Monday, October 3, 2011

Homemade Sugarless Candy Recipes

Candy making can be a very interesting, innovative and fun filled task to perform. If you are an experienced cook and have been trying a lot of recipes in your kitchen or you are just new in the world of cooking, you are in need of paying attention to some really important tips and techniques, when you are going to make candies at home. Sugarless candies are also becoming too popular. People who have diabetes, they cannot eat sugar and those who are on diet, even they say no to sugar. For all such people, sugar free candies are the right options.

Eating a candy is something, which everybody likes to do. Kids eat their favorite candies in order to do snacking all through the day. It is the same case with some of those adults, who have sweet tooth. If you cannot eat sweet candies because of any of the reasons, then there is nothing to feel that you would not be able to eat a candy ever in your life. Candies free of sugar can do nothing wrong to your health and figure. You can get your hands on these candies without worrying at all. Here you will learn to make sugar free candies. Read the instructions given in the following points carefully and learn how to make candies free of sugar.

You need to have 1 ½ cup sugar free syrup, 1 cup of Maltitol, 1/4 tsp candy flavor oil, food color, saucepan, candy thermometer, plastic wrappers of different colors and candy molds.
Mix the sugar syrup and malttitol in a small sized saucepan and heat it on medium flame.
Put the candy thermometer in the pan and bring the temperature of this mixture till 300 degree Fahrenheit.
Keep one thing in your mind that the thermometer should not touch the bottom of your sauce pan.
Once the mixture of sugarless candy is heated till the required temperature, you are supposed to take the pan off the flame.
Now add few drops of flavor and color of your choice in the mixture and mix it well.
Make sure that you add both these ingredients right after the syrup stops to boil.
Pour this mixture in candy molds.
Put the moulds in your refrigerator and keep it there for at least 2 hours.
Take out the candies from the refrigerator and wrap each one of them in colorful wrappers.
In order to make sure that the sugar free candy pieces, which you have made stays fresh for longer; put them in an airtight jar.

This recipe shows that it is not difficult to make candies without sugar.




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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Sweet and Healthy Low Calorie Desert Recipes

Many of us are fond of eating sweets. Actually, it's the delicious way of enjoying traditional treats. Obviously, when talking about sweets, desserts are usual things that come up in our mind. Generally, deserts contain high amount of sugar and fats. No matter how healthy your lifestyle is, time will come that you will look for something sweet to eat. On the other hand, there are low calorie dessert recipes that you can try.

For many individuals who want to keep their selves healthy and slim, there are two options. The first one is to stop eating deserts. Yes, it's easy to say but it's quite tricky to do especially for dessert lovers. And the second option is to have low calorie dessert recipes. This can be a good idea. But then, it is important to consider your budget first before deciding. Here are some of the deserts that you can opt to prepare.

Single serving low calorie recipes:

·         Baked Apples - From the saying" an apple a day keeps the doctor away"; apples are rich in vitamins and doesn't contain calories. This delicious treat is ideal for the whole family. The recipe is actually very simple. Just core and slice apples into two. Mix it with cinnamon, granola trapping and natural sugar. Place the mixture in a small bowl. Bake for about 10-15 minutes until softened.

·         Frozen banana bites - bananas are not just for banana splits. It could become a healthy desert by mixing several ingredients. All you need is a single banana, 1.5 tbsp of white chocolate and 15 chocolate chips. No baking. Just cover the cookie sheet with a wax paper as it will be place in the freezer sooner. Cut the banana in half and arrange it on the plate or a sheet. After that, you can place 1 chocolate chip on each half. For the meantime, dissolve the white chocolate and wait for about 15-20 seconds until it's totally melted. Place it on the freezer and wait for about 20-25 minutes before serving.

