General cooking tips

Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.


Oven Tips : Cook with the oven door closed. A partially open door wastes energy, costs you money, and warms you instead of the food.


Oven Tips : Fan-forced ovens cost 35% less to run than a conventional electric oven.









Quick Eggplant Recipe
Quick Eggplant Category Pasta Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures
Ingredients
1eacheggplant
1garlic, cloves, minced, to taste
1pepper, freshly ground, to taste
1salt, to taste
1olive oil
1pasta, cooked, hot
1parmesan cheese, grated

Directions:

Bake eggplant in 350 degree oven for one hour (poke holes in first). Take out and let cool, the eggplant will deflate like a balloon. When slightly cool, peel and smush up with fork. Add garlic, fresh ground pepper and salt if you want. Reheat in just a tiny bit of olive oil in a non-stick skillet. Serve over pasta with a little grated parmesan. This is a great easy afterwork recipe.
 
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