You're just hours away before family and friends arrive for your Thanksgiving dinner. Your pumpkin pie is cracked. Your turkey is cooking unevenly. You knew it wasn't completely defrosted when you started cooking it, but figured getting it in the oven would speed up the defrosting process. And you've lost the recipe for the traditional string bean casserole. What are you going to do?
Here's some helpful hotline numbers to keep posted when November 27 rolls around:
Crisco Pie Hotline: 877-367-7438
Butterball Turkey Talk-Line: 1-800-BUTTERBALL (288-8372) or http://www.butterball.com/
Empire Kosher poultry customer hot line: 717-436-7055 or http://www.blogger.com/www.empirekosher.com Fleischmann's Yeast Baker's Help Line: 1-800-777-4959 or http://www.breadworld.com/
Foster Farms Turkey Helpline: 1-800-255-7227 or http://www.fosterfarms.com/
General Mills: 1-800-248-7310
King Arthur Flour Co.'s Bakers Hotline: 802-649-3717 or e-mail questions to bakers@kingarthurflour.com
Nestle Toll House Baking Information Line: 1-800-637-8537
Ocean Spray consumer help line: 1-800-662-3263 or http://www.oceanspray.com/
Reynolds Turkey Tips Hotline: 1-800-745-4000 or http://www.blogger.com/www.reynoldskitchens.com
U.S. Department of Agriculture Meat and Poultry Hotline: 888-MPHotline (674-6854)
Stay calm. Everything will work itself out.
Let me share with you one of our most memorable Thanksgiving dinners, which looked like it wouldn't happen. It was many years ago we had a power outage on Thanksgiving at 10:30 in the morning. I had just gotten my turkey in the oven. Calling the electric company, we got the bad news that this was going to be a long day for them and us. They had no idea when they'd be able to get the power back on. As it turns out, it didn't come back on until 10:30 that night.
At first, I panicked. Then we did the next best thing - started thinking of options to get the meal made. At the time this didn't look like an opportunity but a disaster. But it was a marvelous opportunity to show to ourselves we were clever and resourceful. A neighbor up the street had a huge barbecue, so we took our turkey up there to be cooked. We had a little mini-motorhome with 2 small propane burners. That's where I cooked the vegetables. Our little barbecue worked nicely for the yams. And fortunately our friends, who brought the pies, never lost their power and so had pumpkin pie ready for our feast.
We set a beautiful table in the dining room (which actually is really the living room with a fireplace). So we lit a fire, had candles lighting our table and had the greatest dinner we've ever had. And, by the way, the most memorable.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Bugs in My Breakfast
As I was eating my breakfast this morning, I was thinking how happy my gut would be when my breakfast finally arrived. That may sound like an odd thought, but you should first know what I had for breakfast. I started out with 1/2 of an orange and 1/2 of a banana, which took care of the fruit portion of my breakfast. Then I had 1 cup of cooked steel-cut oatmeal with 1/4 cup of Greek style plain yogurt with active cultures. I added 1/4 cup of 1% milk to moisten the cereal plus about 1 tablespoon of a flavored non-dairy coffee creamer.
Now you may be wondering why my gut would be so happy. The yogurt with its active cultures is considered a probiotic. As per wikipedia.com - "Probiotics are dietary supplements containing potentially beneficial bacteria or yeasts. According to the currently adopted definition by FAO/WHO, probiotics are: ‘Live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host’.[1] Probiotic bacterial cultures are intended to assist the body's naturally occurring gut flora, an ecology of microbes, to re-establish themselves. Claims are made that probiotics strengthen the immune system to combat allergies, excessive alcohol intake, stress, exposure to toxic substances, and other diseases.
So now I have these great little microorganisms running around in my gut. But these little critters like to eat the same as you and me. The oatmeal I had is very high in fiber, especially soluble fiber, something which these microorganisms love to feed on. The more good guys I can have swimming around in my gut the better.
The idea of eating foods high in probiotics and prebiotics is to increase the number of beneficial microorganisms in the gut in an effort to push the harmful ones out. Research is pointing to inflammation as a participant in such diseases as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Eating probiotics and prebiotics can potentially decrease inflammation in the body,
It's so simple to do so much for yourself. Give my breakfast a try. If nothing else, you will find it is so satisfying and filling that it keeps you going until lunch.
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Copyright 2008 - Advantage Diets
Now you may be wondering why my gut would be so happy. The yogurt with its active cultures is considered a probiotic. As per wikipedia.com - "Probiotics are dietary supplements containing potentially beneficial bacteria or yeasts. According to the currently adopted definition by FAO/WHO, probiotics are: ‘Live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host’.[1] Probiotic bacterial cultures are intended to assist the body's naturally occurring gut flora, an ecology of microbes, to re-establish themselves. Claims are made that probiotics strengthen the immune system to combat allergies, excessive alcohol intake, stress, exposure to toxic substances, and other diseases.
So now I have these great little microorganisms running around in my gut. But these little critters like to eat the same as you and me. The oatmeal I had is very high in fiber, especially soluble fiber, something which these microorganisms love to feed on. The more good guys I can have swimming around in my gut the better.
The idea of eating foods high in probiotics and prebiotics is to increase the number of beneficial microorganisms in the gut in an effort to push the harmful ones out. Research is pointing to inflammation as a participant in such diseases as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Eating probiotics and prebiotics can potentially decrease inflammation in the body,
It's so simple to do so much for yourself. Give my breakfast a try. If nothing else, you will find it is so satisfying and filling that it keeps you going until lunch.
Visit www.advantagediets.com for more health and wellness information
Copyright 2008 - Advantage Diets
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