In our “Healthy Super Bowl Appetizers” blog, we featured appetizers for the vegetarian or health conscious, but if you are in search of recipes that are a little more traditional for the Super Bowl, here are some recipes to get your taste buds going.
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With the approach of the Super Bowl, amateur and professional chefs alike are planning the menu that will make their Super Bowl celebration unforgettable. Although hot wings and queso dip are usually the forerunners on an occasion such as this, they aren’t very artery friendly, and many people are not willing to throw that New Year’s resolution out the window just yet. If you’re looking to add variety to your menu, or just satisfy the cravings of a few health conscious vegetarian friends, here are some healthy alternatives that are sure to be undetected by the carnivorous among the sausage balls and cheese logs.
Appetizers
Hot Black Bean Dip
Let’s talk about the whole grains for a second. Yes, that’s right—carbohydrates. The 1990’s pop culture fad was a low to no carb diet. Later, it was revealed that not getting the recommended daily allowance of these seeds can cause a difficulty in maintaini a healthy weight, problems with reoccurring fainting, reduced athletic performance, and heart disease risk increases. Going “no carb” is not as healthy as they thought.
I know that our avid dieters are worried about their caloric intake, so cutting out the high calorie count foods seems like the best idea. However, these drastic cuts are producing a nutritionally deficient diet. Our bodies need calories to do every activity we participate in during the day. Even eating burns calories. The focus should be not on amounts we intake, but the quality of the food. If we are eating whole grains versus processed carbohydrates and sugar, we are getting our calories the way Mother Nature intended, which is a lot better for us.
What are the different types of whole grain we can eat? You would be surprised that the list does not just include oats and barley. The variety of whole grains now readily available at supermarkets around all regions of America is impressive. Here are some to get you started
Continue reading Whole Grains– The Foundation of the Food Pyramid
We at KaTom are always working to improve our customer experience. This week, we are excited to inform you that we have made a major facelift to our site to further improve your shopping experience. Thanks to the hard work of our web team, we are now operating more efficiently than ever.
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Cupcake Recipe
Chocolate Cupcakes with Penuche Filling
Penuche is a vanilla fudge with a little more carmelization due to the use of brown sugar instead of granulated sugar. In Spanish it means literally, “raw sugar” or “brown sugar.” It adds a dollop of flavor and decadency to these chocolate fudge brownies.
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When a 7.0 earthquake shook the country of Haiti and caused death tolls to rise to an estimated 200,000 or more, concern and compassion swept our nation. Haiti is only 750 miles southeast of Florida, and our neighbor, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, needs help. Hopefully, we will be able to answer their call.
After a disaster occurs, the essentials have to be furnished for those dealing with the aftermath of tragedy. The most important of these basics is food, water and shelter. For the next couple of days, we want to focus KaTom’s blog into a three part series on what the foodservice industry is doing to help aid the Haitians. We will explore what has been done to help, projects that are still in progress, and what you, your business, and your customers can do to further the efforts.
Continue reading Haiti Relief–How the Food Service Industry is Reaching Out, Part I
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Energy Star Rebates
There is an immense amount of talk surrounding energy efficient appliances. Going green is no longer just an issue that needs to be addressed with large conglomerates, but something that is now applicable to small business owners. Globally, it has become a top priority to preserve what we have and renew what we don’t. KaTom has devoted many a blog to helping protect this planet, giving our attention to the conservation of water, recycling, and of course, energy saving equipment in our “Go Green” blog category. These earth-saving products use smaller amounts of energy, save money for your home or business, and help protect our environment. We want to continue our path by helping our customers and the world’s consumers to understand more immediate benefits of “going green.”
To see if you qualify for a rebate, follow this link.
Continue reading Energy Star Rebates
Last month Domino’s announced that it was reconstructing its core pizza recipe. This came about after much criticism regarding the overall flavor of their pizzas. This was not a small overhaul; Domino’s changed everything, from the crust up. The key changes, according to Domino’s, are to the crust, the sauce, and the cheese. The crust is now a garlic seasoned crust with parsley baked to a golden brown. The sauce is sweeter, has a bolder tomato sauce with a medley of herbs and a red pepper kick. The cheese is now 100% real mozzarella and flavored with just a hint of provolone.
America has a new four letter word to replace high fructose corn syrup:Trans fat. I know it’s more than four letters, and when I first delved into the world of this unsaturated fat, that’s about all I knew. Trans fats, also known as partially hydrogenated oils began being used in the year 1869 when French chemist Hippolyte Mege Mouries invented them as a response to Napoleon III’s request for a healthy alternative to butter. What they didn’t know is that the “healthy alternative” would raise levels of LDL (bad cholesterol) and lower levels of HDL (good cholesterol), increasing the risk of coronary heart disease. These fats have also been linked to Alzheimer’s, diabetes, cancer, liver dysfunction, infertility, and America’s leading problem, obesity. It’s no wonder that California has banned it from its restaurants and eateries, and even though they cannot regulate the amounts in packaged foods, many anticipate it will be the next rung on the ladder of hydrogenation eradication.
