How to Make a Perfect Soft-Boiled Egg
A soft-boiled egg is an egg that’s cooked in its shell by immersing it in simmering water until the white is set but still soft and the yolk is still liquid. Cooking time for a soft-boiled egg is 3 to 4 minutes, and indeed many aficionados specify their desired doneness by referring to a “3-minute egg” or “4-minute egg.” With the former, there may be a slight amount of unset white around the yolk, but with the latter, the white is fully set.
Cooking
To cook soft boiled eggs, you’ll need a pot of water, a slotted spoon, and a colander.
Technique A:
Bring your water to a boil.
Gently place the eggs in the water, and when the water comes back to a boil, lower it to a simmer.
Simmer for 3 to 4 minutes.
Then remove with a slotted spoon, transfer to the colander, cool under cold running water to stop the cooking, and serve warm.
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How To Make the Perfect Stir-Fry
If you have ever tried making a stir-fry at home and feel like you could have done better, well, try again. There one common mistake that rookie cooks make right out of the gate and that is adding too many things to your wok at once.
If you add too many items, it will cool down your wok. Your food will simmer or steam and not fry. You really want it to fry—especially meats. Also, if you add all your ingredients at once, you are not accounting for all the different cooking rates of your foods. For instance, hard carrots need more time to cook than shrimp or thin strips of chicken breast.
Check out these five cooking tips that can make your stir-fry a sure bet.
Your Wok Should Be Smoking Hot
To make a good stir-fry, you absolutely must have an extremely hot wok. A sauté pan works well, too.
Not getting the pan hot enough is one of the most common problems for home cooks. This is true in general, not just with stir-fries.
Restaurants have extremely powerful stoves pumping out mega-high heat, which enables them to get a beautiful sear on meats and cook foods quickly so that they do not spend too much time in the pan.
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What to Buy: Lodge Dutch Ovens
Why You Need a Dutch Oven in your Kitchen Arsenal
The pride of every kitchen, the Dutch oven is on every gift registry and in every well-stocked cabinet (if it ever sees a day when it’s not in use). A good Dutch oven is a kitchen essential, heavy and thick enough to conduct and retain heat and deep enough to handle large cuts of meat and quarts of cooking liquid. While a Dutch oven is ideal for braises, stews, and chilis, you can ask it to do much more. Below are a few Dutch oven uses that make it such a kitchen must-have.
Use Your Dutch to Cook Pasta Directly in the Sauce:
Dutch ovens are perfect for serving up a pasta feast, and the best part is that they help you eliminate the pot of boiling water. The key to cooking pasta through without all that water is to use an intensely flavored, moisture-heavy cooking liquid that can easily work as a sauce. We like using combinations of water, wine, the liquid from canned tomatoes, and broth, depending on the flavor profile of the dish. This trick will save you time and turn out a pot of fully loaded pasta.
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Make Your Mom the Perfect Breakfast in Bed for Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is the perfect time to show appreciation for that special maternal figure in your life, be it your actual mom, your children’s mom, or even your partner who is pretty good at keeping the pet goldfish alive. For these people that go the extra mile all year ‘round, the least we can do is give them a chance to relax with that tried-and-true Mother’s Day gift: breakfast in bed! To make sure this breakfast-in-bed endeavor goes smoothly and results in the intended rest and enjoyment (and not more stress!), let’s talk about what tools you need, what you should serve, and some additional tips to keep in mind throughout.
The Gear
First, make sure you have the all-important bed tray! You can go with just a basic Bed Tray, or you can even work an extra gift into the day by customizing a vintage-style, personalized serving tray with Mom’s name, initials, or favorite quote. A serving tray with legs makes for more comfortable in-bed dining, and if you opt for the type with a lip, then you’re less likely to spill coffee and crumbs all over the bed—definitely preferable to creating a big mess!
Depending on Mom’s preferences, you might also want to have a few of these other serving items on-hand to help things go smoothly. If a morning mimosa would be a welcome addition, skip the stemmed champagne flutes (ready to topple over and break with the slightest jostle), and go with something sturdy like a Libbey Stemless Champagne Flute. For coffee-drinkers, an extra-special touch could be serving fresh coffee, ready-to-press in the cheerful-looking Bodum French Press. If mom likes flowers, add a small vase with a single stem to the tray too (and give her a bigger bunch later).