Multiple serving Low calorie recipes:

Chocolate Cream with Strawberries

Ingredients:

·         150 grams strawberries (12 pieces)

·         1 tsp gelatin

·         1 tsp vanilla essence

·         1 tsp castor sugar

·         300 gram soft tofu

·         2 egg whites

·         2 tbsp pure cocoa

Preparation:

Melt the gelatin by adding cool liquid on it. Then, Mix the cocoa with 60ml hot water until it melts. Add the steam tofu with the vanilla essence and the cocoa mixture. Place it in a medium-size bowl together with the gelatin. Beat the egg whites until it starts getting dense. Add sugar and beat until it looks glossy. Mix the chocolate cream and let it cool down before serving.

Poached Apples In Grape And Mango Syrup

Ingredients:

·         5 - 10 firm apples

·         4 cloves

·         500g white grapes (20 to 30 pieces)

·         1 tbsp honey

·         1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

·         250 g low-fat yogurt

·         1/2 l mango juice

·         1/2 l white grape juice

Preparation:

Place the mango juice and white grape juice with the cloves. Make sure that the pot is large enough for the apples. Peel the apples then put them in a pot. Boil for at least 35 to 40 minutes until the apples soften. Remove the pot from the stove and let the apples cool down. Add the syrup and reduce the heat for at least 40-50 minutes. Meanwhile, mix the cinnamon, honey and yogurt in a small bowl. Put the apples on a small plate together with the yogurt mixture. Arrange the grapes side by side in the plate. Pour the syrup to the place. Let it cool down before serving.

There's nothing wrong to be tempt with sweet deserts. As long as you rely on low calorie desert recipes, you can enjoy delicious deserts and maintain healthy diet at the same time. The only technique to reduce the amount of sugar and fat products is to mix it with fruits as much as possible.




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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Restaurant Food Supplies

If your restaurant is equipped with all necessary restaurant food supplies, you can run your business successfully. Catering to the varied tastes of your regular customers and organizing special dinners, luncheons, parties and buffets depends on quality supplies.

Essential Restaurant Food Supplies

Restaurant food supplies are readymade foods that a restaurant needs. These are foods that your busy restaurant may not have the time to make, but are necessary for the preparation of certain dishes. They could also include ready-to-eat foodstuff. A restaurant food supply list could have items that range from ethnic and regional specialties to organic and gluten-free products. Some of the products that could feature in the list are:

• Cooking sauces
• Drinks
• Ice cream mix
• Gelatin dessert
• Pudding
• Nuts
• Cake and brownie mixes
• Cheese
• Chips and crackers
• Salad dressings
• Sushi items
• Spices
• Wasabi powder
Food coloring
Food thickeners
• Fillings for pies and pastry
• Cake mix
• Sprinkles
• Starch and sugar

Special Supplies to Delight Your Customers

If you want your customers to enjoy delightful breakfast, be sure to include breakfast supplies such as cereals, frosted mini wheat, Chex, and Cherios in your food menu lists. Sandwich cookies, oatmeal cookies, chocolate cookies, cinnamon cookies and Chinese fortune cookies can feature as dessert or in kids' menus.

Rice is a common dish in Asian, Thai, Japanese and Chinese restaurant menus. Therefore, eateries usually stock different varieties of rice such as sweet rice, long grain rice, polished yellow kokuhu rice, medium-grain rice, Thai jasmine rice, brown rice and sushi rice.

Pep up Your Dishes

Most restaurant dishes taste good because of the gravy and sauce on the meat and vegetables. The wide variety of such products available in the market include brown gravy, turkey gravy, beef gravy, chicken gravy and biscuit gravy from top brands such as Campbells, Ach Food, and Continental Mills.

Pasta and Noodles

Pasta is a favorite food and is now appreciated by people of different cultures. Therefore, stocking different kinds of pasta food products makes your food service more impressive. Having an adequate supply of different kinds of noodles is important if your customers are passionate about Chinese or Thai cuisine.

Benefit from Affordable Rates

Equipping your settings with all the necessary restaurant food supplies is easy if you depend on an established supplier. Most reliable online restaurant supply stores supply products at wholesale prices and also offer attractive discounts for bulk restaurant supply purchases.Catering to the varied tastes of your customers and organizing special dinners, luncheons, parties and buffets depends on the availability of quality restaurant food supplies




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