Snacks

Carrot Salad – the easiest ever

Jul 29, 2015 | Posted by in Salads, Snacks | 0

It is literally the simplest salad you could do; only one and a half ingredients and Whoala!, ready to be tasted. Ingredients: Carrots (the quantity is of your choice) 1-2 tbs of balsamico Black pepper Preparation: Once you wash and peel the carrots, use the same vegetable peeler to obtain a form that facilitates the process of chewing the food but also increases the carrot taste (or this is just my feeling 😮 ). Sprinkle the salad with the balsamico and the black pepper. Advices and benefits: 1. In absence of balsamico you can easily use vinegar and lemon juice. 2. Carrots, thanks to the composition vitamins and other important nutrients are allies of the vision, a beautiful and youthful skin, of a body to be disposed to fight different types of cancerous diseases, infections or diseases that affect the heart, of a body detoxification… there are still reasons why carrots should be used, especially during the time when this vegetable is in season. 3. Do you know that eating carrots fastens the tanning process of the skin, due to the high content of beta-carotene? 4. Balsamico is high in magnesium, potassium, iron and calcium, not only nourishing ingredients but…Read more …

Oil-Free French Fries

Jul 15, 2015 | Posted by in Main course, Snacks | 0

Whaaaat? Healthy french fries? Does such a thing exist? Of course it does. I was surprised too when I first got introduced to this simply made dish due to my background: – french fries are a No No No food – .  Today all the parts of the puzzle make sense to me. The main struggle with getting pounds easily or manifesting several serious diseases, is not sugar, but the processed sugar combined with fat (let it be saturated or unsaturated.) All we do is following the short cut and blaming potatoes, flour, pasta, right away, without stopping for a while and paying a deeper thought to the phenomenon. We are frying those little potato babies in a huge amount of oil; we tend to overfill the flour with butter when cooking and we forget to check that in most of the cases the topping sauces of our pasta or rice are fatter and perhaps higher in calories compared to the pasta or rice portion themselves. Not to mention the food industry who made an excellent job in fooling us with the ‘sugar’ argument. The general trend states that sugar is the enemy and that healthy denotes eating everything but…Read more …