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Spring Clean Your Life – Inside and Out
Signs of Spring
During spring, nature goes through the transformative process of renewal. We can emulate this process by looking for ways to clean up our home environment and our spiritual wellbeing. By doing so, we invite the energy of renewal into our own lives. Below are some gentle and safe ways to “Spring Clean” your life from the inside out.
Cleansing the Body
Our bodies are exposed to toxins on a daily basis. We breathe in pollutants from the air and we absorb chemicals from the products we apply to our skin and scalp. There are several body systems that help us eliminate these toxins such as our liver, our kidneys, and even our sweat. But these systems can get overwhelmed and often need a little help and support. This is often referred to as doing a detoxification, which is a process that can serve as a tonic to today’s toxic environment.
Detoxification is the process of reducing the amount of toxins that we are exposed to in order to rest the detoxification pathways in the body, as well as encourage the release of toxins that are stored in the body. There are a variety of methods for detoxing the body. However, I advise against detoxes which require you to spend an exorbitant amount of money on specialized foods or demand an extreme elimination of calories or macronutrients (unless medically recommended or required).
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How to Instill a Healthy Relationship with Food in your Child
When you think about a healthy diet, what comes to mind? Three square meals, fruits and veggies? Low carb, no sugar? There is so much information in circulation today that it can be hard to know where to start, let alone how to begin teaching your children about healthy eating.
The best way, of course, is to start fostering healthy eating habits from day one, but sometimes that just isn’t feasible. Maybe it’s only recently you’ve come around to healthier eating yourself. If that’s the case, it can be hard to course correct your child’s relationship with food. However, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
The best way to start transitioning your child into a healthier way of eating is to start replacing their fatty, salty, sugary snacks with a healthier option. While there are a plethora of resources available to help you plan healthy, easy to cook meals for picky eaters, it can be harder to find healthy snack options. With 91% of Americans snacking multiple times per day, according to a study by the Hartman Group, snacking has become an important part of how our culture interacts with food.
That means the sooner we can teach children to make healthy snacking choices, the better off they will be.
How to Encourage Healthy Snacking
When choosing your healthy snacks, it’s important to not only consider the fat and sodium content, but also your child’s dietary preferences. Do everything in your power to avoid treating healthy snacks like a chore or obligation.
The most important thing is to always keep healthy snacks stockpiled in your home. Low–sodium cheese, fruit cups, carrots, and yogurt are all great options. If your child is craving certain treats, look for healthier, homemade replacements: instead of fatty potato chips, try making some homemade kale chips or edamame. Likewise, you can replace candy bars with healthy snack bars packed with vitamins, healthy calories, and nutrients.
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How healthy is almond milk?
Almonds are actually seeds. They are a powerhouse of nutrients, including manganese, magnesium, copper, Vitamin B2, and phosphorus, and are a great source of protein and fiber. One-quarter cup of almonds has 12 grams of protein. That is more than twice the amount of protein in one egg. However, almonds contain 1,800 more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3 fatty acids. This can seriously throw off the balance of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids in the body.
Omega-6 fats are inflammatory. Omega-3 fats are anti-inflammatory. For that reason, I avoid and recommending avoiding using too many almonds or drinking almond milk. I use more whole, sprouted quinoa, hemp, or coconut milk these days rather than almond milk; and, I consume a mixture of nuts and seeds, instead of eating large amounts of almonds by themselves.
Almond milks today are made with pasteurized, unsprouted, and non-organic almonds. Therefore, they are void of the nutrition you are desiring. Almonds, being a seed, are high in phytic acid and enzyme inhibitors, which makes them extremely hard to digest and can prevent your body from absorbing nutrients. Also, recent news has come out that the commercial brands of almond milk are actually thickened with carrageenan and not almonds! This is bad, not only because they were deceiving people, but also because carrageenan can cause ulcers and gastrointestinal tract problems.
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