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    Beef,  Main Course,  Meals For Two,  Recipes

    Cut Your Cooking Time With These Hints

    January 19, 2021

    If there is one thing that is absolutely true, it’s that life is busy. We spend all of our time racing from activity to activity, place to place, person to person. There is barely time in the day to sit down and eat a decent meal, never mind take time for self-care. By the time we get out of work and get home, the last thing that we want to do is spend time cooking for over an hour. As much as you may love the calm of cooking and creating a meal from scratch, the exhaustion of how busy life can get takes away from that pleasure and creates…

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    Healthy Meals From Around the World

    January 9, 2021

    Eating healthy is not often talked about alongside indulgence. But with a little bit of creativity and research, you can find food that tantalizes the taste buds while still being good for you. Healthy meals can be found all over the world, and many of the most flavorsome dishes from abroad can be easily recreated at home. Here are some healthy meals from cuisines around the world that can bring variety and flavor to your meal plans.  Kimchi as a healthy meal The dish originates from Korea and is a staple accompaniment to many Korean dishes. The mixture of fermented vegetables and seasoning is packed full of healthy bacteria that…

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    Instant Pot Tips and Tricks

    November 27, 2020

    One of the hottest kitchen gadgets this year is an instant pot. It is versatile, functional, and can make cooking quicker, simpler, and easier. You can do such a variety of different things with an Instant Pot, but many owners, or potential owners of the machine, only know some of the basic steps of use. Just because of how versatile it is, there is so much more to cooking with a pressure cooker. The more that you know what to do with it, the more that you will want to use it all of the time. If you are looking for some tips and tricks for an Instant Pot, then…

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    Reasons Learning to Cook Is Therapeutic

    October 7, 2020

    Learning to cook is more about just being able to keep ourselves alive. It has a deeper meaning to it, it can be therapeutic. While some life skills and traits are more important than others in many different perspectives, there are a few that are objectively seen as super necessary.  One of those life skills is the ability to cook. Being able to put food on a plate for yourself and those around you has more effects than what face value provides. Some people are able to prepare meals better than others. You probably know an amazing chef that can create three-course meals, and friends who can barely boil water.…

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    Spinach Health Benefits and Easy to Grow

    September 11, 2020

    Spinach has incredible health benefits and it is very easy to grow. Several of my followers diagnosed with COVID-19 told me, doctors prescribed a regimen of vitamins C, D, and Zinc to combat their “mild-cases.” So this week I decided to write about a vegetable full of vitamins C, D, and zinc – SPINACH! Origin Spinach is a member of the beet family domesticated in central Asia. In the late Middle Ages, the Arabs brought it to Europe. Spaniards grew it as early as the eighth-century and eventually brought it to the United States. Known to be rich in the aforementioned nutrients, some consider it the most important leaf vegetable…

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