Remember when we first started cooking and we believed that you just didn't mix fruits and vegetables together in salads or side dishes? After all, we were told, they are two separate foods that didn't go well together.
Then someone decided that pineapple was not only great with ham, but could be added to sweet potatoes and another clever individual decided to add strawberries or raspberries to a fresh spinach salad.
Now we have a totally new concept introduced by a website called foodpairing.be. This site, created by Belgian scientists, breaks food down based on its scientific characteristics. Imagine mixing the flavors of chicken and peppermint or popcorn and honey. These pairings could certainly add more variety to our daily cooking as well as provide alternatives for those with food allergies. In addition, this site can help replace some food products with alternative items that make a smaller "carbon footprint." Currently, they assist in the development of new food products by performing a food pairing and flavor analysis.
Best New Pumpkin Pie Idea-Soy Milk!
The standard old-fashioned pumpkin pie recipe calls for a 12 oz. can of evaporated milk. Although this is the recipe that we all love, evaporated milk adds many unnecessary calories and unwanted fat to the pumpkin pie. One cup of evaporated milk contains 300 calories while one cup of plain soy milk contains only 100 calories. Substituting soy milk for evaporated milk does not change the quality of the pie or the flavor. Remember that one 12 oz. can is 1 1/2 cups of milk.
