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Spring is finally here and I'm getting excited for some lighter seasonal foods. This is a great recipe that works with any type of meat or all by itself. I usually like to pair the dish with grilled or sautéed seafood or grilled chicken marinated in curry. Whenever legumes like kidney beans are paired with grains like rice, wheat, or corn they form a complete protein. Beans and rice aren't something you could subsist on alone indefinitely, but they're a great healthy meal that can be accompanied by other vegetables and fruits if you want to avoid meat and stay…

How is apple cider made? Per Wikipedia: Cider used to be a laborious process involving a trough fashioned from stone or wood and a circulating wheel to crush the apples. A large manual screw-press was used to express the juice from the pulp. Straw was commonly used to contain the pulp during pressing, later replaced by coarse cloth. The Palmer Bros. Company, of Cos Cob, CT, made the most popular "modern" rack and cloth press from the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s, when production shifted to OESCO in Massachusetts. As technology advanced, rotary drum "scratters" came into use. Today,…

Bragg's apple cider vinegar is a gift in this world. Apple cider vinegar is made by fermenting crushed apples in yeast which converts the sugar to alcohol. Then bacteria is added to ferment the alcohol into acetic acid. It tends to have a web-like appearance and needs shaken before use. The web you see is the mother culture which is the key to all the goodness in the cider. Good probiotics. 🙂 Weight Loss Apple cider vinegar has acetic acid, which is thought to attribute to its weight loss qualities. It lowers blood sugar levels, decreases insulin levels, improves metabolism,…