Tired of Being Absent-minded All the Time? Stock up on these Super Foods for a Super Brain
Would you describe yourself as a careless person? Someone who often locks the cars with their keys inside or leaves home with the electric kettle switched on? Halfway through your walk do you stop with a puzzled frown wondering where you were headed and why? Birthdays and anniversaries become a veritable chore and unless you commit something to the paper, there’s absolutely no chance you’d remember anything, no matter how important it might be, right? (more…)
Why Burn Money on these Foods when You Can Make them at Home?
Let’s face it, not all of us have the money to walk into a supermarket and buy virtually everything that catches our eye. The average person works on a really tight budget and with the economy taking a nosedive, it has only become tighter. The amount of planning, strategizing, budgeting, and choosing that goes into meeting your family’s food requirements is nothing short of amazing. As a result, if there is any way you can save money on unnecessary expenses, I’m sure you’d like to know. In this article, let’s look at some of the more common packaged vegetable we tend to buy and see why exactly you shouldn’t drop them into your shopping cart from now on. (more…)
The Art of Fixing Common Kitchen Bloopers – Without Breaking into Sweat
If you’ve spent any amount of time in the kitchen, you’d know that for every one dish you manage to cook perfectly, there are at least half a dozen kitchen bloopers you’ve had to survive. A kitchen where there aren’t occasional mistakes isn’t a kitchen at all, and even the best chefs are not above admitting to the occasional “oopsy-doopsy” they end up making in their career. In fact, they will console you by pointing out that it’s all part of the inescapable learning curve. (more…)
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What’s lurking in your Meat: Probably Staph!
Kitchen credo states that after handling poultry and raw meat you should wash your hands thoroughly to avoid infection that could rise from listeria, salmonella or E.coli contamination. While you are at it, you might as well give your countertops, the cutting boards, and even the faucets a thorough rub, since there is a new enemy in sight – Staphylococcus aureus, also commonly known as staph!
Wondering where you heard that name before? You may recognize this pathogen from the stir it created several years ago when a particularly virulent strain of staph – methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) – caused illness in children leading to tens of thousands of death. (more…)
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The Most “Drunk” Countries in the World
It’s always interesting to notice the relationship people have with alcohol. Some use it as a means to shed their inhibitions and others as an impetus to facilitate social interactions. In some countries alcohol is a matter of national identity while in others it’s a national problem. (more…)
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