Perfect
deep winter food.
Not exact matches
Andrew Zimmern goes
deep into Alaska's wilderness where people hunt and gather
food to get them through the long
winter months.
This year, however, I'm going to go ahead and indulge my comfort
food cravings, but in a different way: using summer vegetables in place of autumn's, but applying the same
deep flavor treatments of fall and
winter dishes, with lots of spices and long turns in the oven.
Winter birds battle for their place in the chow line when
deep snow makes it difficult for them to find natural
food
Researchers find BCX — red pigment abundant in sweet red peppers, paprika,
winter and butternut squash, oranges, and tangerines, among other
foods — appears to counteract nicotine's ability to accelerate the growth of lung tumors.Photo credit: IngimageXiang - Dong Wang, a cancer researcher at Tufts University, has spent a long time trying to figure out why carotenoids, the main pigments providing colors that range from yellow and pink to
deep orange and red in most fruits and vegetables, seem to keep chronic diseases at bay.
Since many phytochemicals also serve as the pigment that gives
foods their
deep hues, you can identify many phytonutrient - rich
foods by looking for colorful
foods; for example, look for
foods that are blue or purple like blueberries, blackberries and red cabbage (rich in flavonoids); yellow - orange
foods like carrots,
winter squash, papaya, and melon (rich in beta - carotene); red or pink
foods like tomatoes, guava, and watermelon (rich in lycopene); and green
foods like kale, spinach, and collard greens (rich in chlorophyll).
Who taught them where to go during migration, how to return to the same neighborhood or even the same tree after a long
winter, what route to take, how to build a nest (with no hands), what materials to use, how to recognize intruders eggs, how to lure predators away from their young, how to use tools to break open hard
foods or different tools to reach into crevices too
deep for their bills, how to survive bitter cold
winters, how to talk, etc... And don't ever tell me they don't feel emotion!
The cool nutrient - rich waters of the north Pacific are able to provide kelp forests with millions of plankton - the base of the aquatic
food chain — due to an upwelling of water from the
deep sea in the stormy,
winter months.
Preferred habitat: edges of forests, lowland areas, fields, thickets; requires
deep, moist, but well - drained bottomlands + + + + Foliage /
winter appearance: evergreen + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay loam, well drained + + + + Light conditions: partial shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 8 to 15 feet + + + + Wildlife value: Seeds attract American Robin, Cedar Waxwing, Eastern Bluebird, Mickingbird; it is a butterfly nectar and larval
food plant + + + + Note: plant will reseed itself prolifically with the help of robins; do not be surprised if a small number of your cherry laurel population die during changing climatic conditions