Lumpy Gravy – Fixes

With flour: In a jar, mix one part flour with three parts warm water. Shake well to combine ingredients. Whisk a little into the lumpy gravy and simmer until flour taste is gone.

With Strainer: Pass the gravy through a strainer and remove lumps.

With Blender: Whiz it in a regular blender or with an immersion blender until lumps are gone.

Pomegranate Seed Harvesting – Quickly

Love, pomegranate seeds but hate to have to get them out, or need them for a recipe…. heres some quick help with this pesky task:

1: Gently roll the pomegranate in your palm against the counter… but not too hard, you don’t want to squish those juice delicious seeds and make them no good.

2: Slice in half – on cutting board…. juice can stain a light colored counter.

3:Pry out seeds in handfuls and transfer them to another bowl.

Then eat the sweet delicious little seeds or have them ready for that special recipe.

Chiles: Strange But True

Few tastes get heart rates going like tongue – tingling hot chiles, but to what do they owe that heat? BUGS! Chiles take on their fiery taste to ward off a fungus that can develop when insects munch on their skin!

Proteins After A Good Workout

Some ask what is the best protein to make a shake with after my workout? The answer is simple… it is Whey. After exercise, subjects in an experiment, were given 10 grams of either whey protein or another kind. Their muscles recovered faster after the whey. Why whey? It’s the quickest and easiest for your body to digest, so it gets to the muscles fastest.

Juice It

Orange juice may be the go to drink for vitamin C, but new research shows that other fruit juices may contain just as much. Using a new, more accurate method of measuring vitamin C, scientists found that some brands of apple juice, and even grape and pineapple juice, contain levels of vitamin C that are as high  or higher than those in orange juice. If you are not an orange juice fan, or just want more variety, you can switch it up a little and still get your vitamin C.