21 Cooking Tips For Everyone

1. Never sear meat in a non-stick pan: It won’t brown nicely – you may end up with splotchy, grey meat.
2. Never heat non-stick pans past the manufacturer’s instructions (or past medium heat, if you no longer have the instructions).
3. When cooking crock pot meat, sear first.  Use meat with the highest fat marbling to prevent greyness.
4. Make your own incredible butter. Whip 35% cream until it is firm. Squeeze out whey. Add orange zest & a splash of juice.
5. Keep cheesecloth in your kitchen. It’s handy for straining liquid from yogurt, tofu and straining whey from home-made butter!
6. Rub your steak or roast with fresh cut garlic before cooking. Stick slivers of fresh garlic deep into your meat for incredible flavor.
7. Be prepared! Always keep your pan lid handy for dowsing fat fires – they do happen! (Put lid onto pot to smother flames.)
8. Keep a kitchen fire extinguisher handy in your kitchen – and learn what to do for different types of fires. (Retweet!)
9. Use vegetable oil instead of butter in cakes containing dense, starchy fruits and veggies like carrots, apples and banana.
10. Next time you make gingerbread cake, try replacing your liquid (but not fat) with ginger beer!
11. Do as much of the prep as you can the night before for stress-free cooking. (What do you set out in advance?)
12. To add oil to a dish already cooking, add it in the edge of the pan. That way, it will be heated when it reaches your food.
13. Make sure fruits and veggies are stored in a refrigerator no warmer than 40 F.  (Retweet this.)
14. Wash your fruit and veggies before peeling – not after. (Too much risk of contaminating the knife, if you wash after.)
15. Soak veggies like broccoli and cauliflower in cold water for at least three minutes to make sure contaminants are released.
16. Add a splash of milk to salted water when cooking to keep cauliflower white. Rinse momentarily in cold water before serving.
17. Dry your potatoes before mashing by returning them to the pan after draining. Cover. Let them sit on turned-off burner for 5 min.
18. When storing fresh herbs, stand the stems in a glass of water in your refrigerator.  They shouldn’t go limp and will stay fresh.
19. For a quick and easy meal, cover uncooked ribs in roast pan with BBQ sauce and 1 liter Coke.  Cover and simmer at 325F for 2 hours.
20. Save leftover sauce in ice cube trays. When frozen, add to bag of same type of sauce cubes. Reheat and use for quick dishes.
21. Crack egg into bowl. Use clean plastic water or pop bottle. Place bottle mouth against egg yolk – and squeeze to separate from white.

The Benefits Of going “On Raw Food”

So, now that you know what a raw food diet is all about, you need to decide, is it right for you? 

 Well you do not need to incorporate raw food 100% of the time. 

You can just eat more fruits and vegetables and no processed foods. 

Try drinking fruit juices until lunch time and then eating a healthy veggie sandwich.

 For dinner, eat some blanched vegetables with a cooked meal with no meats.   

When you gradually detoxify your body, you will see dramatic results. 

First, you will go through the detoxify process, where you will feel tired, have headaches, skin eruptions, etc. 

Once you are over this tough time, you will feel light, not dragged down, energetic, vitality, and conscious, among other things. 

You will have more mental clarity and therefore be more productive.  Your body will feel cleansed, you will be able to treat disease and prevent new ones from forming. 

You will see a dramatic weight loss, for instance five pounds a week. 

You will also notice that you do not seem weighed down with colds or sicknesses because your immune system is much stronger. 

You will be saving money because you can either grow your vegetables or buy them at a farmers market.  

 Buying organic food will save the earth and provide agricultural support, which is much needed. 

You will also save time and money because you will not be in the kitchen cooking up a storm. 

You will not be eating animals, because these animals have been pumped with high hormones and that wouldn’t benefit you anyway, but instead toxify you. 

This in turn, puts an end to the torture in animal farming. 

You will not be plagued with depression, or acne. 

In fact, your skin will be absolutely glowing, you will feel rejuvenated. 

 This type of eating also slows the aging process.  Your senses will be enhanced; you will be more flexible and fertile. 

You will be more creative, motivated, and also relaxed. 

You will focus more on relationships and be more environmentally attuned and inwardly attuned. 

What you will notice is an amazing spiritual awakening that you have never experienced before because you have changed your vibrations to a higher level capable of clearer thought patterns.

The Meaning And Causes Of Loneliness

Loneliness tends to be truly only for chronically lonely individuals, not for “State-lonely” individuals whose loneliness is adequately explained by potent situation factors (e.g. widowhood, geographical relocation). More like a trait even when induced in an acute fashion.

 “Loneliness” by Fromm Reichmann (1959). Empirical research into loneliness was supported by the efforts of Perlman and peplum (1981), who defined loneliness as “the unpleasant experience that occurs when a person’s network of social relations is deficient in some important way, either quantitatively or qualitatively.”Another definition of loneliness, frequently used in European Countries, is formulated as follows:

 Loneliness is a situation experienced by the individual as one where there is an unpleasant or indivisible lack of (quality of) certain relationships. This includes situations, in which the number of existing relationships is smaller than is considered desirable or admissible, as well as situations where the intimacy one wishes for has not been realized.”      

 Loneliness is a subjective and negative experience, and the outcome of a cognitive evaluation of the match between the quantity and quality of existing relationships and relationship standards. The opposite of loneliness is belongingness .
Loneliness can also be defined as the distress occurs when one’s social relationships are perceived as being less satisfying than what is desired.

The work of John Bowlby on a attachment bonds (Bowlby, 1973) heralds the beginning of theoretical conceptualizations of loneliness. Roberts Weiss (1973) delineated an attachment theory of loneliness in which deficiencies in social relationships serving specific functions (e.g. attachment, social integration, and nurturance) were posited to contribute to feelings of loneliness.

·        Social loneliness – means lack of social integration.

·        Emotional loneliness – means absence of reliable attachment figure.   

   Common Causes of Loneliness

1.      People with mental illness: - People who are living with mental illness are particularly prone to feeling lonely.

2.      Lone Careers: - Caring for someone it can be very difficult to leave the house and get out and about. It is not uncommon for lone cares to feel isolated or alone.

3.      People with physical disability: - People in this condition on are at risk of experiencing loneliness for a number of reasons. Stigma and disadvantage can cause people who experience a physical disability to feel excluded from social activities.

4.      People experiencing discrimination – Being treated as different from others can often make people feel lonely or isolated. Being discriminated against because of ethnicity, gender, sexuality or any other cause.                                      

Some Reasons People feel lonely include:

1.      Technology: - Through the internet and mobile phones are awesome, they can sometimes make us fell detached from the world around us.

2.      Not fitting in: - When you are in an environment where you do not feel comfortable, when somebody bullied or discriminated against.

3.      No one listen to you: - When you are young. It can feel like no one listens to you or takes you seriously. It can make someone feel lonely and not important.

4.      Physical Isolation: - Sometimes we’re in a situation where there is just no one around. This can be as a result of moving to a new place, living alone, family moving away or someone dying.
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