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A Brief History of Pizza: The Dish that Conquered the World
Pizza, the way we know it today, is a derivation from focaccia (from the Latin word for fire), flat bread that has been prepared since antiquity in different forms and garnished with herbs, olives, fat, raisin, honey, and nuts.
The word pizza...
A Brief History of the italian Pizza Oven
Wood-fired brick ovens and pizza have been with us since the dawn of civilization. Both have been discovered in the excavations of virtually every ancient civilization, with the brick oven reaching its modern form in ancient Rome. The brick ovens...
Christmas Recipes: Edible Gifts. No.2 of 8 - Shortbread
Traditional Scottish produce and ideal in a box or tin for a
christmas gift.
Christmas recipe makes: 2 to 3 dozen
Calories per biscuit: 180-270
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Not suitable for...
Easy Dinner Recipes: Roast Chicken and Roasted Root Vegetables
Easy dinner recipes make life so much easier for us.
As much as we want to make healthy food choices for ourselves and our families, busy lives sometimes makes it difficult. With a few easy dinner recipes in your recipe box it's a cinch.
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Homemade Cinnamon Rolls (in 2 hours or less!)
Homemade Cinnamon Rolls from Scratch (in 2 hours or less!) If I've heard it once, I've heard it a dozen times: "Make homemade cinnamon rolls? From scratch? Are you crazy? That takes all day!" Actually, it depends upon the recipe. I have several...
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Cucumber & Pork Soup
Due to the fact that cucumber is rich in all kinds of vitamins as well as calcium, phosphorus, iron, and many other minerals, it is one of the essential vegetables that we cannot live without at our dining table. The traditional Chinese medicine believes that cucumber is diuretic, it subsides swelling, improves our looks, even more, it fights tumor! No matter how you cook cucumber - stir fry, eat it uncooked, or tossed cold with sauce, they all taste good. But, have you tried cucumber soup? If you cook a cucumber soup by following the recipe below, I know you will be pleasantly surprised - hmm.. delicious! Ingredients:a). For step 1: - 120g (4.2 oz) pork
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- dash of ginger juice
- 1 teaspoon cooking wine
b). For step 2 & 3: - 1 cucumber
- 6 cups (1200cc) soup stock
- cornstarch
c). For step 4: - 1 tablespoon cooking wine
- 2 teaspoons salt
- dash of monosodium glutamate
- 1/2 tablespoon soy sauce
- dash of pepper
Method: - Cut sliced pork into bite size pieces. Marinate in soy sauce, ginger juice and wine
- Peel cucumber. Slice slantwise
- Bring soup stock to boil. Dip meat in cornstarch. shake off excess and drop into boiling soup
- Add cucumbers and seasonings from c). Serve immediately.
Cooking time: 10 minutes Nutritional information:Yield: 4 servings Each serving provides: Calories: 52 Protein: 8.3 g Note: You may freely republish this recipe as long as author bio and active hyperlinks are kept intact. Thank you. About the Author
Jacklyn Chen - Webmaster of news-blogs.com, satellite info, and emobile-news.com. She is a full time mom who works very hard to make living with multiple web sites.
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