Chaotic Cook!

By Jim Nettleton

Here’s another tasty recipe from my private collection. Enjoy!

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INGREDIENTS

4 chicken leg quarters, skinned

2 large cans chicken broth

1 small package saffron yellow rice

1 small package Velveeta cheese

1/2 pint heavy cream

1/2 tsp. garlic powder

1 tsp. ground rosemary

1 tsp. poultry seasoning, preferably Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Poultry Magic

2 tsp. dried minced onions

1/2 tsp. black pepper

1 tblsp. flour or cornstarch

In a large pot place chicken broth, garlic, rosemary, poultry seasoning, minced onions and pepper. Add chicken. Cover pot and bring to boil. Reduce heat to active simmer. Cook for 40 minutes or until tender.

Meanwhile, prepare rice according to package instructions.

Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees.

When chicken is done, remove from pot and save pot contents. Place chicken in lightly buttered baking dish and put in oven to crisp for about 15 minutes – keep an eye on it to avoid overdoing the crisping.

While chicken is baking, strain liquid in the pot, then return the liquid to the pot. Pour off all but about 3 cups of the remaining liquid.

Cut Velveeta into small pieces to aid melting. Add cheese to the pot. Add the heavy cream. Over medium heat, stir thoroughly until the mixture is smooth. Mix flour or cornstarch with a small amount of warm water to smooth, then add a little at a time to thicken the sauce, while stirring constantly. Mixture should be thick enough to pour slowly.

Place a bed of rice on each plate, place 2 leg quarters on top of the rice and smother thoroughly with the sauce.

Serves 2.

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With wine gifts from the internet, you now have the possibility of applying your or your company’s own touch. With personalized wine bottles, your employees or customers get a gift to use as decoration or for drinking. They will enjoy it either way. You can buy wine on the internet for very attractive prices and combine it with fun, personal or artistic personalized wine labels.

Wine presents for both employees and customers
The selection of wine found on the internet is impossible to compete against by ordinary stores. Do yourself a favor a take advantage of all the specialties around the world. Here there are no limitations of which country produced the wine or the wine grapes used to produce it. Wine and wine accessories can be orders online and delivered to your home in only a few days after ordering. Your company have the possibility of customizing the wine and make a unique personalized wine label with company logo or similar. This will make sure you company is being noticed.

Purchasing your personalized wine bottles
When buying wine online, you have wide area of additional options on how to personalized the final outcome. First thing is to select the actual wines by grape. Your best bet it to choose a wine you already know since it is not possible to taste the wine online. You can also looking on different wine forums to get others opinion. When you have selected the wine for the final package, you should personalized it to make it unique. Personalized wine bottles, personalized wine labels and personalized wine glasses are just some ideas to make the wine gift special. add personalized wine glasses in a basket together with flowers and fruit to add even more personality. order the items to be delivered in a artistic wrapping with your own image or saying on the side.

other personal wine designs
Have you already purchased wine for your customers last year and think it is time for a change? You can make a great choice by ordering other wine accessories to match the past gifts. All these items are ordered at the same place and can all be personalized with your company logo or other what ever image or text you might choose. Wall mounted wine rack or hanging wine racks will look great together with the bottles or if you usually spend a bit more on your employees, a wine refrigerator is also a fun items that many will see as a great gift.

Mini champagne bottles can be very decorative and easily made to fit your company logo. Add personalized wine labels to these mini wine bottles and you will have a fun little gift for anyone.

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If you are passionate about collecting wine and have a large collection or if you only store a few bottles for parties, you will keep them in prime conditions with a wine refrigerator. With capacities ranging from six bottles up to 800 bottles, wine cooler refrigerators can fit under a cabinet or stand against a wall, with many choices in between. Dual zone wine refrigerators are also available and can be used to keep different styles of wines at different temperatures for storage or drinking.

