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Purecote B790

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:55:31 GMT

clipped by: tabalo
clipper's remarks: to make edible sheets

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A modified food starch produced from corn by Grain Processing Corporation. It forms clear, flexible films without requiring hydration or cooking. Products thickened with Pure-Cote dry into a crispy "glass" at room temperature.

[edit] Uses

Alinea uses Pure Cote mixed with fresh pineapple juice to make "pineapple sheets". The mixture is dried on acetate sheets at room temperature until pliable. The sheets are then separated from the acetate, cut into individual portions and shaped as desired. Finally, the pieces are dried to a crisp texture using a food dehydrator.

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Terra Spice Le Sanctuaire

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Grain Processing Corporation PURE-COTE® Information

Chipotle Corn

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:24:08 GMT

clipped by: bunnicula

Clip Source: robinrobertson.com

Chipotle Corn

The smoky heat of the chipotle plays nicely against the sweetness of the corn.

1 pound frozen corn kernels, thawed

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 canned chipotle chile, minced

2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro or parsley

Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Cook the corn according to package directions, then drain and return to the pot. Add the oil and chile, stirring to coat. Stir in the cilantro and season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer to a serving dish.

Serves 4

Tags: recipes, vegan, vegetarian, corn, side dishes

Chocolate Florentine Cookies

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:55:37 GMT

clipped by: skydv

Clip Source: cookingandeatinginthewindycity.blogspot.com

Chocolate Florentine Cookies

From Nestle Classic Recipes

2/3 cup butter

2 cups quick oats

1 cup granulated sugar

2/3 cup all purpose flour

1/4 cup light or dark corn syrup

1/4 cup milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 tsp salt

11 oz package chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or foil.

Melt butter in a medium saucepan; remove from heat. Stir in oats, sugar, flour, corn syrup, milk, vanilla extract and salt; mix well. Drop by level teaspoons, about 3 inches apart, onto prepared baking sheets. Spread thinly with a spatula.

Bake for 6 to 8 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on baking sheets placed on wire racks. Peel foil from cookies.

Carefully melt chocolate in the microwave, stirring every 10 to 20 seconds. Spread a thin layer of melted chocolate onto flat side of half the cookies. Top with remaining cookies.

Makes about 3 1/2 dozen sandwich cookies.

The Virgo Mystery

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:52:46 GMT

clipped by: bakancs
clipper's remarks: Most astrologers and even non-astrologers feel that Mercury is the true ruler of Gemini and this appears to be so athough we wil never be fully certain untill the split up occurs

Clip Source: www.librarising.com

The Virgo Mystery

Virgo is perhaps the last sign without its own planetary ruler. The mythology of the sign can give us clues as to where this ruler might be. My favorite is the Persephone myth which sees her as being abducted into Pluto's underworld where she is forced to be his wife for six months months of the year. This upsets her mother who causes the Earth to be cold and unyielding for the time that she is away from her.

Persephone is also known as Prosperine and Kore or Core which can mean the center of the Earth or where our word "corn" comes from. Persephone is an agricultural godess, as is her mother Demeter or Ceres, but she also has the distinction of being the queen of the underworld. She is always pictured as holding an ear of grain in her hand.

Virgo in her many guises as...

...Persephone/Prosperine/Kore

...Isis

...Ceres/Demeter/Inanna

Actress Rose McGowan(Sun in Virgo)
beautifully portrays the image of the Virgin Godess

No ice, light ice, or extra ice?

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:51:55 GMT

clipped by: pcmkrfn

Clip Source: www.wired.com

No Ice, Please

Temperature	40° F
Volume of Liquid	31 oz
Cost per Degree of Chilling	N/A
Total Cost for Cold	0¢
Verdict Not fridge-frosty, but at 40 degrees you can't call it tepid.

Easy On The Cubes.

Temperature	36° F
Volume of Liquid	28 oz
Cost per Degree of Chilling	9.8¢
Total Cost for Cold	39¢
Verdict Sacrifice just 3 ounces of fizzy corn syrup for a nice, nippy temp. Sweet.

Ice, Ice, Baby!

Temperature	33° F
Volume of Liquid	20 oz
Cost per Degree of Chilling	20.3¢
Total Cost for Cold	1.42¢
Verdict Not worth it! Plus, sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (brain freeze).

