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Smorgasbord Health Column – Cook from Scratch to prevent nutritional deficiencies with Sally Cronin and Carol Taylor – Vitamin C (ascorbic acid and L-ascorbic acid) oranges, grapefruit, cauliflower, eggplant

Welcome to the rewind of this series from 2019 where we look at cooking and your diet from a different perspective. Usually, we emphasize the health benefits of food and how they can be incorporated into your diet. But, what happens if you do NOT include them in your diet.

We wanted to share with you what happens if your body is deprived of individual nutrients over an extended period of time.

In this series, we look at cooking and your diet from a different perspective. Usually, we emphasize the health benefits of food and how they can be incorporated into your diet. But, what happens if you do NOT include them in your diet.

Thankfully most of us eat reasonably well, with plenty of variety, but if you take a look at a week’s worth of meals, do you find that you are sticking to a handful of foods, all the time.

Today we are looking at Vitamin C…Sally is sharing her expertise on how vital it is for us to get enough vitamin C and what we can do to ensure we do…I am providing the recipes…to read the original post please click the highlighted link below…See you there where Sally and I will give you a warm welcome…

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Smorgasbord Health with Sally Cronin and Carol Taylor – Cook from Scratch to prevent nutritional deficiency – Vitamin B12 combined with Vitamin E – Beef, Broccoli, Eggs, Bananas and Wholegrains

Welcome to the rewind of this series from 2019 where we look at cooking and your diet from a different perspective. Usually, we emphasize the health benefits of food and how they can be incorporated into your diet. But, what happens if you do NOT include them in your diet.

We wanted to share with you what happens if your body is deprived of individual nutrients over an extended period of time.

In this series, we look at cooking and your diet from a different perspective. Usually, we emphasize the health benefits of food and how they can be incorporated into your diet. But, what happens if you do NOT include them in your diet.

Thankfully most of us eat reasonably well, with plenty of variety, but if you take a look at a week’s worth of meals, do you find that you are sticking to a handful of foods, all the time.

To read the original post please click the link below…

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CarolCooks2 weekly roundup… 13th -19th March 2022-Monday Musings, Health, A-Z World Cuisine, Belgium, Glace Cherries and Saturday Snippets where a “Heart” is my prompt.

Welcome to my weekly roundup...March has definitely arrived tonight the sky was a vibrant
red which means tomorrow will be another scorcher…
In other parts of the world, I am seeing the images of daffodils, tulips and cherry/apple
blossom  appearing…such a joyful flowers  which always makes me think of Wordsworth…” a
host of golden daffodils”
What is in store for you then this week if you are catching up…  My new A-Z  World Cuisines
featuring food from Belgium and anyone who has visited this lovely country will probably agree
that Moules and Frites are a wonderful thing… these posts seem to have struck a chord with
everyone and have been very well received …I have had some lovely comments…
plus it’s fun to research and write… Monday Musings are just some findings from the week
before which I either find amusing or not, … and on Tuesday there was another  Chicken
recipe… beautiful colourful chicken stir fry with Thai Eggplants…it is also National Celery Month
 and this delicious crunchy vegetable has some surprising uses…

Friday review and the subject was “Glace Cherries”  and how they are produced…Saturday Snippets is always a joy to write for me…and this week it was the “Heart”  all part of the human body…plus there are some fascinating connections to the word ”Heart”…from all the tunes which feature the heart…plus the fascinating science which is going on to produce an artificial heart it is awesome.

Right…enough of my chatter…Let’s have look at last week…

Monday Musings!

Monday Musings are a selection of things that have caught my eye the previous week…it could a song, a recipe or just something which has made me go wow!… Last week it was a podcast on “Who Benefits from Fake Meat” and how much is a stick of butter…I wish all measurements were universal…Tori bless her sent me a couple of conversion charts…Thank you, Tori x…Plus we then had one of my favourite rockers filling potholes…

Monday Musings…14th March 2022…

I am a big fan f these small eggplants..today I got some small white ones which means purple and white ones in my curries and stir-fries this week…here is a link for my US readers they are grown in the US…https://importfood.com/products/fresh-thai-produce/item/fresh-thai-eggplant

CarolCooks2 in my kitchen…Chicken and Eggplant Stir Fry…

One of the best meals of Moules and Fries can be had in Belgium…Plus they are famed for the Waffles but it’s not all fast food…they are also famed for their Chocolate… the Meatballs, the wonderful slow cooked Flemish stew, Rabbit cooked with prunes which was once a humble peasant dish and now it has been refined into something else by chefs around the country.