For people without the space to build a wine cellar for wine storage a wine refrigerator can provide an ideal solution. A compact undercounter wine refrigerator will keep wines at the ideal wine temperature and it should be remembered that even those wines that are best served at room temperature should be stored in a cool environment to protect the integrity of the wine.

The advantage of a dual zone wine refrigerator lies is its ability to store different types of wines at different temperatures within the same wine cooler unit. It is recommended that white wines be stored between 46 and 54 degrees F and red wines at 54 to 64 degrees F. In addition to offering optimum temperature control, a wine refrigerator will also maintain the ideal humidity for wine storage.

How To Store Wine The Right Way

All wine lovers understand that they must look after their wines and treat them with respect; this includes avoiding any vibration of the bottles to protect the wine. All quality wine refrigerators will be free from vibration and some of the better wine refrigerators will have LED lighting in the interior to further protect the wine from deterioration.

Even a low wattage bulb can increase the temperature in an enclosed space like a wine refrigerator. Wines should ideally be stored in darkness, so the use of LED lights that do not emit any appreciable heat will assist in creating a cooler and darker environment. However, you should only open the wine refrigerator when necessary.

Most wine refrigerators utilize metal racks – the bottles are stored tilted slightly towards the opening end to ensure the corks remain in contact with the wine. Regardless of the space available for a wine refrigerator, tall, slender units that can hold up to a dozen bottles or larger furniture-sized units with a capacity of many hundreds of bottles can protect the wines from environmental hazards that can alter their taste, hasten their aging and reduce their overall appeal.

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Meal after meal and day after day cheap recipes can become a real chore.  Some people find themselves rotating between the same boring meals again and again.  Families often find, when examining their food selection, that they constantly eat the same meals while ignoring some old favorites.  Poor planning causes that.  Because people have so much to do they often ignore the healthy eating.

When coming up with recipes and a menu schedule prior planning prevents future problems.  When a menu is planned in advance the selection becomes more diverse.  Meal time is as much about the overall experience as it is about taste and nutrition.  Everyone can enjoy the same basic food if it’s made into a variety of different meals.

Try ground beef.  Ground beef and wheat with vegetables and tomato sauce (ketchup) is a burger  A taco is pretty similar.  While very different in the eyes and taste buds of most people, hamburgers and tacos share many of the same basic ingredients.  A single food can result in a lot of different recipes.  Let’s try another one.  We’ll consider chicken with potatoes.  It’s not very healthy to eat French fries and fried chicken.  Roasting both will save the waist line.  More riffs on the same basic song.  Chicken salad and chips make a good lunch.  Chicken pot pie is good too.  Chicken Teriyaki may not include potatoes, but it includes a starch in the white rice.  There is your many recipes from the same basic food elements.

Try more than one meat.  Some vegetables along with chicken and steak grilled on skewers are yummy kebabs.  Steak and lobster can be very elegant for a parents only dinner date, or pretty basic to include the kids too at a family meal.  Fish and chips make a good appetizer for a fried turkey, all made in the same deep fryer.

Where can people find more of these?  Cooking shows are all over the television.  The shows have lots of cooking ideas, and even associated web sites where more cheap recipes can be found.  Try searching for dinner ideas on Yahoo or Google.  You’ll never have time to read all the resulting information.  There are more cheap recipes out there than the average person can ever eat in an entire lifetime.

You can find more info on preparing cheap meals.

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Throughout history and across the world, people from all cultures have used smoke to flavour and preserve a wide range of perishable foods, though meat and fish are the most common. For centuries it was, along with salting, an essential way of maintaining subsistence over late winter and into spring. It also allowed for fish to be consumed inland, as they could not be transported any distance from the port of landing unless they were preserved. Traditionally for sale only in home markets, the use of smoking for preservation allowed fish to be widely exported to the West Indies in the infamous Triangle Trade between Britain, it’s northern colonies and the West Indian plantations.

