Showing posts with label Preservatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Preservatives. Show all posts
HELLO CHESTNUTS & Homemade Chicken Broth
Every winter it seems my family finds a new soup recipe to enjoy for the season. And this past week my sister found an amazing one in Chesnut Soup, right out of the Fine Cooking magazine. OH MY GOD, was this delicious and worth the hours or soaking, scoring, roasting, peeling and crushing the chestnuts! It was like we were living in the olden days (which is actually the way it should be when it comes to food)! We all believe that the soup was so delicious because my mom made a homemade chicken broth for the soup base, a recipe straight from the Barefoot Contessa cookbook. We in the Huwer household are not strangers to homemade broth, but Ina Garten's recipe tops them all. We took her recipe, "organified" it, and it was the most amazing, richest broth that we all have ever tasted.
In my family, we always try to use homemade organic chicken broth to avoid the MSG, preservatives and the salt that you get with canned broth. It is hard to find a brand that actually makes MSG-free broth besides Swanson, but we still love to make our own because the homemade flavor is BA-zillion times better.
Check out the recipe for chicken broth that we made here. Note, the recipe calls for 3, 5-pound chickens. We used one 5-pound chicken and left all of the other ingredients as is.
I suggest you also check out the recipe for Chestnut Soup. YUM! It is such a hearty and sophisticated soup for a cold winter day. Actually it will be perfect for the Nor'easter that is heading our way for New Year's!!
Chestnut Soup
And thanks to Chestnuts On Line I discovered that chestnuts have a high water content which makes them unlike any other nut. They are considered very "unnutty" because they are low in calories and fat. Chestnuts On Line dubs them the nut for the "nutrition-conscious person." They are also low in cholesterol, high in Vitamin C and the mineral Magenese. Can I say YES?!
Chestnuts!
Oh, Preserv-ed Girl Scout Cookies
Tonight I am home alone. My dinner, a light and unsatisfying meal, has been consumed. The Yankee game is on but it is not enough to tide me over for the night. I need something. And something I found…nestled deep in my kitchen cabinet: Year-old Caramel Delight Girl Scout cookies.
A year old! And still these cookies tasted like they were baked yesterday. Never has freshness been such a massive turn-off. I allowed myself to indulge in 2 cookies before turning over the box to be horrified. NO, I did not read the fat or calorie content. I went right to the list of ingredients, or rather preservatives. And this is exactly how the list read.
Ingredients: Sugar, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid) corn syrup, vegetable shortening (palm, partially hydrogenated palm kernel, and/or coconut oils) coconut, sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugar) high fructose corn syrup, contains less than 2% of: sorbital, dextrose, cocoa (processed with alkali) whey, glycerine, salt, leavening (sodium bicarbonate ammonium bicarbonate monocalcium phosphate) soy lechithin, natural and artificial flavors, artificial color (red #40 lake, yellow #5 lake, blue #1 lake, blue#2 lake).
Gross and gross! This list is the very example of ingredients we need to avoid. Spell check cannot even process these words, let alone our bodies!
So I am glad to have been the guinea pig for tonight’s post! Tomorrow I will be hitting the grocery store and stocking up on some healthy snacks (dried fruit, nuts, yogurt, granola bars). The box of once beloved Caramel Delights is now in the trash and my kitchen is already a much safer place.
What evil foods do you have hiding in your kitchen cabinets?
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