Sugar Cookies: The Nation is Eating Plenty Today

Welcome to National Sugar Cookie Day!

If there has ever been a day to indulge in this sugar snacks and cookies, then this is that day.

Yummy Sugar Cookies

Satisfy your sweet tooth and eat as much as you can morally stand.  If you’ve been talking about going on a diet or fasting the prepare your mind.

Eat all the cookies that you want to today and tell yourself, I mean really make a decision to change your eating habits.  Here is a tip.  If you really need help in adjusting the way you eat then try this.  Here is a great sugar cookie recipe.  You can use it to make all the cookies that you want.  Go ahead and bake a whole bunch of them.  When they are finished leave just a few of the sugar cookies on the cake pan and eat the majority of them.  I’m willing to bet that you sick and tired and won’t want to eat any more sugar for quite sometime.

Our Disclaimer: This strategy will not actually work and you may hurt yourself it you try it.  We advise you to be strong and use the people around you for support as accountability partners if you are really trying to change how and what you eat.  You can also read this article on How To Change Your Eating Habits.

Eat From The Heart & Save The Art

Let’s be honest would you really rather turn on that hot oven in this heat? How about eating out? I know, you’re on a budget. Well here is a way for you to give at the same time reap the benefits of eating out. It’s a win win situation. Carrboro restaurants has several different establishments. On Thursday (June 24), when you eat at any of these restaurants you not only will you enjoy your meal but you sill also be supporting the ArtsCenter

These participating restaurants include: Ba Da Wings, Carrboro Raw, Provence, Neal’s Deli, Open Eye Cafe, Milltown and Glasshalfull.

10% of the cost of your meals will go to support the ArtCenter for the Keep the Arts Center Campaign. This campaign will end on 1 July 2010.

 

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Grilled Salmon With Sweet Corn And Avocado Salad

The summer is approaching fast, even though it already seems to be here.  Whenever the sun is out it’s a deceleration of grilling season.  Here is a great grilling recipe for salmon and avocado.

This sweet corn and avocado salad is so delicious that it’s great on its own, too. You’ll know the salmon is cooked perfectly when the flesh just begins to flake with a fork. To learn how to make the salsa in this recipe, watch the Secret Ingredient cooking show.

Ingredients

Sweet Corn and Avocado Salad
4 ears fresh corn, kernels removed from cob
1 cup halved grape tomatoes
1/2 small ripe avocado, diced
1/4 cup chopped red onion
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons champagne vinegar
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar

Salmon
4 (4- to 6-ounce) salmon fillets
Canola cooking spray
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

Method

For the salad, put corn, tomatoes, avocado, onion, cilantro, oil, vinegars, salt and pepper into a large bowl and toss gently to combine. Set aside.

For the salmon, preheat grill. Spray fillets all over with cooking spray, then season with salt and pepper. Place salmon, skin-side up, on grill. After about 2 minutes, turn salmon a quarter turn and cook 2 minutes longer. Flip salmon and grill until cooked through, 4 to 5 minutes more.

Remove salmon from grill and serve immediately, topped with corn and avocado salad.

Nutrition

Per serving (about 12oz/349g-wt.): 460 calories (190 from fat), 21g total fat, 3g saturated fat, 90mg cholesterol, 370mg sodium, 34g total carbohydrate (5g dietary fiber, 6g sugar), 37g protein

This recipe came from the Whole Foods Market You can map is now for directions.

81 South Elliot Rd
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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Bowl Chili Dip

It’s never too early to plan your party menu. I found this easy dip recipe for your Super Bowl party here. You may want to make it for your Grammy party too this weekend. Hope it’s yummy!

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 (15 ounce) can chili without beans
• 4 green onions, thinly sliced
• 1/4 cup diced green chiles, drained
• 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch pie plate.
2. Spread cream cheese into the prepared pie plate. Top the cream cheese with chili, onions, chilies, and cheese.
3. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 15 to 20 minutes

Keep Your Diet With These Foods

Have you stuck to your diet already? If you are a little off and on so far, I found a few foods that can kick start your diet or keep you on the right track.  I don’t know if I agree with the term “skinny foods,” but there are some foods out there than can keep you fit and shedding pounds.

My favorite one is the Fiery Chicken Salad, I like anything g hot and spicy.  Little did I know that adding a dash of hot sauce or hot spices slows down your eating, so now that I know the benefits of drowning my food in hot sauce I will continue to do it.

Read about the foods here.  What are your foods that keep you on track or “skinny foods?”

Duck For Dinner

Okay, let’s talk about a menu item that seems to be showing up in more and more places.  When I was 4 years old, my dad suggested that I try escargot. That was all the encouragement I needed a trusting child. All my dad wanted was a funny story to tell his friends but I loved it…and I still do. Duck was another one of his adventures but the joke was more on him. My family loves duck! If my sister sees it on the menu, that is all she will order. Duck is so very yummy and if you haven’t tried it, you should.

What is the most exotic dish you have eaten?

To read “Duck: Famously Fatty, Simply Delicious” with recipes…click here.

Glazed Nuts

The New Taste and It Works

There is a new taste of pizza around.  It’s Domino’s Pizza.  I know that they have been around for years, but they have a new taste now.  I tried it yesterday and boy is it good.  I recommend that you try it as soon as you can.

Read here what they have changed.

Sugar Cookies Recipe

It’s the holidays, time to make the cookies.  Try this wonderful sugar cookie recipe, that got rave reviews on foodnetwork.com.

Bake them and let us know how they turned out.

Weekly Dinner Menu

It’s Monday and you are probably planning dinner for the week. Well, you don’t have to rack your brain, I’ve found a weekly menu for you.

Better Homes and Gardens has already planned it for you. Click here for the menu.

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