Put out a plate of homemade brownies and that plate will soon be empty. It doesn’t matter if it’s a plain chocolate brownie or a gourmet brownie – eating brownies just makes us feel good. Here’s a selection of great brownie recipes for your enjoyment. Frosted Fudge Brownies – Made with unsweetened baking chocolate, vanilla, chopped pecans and topped with…
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Great Mocha Coffee From A Coffee Maker
When you are dealing with a drink like coffee, one of the great advantages is that is such an old an time honored drink that thousands of recipes are available for it. You can make many of them with a cappuccino machine. You can try Caribbean coffee, Mexican mocha, Cuban cubano, and grog, or Viennese, Turkish and Vietnamese coffees. There…
Why Low Glycemic Foods
Some currently popular eating plans like The Perricone Prescription, A Week in the Zone and The Protein Power Lifeplan recommend low glycemic foods. The theory is that sugar and high glycemic carbs that rapidly convert to sugar trigger a release of insulin to control the level of sugar in the bloodstream. Excess sugar in the bloodstream is inflammatory and causes…
The Importance Of Blood Sugar And Sugar Alcohol
Why is blood sugar so important for your body? Energy. That’s right. Blood sugar provides the body with energy that your body needs to function properly. Glucose (comes from sugar) helps fuel and replenish the body so that it processes like it should. Besides giving your body energy and stabilizing it, you may ask, “Why is blood sugar really important?”…
What Is E85 Ethanol And How Is It Made
With gasoline prices rising higher and higher, with no relief in sight, consumers are becoming more aware of and more interested in alternative fuel sources. One of those viable fuel sources is E85 ethanol. These days, there is quite a bit of talk about this fuel, and why shouldn’t there be? After all, it costs close to thirty five percent…
Delicious Desserts
A “Dessert” is a meal course that usually comes after dinner. Most often Dessert foods are of sweet food but can also be of a strongly flavored food, such as cheese, like cheese cake. The world dessert comes from the Old French word “desservir”, which means ‘to clear the table’. Often times in the English language dessert is confused with…
Are You Sugar Scrubbing Yet
Sugar Scrubbing is a gentle way to exfoliate the skin just about anywhere on your body. A basic sugar scrub includes of course sugar and some sort of liquid and lotion or moisturizer. For a very simple sugar scrub mix some sugar with enough of your favorite body lotion to form a paste that’s easy to rub into you skin.…
How To Get Clear Beautiful Looking Skin Part 1
The following substances (discussed below) need to be removed from your diet However, it takes the body time to adjust and only after a couple of months will you get a true and fair picture of whether removing these foods is having an impact. Also, be disciplined if you want a true picture of whether these foods help to cause…
Insulin Is An Anabolic Polypeptide Hormone
Insulin is an anabolic polypeptide hormone that regularizes carbohydrate metabolism that is medically used to take care of some types of diabetes mellitus. Insulin consists of 51 amino acid residues and its molecular weight is 5808 Da. Insulin works by lowering blood sugar (glucose) levels. It is a fast-acting form of insulin than regular human insulin. Naturally, Insulin is released…
Some Irish Recipes To Celebrate St Patrick S Day
St. Patrick’s Day is March 17th, and it is a “day for wearing green” and other Irish traditions. Even though the patron saint St. Patrick was not born in Ireland, everything that is Green (which symbolizes spring and the prospering of the crops), fun and Irish can be worn or used to celebrate this holiday. And it is a holiday…