Got a tasty round up this week.
I’ve had food on the mind for a while now, and I need to let it out.
Not all of the links below will be food-related, but hey.. they’re mostly gluttonous.
Some of the recipes that have caught my eye lately can be easily turned vegetarian and some are already vegetarian (#1, #5 and #6).
TASTY LINKS
- Lamb salad with pomegranates & potatoes (Kitchen Wench)
- Randi’s Cucumber Salad (Erin Cooks)
- Quinoa Green Peas and Sausage (Just Bento)
- Trout a la Meunière (Paupered Chef)
- Sea Salt Caramel Brownies (Guest Posted by Lys of Cooking in Stilettos on Duluth)
- St. Joseph’s Sawdust with Pasta (Serious Eats)
FATTENING FACTOIDS
- Americans spend less than 10% of their disposable income on food (Salem News)
- Fattening Foods may cause a cocaine-like addiction (CNN)
- Was in denial, but instant ramen & cup noodles are REALLY bad for you (Just Hungry)
- What the World Eats (Time Magazine)– I’ve posted it before & it’s worth seeing again
- How the world eats (a history) (Time) and the Science of Appetite (Time)
- The Health Benefits of Raw Milk — I am interested in this raw milk debate
- Dairy Farmer found not guilty of selling raw milk (CBC News) — Legal to drink, though
- For the vegans: Soy, Rice or Almond Milk? (Sixwise) — I love soy milk, myself
DELICIOUS BLOGS
- What’s for School Lunch? (Addictive. Really addictive & eye opening)
- Choosing Raw (check out this Indian spiced wrap! and How to make a veggie-only salad a tasty MEAL)
- Just Bento (I always marvel at how much detail goes into a well-done bento)
- The World’s Healthiest Foods (WH Foods) — A great resource for nutrition information
- The Oatmeal (okay, so just the name is foodie; the link is for 15 cool coffee facts)
- Street Food Pictures from around the world (Travel by Food)
WEIGHT WATCHES
Get it? GET IT? Oh never mind. 🙂 🙂
- BBC’s “Why are thin people are not fat” (exactly my metabolism; was insightful… but is it sick that the show made me hungry? :\)
- BBC’s “Wild China” (China is beautiful & so varied in its climates & environments, really a stunning set of videos)
- Food Inc. (Incredible movie. Makes you rethink everything you eat)
- Supersize Me (Quite sickening, but didn’t really make me feel sick, because I don’t enjoy eat a lot of fast food all the time)
(Thank you Gilles for the recommendation on “Why thin people are not fat”, and to everyone who shared great RSS-Fed Google Reader Shared items, many of which have made it up here.)
EDIBLES
Imprinted fruit & vegetable bowls.
Interestingly enough, my mom did something similar for her art exhibition where she imprinted fruits and vegetables into bowls.
The cauliflower one is the most beautiful.
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Awww – thanks for the link luv – the brownies are divine!
Randi's cucumber salad and seasalt caramel brownies looks delish! I went from appetizer straight to dessert… I can't resist desserts.
Lovely! That caramel sea salt brownie looks amazing.
those are some great links!
After reading the instant ramen noodle article, there's but one conclusion I can draw "No soup for you!" (or me, in this case).
I'm going to give all the others a read right now.
I'm going to check these links out…..oh, and have fun on your outing with Asian Pear!
Also, I think that anyone who watches SuperSizeMe needs to watch FatHead. http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/about/ If you eat a bunch of omega6/omega3 unbalanced foods and all the carbs in McD's (hello fries!), well yes, that's bad news. But to blame fat universally, fail. "Comedian (and former health writer) Tom Naughton replies to the blame-McDonald’s crowd by losing weight on a fat-laden fast-food diet while demonstrating that nearly everything we’ve been told about obesity and healthy eating is wrong" He looses weight on a fast food high fat diet at McD's!
I'm kind of apprenticing at a farm that sells raw milk. I get to milk the cows on the weekend and of course, we get lots of raw milk to drink. The taste isn't that different, stronger I suppose. It's frothy and fun to shake because the cream separates.
The most interesting thing to me about raw milk is that I grew up as a kid with this idea that cats like milk. Well, our family cats NEVER showed any interest in milk. They disdained it. I always wondered about that since there's this idea in kids' books and movies that kitties like milk. Well, apparently they don't like pasturized, homogenized milk because the cats here will run over each other to get to the leftover raw milk that we give them, or rush around like idiots going after the skim buckets that we put the test squirts in. I've never seen anything like it.
Then again, dogs each raw and rotting meat so I can't say that everything that is good for dogs/cats is good for people, but it's still been an interesting observation. 🙂
Thanks for the link love!
You are welcome. I love the blog 🙂 You’ve provided me with an easy recipe that’s vegan and tasty!