10 Commandments of life with regard to eating

1. East as often as three times, but it is healthier to eat twice a day. Eat nothing between meals as it is necessary for the stomach to rest.

2. The more simple the food the better it is for the stomach. Choose simple food and have either fruit or vegetable, never both at the same meal. Choose which are in season and produce in the country. The food should be gathered and prepared just before eating.

3. Fruits and vegetables should never be combined. always choose one or the other.

4. the first condition toward good health is to eat leisurely and masticate well. The question of disease or health is settled in the mouth and rests on mastication.

5. Do not drink while eating. Take liquids before or after the meal. Otherwise there will be trouble in digesting.

6. avoid salt as much as possible especially in raw foods because it causes rheumatism and injures the liver and kidneys. Never use vinegar because it is very injurious.

7. Never sweeten milk with sugar because it causes fermentation. If we wish the  milk sweetened we should use honey.

8. Eat more or less of what is most valuable. The majority of persons become sick and die before their time because they continually put something in the stomach, loading it with too much food.

9. Be happy at the table and be thankful to God for all His mercies. Avoid excitement and anger and give the digestive organs an opportunity to function well.

10. Movement is the brother of digestion. If there is scarcity of movement for quite a while we suffer with indigestion and become diseased. If your work is intellectual, never work immediately after eating for it hinders the digestion, thus helping to bring on disease. Without movement we can have neither strength nor health.

Food: Facts – Of Bacon, Fatback and Salt Pork

• -     Bacon is a cut from the side of a pig

• -          Fatback is a cut from the back of a pig and is not salted or smoked.

• -          Salt Pork is a cut from the belly and sides of the pig. It is fattier than the bacon, salt-cured but not smoked. Its saltiness varies; and in order to reduce the saltiness, parboil it before using. Salt pork if tightly wrapped and being kept in a refrigerator may have a food quality lifetime of up to 1 month.

Cooking: Tips - How to make a soup

• -          Do not put salt into a soup until it is cooked and skimmed as the salt prevent the fat from rising.

• -          Fresh parsley lessens the need for salt in soups.

• -          Soup or stew can be more flavorful when onions are sautéed first in butter or oil before adding other ingredients.

• -          When cooking milk or cream soups, cover the pan/cooking container in order to prevent caking or formation of a “skin”.

Cooking: Tips - What to do with very greasy pot of soup

-          When the pot of soup is too greasy, wrap some ice cubes in a plastic bag or use cellophane of ice by dragging it slowly through the surface of the warm soup. The oil will harden and stick to the bag. Wipe the bag and repeat the process if necessary.

Cooking: Tips - What to do with very salty (oversalted) pot of soup

-          When the pot of soup is accidentally oversalted, add 1 or two raw peeled potato/es to the soup and heat it for 5 minutes. The potato/es will absorb some saltiness and can be removed after the 5 minutes heating.

Food: Tips - What to do with hardened or dehydrated cheese in the refrigerator

-          If the cheese is dehydrated of hardened inside the refrigerator, you may grate or cut it in small pieces to be used in cooking or grate it for topping.

Food: Tricks - How to remove nut shells when it got mixed with the nuts

       If working with nuts and the nut shells were mixed with the meats, put the whole mixture into a bowl of water. The shells will float and you can scoop them out. If necessary, stir the thing so that the shells underneath will float that you can scoop out again, repeat the same process until there is no more shells to float. Drain the water and put the nuts to dry before using them.