Grill Recipes: 3 Must-Try Chicken Breast Dishes

Caribbean Style Barbecue Chicken

What you need:

1 1/2 skinless and boneless chicken breasts
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup fresh orange juice
1 tbsp. fresh lime juice
1 tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp. orange zest
1 tsp. minced ginger
1/2 tsp. chopped fresh oregano
1/4 tsp. hot sauce
To make the marinade, combine garlic, orange juice, lime juice, olive oil, orange zest, ginger, oregano and hot sauce in a blender. Blend until smooth. Pour the marinade a large re-sealable plastic bag then add chicken breast. Shake the bag to coat then refrigerate for 2 hours up to overnight. When ready, remove the chicken from the bag and discard excess marinade. Cook in a pre-heated grill over medium-high heat for 6-8 minutes per side or when cooked through. Serve with a side of steamed mixed vegetables if desired.

Saucy Cajun Grilled Chicken

What you need:

2 boneless and skinless chicken breasts, frozen
1/4 head cabbage, shredded
1 carrot, thinly sliced
1 small white onion, cut into rings
2 1/2 cups barbecue sauce
1 cup Italian-style salad dressing
Make sure all vegetables are properly washed. They can be used fresh for this recipe or steamed depending on your preference. Mix together cabbage, carrots and onions in a medium bowl. Pour half of the barbecue sauce over the vegetables. Set aside. Place the frozen chicken in a large re-sealable plastic then pour salad dressing over it. Refrigerate until thawed. When ready, discard excess marinade and cook chicken in a pre-heated grill over medium-high heat for 5 minutes per side or until barely done. Brush with remaining barbecue sauce and grill for a few minutes more until cooked through. Transfer to a serving dish, top with barbecue sauce with fresh or steamed vegetables and serve.

Classic Lemon Chicken Barbecue

What you need:

4 boneless and skinless chicken breast halves
1 cup fresh lemon juice
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. garlic powder

Combine lemon juice, vegetable oil, Worcestershire sauce and garlic powder in a small bowl. Mix until all ingredients are well-blended. Place chicken breasts in a lager bowl and pour lemon mixture over it. Toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least 6 hours. When ready, discard excess marinade and cook chicken in a pre-heated grill over medium-high heat for 6-8 minutes per side or until cooked through. Serve warm.

Serve these quick and easy grilled chicken breast recipes at your next backyard barbecue and they will surely become the crowd favorite!

Strong Bones Through Food

         We all need to have calcium in our diets in order to maintain strong and healthy bones. Many of us are not drinking a glass of milk with dinner, or eating the yogurt we should at snack-time. Sometimes...
We all need to have calcium in our diets in order to maintain strong and healthy bones. Many of us are not drinking a glass of milk with dinner, or eating the yogurt we should at snack-time. Sometimes it doesn't matter that we know we should, we just eat the foods that taste good to us instead. It is possible to eat calcium-rich foods in ways that taste great.
According to the National Institute of Health, 8 ounces of 2% milk contains 30 percent of the recommended daily calcium intake. Although it may not be easy for you to find a time to drink a glass of milk, you can use those 8 ounces of milk to create a more palatable treat. Pudding is incredibly simple to make from scratch: all you need is milk, sugar, cornstarch, and flavoring. Instant pudding would have an equal amount of calcium, but not the same flavor. Everyone knows that chocolate milk goes down easier, so why not add a packet of Carnation Instant breakfast to make that one glass contain 55 percent of that day's calcium requirements? Homemade recipes for macaroni and cheese (not the instant box type) can have substantial amounts of cheese.

Some of the less popular sources of calcium have been judged unfairly. One-half cup cooked spinach can taste great while providing you with not only 12 percent of your daily calcium requirement, but also iron and fiber. An ounce and a half of mozzarella will give you another 28 percent. Put them together in some pizza dough (adding another couple percent of your required intake) with some tomato sauce and you have a delicious calzone providing nearly half of your daily required amount of calcium.
One cup of black beans will also provide approximately 12 percent of your daily requirement. Eating them plain might not sound so appetizing, but you can easily make a marvelous chili by adding just a few ingredients and cooking in a slow cooker. Or make a soup with black beans and spinach along with some other vegetable. You'd be surprised how much you like these foods once you try them.
Eight ounces of yogurt contains approximately 25 percent of your daily calcium requirements, making it a great snack or breakfast. There are many different flavors to choose from, so no matter your taste preferences yogurt has something to offer you. Unfortunately, frozen yogurt only provides 10 percent of your calcium needs, so it won't take center stage in this endeavor. Frozen yogurt does remain a great treat. Perhaps you could make it a way to reward yourself for the steps you are taking towards your bone health.
Although you can make excuses like that texture of yogurt makes you hesitant, you can always consider eating a handful of almonds alongside it. You could make a smoothie in the blender with yogurt and frozen or fresh fruit. If you continue to try new ways to incorporate calcium-rich foods into your diet you are bound to find methods that work for you.

