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How to Buy Steak Knives

Steak is reputed to be one of America's favorite foods. Using good steak knives to carve steak with beauty and precision is essential to a good presentation and optimum dining experience. Buying the best steak knives requires four considerations.

Healthy Meal Ideas for a 1 Year Old

Healthy meal ideas for a 1-year-old child usually include a colorful assortment of fruits and the greens of highly nutritious vegetables, with limited additions of fat and sugar. To get your child eating healthy meals, all it takes is some careful planning and a little creativity.

Easy Cake Designs

A beautiful or creative cake is not just for bakeries to create and you to purchase. Although making a designed cake will take some time and lots of patience, there are multiple tips and tricks to make it an easy activity. Guests will enjoy eating the cake while thinking it took you days of slaving

Naturally Thermogenic Foods

Red peppers are a thermogeneic food.red paprika image by Marek Kosmal from Fotolia.comFoods that are thermogenic help speed up the rate at which your body burns stored fat. That stored fat is converted to energy that you can use to exercise and lose weight. Different foods are themogenic...

A Wine Lover' s Weekly Guide To $10 Wines - A Red Blend From Central Italy

Times are tough. Don't give up on life's little pleasures. Each and every week this sommelier and wine enthusiast will review a $10 (or cheaper) bottle of wine, pairing it with food and cheese and give you his unbiased opinion, and lots of information on the wine, the grape variety, and th

How to Grow Tall & Healthy

Your height is something that someone will instantly notice about you and it is important that you are happy with it. Shoe lifters and supposed tonics may help you in an artificial way, but you can also work to grow naturally. There are a number of things that you can do for your body to keep it hea

How to Freeze-Dry Raspberries at Home

Frozen fruits and vegetables are handy when you are preparing a meal and you can't (or don't want to) run to a grocery store. Just about any fruit, including raspberries, can be cleaned, packed in a container and placed in your freezer---usually without your having to buy anything special.

Fashion And Food

When it comes to food many times one thinks the world of fashion is often referred to as the bringer of stereotypes and negative educational impact unhealthy.

Beefy Eyeball Tarts

This fun and delicious recipe for BeefY Eyeball Tarts, with meatballs in pie crust shells topped with cheese and olives, really do look like eyeballs staring up at you.

Chicken Bake With Buttered Noodles

This chicken bake is made with chicken thighs, bacon, dried beef, cream cheese, soups, sour cream, and hot cooked noodles. A popular potluck recipe, this recipe could be lightened up somewhat with low-fat versions of many of the ingredients.

What's all the Fuss Over Truffle Oil about?

With such a demand for Truffles this year people have been getting into gourmet home cooking like there is no tomorrow! But now that the summer Truffle season has come to an end and there is a month w

Black Cod Substitutes

"Eat more fish!"John Grant/Photodisc/Getty ImagesThe black cod is also known as the sablefish, small-scaled cod and the butterfish. This saltwater fish is found in the deep waters of the Antarctic Sea and North Pacific Ocean. Black cod fish are silver, yellow and even reddish-brown in...

How to Marinate Pinoy Tocino

Pinoy cuisine comes from the Philippines. One traditional Pinoy breakfast dish is tocino, or sweet pork. Many years ago, before the days of widespread refrigeration, cooks used saltpeter to cure the tocino meat so that it would have a longer life. Today this ingredient is not necessary, but if you w

How to Decorate Cakes With Fresh Fruit

Fresh fruit adds bright color and a healthy touch to any cake. Once you apply any kind of icing, your creativity is your only limit in deciding which fruits to use and what kind of design to make. Sometimes a more structured design works best; to create an American flag on the Fourth of July for ins