Top 10 Foods

Over 2000 years ago Hippocrates said ‘Let food be your medicine and your medicine be your food’. Food fascinates me! The healing properties and the detrimental aspects intrigue me. Which leads me to my Top 10 foods; these are equally due to the preventative and healing properties: as well as the taste! [10] CHOCLATE; I like chocolate occasionally. However, for me I find the qualities contained within quite amusing! Thus chocolate making it into my top 10 !!! ~ One of the major ingredients of the cocoa bean is a stimulating chemical; theobromine. This makes chocolate a mild diuretic and a ... more

Let me start with an apology and the explanation. The list below is not a list of favourite foods; being a food-obssesive with all the good and bad aspects of that obsession I cannot possibly write a list of 10 favourite foods. However, let me introduce to some foodstuffs that are available in virtually every corner shop and greengrocer in Poland but are either not available here or difficult to find, expensive or, simply terribly underused and underrated. 1) SOUR CHERRIES. I still cannot believe that there is actually a fruit which simply does not seem to exist in Britain in a fresh form. I ... more

"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." G K Chesterton, as quoted by SkyPhoenix. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * While ogling SkyP’s glamorous pic (Well worth a peek, lads, she’s a wick- ed looking blonde and no mistake; In fact, she’s worth a double-take) I spied she’d quoted, just beneath, From Chesterton – that’s Gilbert Keith – A line to the effect that cheese Has been subjected to a squeeze, Edged out by poets right and left, Cold-shouldered, spurned and shunned, bereft Of rhymed attention, small or large. Hard luck, you might ... more

Hello? I am Hungary... sorry hungry.... So I am going to tell you what I am going to eat today, that is as at the time I am writing this. Welcome to my kitchen.... It is a pity you are not going to know what I am going to eat tomorrow, or anybody want to try? Who... who.... ok, you, tell me... you don’t know?... Ok... Neither do I, so let tomorrow come, then we’ll (you and I) decide. Jesus said that you should not be anxious about tomorrow, because tomorrow is full of its own anxieties itself, including what we are going to eat. Full stop. Hey, sorry for that diversion, where are ... more

MY 10 MOST TASTIEST FOODS I do love expressing some of the food I enjoy...from home made dishes to oriental takeaway, from tasty snacks to gorgeous treats. Here are my 10 most enjoyable foods... 1. Home made pasta There's nothing I love more than making my own pasta dish, I'm like a master chef in my own kitchen. I love to create, prepare and serve my own special meals with certain ingredients, every time I try my hands at preparing something new 9 times out of 10 it looks and tastes exquisite. I've been cooking my own pasta dish for many years now, and every time it's prepared it just taste ... more