Food Tip of the Day - Monday, September 14th, 2009: How to Peel an Avocado

Avocadoes are not only delicious, refreshing and extremely nutritious, they are also very versatile in the ways in which we can use them in our cooking and food preparation. The reason why many people are put off using avocadoes in their dishes is simply the fact that they are notoriously difficult to peel and de-pip.

The article below explains how to peel an avocado and remove the pip in the most effective fashion.

How to peel an avocado

Food Tip of the Day - Sunday, August 30th, 2009: How to Can Green Beans

I have today decided that as well as continuing to provide lots of ideas on this blog as to what you can have for dinner tonight, I will in addition provide lots of little snippets of information in some way related to food. These snippets may relate to how to prepare certain types of food, they may relate to the nutritional value of certain types of food or they may simply relate to multiple tasty recipes for a certain type of food.

As we head in to the latter part of summer here in the Northern Hemisphere, I have decided to begin by looking at the practise of how to can green beans that we may continue to enjoy them in that almost fresh state throughout the winter months.

How to Can Green Beans