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Cabbage soup

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:16:21 +0000

Olive Oil

2 Onions

Celery

Carrots

Spices

All chopped up. Broil in the pan a little while until succulent. I use a black iron skillet. Once done add 2 cans chicken stock, or make your own depending on your motivation level.

Then throw in the cabbage and let it simmer.

Cook for a long time!

Arugula Salad

admin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:42:18 +0000

1 Handful of arugula
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon lemon peel, grated
Green olives good quality

What you need for a good arugula salad is simplicity. The reason Arugula is good is because of the strong taste. If you add too much you will not be able to taste what you paid for, that is the Arugula. You can really add anything to this Arugula Salad, but I think the best addition is ripe green Olives mixed in with Olive oil.

Arugula Salad is naturally good for the liver since it is a bitter herb. Its a mediterranean herb that is popular in Italian cooking and believe it or not Arugula is related to the humble cabbage.

Chicory Salad

admin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:30:18 +0000

Thoroughly wash and drain two heads of chicory; cut away
the green leaves and use them for garnishing, or boil them as greens.
Cut off the root-end from the bleached leaves, and put the latter into a
salad-bowl that has been rubbed with a clove of garlic. Add half a dozen
tarragon leaves, four to six tablespoonfuls of oil, a saltspoonful of
white pepper, and two saltspoonfuls of salt. Mix thoroughly. Now add a
tablespoonful of tarragon vinegar, and you have a delightful salad.

Similar to dandalions or even arugula Chicory is a dark leaf salad rich in vitamin K and iron. Because it is a bitter herb it is great for the liver.

Beef with celery, and white beans and peas

admin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:55:07 +0000

Soak for twelve hours one pint of dried white peas, and half a pint of
the same kind of beans, they must be well soaked, and if very dry, may
require longer than twelve hours, put a nice piece of brisket of about
eight pounds weight in a stew-pan with the peas and beans, and three
heads of celery cut in small pieces, put water enough to cover, and
season with pepper and salt only, let it all stew slowly till the meat
is extremely tender and the peas and beans quite soft, then add four
large lumps of sugar and nearly a tea-cup of vinegar; this is a very
fine stew.

I usually use canned beans as I prefer not to soak beans over night. I guess I am lazy and canned beans are so cheap.

Borage for salads

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:43:41 +0000

This is an excellent ingredient in nearly all
vegetable salads. Cover a champagne-bottle with raw cotton or heavy,
coarse flannel; fasten it with thread; set the bottle in a soup-plate,
and pour warm water over it. Soak a handful of borage seeds in warm
water for fifteen minutes; drain, and work them into the flannel around
the bottle, as evenly as possible. Place the bottle and soup-plate in a
warm, dark place until the seeds sprout; then bring it to the light.
Keep water in the plate constantly. When the shoots are a few inches
long, trim them off, as wanted, and add them to any salad with a plain
dressing.

Simple white soup

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:35:58 +0000

Break a piece of veal bone and place it in a pan, also a pieces
carrot, two onions, three or four turnips, and a blade
of mace, pour over two or three quarts of water or weak broth,
season with salt, a sprig of parsley, and whole white pepper; when
sufficiently boiled, skim and strain it, and thicken with pounded
vermicelli.

Pigeons recipe

admin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:50:00 +0000

With regard to this pigeon recipe, please do not be taken a back by this recipe. Pigeons are wild game that in hard times in the past were considered fair game, for survival. I love pigeons and would not eat them but here is the recipe. A very good way of carving these birds is to insert the knife and cut both ways when each portion may be divided into two pieces, then served. Pigeons, if not too large, may be cut in halves, either across or down the middle, cutting them into two equal parts; if young and small they may be served entirely whole. Tame pigeons should be cooked as soon as possible after they are killed, as they very quickly lose their flavor. Wild pigeons, on the contrary, should hang a day or two in a cool place before they are dressed. Oranges cut into halves are used as a garnish for dishes of small birds, such as pigeons, quail, woodcock, squabs, snipe, etc. These small birds are either served whole or split down the back, making two servings.

muligatawny soup

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:05:53 +0000

Take two chickens, cut them up small, as if for fricassee, flour
them well, put them in a saucepan with four onions shred, a piece of
clarified fat, pepper, salt, and two table spoonsful of curry powder;
let it simmer for an hour, then add three quarts of strong beef gravy,
and let it continue simmering for another hour; before sent to table
the juice of a lemon should be stirred in it; some persons approve of
a little rice being boiled with the stock, and a pinch of saffron is
also sometimes added. This is a very simple recipe for muligatawny soup. It is actually from a 100 year old Jewish cookbook from Eastern Europe. So the wording for this muligatawny soup recipe is old.

Lose weight

admin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:56:02 +0000

Lose weight

How I lose and keep weight off without exercise and diet. -> I live in Krakow, Poland and I am an American, I do not need to lose weight. Polish people are thin. Russian people, despite the sterotype are thin. Ukrainian are thin. They eat traditional Polish, Russian, Ukrainian recipes. Including white flour and butter and smalec. Smalec is animal fat, its great I put it on crackers.

What is their secret to lose weight?

They move. I do not have a car. I walk to the store, to work, to the park, to the doctor. I simply walk everywhere. This is how you can lose weight without diet or exercise. Just move. I love to walk. I do not diet or go to the gym. I might start the pool because its fun. But often go to the mountains on the weekend with my sweetheart and we walk and picnic.

How to lose weight

Sell your car. A car is the number one thing correlated with weight gain, that is the hours spend in a car a day. This is a fact.

Why lose weight

Your hip to waist ratio is the easiest way to tell how long you will live. And also a large hip to waist ratio is correlated to depression.

What to I eat to lose weight

What to I eat. Traditional Polish cooking

Here my picture with my wife. I am 45. I do not go to the gym or diet, nor does she.

lose weight

Lose weight and keep it off, walk. Walk like people did 100 years ago, everywhere.

Egg salad

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:03:28 +0000

Put into a salad-bowl the small crisp leaves of a head of
lettuce; add four hard-boiled eggs sliced. Mince a dozen capers;
sprinkle over the eggs, and add a plain dressing.