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Food Presentation Ideas
Posted by admin in Food And Drinks on May 12, 2011
Whether you are cooking for your family or guests, food presentation should be given due consideration. If a dish is visually appealing, you can be sure that the kids will eat without any fuss. When you are presenting food, you have to pay close attention to the texture, color and also shape. Usually you need to have 2 to 3 colors on a plate to make a dish look appealing. For instance, you can serve steaks with red and yellow bell peppers and sauce to go with the steak. Or, make sure that when there is meat or chicken being served, you always serve it with vegetables to give it a more colorful and tasty look.
Let us start with the drinks. You can even present a drink aesthetically. For instance, in order to garnish a drink, you can use orange or lemon peel. Just placing a curled piece of the peel on the rim of a glass can do wonders to the appearance of the drink. Alternatively, you can cut a slice of kiwi or star fruit and place it into the glass to generate some color.
If you want to serve a fruit salad to your guests, use a pineapple as a serving bowl. This can be done very easily. Take a large sized pineapple and cut it into half. Make sure the prior to cutting, you remove dead leaves and trim the top. Then from each half, get rid of the core. This can be done with the help of serrated knife. Thereafter, scoop out the succulent flesh of the pineapple and use the scooped out shell for serving the fruit salad. The flesh can be used for something else, so that it does not go for waste.
Learn to make tomato roses and green onion curls to garnish serving dishes. You can even add a sprig of mint to the tomato roses to give appearance of leaves. If you are serving appetizers, then place them in bite sizes on individual decorative spoons. Or, you can serve the appetizers by placing them on a bed of lettuce.
If the main dish has to be eaten with a sauce, then drizzle the sauce in a decorative pattern on the plate and serve the dish.
Of course, food presentation is time consuming, but the end result is worth the time and effort spent. You will have guests who will be happy with the food and kids who will eat without any problems.
By Kum Martin
Milk Thistle For Liver Cleansing
Posted by admin in Food And Drinks on May 12, 2011
For liver cleansing on a regular basis, you may wish to consider consuming milk thistle as a herbal supplement. Milk thistle is also known as silybum marianum. Milk thistle has been found to support liver function even for those that have already been afflicted by disease. It has preventative medicinal qualities for not only the liver, but also the bowels and gall bladder.
Milk thistle reduces enzyme levels, and aids in the delivery of detoxifying blood to your body. It also helps keep inflammation low, making it key for Hepatitis patients. It alters the outer layers of your body cells and keeps toxins at bay, and regenerates damaged cells by increasing ribosome activity; all while cleansing your liver from free radicals. These properties make milk thistle effective in the treatment of cirrhosis.
For liver cleansing, milk thistle is one of the best all natural products available. It encourages the liver to cleanse itself while preventing incoming toxins by protecting each cell within the liver. The protective feature allows the liver to concentrate on releasing the existing toxins rather than warding off new intruders. These properties strengthen the liver itself, allowing it to function optimally. It is a truly great herb.
But why should we do liver cleansing? There are various common symptoms that plague many of us which can be simply cured by cleansing our livers. Bloating, constipation, diarrhea, nausea, indigestion, unexplained belly fat, and bad breath can all be attributed to an overworked liver. Also, if you drink alcohol regularly and are at risk of damaging your liver, then milk thistle can help repair your liver. Read the rest of this entry »