tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880574936040136452024-10-24T17:00:54.468-04:00Foodiscovery 2012: A culinary odysseySarah Rivka Schechterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07111517423146334980noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588057493604013645.post-35139950152178896452014-01-31T11:40:00.001-05:002014-01-31T12:28:42.656-05:00

First of all: Shoutout to Batya for running such an awesome food blog carnival for the kosher crowd! :) I'm so proud to be a part of this project! :) Thanks for letting me host! :) Check out her blog at http://me-ander.blogspot.com/ where you can find all the previous editions of the Kosher Cooking Carnival at http://me-ander.blogspot.com/p/kosher-cooking-carnival.html. You can

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See this post for details: http://foodiscoveryblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/announcement-foodiscovery-is-now.html

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Carnival name: Kosher Cooking CarnivalCarnival organizer: Batya MedadEdition to be hosted here: Adar 1Submission deadline: January 29, 2014 How to submit a post: Fill out the form here: http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_208.html (Permalink URL means the address of the specific post you want to submit, not the homepage of the blog.) More information: http://

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Vote for this invention (not mine but a great idea): http://www.quirky.com/invent/789937/action/vote/query/sort=ending_soon&categories=all It's an all-in-one French fry machine! :)

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...If you get a feed of my blog sent by email, you might have noticed some old posts were labeled as having been posted recently....Apparently it does that if I make any changes to an old post. Anyway, sorry for any confusion that might have caused. I also ended up deleting one post entirely because it was mislabeled as having been posted recently but it was an old petition that no longer exists.

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...I'm working on fixing up this blog to make it more up-to-date, user-friendly and informative for YOU! Some examples of what I've been working on: Removing widgets that no longer work and/or are irrelevant. Adding more relevant, working widgets. Rearranging widgets in a more sensible order. Adding labels to all my posts, and a cloud at the top to indicate how many posts have each label.

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Foodiscovery will be hosting a blog carnival for the first time ever!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) Carnival name: Kosher Cooking Carnival Carnival organizer: Batya Medad Edition to be hosted here: Adar 1 Submission deadline: January 29, 2014 How to submit a post: Check this page http://blogcarnival.com/bc/eprof_52812.html at the beginning of January (or check back here on Foodiscovery for

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If you follow my blog or other food blogs, you've probably heard of Meatless Monday. Quite simply, that just means eating vegetarian one day a week. I don't follow it as a rule; it's just a concept I have in the back of my mind. I wasn't even thinking about it yesterday but there didn't seem to be any meat in any of the food I ate yesterday! Then I realized it was Monday and I was thinking, Hey,

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Sorry, folks- I'm not posting often anymore due to certain matters going on in my life but I found this great infographic and just had to share. (No, I'm not doing paleo but I have finally gone off dairy for good. I'm not currently on any diet. I'm just so grateful that thank G-d I have food to eat at all....) Get health and fitness tips at Greatist.com

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This evening I woke up from a looong nap (really needed it), saw a container of syrup on the counter (left out from my parents' dinner), and got the urge to make pancakes. This is what I made:   2 C spelt flour 4 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 bag chai tea (only because we didn't have cinnamon and the original recipe I used calls for cinnamon; an experiment but it worked well) 2

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This is literally all I did: I took a tiny onion (without even peeling it first), stuck it in the microwave for two minutes, took it out, pulled off the peel, and microwaved it for another minute. No oil, no seasoning (though feel free to experiment with different seasonings and/or oils), no nonsense. Make a bunch of these and keep them on hand for snacks as a healthy alternative to junk

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Cross posted in Kosher Cuisine This is great if you've eaten a sandwich and aren't quite satisfied but want a little something that's really healthy instead of a second sandwich: Top a slice of whole wheat bread with strips of red and/or yellow pepper. I used both and alternated the colors. Very delicious! :) I thank God that I've got plenty of yummy, healthy food to eat! :) (And chocolate chip

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This new take on an old favorite is now my go-to lunch when there are no dinner leftovers available, or at least not enough to satisfy. We are staying at my in-laws who like to keep albacore tuna on hand. Rena just likes to eat her tuna plain with nothing in it. While I'm not usually a big fan of mayo, I get bored if I have to eat my tuna plain. So here's what I came up with: Red Tuna Salad (

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I posted the following on the wall of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition's Facebook Page during Happy Hour, when their wall is open temporarily: Question: I've been trying to incorporate more plant foods, especially more vegetables, into my diet, but how safe is it really to go vegan? Aren't we omnivores biologically? Are there any potential medical problems associated with cutting out

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Sometimes for Shabbat in the winter I'll make two big pots of this chicken soup, maybe a dessert, and maybe a salmon salad that doesn't have to be made before Shabbat (no cooking required). Any time any of us is sick is also an excuse to make it on a weekday. Ok, no more preamble; let's get to the good stuff! :) Ingredients 1 whole chicken (a package of, say, chicken thighs would also work, but

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Cross posted in The Daily Yay! I've known for awhile that I'm lactose intolerant but continued to eat dairy anyway. A few days ago I finally decided to forbid myself completely from eating dairy because I knew it was wreaking havoc with my digestive system. An added benefit of going dairy-free is that, after just a few days, I noticed that I was in a better mood today than I have been lately.

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...Though he's a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy. He'd asked for salad because he said he needed raw greens! I'd already made him an omelette containing chard for breakfast but I guess my unofficial health coaching is working! :) Here's the salad that I threw together in a large mixing bowl: All ingredients were organic. (See this post and the one it links to for why organic is better.) Four

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Cross posted in The Daily Yay! After taking an unusual route yesterday from Meadowbrook Playfield and having to go out of our way due to lack of sidewalks, Rena and I "somehow just randomly" ended up at Whole Foods just before lunchtime. (Hubby said it was typical Pie.) So I bought us some food that we could take and eat at one of the benches outside. Our healthy fare consisted of a

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Cross posted in The Daily Yay! Hubby called me a "hot chocolate." It made me chuckle as I mixed water, organic skim milk, organic vanilla extract, organic and fair trade unsweetened cocoa, and organic maple syrup in a pot to make my healthier version of this favorite drink. ;)

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Cross posted in The Daily Yay! When we got home from the party, hubby decided he needed some root beer so I headed to Whole Foods to get a healthier version than diet or regular, Oogave made with agave. I bought that and also picked out a treat for myself: A Theo milk chocolate bar- organic, fair trade, and with a Jane Goodall seal. (Yes, it does have sugar but I rarely eat a treat with sugar

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Cross posted in The Daily Yay! To celebrate my new job, hubby and I decided to have a special chicken dinner. I gave Rena an early, simple dinner of crepes (I make them with coconut oil instead of butter or margarine to cut down on my dairy intake, as I might be slightly lactose intolerant, and to avoid using a product with soy) with some raw tomato and some raw avocado on the the side (she

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I'm going to restart this blog not with berry picking but something else because we might be going berry picking again on Monday.

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This and all my blogs are suspended until further notice (hopefully not forever) due to a number of things going on in my life currently. (Update 08/30/11: I have restarted one of my blogs and will be restarting this one soon, too, with a post about berry picking.)

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Cross posted in Kosher Cuisine Finally, after almost two months, here's the promised story of my transition to buying organic. I have this post that I saw posted on this Facebook Page to thank for motivating me to finally write this. It's going to be long so I'm going to divide it into sections. Here goes: My first shopping trip upon going organic I was already going to Whole Foods for most

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Go to http://freerice.com/ and play the vocabulary game that's there. Each correct answer contributes 10 grains of rice, paid for by sponsors.

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