The rapid growth of logistical infrastructure, begining in the 1840s, enabled the transportation of perishables including large quantities of fresh fish over even longer distances. Heavily smoked and salted products began to dwindle as a result of the improvements to transport infrastructure, as more food could be delivered without the need for such preservation. Smoked fish and meat soon became traditional products, rather than necessary ones. Where smoking was once necessary to preserve food, it is now used more often to simply provide a pleasant mild smoky flavour.

Nowadays, smoking for preservation is common in less developed countries where transportation is limited and climate extremes impact upon food life cycles. In more developed countries where transportation and methods of preservation are increasingly efficient, smoking remains popular for texture and flavour. Smoking of fish especially has remained very popular. Smoked salmon, for example, is considered something of a delicacy in many parts of the world due to it’s delicate taste and moderately high price. Smoked mackerel and smoked haddock have also remained particularly popular. Fish can be cold smoked, to be cooked at a later date, or hot smoked, providing a stronger flavour and cooking the fish as it smokes.

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There are many individuals that are looking for tips to help them get started with some easy dutch oven recipes. Dutch ovens are an old and reliable method for cooking, and are regaining in popularity. Unfortunately, not many know how to use them, so the following are some tips to help you cook with your dutch oven.

Remember that you can always look inside the oven to see how things are looking. Do not be afraid to pop the top. Usually this will not spoil the food. We aren’t dealing with a ‘pressure cooker’ here! Just remember not to do so too frequently as you will be releasing a lot of heat that is necessary for the food to cook properly.

Usually, steam escaping out from under the lid will imply that the heat is too much. Either reduce the heat or remove the pot until the coals have reduced some. Remember that heat regulation is often key with dutch oven recipes.

Try to turn the dutch oven about every 15 minutes. This will usually help reduce the browning of the foot in central areas and/or overcooking certain areas while undercooking other.

When you do rotate the dutch oven, turn it about 90 degrees. Try to stay rotating clockwise so that you do not accidentally rotate clockwise once, then counterclockwise the next. Effectively negating the rotation.

Always use caution when handling the dutch oven. Use mits or a thick towel to touch the pot as it can often hold heat for long periods of time and no one wants to burn themselves now do they?

Slightly more advance dutch oven cooking tips can involve using the briquettes properly. Adding, removing, or moving them usually be a way to adjust and/or monitor heat levels in the oven. This was the effective method when dutch ovens were frequently used, and we should learn the same if we want to be excellent campfire chefs!

When you become more comfortable cooking with dutch ovens, you can learn to stack and/or shuffle multiple ovens. This can be a bit advanced so keep it for later if you are new. But this ability will greatly increase food variety and decrease time spent cooking.

If you really want to become proficient at cooking easy dutch oven recipes, then you should take the time to watch how ‘old timers’ cook with dutch ovens, and take the time to learn from good old fasioned experience. The best way to learn is to do, and this is definitely true when it comes to easy dutch oven recipes

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If you’ve recently started taking heed of what you eat and drink, you probably understand the importance of being able to find the facts about chicken nutrition. Not all chicken is the same. Often, chicken products contain excess water and fat which you don’t really want to be puting into your system.

There are some basic chicken nutrition facts that can be found on the Internet but they are really just educated guesses because there is no one set of chicken nutrition facts that are the same for all products.

There are luckily some brands out there that have the chicken nutrition facts printed right on the packaging. For those truly trying to watch what goes into their bodies, these brands are probably the best to go with some the facts are right there in front of you. The same is true of fast food nutrition facts - it's usually better to buy chicken from fast food places because you have easy access to the chicken nutrition facts. A visit to their website might prove helpful if you can't find the exact information in the chain store.

More Things to Consider

Besides just thinking of the brands to pick from when shopping for chicken, make sure that you are remembering that chicken with the bone and skin tend to be a lot higher in fat then the other kinds. If you are not sure, just compare the chicken nutrition facts from two different brands as see for yourself.

Also, be careful of the serving size that is listed on the chicken nutrition facts, as it is not always the same for every single brand of chicken out there. There are no two brands alike so you really just have to keep your eyes open and pay attention to the small details.