Tips for Proper Wine Storage

If you're interested in the wine world, there is a very good chance you've looked into or have invested in a wine cellar. If you have, you have several distinct advantages. For one, you can now purchase a greater number of wines. If you don't have a proper place to store wines, they can quickly become cumbersome and problematic but with a cellar, you have a safe, organized, and secure way to store all those bottles.

Another benefit of wine cellars is that you can now properly age your wines. As the adage says, a fine wine will only get better with age and, if you can store a bottle for several years, you might just be rewarded for your patience with a vastly improved wine. But there are some common stumbling blocks when it comes to wine cellars, so make sure to avoid these mistakes that might lead to a great tragedy-wasted wine.

The first tip to follow is ensuring the right temperature. The cellar should always be kept at a constant temperature. Drastic fluctuation will put your wine through too many changes, and this kind of up and down can truly have an adverse effect on the product. Aim for around 12 to 16 C, and make sure it never varies too greatly from that mark, even in hot summers and cold winters.

The next important factor is humidity. Again, the range you want to aim for is about 60 to 70 percent humidity. Any drier or wetter, and you are putting your wines at risk for negative effects over long periods of time. The last major piece of this puzzle is the amount of light you allow into the cellar. Direct sunlight is never beneficial for wines, so make sure your cellar is always dark. Avoid windows unless they have curtains.

There are, of course, other small factors to consider, but these are largely up to personal preference and experience. In general, just make sure your temperature, humidity, and light level are correct, and your wines should reap the expected benefit. Also, remember not to expect too much from your wine cellar. Aging a mediocre bottle of wine isn't going to make it miraculously marvelous. It's still just a (slightly older) cheap bottle of wine.

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What Makes the Best Wine?

It may be a fascinating and thought provoking question, but does it have a good answer? In many cases choosing a good wine depends on personal taste. Some people like dry wine while others like it sweet. Then there are fruit wines and those that we all know the names of - Chardonnay, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon for example. But are there any common ingredients or methods that go to make up the best wine of the lot?

Is it to do with where the grapes come from?

You may think this is the case, but it isn't true. A world class wine is one that will sell for several hundred dollars a bottle. But the grapes that produce it could be just yards away from others that go into a much cheaper bottle most people would easily be able to afford.

It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the person who grows the grapes either. Some wines seem to naturally come to the fore while others languish far behind.

Is it a sense of personal taste then?

While experts have tried to find common ingredients in the best wine, they have yet to come up with anything definitive. The key ingredient here seems to be commonality in terms of how many people like a particular wine. There is no doubt that some are more palatable than others, but by the same token even the most unpalatable wines will be enjoyed by some!

The key rule to remember is this - if you like a particular wine then it is a good one, for you at least. It doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks. The only downside of course is if you happen to have expensive tastes!

What about the methods used to drink wine?

Here we are referring to the ways that wine is poured from the bottle. It can be poured directly into a glass and quaffed down immediately, but this would be doing any type of wine an injustice. If you picked up a six year old bottle that had been corked up for so long, it would be prudent to let it breathe in order to enjoy it at its best. In fact this applies to every bottle of wine you ever uncork. If you don't stick by this rule you will never taste the best wine, purely because it has not had a chance to come into contact with the air.

In this sense you can get the best out of any bottle of wine you buy - red, white or rose - simply by pouring it out in the right way. If you invest in a wine aerator you can automatically aerate the wine as soon as it comes out of the bottle and into the glass. This will provide you with the best possible taste and sensations from every drop, even if you have only spent a few dollars on that particular bottle.

Target Healthy Food and Nutrition

IMPORTANT!!! For health and nutrition

One third of your diet should be packed with fruits and vegetables. Aim for five portions per day.

One third of your diet should be starchy foods such as breads, cereals, potatoes, pasta and rice. Aim for 2 to 3 portions per day.

The final third should be split into three parts. 2 to 3 serves of milk and dairy per day, 2 to 3 serves of meat or fish per day and very small amounts of foods containing fats and sugars.

As a very rough estimate, men should consume 11,500 kj per day and women 7,800 kj per day. Everybody is unique and all have different body shapes and varying degrees of activity so don't take these figures as gospel. 140kj per 1kg weight is the average recommendation.

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