There is the humble sausage and mash ..served by parents and grandparents and cooked with black or white sausages or the blood sausage…Often, the mashed potatoes will be mixed with a vegetable, like carrots, to create stoemp, the typical Belgian kind of filling mashed potatoes…

CarolCooks2…A-Z World Cuisines…Part 8…Belgium

Sally is rewinding this series which was one I was happy to be part of ..It was interesting matching recipes to vitamins and I think so much easier when you know you need to increase a certain vitamin and the recipe is all tried and tested for you…I hope you think so too…Today Sally is talking about why it is important to have enough of the vitamin B6 in our diets…Please head over and have a read…

Smorgasbord Health with Sally Cronin and Carol Taylor – Cook from Scratch to prevent nutritional deficiency – Vitamin B6 – Prunes, Chicken Tagine, Sweet Potatoes

I love fresh cherries when they are in season but sometimes glace or maraschino cherries are called for and I was quite shocked when I realised how they were manufactured but it is also very easy to make your own…I can do nothing about the sugar but we can omit the chemicals and maybe some of the sugar…and steeped in Brandy who wouldn’t love then? Just saying!

CarolCooks2…Friday…Glace Cherries or Maraschino Cherries…

Brown Rice…a healthy alternative to white rice although of the white rice Jasmine Rice which we grow and eat here is the better of the white kinds of rice saying that I love brown rice, wild rice and raspberry rice my family doesn’t…In this post-Sally tells us about the benefits of eating brown rice and has provided us with a lovely recipe which I will be making and portioning for the week which means I will be happy as will the rest of the family to me that sounds like a plan…please head over and have a read…

Smorgasbord Health Column – Food Therapy Rewind – Brown Rice so much more than just a grain by Sally Cronin

I love writing Saturday Snippets as I can add music and hopefully interesting facts which connect to my chosen prompt of the week…This week my prompt was “Heart”…I truly didn’t know there were so many great songs about the “Heart”…However, I had my Roxette moment and hopefully, she now has a few more fans, of course, Ann Wilson the lead singer of the rock band Heart had to feature as well…her performance at the Kennedy Centre was stunning and an all-time favourite of mine…which meant this week it was Ann and Marie who brilliantly fitted into my theme…”Heart”

Saturday Snippets…19th March 2022…A friend is what the heart needs all the time. – Henry Van Dyke…

Thank you for joining me today for my weekly roundup as always I look forward to your comments…I hope you are all having a brilliant weekend…xx

 

CarolCooks2…weekly roundup 15th March-21st March 2020…

Hello and welcome to my weekly roundup of posts…A little later today as it has been one of those days…Things have hotted up here…I did my first shop online since I have lived here…They apologised that they couldn’t deliver today but they would tomorrow by 10.00am…no delivery charge either…However, we heard this afternoon that all the stores would be closed and only the markets would be open how long for I don’t know…The borders are closed, no flights, all the stores/bars only food outlets remaining open.

Scary times for the world…It does sadden me when I see that people are still partying on beaches and other places and ignot=ring the call by governments to isolate themselves socially…Utter madness when they don’t know who they could be infecting…

That’s my rant over please stay safe, grab your favourite drink whether it be a green smoothie, a cup of chai or like me oolong green tea…

Relax and Enjoy!

Monday: Recycling and Climate change day…16th March 2020…

There were lots of positive steps last week however this week although there have been lots of sad news about deaths through Covid-19 however because of the closedowns around the world nature has soon come back to canals in Venice for a start, water is clearer and the atmosphere is cleaner and that is just after a few weeks …I hope when this is over many lessons will have been learnt and maybe just maybe things will change for the better…I do hope so…

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Tuesday: Thailand…Down on the Farm…Jambulan Plum and Mulberries…

Some beautiful fruit was the theme of Down on the Farm…This week or yesterday my neighbour presented me with a lovely bag of pomegranates they picked from their tree…

Thai Plum
Thai Plum Jambolan

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Wednesday: Whimsical Wednesday…with Carol…

I tried to keep it as upbeat as possible last week given much of the news is depressing…Xander went down really well you loved him as much as I did a wonderful child…Bowie and Space Odessy…and Barnums Circus..and some really lovely Coconut Cookies I ate the last one today…I wonder what this week will bring…

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We also had Eat your Purples by Sally Cronin…I love my purples and am seeing more and more purple veggies for sale here…Purple sweet potatoes, carrots, cauliflower…I am really getting my purples…Are you?