The serving size listed on the chicken nutrition facts is going to be by weight rather than quantity since the chicken pieces in a package are not exactly the same size. This means the only real way to figure out your exact serving size is to weigh the chicken. Only then can you properly use the chicken nutrition facts and be on your way to a healthier lifestyle. Within a few weeks, you are bound to notice the difference that paying attention can make in your life. Not only will be begin to feel better but you will begin to look better as well.

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Did you get your economic stimulus package yet…well ok so it’s not exactly a package…it’s called an advance credit payment…for great tasting coffee.

The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008  enacted November 12, 2008 by Spotajava Coffee is an Act of your gourmet coffee snob providing for several kinds of economic stimuli intended to boost the United States economy in 2008 and to avert or ameliorate an abuse or neglect of your taste buds.

The stimulus package was passed by the owner of spotajavacoffee.com on January 29, 2008, and in a slightly different version by the U.S. Senate on February 7, 2008. The Senate version was then approved in the House the same day. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush on February 13, 2008.

The law provides for coffee discount codes to low and middle income U.S. coffee drinkers, discounts to stimulate coffee gift giving investment, and an increase in the limits imposed on coffee purchases eligible for purchase by you, new and current customers of spotajava coffee, your family members, friends associates and any/all others.

The total cost of this bill was projected at $152 billion for 2008 with an additional $124 billion to be spent over the next 10 years. This figure is subject to change depending on the economic climate and total participation of those involved.

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Green Tea dates back for thousands of years, Chinese green tea has been long revered as a tasty drink that can improve one’s well-being and ward off diseases. Since its first recorded use during the time of Emperor Nung, the link between green tea and good health has never been severed. It’s been used as treatment for everything from headaches to depression. Today, various health benefits of green tea are constantly being reported and many scientists are now focusing their attention on the simple, yet elegantly profound beverage that is green tea or even foods with green tea in them like Green Tea cakes and Green Tea Ice Cream (make sure you have a great Japanese Ice Cream maker .

Where It Comes From

Like all three of the major Asian teas in the market, green tea comes from the plant called Carmellia sinensis. Many of the health benefits of green tea are because of the steaming method of making it. As opposed to black and oolong tea which undergoes full oxidization, green tea is only gently steamed, preserving the natural antioxidants in its original form. The antioxidants in green tea helps fight away free radicals. These free radicals are the major factors to aging as well as the ensuing degeneration of cells as a result of it. Scientists have reason to believe that free radicals also play a role in various degenerative diseases such as arthritis, rheumatism, Alzheimer’s disease, and even cancer.

A Drink Steeped With Tradition

According to tradition, Chinese green tea could cure anything from headaches, body aches, and pains to constipation and depression. Over the years, further more health claims are made on account of Chinese green tea. Chinese green tea is meant to improve the blood flow throughout the body. Because green tea ice cream contains a little caffeine, ingesting this drink stimulates the heart and allows the blood to flow more freely through the blood vessels. For much the same reason that Japanese green tea stimulates blood flow, it also stimulates mental clarity. green tea detoxifies the body. The presence of polyphenols, a naturally occurring antioxidant in Japanese green tea, the beverage is said to combat harmful free radicals and help keep the body free from diseases.

In this regard, Japanese green tea helps maintain the overall well-being of the body. Antioxidants in Chinese green tea can boost immunity, preserve young-looking skin, and brighten the eyes. Chinese green tea aids in digestion and banishes fatigue, it is said. Japanese green tea is also said to increase your lifespan. For many years, people of science remained skeptical about the health claims made by Chinese green tea enthusiasts. Their doubt was changed to a more positive reception when subsequent researchers confirmed most of the health claims and proved the disease preventing attributes of Chinese green tea. But nowdays you can find Green Tea or Green Matcha in a huge range of foodstuffs like health drinks and Japanese Ice Cream .

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