Top 10 Extra "Thingies" Put Into The Bailout Package

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:13:04 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: If you aren't mad already, this will make your blood boil! $77 billion to the Fund For Friends of Democrats Who Helped Cause This Whole Mess

Clip Source: pantheonjournal.blogspot.com

10. $40 million emergency congressional pay package for overtime incurred during long, deliberating sessions

9. $300 million tax on the middle class to be immediately distributed back to the middle class

8. $156 million to establish insurance fund for lobbyists who bought ineffective influence in Washington

7. $22 billion in corn subsidies for ethanol

6. $472 million in subsidies for farmers to not grow too much corn

5. $127 million for Corn Huskers uniforms

4. $2 billion to communities built near active volcanoes

3. $33 billion in carbon offsets, non-hybrid auto carbon taxes, a ban on oil, and solar panels for endangered California condors

2. $77 billion to the Fund For Friends of Democrats Who Helped Cause This Whole Mess

1. $25,000 to cover the price of the paper the bill will be printed on

Tags: satire, humor, emergency congressional pay package, lobbyists, ethanol subsidies, farmers

Pond scum just may save the world

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:02:38 GMT

clipped by: infoark
clipper's remarks: Perhaps the answer to fuel needed to feed the world's energy needs with hastening global warming maybe in your neighborhood pond scum. Bill Gates, Boeing and others have invested millions in research on deriving fuel resources from algae

Clip Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com

Corn and other plant-derived fuels can require significant amounts of energy and other resources to produce, contributing to global warming. But power plants can feed their carbon dioxide emissions into containers holding algae to boost their growth.

Tags: environment, sustainability, global warming

Deflation Threat Returns as Asset Markets Decline

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:11:45 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie

Clip Source: www.bloomberg.com

As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his global colleagues fight the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, one danger is looming larger by the day: deflation.

With asset markets tumbling, commodity prices plunging the most in 50 years and banks keeping a tighter grip on credit, the ingredients for a sustained period of falling prices are coalescing.

The deflation scenario might go like this: Banks worldwide, stung by $588 billion in writedowns related to toxic assets -- especially mortgage-related securities -- will further reduce the flow of credit, strangling growth. That will push house prices lower, forcing additional losses and making banks even more reluctant to lend. As the credit crisis worsens, businesses will find it almost impossible to raise prices.

Oil, copper and corn drove commodities toward their biggest weekly decline since at least 1956 on Oct. 3, with the Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index of 19 raw materials tumbling 10.4 percent. T

Tags: economy, currencies, i-deflation, i-risks, i-increase

CHICKEN ENCHILADA CASSEROLE

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:48:56 GMT

clipped by: jotter
clipper's remarks: Yummy! =>
2 c. cooked chicken, cubed
1 can cream of mushroom soup (or cream of celery)
1 can cream of chicken
1 (7 oz) can green chile or 1/4 c. frozen green chile
1/2 c. sour cream
1 c. grated cheese (cheddar or Colby-Jack)
12 corn tortillas, torn/cut into bite-size pieces

Clip Source: beth.bethandnathan.com

Recipe: Chicken Enchilada Casserole

2 c

Combine all ingredients in a 9×13 pan. Bake for 40 minutes at 350. Try not to think about all the cream soups, cheese, and sour cream you added as you enjoy a third helping.

ups cooked chicken, cubed
1 can cream of mushroom soup (Nathan doesn’t like mushrooms, so I subbed in cream of celery)
1 can cream of chicken
1 can green chile (7 oz) or 1/4 cup frozen green chile
1/2 cup sour cream
1 cup grated cheese (the recipe calls for cheddar; I used my usual sub of Colby-Jack)
12 corn tortillas, torn into bite-size pieces

Tags: recipe

Sarcastic Police,,

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:44:08 GMT

clipped by: wiganfootie

Clip Source: www.stumbleupon.com

Top Sarcastic Police Comments

You know, stop lights don’t come any redder than the one you just went through.’

‘Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they’re new. They stretch after awhile.’

‘If you take your hands off the car, I’ll make your birth certificate a worthless document.’

‘Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that’s the speed of the bullet that’ll be chasing you.’

‘You don’t know how fast you were going? I guess that means I can write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?’

‘Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don’t think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I am the shift supervisor?’

‘Warning! You want a warning? OK., I’m warning you not to do that again or I’ll give you another ticket.’

‘The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?’

‘Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy and corn dogs and step in monkey poop.’

