General tips

Oven Tips : Use glass or ceramic pans in ovens. You can turn down the temperature about 25° and foods will cook just as quickly.

Buy Seasonal Food : Most food, from fruit to fish, has a season -a time when it is abundant and at its best. Knowledge about food's seasons was once essential to survival and became culturally ingrained over the centuries. Today, we have all but lost this accumulated wisdom, but it still matters! Buy local and seasonal to guarantee the best quality food you can get.

Losing weight

The Glycaemic Index Diet
The gi (or glycaemic index) weight loss program is reliant on the glycaemic index, a chart showing food types and a score representing the speed that the glucose in the food type gets changed to glucose in your system. The claim is that long-acting food types (ie those foods with a low Gi number), keep you satiated for longer and help to injest less food without feeling hungry.
It's also very useful for diabetics, as the low GI foods are beneficial in controlling surges in glucose levels.

My Recipe File

I have always loved coming up with great recipe ideas for my family and friends - it gives me a nice warm feeling inside that I can't really explain.

I hate serving up the same boring old meals week-in-week-out, and so I try to experiment with exotic recipes from all over the world. When I find a great recipe idea that my family love it goes straight into my recipe database and gets used again (eventually)

I know I am not alone in feeling, and cooking, this way, so I decided to put all of my personal recipe collection on-line so that others can try them as well.

Please note - I have not tried cooking all of them (how could I, there are thousands!), but most of them come from the public domian, people I know and friends on the old usenet news groups.

If you have favorite recipes of you own that you want to share, please send them to me and I will add them to the collection.

If you know of any other food and cooking sites that are interesting, send me an e-mail and I will add them to my Really Cool Stuff page.

For now, here are a few random 'Recipes of the Day'

Frozen Cookie-Wiches
	Category : Baking Recipes Views : 60 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Olive& Rosemary Flat Bread
	Category : Baking Recipes Views : 48 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Calla Lilies
	Category : Baking Recipes Views : 66 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Ambrosia Cake
	Category : Baking Recipes Views : 47 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Fajitas-On-A-Stick
	Category : Beef Recipes Views : 40 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Peanut Butter Cookies No. 2
	Category : Baking Recipes Views : 37 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Snails Cauderan / Escargots a La Cauderan
	Category : Appetizer Recipes Views : 54 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Grilled Lemon-And-Gin Marinated Chicken
	Category : BBQ Recipes Views : 55 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Basic Creamed Corn
	Category : Appetizer Recipes Views : 43 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Cranberry Orange MuffinsNo.2
	Category : Baking Recipes Views : 74 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Quick Banana Bread
	Category : Baking Recipes Views : 55 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Creamed Lobster and Clams
	Category : Appetizer Recipes Views : 42 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Cajun Shepherds Pie
	Category : Beef Recipes Views : 43 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Benne Seed Cookies
	Category : Baking Recipes Views : 51 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin
Apple Butter Pie
	Category : Baking Recipes Views : 62 Ratings : 0 Added by : Admin

Some More Recipe Sites

Recipe Cookbook
A recipe cookbook with some really easy free recipes.

Recipe Ideas
A great recipe collection site with more tasty recipes