Low Carb Diabetic Diet

Asians treasure the wok as their favorite cooking utensil. Wok cooking is both fast and economical and, as well as being extremely tasty, stir-fried food is good for us. This is because the wok’s large heating surface seals food rapidly, locking in juices and flavors. In my own kitchen it is a well-used utensil, suitable for stir-frying vegetables and for doing quick meat and vegetable dishes, soups and curry-style dishes. Anything cooked in a wok has a flavor all its own; food tastes more fresh and more natural.

The ingredients cooked in a wok are cut into bite-size pieces or smaller. Before use, the wok must be very clean; heat it before any oil is added. Wok cooking requires high heat and, when stir-frying, the cook must take care to stir the contents of the wok constantly to prevent food from sticking and burning.

Pork Chop Sweet-and-Sour Apples and Onion Recipe

American Fried Potato Recipe

Cooking with herbs is a healthful way to put spice, sweet, tang and tart into your foods when you are anxious to avoid artificial flavoring substances to promote your good health. Herbs have such health benefits as: blood circulation, detoxifying poisonous wastes in the kidneys and liver, washing out accumulated acid crystal wastes, and acting as “sponges” by soaking up putrefactive substances and excreting them through normal eliminative channels. Specific herbs have often been used to treat ailments such as allergies, rheumatic disorders, diabetic problems, nervous difficulties, glandular malfunctioning, excessive bleeding, mucus accumulation, and congestion. Many modern medicines such as digitalis, comfrey, various astringents, lobelia, menthols, thyme, mullein, plantain, and various pine concoctions are all taken from herbs. The ancients were far ahead of us when it came to healing when we see that they used herbs in cookery and in poultries and teas for powers of healing.

Healthy Low Carb Diabetic Recipes

“What is buttermilk? Is this in liquid or powdered form? What can be used as a substitute and where can I get in?”

Buttermilk is the product that remains after milk has been churned to make butter.

Nowadays buttermilk is made by adding special cultures to skim milk, and is usually sold as cultured buttermilk.
It is available in leading supermarkets in powdered form.  Mix with water and use as required.
Fresh buttermilk has a very short shelf life and is seldom available in our supermarkets. You can use skim milk as a substitute, although the fat content in buttermilk is higher.

A recipe on Cinnamon Orange Scones that uses nonfat buttermilk.

Low Carb Diabetic Diet