Recipes

A Pasta Meal in a Flash, Quick and Easy Recipes

Pasta meals are pretty easy to cook. The pasta itself just needs to be placed in boiling water and can be cooked in 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the type of pasta of course. And while the pasta is boiling you can already prepare your desired sauce, whether it may be tomato based, pesto or cream based, you can be finished in now time. You can have a pasta meal in a flash, provided you know what you’re doing.

To those experienced in the kitchen, this kind of meal is easy to make. But to the novices might still find pasta a little daunting or troublesome. One thing that you should watch out when cooking pasta is the noodles. You need to test every now and then to see if the noodles are done. The pasta cooks pretty quickly and leaving it too long can result to soggy noodles.

Avoid placing the pasta when the water is not yet boiling. This will help prevent the pasta from becoming all mushy, soft and sticky. Also, keep the water at a boil at all times. You can help make the pasta firmer if you add salt into the boiling water. Note that you should not cover the pot when you already placed the pasta. When the pasta is done, take it off the boiling water. The pasta will continue to cook if you leave it there. With that, one half of your pasta meal is done. The other half would be the sauce.

The good thing about pasta is having several choices for sauces. Actually, at some point you will be stomped on what kind of sauce to make due to the varieties. If you’re a pasta person then having a couple of sauces stored in your refrigerator would be the best ways to go. If you have pesto, you can use that to sauce your pasta. Add additional garlic, some mushrooms or even Italian sausages and topped with cheese and you can have a good meal.

Bottled or canned sun-dried tomatoes can go well with pasta. I always try to have some sun-dried tomatoes ready since you can just pour it over your pasta and voila! A tomato based pasta without the traditional tomato sauce and pastes. Top with grated cheese and partnered with bread and you can have a fulfilling meal in no time.

If you want a cream-based sauce, just prepare some sliced olives, cream, oregano and grated cheese. Mix the cream, olives and oregano together with your pasta and finish off with grated cheese on top. A simple cream-based pasta but can be quite joyous to the palette.

Olive oil is also a staple sauce for pasta and can be quite easy to use as well. You can mix olive oil with canned seafood or slices of meat or sausages to create a sauce for your pasta. You can add basil for flavor and don’t forget the grated cheese. If you want to experiment, try adding spicy flavored meat or canned seafood. Spicy pasta may not be for everyone but still a good dish in my account.

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A pasta meal in a flash is really just that. In a span of 15 to 20 minutes you would have already prepared a good, hearty meal of pasta in either tomato, cream or olive-based sauce. It is a quick meal that I personally won’t get tired of.

John Caldecott.

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Creamy Garlic Pasta with Shrimp & Vegetables

Toss a garlicky, Middle Eastern-inspired yogurt sauce with pasta, shrimp, asparagus, peas and red bell pepper for a fresh, satisfying summer meal. Serve with: Slices of cucumber and tomato tossed with lemon juice and olive oil.

Servings: 4 servings, about 2 cups each
Total Time: 30 minutes
Ease of Preparation: Easy.

Health: Low Calorie, High Fiber, Low Sat Fat, High Potassium, High Calcium, Heart Healthy, Healthy Weight, Diabetes Appropriate

Ingredients:

Creamy Garlic Pasta with Shrimp & Vegetables
6 ounces whole-wheat spaghetti
12 ounces peeled and deveined raw shrimp (see Note), cut into 1-inch pieces
1 bunch asparagus , trimmed and thinly sliced
1 large red bell pepper , thinly sliced
1 cup fresh or frozen peas
3 cloves garlic , chopped
1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
1 1/2 cups nonfat or low-fat plain yogurt
1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/4 cup toasted pine nuts (see Tip; optional)

Steps:

1: Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add spaghetti and cook 2 minutes less than package directions. Add shrimp, asparagus, bell pepper and peas and cook until the pasta is tender and the shrimp are cooked, 2 to 4 minutes more. Drain well.

2: Mash garlic and salt in a large bowl until a paste forms. Whisk in yogurt, parsley, lemon juice, oil and pepper. Add the pasta mixture and toss to coat. Serve sprinkled with pine nuts (if using).

Nutrition: (Per serving)

Calories – 385
Carbohydrates – 53
Fat – 6
Saturated Fat – 1
Monounsaturated Fat – 3
Protein – 34
Cholesterol – 168
Dietary Fiber – 10
Potassium – 887
Sodium – 658
Nutrition Bonus – Vitamin C (130% daily value), Vitamin A (71% dv), Folate (60% dv), Iron & Magnesium (35% dv), Calcium & Zinc (28% dv), Potassium (25% dv).

Ingredient Note: Both wild-caught and farm-raised shrimp can damage the surrounding ecosystems when not managed properly.

Look for shrimp certified by an independent agency, such as Wild American Shrimp or Marine Stewardship Council.

If you can’t find certified shrimp, choose wild-caught shrimp from North America—it’s more likely to be sustainably caught.

