Pizza Reddi Pizza Supplies

Pasta salad that’s low in carbs? How can that be? I make pasta salads with Miracle Noodles, also called shirataki noodles, which are zero calorie foods. Although the noodles come in different shapes, I like the rigatoni best for making carb-free and no-carb pasta salads. I usually make a pretty big bowl at the time, so I use several packs of the Miracle Noodles. Here’s how I do it:

I rinse three or four packs of noodles with hot water, in a large strainer. I toss the noodles well to remove as much water as possible. I combine the noodles with diced green onion, chopped celery, diced red bell pepper, chopped broccoli, diced tomatoes, and minced garlic. I then make a dressing of mayonnaise, vinegar, artificial sweetener, salt, pepper, basil, and parsley. Sometimes I add cubed cooked chicken, turkey, ham, or small shrimp to the salad. I toss all the ingredients with the dressing and cover the bowl with a tight-fitting lid. I then let the salad stay in the fridge until it’s cold.

If you want a pasta salad that’s even lower in calories, you can use zero calorie foods from Walden Farms to decrease the overall calorie count and fat significantly. Try using their mayonnaise, one of their flavored mayonnaises, or one of their salad dressings to your pasta salad. In fact, you might want to combine their zero calorie mayonnaise with one of the no calorie salad dressings to make your pasta salad dressing. You can create some interesting flavor combinations by doing so.

Where can I find the Aroma Cool-Touch Rice Cooker lowest price? My wife has been strongly hinting these last few days that this is what she wants for Christmas. After 20 years of marriage, I can now finally tell when she is hinting for a gift. In order to save money, she has been doing a lot more cooking, and since she enjoys rice dishes, a new rice cooker would make perfect sense to own.

Thankfully she isn’t the type of person who likes all of the gadgets and doodads on an appliance. This model is fairly simple, but it does exactly what we need it to do.

What she will really like is the warming feature. This way she can set it up to cook, and when it is ready, it will automatically switch over to warm mode. This way she doesn’t have to keep checking on it.

I’m looking online now for the best deal on this rice cooker. Instead of going to the mall, shopping online is much easier and quicker. Plus I can do quick price comparisons with each different site. Like I said, I’m trying to save money and shopping like this will certainly save me money.

For the last few years I’ve been living and working in a small village in the French countryside.  When I arrived it felt like I’d stepped back a few decades in time.  Everything closes all day Sunday (and at noon on Saturday).  The Internet is dial-up.  The roads are terrible, and I’m always escaping from being run over by tractors. 

The old fashioned way of life here can be a little annoying, but there’s one aspect of life here that I have no urge to give up: the kitchen.

My kitchen here is just incredible.  The room itself is enormous, taking up a good portion of the house (the French prioritise well).  There’s a huge range oven against one wall.  A monstrous thick wooden table squats in the middle of the room, constantly loaded with fish waiting to be gutted and poultry waiting to be plucked.  On a row of brass hooks hang a line of flour sack dish towels, each powdered in a layer of flour from the last time they were used to slide a fresh loaf of bread into the oven.

Kitchens these days seem to have become places geared towards speed and convenience.  Gadgets are everywhere, and cookery is soulless.  All I’d say is that you should come see my kitchen in the heart of France.  You’ll fall in love with cookery all over again.