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Friday: CarolCooks2…This week in my kitchen…Everything cooked from scratch…

I have been busy cooking and also thinking about what I can make if food gets rationed or we are unable to get out to buy some…These are unprecedented times so I for one am not sure where this will end…This last week it was some simple bread recipes …

https://carolcooks2.com/2020/03/20/carolcooks2this-week-in-my-kitcheneverything-cooked-from-scratch/

Saturday: Smorgasbord Health Column.

https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/smorgasbord-health-column-the-gentle-detox-food-intolerances-nightshade-family-and-environmental-toxins-by-sally-cronin/

Saturday Morning Market…Mandarin Oranges and Rosella Fruit…

Rosella is a beautiful fruit not widely available but enough to make some jam and chutney.

Rosella Fruit freshly picked
Rosella fruit

https://carolcooks2.com/2020/03/21/saturday-morning-marketmandarin-oranges-and-rosella-fruit/

That’s all for this week…Thank you for reading…I hope you have enjoyed this weekly roundup xx I invite your comments…Let’s chat!

About Carol Taylor: 

Enjoying life in The Land Of Smiles I am having so much fun researching, finding new, authentic recipes both Thai and International to share with you. New recipes gleaned from those who I have met on my travels or are just passing through and stopped for a while. I hope you enjoy them.

I love shopping at the local markets, finding fresh, natural ingredients, new strange fruits and vegetable ones I have never seen or cooked with. I am generally the only European person and attract much attention and I love to try what I am offered and when I smile and say Aroy or Saab as it is here in the north I am met with much smiling.

Some of my recipes may not be in line with traditional ingredients and methods of cooking but are recipes I know and have become to love and maybe if you dare to try you will too. You will always get more than just a recipe from me as I love to research and find out what other properties the ingredients I use contain to improve our health and wellbeing.

Exciting for me hence the title of my blog, Retired No One Told Me! I am having a wonderful ride and don’t want to get off, so if you wish to follow me on my adventures, then welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride also and if it encourages you to take a step into the unknown or untried, you know you want to…….Then, I will be happy!

Thank you once again for reading this post I hope you all are having a great weekend, stay safe and wash those hands xx

Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Cook from Scratch – Carol Taylor – A – Z of Food – Baking Soda, Bananas, Broccoli, Butterflying food and cooking with a Bain Marie

Bananas begin with B as do so many more culinary treats, My thanks go to Sally for re-posting this series…I do hope you all enjoy…Thank you so much for all your comments, likes and shares for the letter A…I do hope you enjoy the rest of the series…Today it is the letter B…Enjoy!

Smorgasbord Blog Magazine

Welcome to the series from Carol Taylor, the wonderful A – Z of Food and I am looking forward to expanding my knowledge of wonderful ingredients across the food groups, spices and herbs over the year.

Hello from sunny Thailand …this is the next post of my Culinary tour through the alphabet.

Baking Soda – A leavening agent which is used as an essential ingredient in baking powder. When used alone as a leavener, recipes must include some type of acid to neutralize the resulting sodium carbonate in the finished product. Either Buttermilk, yoghurt, sour cream, and citrus juice are all adequate acids to use. You may also use baking soda to help neutralize the acid in recipes that call for large amounts of fruit.

Bananas…Living where I do Bananas are everywhere sold on every street corner and almost everyone has at least one Banana tree in their…

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Smorgasbord Health Column – Cook from Scratch to prevent nutritional deficiency with Sally Cronin and Carol Taylor – Phosphorus

Loved doing this series it means I can put meals together once I decide on the ingredients I need to use… it is great fun…Sally, of course, plays a big part as she is the expert on all things to do with nutrition…I hope you enjoy these recipes as much as we did…Food is such fun when you know what you are eating provides everything you need for good health and at the same tastes awesome…Happy Cooking xx

Smorgasbord Blog Magazine

In this series we look at cooking and your diet from a different perspective. Usually we emphasize the health benefits of food and how they can be incorporated into your diet. But, what happens if you do NOT include them in your diet.

We wanted to share with you what happens if your body is deprived of individual nutrients over an extended period of time.

Thankfully most of us eat reasonably well, with plenty of variety, but if you take a look at a week’s worth of meals, do you find that you are sticking to a handful of foods, all the time.

Variety is key to good health, to provide your body with as broad a spectrum of nutrients as possible that the body needs. Taking a supplement or relying on shakes and bars to provide your daily allowance of vitamins and nutrients is not in your body’s best…

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