Thursday, May 10, 2012

The Garlic Blog!: Allimax review

I loved this post a lot, since it's been thanks to this guy that I've started trying Allimac, what a great thing to take :) The Garlic Blog!: Allimax review

Sunday, May 6, 2012

The three reasons why you are going to have a stinky kitchen

You don’t like the smell in your kitchen, I’m sure of it.

Neither do i!

I hate it when I go to the kitchen, try to prepare a new meal I’ve just learned about or do some other work like helping my wife and then I’d have that terrible smell in my nose.

It’s not a great feeling.

Here is what I’ve found most useful to chase that smell and more importantly, why it’s there in the first place.

Let me first tell you about the reasons why you’d have a terrible smell in your kitchen:

The first reason is that you use too much water to clean the surface.

I was a big fan of using water to clean the surface of my kitchen; I’d add about five gallons and then use my sweat to get rid of dirt and fragments of foods.

This is what I noticed: when you use a great quantity of water, you are going to help the germs in your kitchen’s corners to feed.

In other words, you will be feeding the germs.

This is a terrible thing to do because they are the ones responsible for that rotten and fungous smell in your kitchen.

Avoid using a lot of water, when you want to clean your kitchen, just use a little bit of water with a cleaning product.

It’s the best solution to both have a great looking kitchen and get rid of those germs and funguses that are making your kitchen and house smell so bad.

The second thing to have a clean kitchen is to close the kitchen sink.

This is where most of the bad odors are going to come from.

Unfortunately, you can do nothing about that smell, in other words, you can’t get rid of that smell.

The only thing you can do is to close that kitchen sink with the rubber device that comes with it.

It’s the best thing you can do.

One thing that annoyed me the most about my wife is not closing the kitchen sink after she was done with it.

This made all the house smell bad.

The third way to get rid of the bad smell is to close your trash bin.

Even if it’s clean or empty, germs are going to live there and reproduce and by the same action making a lot more bad smell.

Even better, if you’ve got a balcony, try to put the trash bin in it, it will avoid you a lot of troubles and terrible smell in those hot summer mornings.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

How to maintain a great looking body by eating well

In the past, my wife suffered from excess weight, the pregnancy and stress of relocating were for something.

She tried every diet possible and couldn’t get the excess weight from her body.

To tell you the truth, she was the only one complaining about this situation, I liked her excess weight a little and loved to see her fit wear her tight jeans like she used to when we first got married :)

However, she was determined to lose that weight and to become “skinny” again.

I was determined to help her with this.

These are the changes we’ve made to our kitchen and to our eating habits:

The first thing was that we got rid of most processed meats;

The salami, the chicken nuggets, the fish rolls, the beacon. . .

We throw everything away.

I’ve read from this website: http://nutritionfacts.org/ , more precisely, this webpage http://nutritionfacts.org/video/hot-dogs-leukemia/ , that these products were not only bad for your weight, but they were also terrible on your arteries and can even provoke a cancer.

I’ve stopped buying them once and for all.

If my wife wanted to make a sandwich, she’d now use olive oil instead of butter and a tomato slice to replace the salami, and no cheese.

The second thing we did in our kitchen is to replace the sugars.

We had maple syrup, normal sugar, brown sugar. . . . we’ve had too many sugars in my opinion.

So, we throw everything and replaced them with date sugar.

It is not as tasty as normal old sugar, but it’s very healthy and soon, my wife was drinking her coffee without added sugar.

The third thing we did in our kitchen was to buy a bread machine.

At first, we bought most of our bread.

This made us choose cheap and unhealthy breads, but with the bread making machine, we were now able to make our own.

We started buying whole wheat flour and making our own bread.

This was a great experience and we not only were able to get rid of my wife’s excess weight, but mine too.

This experience bounded us even more and we could find some things to talk about in the evening beside the usual subject: “what do we have for dinner?”

Friday, May 4, 2012

Buying new appliances for your kitchen? What to look for

When you need a new appliance for your kitchen, here are the things you have to be looking for every single time:

The first thing is the manufacturer.

In other words, is it a known brand or an unknown one?

To tell you the truth, I like known brands more because there is something about such a brand that made it very popular.

If you started thinking about it realistically, you will know that most brands will never survive the first ten years of their career because they are going to have either flowed machines or incompetent management.

This is the first reason why you need to always look for known brands.

The second thing to look for is warranty.

Believe it or not, don’t be looking for long warranties, most of the times, it’s a sign that the product has got a defect and the manufacturer is trying to resolve it and not get many negative reviews about it.

The third thing to look for is the energy efficiency.

When you want to buy a new appliance, the amount of energy it’s going to use is very important because it will determine your electricity bill at the end of the month.

Don’t believe the energy star you see on most products, it doesn’t belong to an independent organization, nowadays; it’s the brands that can put that star on their appliances.