Tip: To toast pine nuts, place in a small dry skillet and cook over medium-low heat, stirring, until fragrant, 2 to 4 minutes.

Credit goes to: Eating Well Test Clinic.

John Caldecott.
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Fad Diets

Fad diets are a sort of diet plan or aid that aims at losing weight, usually in a relatively short time.

Fad diets attract a large number of people who suffer from weight problems and are helplessly looking to some way of arriving at a shapely physique.

The problem with fad diets is that their fat-reducing effect is temporary and

results in quick regain of weight. What is worse is that most of these diets are harmful to health.

Fad diets are not as new as they might seem at first.

These date back to the mid 19th century when an obese Londoner was prescribed such a diet on experimental basis.

Now, after a century and a half, fad diets have become popular among people with weight problems.

Teens and young adults especially flock to fad diets for answers to weight problems.

Fad diets are usually centered on a higher consumption of fats or proteins while stressing to go easy on or, in some cases, completely cut out carbohydrates.

It is the low intake of carbohydrates that brings about rapid weight loss.

In fact, this rapid loss is the loss of water that glycogen has stored.

With loss of glycogen, the large amount of water stored in it is also lost and body weight drops.

The fats are still there and as the fad diets are given up, the body regains its proportion of water lost.

Weight is put back on as fast as it was lost.

Normally, carbohydrates remain the source of energy for work. With fad diets, the carbs are no longer there so the body starts using the stored fat, breaking it down.

This may appear beneficial but in fact it is not.

In the absence of carbs, fats cannot be completely oxidized and put to work.
Hence, the body feels fatigued and weak.

In addition, the ketone molecules resulting from the fat-breakdown accumulate in the blood and are excreted out via urine, causing dehydration.

Given the harmful health effects of fad diets, it is important for us,

especially the weight-conscious people, to recognize and beware of these diet plans.

Watch out for diets that:

Promise quick weight loss

Publicize before and after pictures

Present weight-loss testimonials Tend to limit natural food choices

Require a large sum of money

Fad diets may be popular, but they can greatly hurt your body. Be careful with

any diet or exercise program and ask your doctor to be sure it is safe.

John Caldecott.

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I want to tell you straight off the bat that the paleo diet is not a diet

designed by diet doctors, faddists, or nutritionists; it is a diet designed by

nature. It is not the latest weight loss program a diet that leaves you craving

tasty foods or a new fad for increasing your energy… The paleo diet is a diet

that gets your body healthy – all the positive results simply fall into place.

* Increased Energy
* Increased Sex Drive
* Clearer, Smoother Skin
* Weight Loss Results
* Better Performance and Recovery
* Stronger Immune System

By eating foods provided by mother nature, foods that were available to our

hunter gatherer ancestors, foods which are basic to our biology and our

digestive system, you can begin to experience these wonderful results in your

health, and many more!

Quite Simply, I Believe This Is The Healthiest
And Most Beneficial Diet We Can Follow

Imagine seeing and feeling more results in your body and health in a week

than you ever have in a lifetime.

These are the results my clients have experienced and that i have experienced as

well – that’s why I’m a huge advocate for the paleo diet and I believe you too

can experience how amazing it is to suddenly be able to go through your days

with more energy, while seeing a happier, healthier body in the mirror.

How can eating natural foods that make up the paleo diet promote such wonderful

results? Simple: It is the nutritional value within each and every single food

source that our body thrives for. It is the vitamins, minerals, protein, fats

and low GI carbohydrates that maintains the health of every organ in our body –

and when everything is functioning optimally, you can’t help but to experience

all the health benefits associated with optimal health.

This is why i have created the Paleo Cookbooks, a total collection of hundreds

of my favorite paleo friendly recipes that will help you follow the healthiest

and most nutritious diet in the world. These Cookbooks contain:

NO

* Pasta
* Bread
* Rice
* Potatoes
* Lentils
* Dairy
* Processed sugar
* Preservatives

Discover How To Create Healthy And Tasty
Meals In Your Own Kitchen!

With these Paleo Cookbooks I will show you that eating healthy meals does

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You will be cooking with fresh ingredients that provide the ultimate range of

delicious flavors that will get anyone rushing to the kitchen to eat your next

meal…

You will be able to cook desserts that aren’t overloaded with sugar and white

flour which often leave you bloated, ‘heavy’ feeling or fatigued after eating…

And you will feel confident cooking delicious recipes without pasta, rice, bread

and dairy.

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for
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rave
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meal:

* Snacks
* Meat
* Chicken
* Fish and Seafood
* Soups
* Salads
* Omellettes
* Desserts

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Special Recipe Categories – Each Paleo Cookbook contains
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* Recipes for the 21st Century Hunter Gatherer
o

Chocolate
o

Capsicum Sandwiches
o

Noodle Recipes

* Paleo Eating for Modern People
o

Breakfast Recipes
o

Foccacias

* Measurement Conversion Table – No matter what metric system
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There is a Reason You Have Never Seen A Picture
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The paleo diet is a natural, utterly-simple way of eating that promotes

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