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Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts

Acceletrim and Broiling for Leaner Meals


There is always more than one way to go about and do any task at hand. There is always another way to go about it and get done what you want to get done. With the topic of cooking, there are just so many ways to prepare your meals; we will cover one healthy way today, broiling.

Broiling is this way to cook food where you place the food under high heat. It is usually very close to the heat and because of this you are going to have to have some skills if you want it to turn out right. The smoke alarm can often be set off which is annoying, but there is a way to not have that happen, and practice makes perfect so it can take a few times.

Most ovens have a built in broiler all ready to go, and it is often times un-noticed and under utilized, so if you have not used yours make sure to try it out. Where you control all of your settings for the oven it can have settings where you place the dial on broil, it can be that easy. The thing to really remember is the clean up with this can be out of control if you don’t prepare. Do a very good inventory of what you have and what needs to be cleaned at the end and you should be ok. Some place foil down to save on the cleaning time, but cooking on the foil might not be the best thing for you, scrubbing a couple extra dishes is not that big of a deal.

Cooking thin and lean meats is the best for this, or a healthier non-meat alternative like veggie burgers. Since the high heat is so close you have to make sure that the food is lean and low in fat so that it can cook and brown up at the top fast. It should only take a few minutes to complete the cooking. You can focus in on getting all of the other items ready to go along with your newly broiled food, such as broccoli, asparagus, or green beans. This is a great way to prepare your meals while using Acceletrim for a helpful boost with weight loss and go ahead and cancel out those junk foods that you just don’t need. Make sure to wear your chef hat while you do this, it can really put you into the role of being a great cook, who knows; you might even get a kiss if your meal turns out perfectly.

Take the Acceletrim Formula and go Flamenco Dancing


Spanish cooking is characteried by the rich mixes of different ingredients from all over Spain. This country has different climates and topograhy as well as 17 autonomous regions which contribute to make it an extremely diverse cuisine. Spain sits on the mediterranean and is heavily influenced by similar ingredietns from neighboring countries, natural ingredients like olive oil, tomatoes, fresh seafood, vegetables, ham, veal, and sausage among others. Since our goal is to focus on good ingredients to keep a healthy diet and lose weight accompanied by the Acceletrim Formula, our focus will be on nutritional value and qualities of the ingredients.

Garlic: The medicinal benefits attributed to this wonderful ingredient are many, and we all love the flavor and great aroma. If you are a cook and know how to used it you will have great success with your recipes. Garlic has been proven to increment your immune system, and contains a powerful medicinal ingredient allicin which provides some health benefits. When it comes to shrinking your waist line garlic is known to be a natural diuretic, since it contains mustard oil wich can trigger cleansing in the body, and breakdown fat clumps, eat with moderation though you probalby don’t want to be known by everyone as “garlic breath”.

Manchego Cheese: this great tasting sheep cheese tastes like a mild parmesan from it’s neighoring Italy, can be successfully used just eaten plain with a few crackers or even fruit. As with most cheeses, it is high and fat and we should be careful when on a weight loss goal, with 120 calories per one ounce, eat once in a while or account for it when eaten often, some of the great nutritional values are lots calcium and protein.

Serrano Ham: Cured for at least nine months this hams offers different varieties, lightly sweet or salty. Can be eaten alone, with fruits, vegetables or as an ingredient in dishes and salads. Two ounces of this flavorful ingredient can bring 190 calories to your plate, should be avoided and only eaten on special occasions.

As with all other Mediterranean influenced countries, Spain is heavily influenced with olive oil, olives, tomatoes and seafood, which we have already discussed in previoous postings. When traveling thoroughout make sure that you try a little bit of everything, keeping a mental picture of what you are putting in your body, and remember to burn it off by waling to all the touristic sites and dancing flamenco with the locals.

Ingredient Smarts When in the Kitchen with Acceletrim

Cooking is really a lot of fun. There are so many new cool ingredients really from all over the world that you could bring to your kitchen within a matter of minutes and really cook an extraordinary meal that is fresh and extremely healthy, better than any restaurant in town.

As cooks of this wonderful meals we really have to be conscious of the type of ingredients that we are buying to put into these well thought out meals. Which is why we are giving you a process, so that the meal that you prepare is not only good in flavor but also good for your health and the people you love.

Recipes: There are thousand of resources out there for you. The Internet, thousands of really good magazines, books, and of course your family cookbook. Do remember to think about to when you were a child and the meals that really made you happy, and try to recreate them; this will make your cooking experience a thousand percent more enjoyable.

Shop: The key with the shopping is to have the Freshest and healthiest ingredients. Get organized put the shopping list together and give yourself plenty of time so you can really compare quality, freshness and of course prices.

Substitute: Don’t follow the recipe exactly. Substituting ingredients is always good for a number of reasons. The first is quality if the recipe calls for lemon and all they have are bad lemons, try limes you will hardly tell the difference. Second is health oriented, if the recipe calls for butter, try olive oil, you heart and tummy will thank you for it. And the last but not least is Price, if your recipe calls for zucchini try yellow squash, there is as always another ingredient right at the tip of your fingers that will always work with the recipe, even though not exact.

Preparation: There is a French term “mis en place”, which simply means to put in place. Which means do all your chopping, washing and prepping before you actually start cooking. Make sure that you have everything you need right at the tip of your fingers to that when it comes time to cook, you will have everything neatly and ready to go.

Enjoy. Cooking is really about the end result. Proving a wonderful meal for the family or people you love is really a good feeling especially when all they do is compliment the chef.

Stay focused, use good ingredients quality ingredients and prepare yourself, the true secret to a successful dinner preparation.