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POPSPho for the soul go to source for recipe. i'm going to make this today or tomorrow. it's definitely pho weather in Germany!
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POPSCancer-Killing Curry Coconut Thai Rice Curry: --------- 10 1/2 oz brown basmati rice 1/4 cup organic coconut milk 2 cups roasted root vegetables, cut into 1-inch cubes (sweet potatoes, rutabaga, beets, etc.) 1 shallot, finely chopped 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh ginger 1 bay leaf 1 cinnamon stick 1 tbsp curry powder 1/4 tsp turmeric powder 3 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp organic miso paste 1 tsp cardamom 1. Cook the rice based on directions in the rice cooker. 2. After about 15 minutes, start cooking the rest of the meal. Warm up the coconut milk along with root vegetables, shallot, garlic, ginger, bay leaf, and cinnamon stick in a medium to large-size pot over medium heat for 3 to 5 minutes. 3. Add curry powder and turmeric and reduce the heat to a simmer. Cook 3 more minutes. 4. Add cooked rice along with soy sauce, miso, and cardamom and combine. Simmer for five more minutes. Remove the cinnamon stick and bay leaf and serve.
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POPSFood of the Week: Garbanzo Beans Purée garbanzo beans, olive oil, fresh garlic, tahini and lemon juice to make a quick and easy hummus spread. Sprinkle garbanzo beans with your favorite spices and herbs and eat as a snack. Add garbanzo beans to your green salads. Make a middle Eastern-inspired pasta dish by adding garbanzo beans to penne mixed with olive oil, feta cheese and fresh oregano. Simmer cooked garbanzo beans in a sauce of tomato paste, curry spices, and chopped walnuts and serve this dahl-type dish with brown rice. Adding garbanzo beans to your vegetable soup will enhance its taste, texture and nutritional content.
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POPSI Can Find A More Worthy Charity "But think about those numbers, think about the power of the Salvation Army. It is a massive Christian evangelical organization — with a quasi-military structure and raising $2 billion a year — and it promotes discrimination against gays and lesbians in its employment policy; at local levels of government, going so far as to threaten to close soup kitchens in New York if the city enacted domestic partnership legislation; and at the national level of government, including negotiating with the Bush administration to guarantee that faith-based groups could discriminate against gays and keep their federal funding. We can find charities more deserving of our dollars and our volunteer time."
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POPSShe's in the kitchen: a love affair Includes a few recipes for bacon lovers and a link to the eat cheap on $30 food project @ running with tweezers. Collard greens and buttermilk biscuits ... yumm. Enjoy. :)
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POPSYellowstone's Plumbing Reveals Plume of Hot and Molten Rock 410 Miles Deep
This thing is still plugged in....DEEP. About 4 miles beneath Yellowstone National Park's beautiful scenery is a forty-mile-wide chamber full of molten rock under incredibly high pressure. This magma is what powers Yellowstone's fantastic geysers and hot springs, It's the crown jewel of the United States national park system. Its mountain vistas, wildlife and geographic features are visited and admired by people from around the world. It erupted approximately 650,000 years ago. The caldera that it left is 53 miles long and 28 miles wide. In the area surrounding Yellowstone, 3000 square miles were subjected to a flow of pyroclastic material composed of 240 cubic miles of hot ash and pumice. Ash was also thrown into the atmosphere and blanketed much of North America. It can still be identified in core samples from as far away as the Gulf of Mexico. Since this occurred more than a half million years ago this is all ancient history, right? Not quite.
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POPSFood Songs Ever since I've been on this diet people are saying I'm obsessed with food. I'm not, but any time I switch on to the local radio station they're playing a song that reminds me how hungry I am. This morning there was the following - (Please add any food songs that I've missed!)
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POPSMore people on SF streets are newly homeless More: Twenty of 21 cities surveyed for a new report from U.S. Conference of Mayors reported an increase in requests for food, and 59 percent of those requests came from families. In addition, 16 of 25 cities reported a significant increase in homeless families, with San Francisco among the leaders. "Monday we had 136 families on the waiting list for a shelter," said Dariush Kayhan, the city's homeless policy director. "That's 50 percent more than we had on the list one year ago." What's more concerning is that, according to the city's Human Services Agency, 62 percent of those on the waiting list are new to the system. They haven't been homeless in San Francisco before… Indications are that we are only seeing the beginning of what the faltering economy will do to those living on the edge of homelessness…single men, particularly returning veterans, continue to be most likely to end up on the street.
