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Smorgasbord Health Column 2024 – This Year’s Focus – Cardiovascular Disease – The Circulatory System – The Cholesterol Myth – Part One – Statins, Heart Disease, Statistics by Sally Cronin
  The primary cause of death of men and women globally is cardiovascular disease, with heart attacks, coronary heart disease and strokes resulting in deaths in not just the elderly but increasing numbers under 75 years old and particularly in the 45 – 60 years age bracket. The older I get, the more I become aware of life’s fragility …I look around me. Both family and friends are leaving this…
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carolcooks2 · 7 days
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – A-Z…World Cuisine… Part 6 – Brazil – Pequi fruit and Feijoada by Carol Taylor
Welcome to the rerun of my A-Z of World Cuisines…where I will be looking at the countries of the world, their food and national dish or their most popular dish around the world…by this I mean some dishes are eaten in many countries as their fame has spread around the world…My thanks as always go to Sally of Smorgasbord Magazine who is kindly rerunning this series I hope you enjoy these virtual…
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carolcooks2 · 9 days
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CarolCooks2...Green Tomato Chutney...
Tomatoes…come the end of the tomato season there was always a glut of green tomatoes in our house some would be on every sunny windowsill in the house in the hope they would ripen and the others would be made into chutney…Last week I shared my mother’s red chutney recipe and today as we have lots of green tomatoes here I am sharing her green chutney recipe…of course, my mother used malt vinegar…
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carolcooks2 · 15 days
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CarolCooks2…A-Z World Cuisines…Part 36…India...Once known as the Golden Bird...
Welcome to part 36 of my virtual world tour of cuisines…Today I am taking you on a virtual tour of India…India is a country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. India comprises 28 states and eight union territories, and its national capital is New Delhi, built in the 20th century just south of the historic hub of Old Delhi… India was named the ‘golden bird’ because of its abundant raw…
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carolcooks2 · 18 days
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CarolCooks2...Homemade Red Tomato Chutney...
Tomatoes …there is nothing like the taste and smell of freshly picked tomatoes…A member of the nightshade family (along with aubergines, peppers and chillies), tomatoes are actually a fruit, but their versatility for pairing with other savoury ingredients means that they are usually classed as a vegetable… I remember my father growing tomatoes and how fussy and finicky they were about the soil…
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carolcooks2 · 22 days
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – A-Z…World Cuisine… Part 5 – Australia…Is not just Roos and Vegemite! by Carol Taylor
  Hello and good morning…here is the next instalment of my A-Z of World Cuisine…Part 5.  Australia is a beautiful country with such diverse cuisine I hope you enjoy your virtual tour and if you are reading this for the second time I hope you are enjoying the rerun as much as I am it’s lovely to recap… My thanks go out to Sally not only for rerunning this series while I work on my cookbooks but…
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carolcooks2 · 27 days
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My Green and Healthy Kitchen…March 2024...Is your honey really honey or fake? Parmesan Cheese Rinds, Homemade Sundried Tomato Pesto, Egg Shells? 3D Steaks!
Hello and welcome to March’s edition of my Green and Healthy Kitchen 2024…where I aim to cook chemical-free food, food that is in season and grown either by myself or purchased locally …where you will never see the calorie content of a recipe as I believe you should count chemicals and not calories and to be honest there are plenty of calories counters online if that’s your thing… mine is I eat…
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – A-Z…World Cuisine… Part 4 – Austria Coffee and Apfelstrudel by Carol Taylor
  Welcome to the rerun of my A-Z of World Cuisines…where I will be looking at the countries of the world, their food and national dish or their most popular dish around the world…by this I mean some dishes are eaten in many countries as their fame has spread around the world…Sally is very kindly rerunning this series from the beginning… Today I am looking at the cuisine of Austria… To read the…
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CarolCooks2…A-Z World Cuisines…Part 35…Hungary...
  Welcome to part 35 of my virtual world tour of cuisines…Today I am taking you on a virtual tour of Hungary a landlocked country in Central Europe… No sea but Hungary’s two longest rivers… The Danube and Tisza divide Hungary into three parts: Transdanubia (to the west of the Danube), the plain between the Rivers Danube and Tisza, and the Trans-Tisza region (to the east of the Tisza). Hungary’s…
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carolcooks2 · 2 months
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Hung Lay Curry...A Northern Thailand Speciality...
Good afternoon and welcome to CarolCooks2…as you know I am a fan of curry Indian or Thai …Thai curries tend to be made with coconut milk however while browsing curry pastes in a new shop I came across this curry paste not one I had heard of before…when you look at the ingredients in the curry paste there are some familiar ingredients to me when making Indian curries…tales are told of a curry…
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – A-Z…World Cuisine… Part 3 – Albania, The Land of the Eagles…by Carol Taylor –
Welcome to the rerun of my A-Z of World Cuisines…Part 3 where I will be looking at the countries of the world, their food and national dish or their most popular dish around the world…by this I mean some dishes are eaten in many countries as their fame has spread around the world…Today I would like to welcome you to the cuisine of… Albania My thanks go to Sally for re-sharing this series while I…
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My Green and Healthy Kitchen...February 2024...Egg Sizes, Lentil Curry,Thai Long Coriander,Our Water Footprint,
Hello and welcome to February’s edition of my Green and Healthy Kitchen 2024…where I aim to cook chemical-free food, food that is in season and grown either by myself or purchased locally …it also is to minimise waste in the home…my parents were quite hot on the “waste not, want not” turn of phrase. Another aim is to give hints and tips to make life easier in the kitchen and your home…they may be…
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – A-Z…World Cuisine… Part 2 – Antigua and Barbuda by Carol Taylor
Welcome to the rerun of my A-Z of World Cuisines where I will be looking at the countries of the world, their food and national dish or their most popular dish around the world…by this I mean some dishes are eaten in many countries as their fame has spread around the world…I have Chel to thank for giving me some ideas from which this one took shape…Thank you Chel Antigua and Barbuda is an…
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CarolCooks2...A Heartfelt Thank You...x
It’s now ONLY 336 days until Christmas 2024…I have just had a most wonderful review from the lovely Selma and I had to share…I also have to thank everyone else who wrote a review they were all fabulous and I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart…I have blogged and shared recipes for the last 10 years but somehow in my head, there was a yawning chasm between blogging and sharing recipes and…
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CarolCooks2…A-Z World Cuisines…Part 34…Honduras…The Banana Republic...
Welcome to 2024 and the continuation of the A-Z of World Cuisines…where I will be looking at the countries of the world, their food and national dish or their most popular dish around the world…by this I mean some dishes are eaten in many countries as their fame has spread around the world… Scotland and haggis springs to mind…if you are new to this blog and wish to start at the beginning then the…
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carolcooks2 · 3 months
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Thank you Will and Sally for revisiting and sharing x
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A great era for music
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