Good Eats: Healthy tip #3

Substitutions for Alcohol in Cooking

In soups and entrees:

instead of dry (unsweetened) red wine

try: water, beef broth, tomato juice, diluted cider vinegar or red wine vinegar, or liquid drained from canned mushrooms

instead of dry (unsweetned) white wine

try: water, chicken broth, gingerale, white grape juice, or white wine vinegar

In cheese dishes such as fondue or rarebit:

try: chicken broth, white grape juice or gingerale

In Desserts:

instead of brandy, try: apple cider, peach or apricot syrup

instead of rum, try: pineapple juice, syrup flavored with almond extract

instead of sherry, try: orange juice, pineapple juice

instead of kirsch, try: syrup or juice of black cherries, grapes, raspberries, currants or cherry cider

instead of cognac, try: juice from peaches, apricots or pears

instead of cointreau, try: orange juice, concentrated frozen OJ

instead of creme de menthe, try: spearmint extract or oil of spearmint, dilute with a little water or grapefruit juice

instead of red burgundy, try: grape juice

instead of white burgundy, try: white grape juice

instead of champagne, try: gingerale

instead of claret, try: grape juice, currant juice or cherry cider

For Flambes or flaming desserts

try: sugar cubes in lemon extract, set atop dessert and light on fire

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Healthy tip #3

This one if for all the "pickers" out there (I am a HUGE picker). I kinda subscribe to the philosophy of one for you, one for me. Not cool when cooking. So here is a tip I learned from doing Weight Watchers...pull out the bag of carrots and munch on those when cooking. Whenever you feel the need to pick, shove a carrot in. It really works!

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