven. The standard temperature for baking in the oven will range start from 300 up to 450 Fahrenheit. Baking method is commonly used for the kind of foods such as pastries, cake and even anything prepared with a batter.

What about Roasting?

The next cooking food technique you can try is roasting. You can do it through the uncovered hot air. Generally, it is done on meats to make it more tender and juicy. The leg of a lamb or the turkey is the common place on a rack of a shallow pan to get it cooked.

Grilling or Broiling

Broiling or grilling is another method that you can try through the application of direct heat. Under a continuous flow of heat, the meal is being cooked and tenderized. In broiling, you have to leave it slightly uncovered to restrain the pan from becoming too hot and damaging the meal instead.

Frying

Among the other techniques, frying is probably the safest one to do, chiefly if your oil and flame is regulated the proper way. You can have a perfect-fried meal if you know when to dip the meat in the hot oil.

Steaming

The last cooking food technique is steaming. The special steamers are generally used by cooks to make the perfectly-steamed meat. The regular foods which need steaming for their preparation are fish and vegetables. The purpose is to retain their color and taste.

In fact, there are still many things to know about it. To read more good tips, all you have to do is click this link, cooking food [http://cookingreferences.com/cooking-food/several-methods-of-cooking-food-you-should-understand/].

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Comparison of Traditional Indian Food and British Indian Food

By Jyotsna Jo Ramoni

One cannot think of the India without thinking of their diverse food variety, commonly known as the Indian Cuisine. The traditional Indian Cuisine is perhaps one of the most varied cuisines that there are in the world. Each of the various provinces of India has unique traditions and distinctive food choices. The common ingredients used for cooking in these provinces also vary besides their cooking methods and mediums.
It takes years for an Indian caterer to master the many different dishes which together make up the Indian cuisine. Besides the countless appetizers, there are vegetable dishes, lentil dishes, meat dishes and then of course there are many snacks and desserts which make up the delicious and rich Indian food.

Traditional Indian food cannot be cooked without the right and extensive use of the numerous spices. From cardamom, chillies, fennel seeds, fenugreek seeds, coriander, cloves to cinnamon, nutmeg and saffron, Indian Cuisine has it all. There are many ways these spices can be used and these different ways bring out the different tastes in each of the different meals. It is not easy to learn how and how much each spice has to be used in a dish.

The traditional Indian cuisine is very different from the English cuisine that is a part of British history. However it is true that their long association in the past has led to each other's influence on both the cuisines. Now Indian food is fairly common in Britain. But is the British Indian food and traditional Indian food the same? The simple answer to this question is 'No.'

There are many reasons why British Indian food and traditional Indian food are not the same. Some of these are listed below.

• First of all, many of the traditional Indian dishes are quite hot and spicy whereas the English cuisine isn't. Therefore when Indian Cuisine became popular in Britain it had to amend itself in order to be widely acceptable with the Britons. The Indian food found in Britain is not spicy as back home.

• Most of the Indians are vegetarians which is why meat is excluded from most of the dishes. There is no such restriction in Britain and therefore many of the Indian curries which are becoming popular in Britain include chicken and other meat.

• Some of the dishes, like Chicken Tikka Masala, are entirely new Indian dishes that took birth in Britain. Because the BBQ Chicken Tikka is a popular yet spicy food in India, the Britons made a few changes to it and added a bit of gravy to it to cut down on its spice.

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Food and Drink in the British Isles

By Chris Archer Mason

UK restaurants offer a wide diversity of cuisine from all over the world but why not try some local dishes during your villa holiday. Traditional British food usually involves good plain cooking with fresh local ingredients and is often found in pubs or in restaurants which offer lighter versions of old favourites. Roast beef served with Yorkshire pudding or local specialties such as Lincolnshire or Cumberland pork sausages can be found on most menus. In the North Black Pudding made with offal is popular and lamb and chicken dishes feature on many menus along with hearty meat pies and homemade soups. Meals are usually served with chips, mash, boiled or roast potatoes and a good selection of vegetables. Whitbyon the east coast is famous for its crabs and the southeast coast is renowned for its mussels, whelks, cockles and jellied eels. In Britain you are never far from a fish and chip shop selling battered cod or haddock with chips sprinkled with salt and vinegar. Traditional puddings include fruit crumbles, apple pie or sponge pudding usually served with custard. Afternoon tea is still popular and you will find a good selection of cakes, scones, jam and cream and sandwiches on a teashop menu. Cheese is a great regional specialty; look out for different varieties at delicatessens and farmers markets.

