poddys/cooking

This is a great ranch dressing mix, which is lower in sodium and without the preservatives found in the commercial brands. This dressing mix not only makes a good salad dressing and dip, it is also good as a sauce on cooked vegetables, baked potatoes, fish, poultry and meat.

From the page: "Quinoa, a grain-like seed from the South American Andes, is gaining in popularity in North America because of its delicious taste, versatility and nutritional benefits. Here is a method of cooking quinoa that comes out perfect every time."

Butternut squash is a wonderful vegetable that is brimming with beta-carotene and other nutrients. Here is a very simple recipe for a delicious gingery butternut squash soup. Make up a batch today and watch your family devour it.

Until I learned about green smoothies, I found it very challenging to consume enough fruits and vegetables everyday. If you have a good blender, you can easily make a delicious and nutritious green smoothie. Your body will love you for it.

Breakfast food can comprise just about anything, and in different countries people have their own ideas about what to eat for breakfast.

In France, for example, a typical breakfast might consist of a croissant or some french bread, black coffee served in what looks like a cereal bowl, and it's for dipping the bread in as well as drinking.

That's a bit too basic for me, although if there is some good fresh bread around, several really thick slices with butter makes a great breakfast.

Somewhere up on Mount Olympus the gods are smiling when they see supermarket shoppers pull Greek yogurt from the dairy shelves. They might even be getting a chuckle to know that after thousands of years Americans are just beginning to appreciate the joys of Greek yogurt, that fabulously rich and thick version that some consumers find superior to runny American yogurt.

During the past 10 years yogurt sales have tripled, according to yogurt maker Fage, but the Greek yogurt segment has exploded. Greek-style yogurt sales have increased 50 percent in the past year, according to information from the natural, organic and specialty food industry. Fage, Oikos, Chobani and Greek Gods are just some of the Greek yogurt brands sharing shelf space with familiar yogurt products. Aphrodite must be working hard to stir up the love for Greek yogurt.