• Cook's Tips

    4 Tips for Presenting Your Servings for Maximum Appeal

    So you’re planning a great dinner to impress someone, but you’re not quite sure how to assemble the food on the plate to best effect? For starters, it’s good that you’re thinking about plating the food (that’s what the gourmet chefs call it). Remember, when trying to impress someone with food, you’re creating a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach. You want to make it pretty on the plate. Here are four tips for making your dishes look nifty. 1. Sauce as decoration Perhaps you’re serving a dish that includes a sauce. This could be an integral sauce (one made from the pan drippings of meat) or…

  • Healthy Eating

    Five Food Items You’ll Need to be Physically Fit

    Food-wise, it doesn’t actually need to be quite complicated when one seeks to be physically fit. It does require one though to be wiser when it comes to food choices in terms of quality, quantity, and how they are served. You can achieve physical fitness with the right amount of physical activity and no-nonsense simple food choices such as these five. Apple What could be simpler than an apple which can be eaten straight from its tree without any need for cooking? If there is one fruit that is so common and easy to get while being generally acceptable to human taste buds, then that would be the apple. You…

  • Healthy Eating

    6 Amazing Gluten-Free Summer Dishes

    Refreshing, gluten-free options can be difficult to find during hot weather, especially since many restaurants and cafes have such a limited number of options without wheat, barley, and rye. In response to this need, a vibrant digital culture has sprung up around gluten-free recipes and how-to guides, which will enable you to create some terrific dishes right at home. Here are six of the most popular, scrumptious gluten-free summer meals that people have shared online. 1. Spaghetti squash pasta That bulbous, yellow squash that many people overlook at the supermarket is actually a great gluten-free and low-carb alternative to pasta. With nutrients like Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and dietary fiber,…