There are some excellent award winning white English wines such as those produced by Three Choirs in Gloucestershire and Wickham in Hampshire.While enjoying your British Self Catering holiday you'll find a good selection of real ales is served in many pubs; look out for local micro-breweries. Mild such as Banks', Holdens and Highgate is most often found in the Midlands. Pale ales are more popular and Timothy Taylor, Adnams, Shepherd Neame and Marston's have good examples. Cider is still a favourite particularly in the southwest of England like Thatcher's in Somerset.

In Scotland look out for traditional foods such as haggis (spiced sheep's innards and seasoning) usually served with tatties (potatoes) and neeps (mashed turnip). Venison and grouse dishes are popular as are stovies, a mix of potatoes, onion and beef cooked in dripping. Scotch broth is made from mutton or beef stock, pearl barley, carrots and leeks while Cock-a-leekie soup is made from chicken, rice, leeks and prunes cooked in chicken stock. Smoked fish dishes such as kippers, salmon and Arbroath smokies (smoked haddock) can often be found. Finally, look out for a delicious chowder like dish called Cullen skink made from smoked haddock, mashed potato and milk. Scotland is also famous for its numerous whisky distilleries and a few beers too, like Deuchars and Caledonian.

Traditional dishes in Wales include Welsh lamb hot pot and cawl (meat stew with potatoes and vegetables). Fish is popular and other dishes such as Welsh rarebit (melted cheese on toast) and laver bread made from oatmeal and seaweed. There are plenty of local cheeses to sample such as Caerphilly and Pencarreg. Try Bara brith, a type of tea loaf and Welsh cakes, flat scones cooked on a griddle. Look out for eating establishments belonging to the Taste of Wales (Blas y Cymru) usually a sign of good food and finally some beers to try, Brains or Felinfoel.

In Northern Ireland try local cheeses, oysters and Guinness, Irish stew and drisheen (Black pudding). Look out for soda bread, Barm brak (tea loaf) and potato bread and finish the evening with an Old Bushmills whiskey.

If visiting the Channel Islands, self catering in Guernsey and self catering in Jersey, then you will find plenty of fresh fish, local dairy products and fresh seasonal produce on the menu. Look out for delicious home grown produce known as hedge veg sold by the roadside throughout the islands. Enjoy!

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Great Britain Food

By Helen A Jones

While Britain is not really known for its cooking prowess, there are some wonderful cooking personalities coming out today and showing the world a new culture of Great British food. Many of the foods that are being made or prepared today, are recipes that were once a staple out of need for the British during hard times. This can include recession or even war ear dishes and while they were filling they were not always tasty. With new personalities and new ideas, come new ways to cook what you once thought was plain and blasé.

Great Britain food is for a new culture today. Tourists and world travelers alike are making their way to England with the notion that the chefs of today have reshaped many of the old dishes. The idea is that these once tasteless meals are now becoming some of the hottest tickets in the culinary world.

Pies And Custards

One thing that you will notice about Great British food is that while many things can and usually do change, pies and custards are seldom recreated. This is usually because they are simply done right to begin with. Minced meat pies and fine fruit laden pies for dessert or tea time are perfect. These types of dishes have been around for virtually as long as the region is recognizable really, so it should come as no surprise that the dishes really do not get tampered with. There are some newer cooks out there that like to mix things up a bit and experiment, yet most find today that what was once good is most often best left that way.

Great Britain food has come a long way since the food critics of the 70's and 80's basically laid a discouraging pounding on it. There was a time where a food critic would do anything to avoid having to critique anything from this region if it involved food. Today critics and food columnists alike are flocking to this area to see what all the fuss is about. Most are leaving with the idea that things are no longer the same in the English food scene.

A Steadfast Breakfast

If you have Great Britain food on your mind, then you owe it to yourself to at least try a large English breakfast. This is a case of overzealous cooking, when it comes to breakfast today. With blood pudding and sausages, coupled with fruit and eggs you are looking at a near day's worth of eating in one meal. There will be toast and a portion of baked beans and bacon that will compliment the breakfast as well. Throw in mushrooms and tomato half and you are set for an early day dining experience like no other.

This is a meal that is heavy on filling and something that is going to do what it is meant to do. this meal is meant to carry you over until the next meal through the midday. This is why it is so large, as each person will dictate what it is that they will be eating mid day or tea time.

Helen Jones writes British food related articles for the British Food website www.goodbritishfood.com [http://www.goodbritishfood.com/]

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