• Foccacia - A Healthy Food Trend of the New Millennium
  As a lean bread, foccacia basically consists of flour, water, yeast, and salt. What is so great about this Italian flatbread is that you determine and control the extra amount of calories and fat to include...
  
  
• Velle Oats helps Healthy Weight Maintenance
  The world today is facing an alarming health problem with obesity. Overweight among people is result of bad dietary habits, lack of exercise and a sedentary life-style. The main cause though is poor diet....
  
  
• Healthy Whole Grains and Your Diet
  What whole grains are? The first federal definition can help you to find out whether your favorite cereal, crackers, pasta and everyday bread are whole-grain.Eric Hentges, executive director of the U.S....
  
  
• Solving The 7 Most Common Whole Wheat Bread Baking Mistakes
  Let's face it EVERY cook makes mistakes (yes, even us professional bakers make boo boo's). I'm going to list here, the 7 most common whole wheat bread baking mistakes that you're probably making, or might...
  
  
• Should You Bake Your Own Bread?
  Maybe you've never heard it before, but you really should be baking your own bread.Why?I think the number one reason everyone should bake their own bread is that it redeems you from years of bad health...
  
  
• Getting Your Bread To Rise For Light, Airy Loaves
  Homemade bread shouldn't be dense. You can make light airy loaves that are every bit as good as the bread from the local bakery. The secret is in using quality ingredients and getting your bread to rise...
  
  
• 3 Important Differences Between White Bread and Whole Wheat
  For any kid who grew up eating doughy, thick Wonder Bread forlunch, the encouragement by dietitians and nutritionists toswitch to whole wheat bread can be a tough transition. Bread, like any other part...
  
  
• Eat Whole Grains
  Here's an overview of a whole grain and how they are significant for good health.A grain is the seed of a plant and a whole grain has parts known as the endosperm, the germ, and the bran. The endosperm...
  
  
• The Truth About Enriched Wheat Flour (White Flour)
  Open up your bread box and read the ingredients of your favorite bread. Chances are the first ingredient is going to be enriched wheat flour. What does "enriched" mean?Enriched flour is flour in which...
  
  

Whole Wheat and Grain News

• Thick, Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies This recipe makes a cookies with a crisp edge but the center is thick and chewy. It's based on the Quaker Oats recipe which I find it too sweet, so Iuse less sugar. It never has enough raisins in it, so...
  
  
• Homemade Lemon Curd After making that delicious Angel Food Cake, what do you do with all of those egg yolks? My answer is to make Homemade Lemon Curd. It tastes so much better than a store-bought version. The last time I...
  
  
• Commercial Brownie Mix Made Healthier These quick brownie bites are sure to please the kids even though their are better for them and as easy as making them from the package. Feel free to vary flavourings and to add nuts. -- posted by Génial...
  
  

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• Sugar-Crusted Popover Puffs David Lebovitz was asked to remake Maida Heatter's wonderful popover recipe. They are the best the day they're made; leftovers can be stored in a container and snacked on the next day(they are still good)....
  
  

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