The best thing you can do is to go to amazon and check the reviews, it’s where you are going to find out if the appliance is really energy efficient or not, you can even ask people in comments about it and make sure it’s the right one for you.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

What your doctor doesn’t tell you about nutrition

When my wife was trying to lose her pregnancy weight, what I love to call motherhood weight, we went to see a doctor in a very expensive hospital, he was the head of the nutrition and weight department in that hospital and we were introduced to him by a friend of us.

We thought that he would give us some amazing advices that we didn’t know before about weight issues and losing the excess weight.

Unfortunately, all what he could tell us is something like this: eat less carbs, eat more proteins!!

In other words, eating more meat and eggs!

This is what my wife has been doing for a long time and she was now developing high blood pressure and her heart was working in excess!

I feared for my wife’s health and told the doctor about this, the only thing he did was to take his prescription pad and write down some drugs we could get to lower the pressure and to make the heart beats less violent!

I was annoyed by this; I didn’t want my wife to lose her weight through this.

That’s why I went and did my research and found that my people in third world countries do not have these problems with excess weight.

When I asked some friends who have been to India, they confirmed this and told me that only the rich families who were suffering from excess eight!

I was in for a surprise!

I found a group of very knowledgeable scientists who were advocating this idea: make meat and other animal products a treat, once a month!

I liked the idea, we tried it with my wife and soon, she was losing weight very rapidly.

This is why I need to tell you this: do your own researches, your doctor has more benefits of selling you a drug than making you healthy!

Unfortunately, this is what it came for nowadays with modern health care system; it’s following the model of big vuisness!

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

What are the best ingredients to always have in your kitchen?

You can’t cook well and make great meals if you do not have these ingredients at home; they are very cheap and can make your dishes taste amazingly well.

Here is a list of the ingredients I’m going to always have in the kitchen:

Spices.

Spices are nature’s wonders in terms of nutrition and taste.

I can’t imagine spending one single hour in y kitchen preparing food if I don’t have cinnamon, nutmeg, cumin seeds, black and weight pepper, ginger and cloves.

These are the most essential spices.

Always, when going out to buy food, think of checking your spices, if you see that the reserve of cinnamon are dwindling, buy it as soon as possible.

The problem people have with spices is that they do not use them.

In the past, I used to have a huge amount of spices in my kitchen; however, I didn’t use them at all.

All the food we bought was frozen ones and the spices at home served as a decoration for the kitchen.

Don’t make my mistake and get the habit of always throwing a little bit in your foods.

The second ingredient to always have in your kitchen is greens.

Dark green leafy vegetables are very essential to our bodies, just a quick example, one leaf of collard green can contain up to half the amount of the vitamin A you are going to require for the whole day.

Imagine this, just one leaf of collard greens.

When I speak about dark green leafy vegetables, I’m not advising you to buy lettuce!

Lettuce is very poor and contains in my opinion no nutrition at all.

When shopping for dark green leafy vegetables, always buy these: broccoli, spinach and collard greens, they are the most important ones.

The third ingredient to always have is iodized salt.

Don’t buy sea salt, it contains a tiny amount of iodine and it’s not good for your health.

In the past, we used to get all of our iodine from the foods we ate, but iodine is not very available nowadays and you need to supplement it.

Use iodized salt, just one tea spoon a day will be enough for nearly your whole family in term of iodine.

The fourth ingredient to always have in your kitchen is green tea.

You can use green tea for a lot of uses, but the most unusual one is using green tea for your drinks.

Here is what I’ll be doing personally when making my smoothies: I’ll throw in about a tea spoon of great tea.

This will make my smoothies taste great and have a lot of antioxidants too.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

What makes the difference between a good cook and a terrible cook?

Good cooks and terrible cooks are only differentiated with a few things in my opinion, here are they:

When you are entering your kitchen, you need to be aware if you are a good cook or a terrible cook.

This is very important because you can’t have the self confidence and the audacity to try new things and make new recipes if you do not know what kind of cook you are.

Here is what distinguishes the bad cook from the terrible cook:

The first thing is how much trouble you make in your kitchen.

If you use many tools and you make a mess in your kitchen, then you are a terrible cook, however, if you just use the necessary tools and you leave the kitchen very new=at, then you are a great cook.

This can seem like something totally unusual to judge a cook, but when you look at it in closely, you are going to notice that the person who uses a lot of resource will usually get the meal to taste bad or undercooked, but the person who uses his mind first and then get to work on his ideas will always have great results.

The second thing and the most important one that makes all the difference between a good cook and a bad one is having a vision in his mind.

When you enter you kitchen, you need to be able to see the result of the work you are going to do, the final result should already be in your mind.

Only great cooks have this in them, most other people will just work hard and never know what to expect from their work.