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POPSRestaurant review: La Bedaine, Berkeley More: I didn't eat the plump pork sausage yet, but unwrapped them and they have a wonderful smokey aroma. Two sausages were $4. The mason jar of onion soup was $4. I had a croissant ($1.50). It was tasty but not the crunchy, super buttery version. It was smaller and more bready. It reminded me of some I was served in breakfast baskets in France… IMO, one of the best sausages in the Bay Area. So much better than the fancy artisan new sausage makers and right up there with the best of the old-timers ... maybe beyond. Extremely rich so limit yourself to one at a sitting… The texture of that halibut was exquisite. Anyone with a passion for smoked whitefish will drop to their knees in reverence for this… We ended up getting the rillettes ($4), which seemed, based on the one bite I had, less salty than, and at least as good as, Fatted Calf's--at a significantly lower price.
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POPSHomemade furniture polish I started replacing household cleansers with homemade stuff a few months ago and don’t plan on going back to the chemical soup that we have been led to believe we simply must have. To clean windows and countertops use water, vinegar, and dish detergent, for example. I just used this recipe for furniture polish yesterday and it really works. More DIY tips can be found at the site as well as at Tipnut http://tipnut.com/ and TURI http://www.turi.org/turi_lab/do_it_yourself_home_made_household_cleaner_recipes I believe the fewer chemicals we use in our everyday life the better off we are.
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POPSA glossary of winter squash Click through for the recipes: # Leek and Delicata Squash Soup with Caramelized Apple Croutons # Winter Squash Soup # Butternut Squash Lasagne # Squash Ravioli # Spaghetti Sauce with Chicken Sausage and Swiss Chard # Saffron Risotto with Butternut Squash # Pumpkin Bread # Pumpkin Gingersnap Pie
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POPS30 things to do with a winter squash Ran out of room – click through for Lamb and butternut squash tagine; Moro's pumpkin pisto; Little pumpkin and pecan tarts; Pumpkin soup with chermoula; Roast butternut pumpkin; Honey-glazed pumpkin wedges; Roasted pumpkin crostini with pancetta; Roast pumpkin, goat cheese and walnuts; Pumpkin risotto; Pasta with pumpkin and chestnuts; and Spiced Pumpkin Cake. Yum!
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POPSStop eat animals! God, or Mother Nature, or whatever is there on a heavens do not forgive us for cruelty, violence and bloodthirstiness. We are not predators by our essence; most of us, to be precise...
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POPSConsumer Reports finds BPA in most canned foods More: …our findings are notable because they indicate the extent of potential exposure: Consumers eating just one serving of the canned vegetable soup we tested would get about double what the FDA now considers typical average dietary daily exposure… A 165-pound adult eating one serving of canned green beans from our sample, which averaged 123.5 ppb, could ingest about 0.2 micrograms of BPA per kilogram of body weight per day, about 80 times higher than our experts' recommended daily upper limit. And children eating multiple servings per day of canned foods with BPA levels comparable to the ones we found in some tested products could get a dose of BPA approaching levels that have caused adverse effects in several animal studies… Drinking three servings per day of canned apple juice with BPA levels comparable to the levels found in our samples could result in a dose of BPA that is more than our experts' daily upper limit.
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POPSSome Fun Ideas For Halloween Also The Best Browned Beef Stew -- --Ever The Best Browned Beef Stew -- --Ever By: Christina Chavez Ingredients * 1-1 1/2 lb cubed beef stew meat * 1/2 cup flour * 1 1/2 teaspoons salt * 1/2 teaspoon pepper * 1/4 cup vegetable oil * 1 onion, chopped fine * 1 carrot, chopped fine * 1/4 cup finely chopped celery, with a few minced leaves * 1 tablespoon dried parsley * 1 pinch thyme * 3 1/2 cups beef broth * 2 medium potatoes, diced * 2 carrots, diced * 2 onions, diced Directions 1. Put flour, salt and pepper in a large ziploc bag. 2. Heat oil over medium heat in a large dutch oven. 3. Place meat in bag with the flour and shake until well coated. 4. Shake off meat pieces and add them to the oil and stir until slightly browned, Add remaining flour from the bag and the finely chopped onion. 5. Stir until well browned. 6. Add finely chopped carrot and next 4 ingredients.
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POPS11 Ways To Use A Pumpkin More in the article . If you've never made a fresh pumpkin pie, you are missing out. And, by the way, most canned pumpkin is made of squashes, rather than actual pumpkin. Pumpkin from scratch is a bit of a pain, one has to puree it or it's a bit stringy, but it keeps well in the freezer, so it is worthwhile. I think so, anyway.
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