Amazing Clifftop Monasteries of Meteora, Greece

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:40:00 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.soothbrush.com

Meaning ‘suspended in air’ the name Meteora includes the entire rock community of 24 monasteries. There were no steps and the main access to the monasteries was by means of a net that was hitched over a hook and hoisted up by rope and a hand cranked windlass to winch towers overhanging the chasm. Monks descended in the nets or on retractable wooden ladders up to 40m long to the fertile valleys below to grow grapes, corn and potatoes.

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Poop Power!

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:07:23 GMT

clipped by: Antara

Clip Source: www.popularmechanics.com

Poop Power: U.S. Farms Save Big Turning Manure to Kilowatts

For farmers already operating on slim margins, the trick to staying afloat could be right under their feet. PM visits one dairy farm that's already saving $60,000 a year by turning cow manure into energy using an anaerobic biodigester.

ROCKWOOD, Penn. — If I'd driven up Kingwood Road here two years ago, there's a very good chance that I would have smelled Hillcrest Saylor Dairy Farm long before I reached its gravel driveway. But as I open my car door on Monday not 100 yards from the would-be offenders—approximately 600 Holsteins—the only odor that drifted my way was that of the freshly compacted corn silage that feeds the cows.

Tags: farming, manure, energy, new ideas

Red Lentil and Rice Casserole

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:54:34 GMT

clipped by: bunnicula

Clip Source: www.veggieboards.com

Red Lentil and Rice Casserole: Serious Yum

1 cup split red lentils
1/3 cup long grain rice (white or brown)(I used brown)
5 cups vegetable stock (I used 5 cups water w/ 3 cubes)
1 leek, cut into chunks (I didn't have leek, used spring onion)
3 garlic cloves, crushed (I used one big one)
1 14oz can chopped tomatoes
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp garam masala
1 red bell pepper, seeded and sliced
100g/3 1/3oz small broccoli florets
8 baby corn cobs, halved lengthways (Didn't use these...didn't have em)
50g/1 3/4oz green beans, halved
1 tsp shredded basil

salt and pepper

1. put lentils, rice and stock into a large pot and cook over low heat, sirring occaisionally, for 20 mins.

2. add all the vegetables and spices, leaving the shredded basil

3. bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer, covered, for 10-15 minutes or until vegetables are tender

4. add shredded basil and season to taste with salt and pepper

5. serve immediately. if desired, garnish with fresh basil sprigs

Tags: lentils, rice, leeks, tomatoes, recipes, vegan, vegetarian, main dishes

Tortilla-Black Bean Casserole

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:23:03 GMT

clipped by: bunnicula

Clip Source: vegweb.com

Tortilla-Black Bean Casserole

2 cup chopped onion
1 1/3 cup chopped green pepper
14 oz can stewed tomatoes
3/4 cup salsa
1/2 tablespoon garlic
2 tablespoon cumin
2 15-oz cans black beans, drained
8 corn tortillas

1 1/2 cup shredded vegan cheese (opt but suggested)

In a large skillet over medium heat, combine first 6 ingredients, bringing the mixture to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 5 minutes. Stir in beans. Spread 1/3 of the bean mixture over the bottom of a 13x9 pan. Top that with half of the tortillas, overlapping as necessary and half of the cheese. Add another 1/3 of the bean mixture, then remaining tortillas and bean mixture. Cover and bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until heated through. Sprinkle with remaining cheese and let stand for 10 minutes. Garnish with shredded lettuce and chopped tomatoes. For more of a Mexican flair, add slices of avocado on top or your favorite guacamole.

Serves: 8

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Tags: main dishes, recipes, vegan, vegetarian, black beans, tortillas

what's good for fluid retention naturally

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:09:44 GMT

clipped by: mezwise

Clip Source: ezinearticles.com

Easing fluid retention naturally

By Stewart Hare

Stewart Hare

Level: Platinum

Stewart Hare C.H.Ed Dip NutTh Bespoke consultations for a healthier natural life ...

Dandelion is a good natural diuretic and can be taken as a supplement to get rid of excess fluid from the body; it is not to be taken if other medications are being taken at the same time.

The following supplements may help if you are suffering from Fluid Retention.

Cleavers

Corn silk

Dandelion
Flavonoids (courmarin, hydroxyethylrutosides, quercetin, diosmin and hesperidin combination)

Goldenrod

Horse chestnut

Horsetail

Juniper

Selenium

For PMS fluid retention:

Magnesium

Vitamin B6

Stewart Hare C.H.Ed Dip NutTh

Advice for a healthier natural life

website: http://www.newbeingnutrition.com

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Stewart_Hare