Cooking Advice

Being in good health is vital if you want to live well. The different foods that you can eat will help you to attain this goal. When you look at the different types of foods that you can eat, you will notice that vegetables and fruits are ones that seem to offer you a better way of living. This route to vegetarian health is one that anyone can adopt.

You will find there are various types of vegetables and fruits that can be placed on a vegetarian health conscious diet. These different vegetables all contribute to the way that your health and metabolism can change for the better.

By looking at the various ideas about what is considered as the right quantities of vegetables you can control the way that these foods interact. This is one of the main aspects that you should look into with a vegetarian health plan.

Among the many things that you will need to look into when you are thinking about cooking and preparing a full vegetarian meal is the items that you will be using to make these meals. The cooking time for various vegetables needs to considered when you are thinking of a meal that is conscious about your future and immediate health.

To gain the most out of a vegetarian health conscious diet there are numerous vegetarian diets that you can look at. These diets will have the food prepared according to the views of the authors. As a result you may not agree with these views. They do however allow you to see the different methods that can be used with regards to preparing and cooking these vegetables.

You should also consider looking at how you can turn vegetables and fruits into delicious tasting smoothies, desserts and snacks. All of this is possible when you look at the different vegetarian recipes that you can find.

The different vegetarian recipes will provide you with all of the nutrients that you need for any meal plan. You should however make sure that you have included a variety of different vegetables. In this way you can ensure that all of the food groups and vitamins that your body needs are fully supplied.

This is a necessity when you are planning to get the full benefits of a vegetarian health diet plan. You should make sure that you start this new diet out slowly so that your body has time to make adjustments to the way that you are going to be eating.

After a certain time limit you will notice the changes that your health is having due to the benefits of eating good food that is green. The most important aspect that you will find due to a vegetarian health conscious diet is that your health is better than ever before.

Anyone who is at least a beginner when it comes to cooking in the kitchen has more then likely already incorporated many of the elements of aromatherapy into some the dishes they have created. Making use of various ingredients such as infused oils and flavored butters can add a incredible amount of depth in flavor to the meals you cook. When you use these types of ingredients you cause your smell receptors to burst with activity and come alive from a flood of tantalizing aromatic sensations.

Many of us have a tendency to overlook the obvious fact that part of enjoying the meals we eat involves using more than just our sense of taste. Living a fast paced lifestyle is becoming the norm for many people, it is becoming more and more common that many of us never have enough time to fully appreciate the meals we do eat. The sad side effect of this constant eating on the go is we end up never giving our brains the time it needs to fully process and appreciate our dining experiences. If we would allow ourselves to slow down a bit, we could give our selves a much fuller experience incorporating more then just our sense of taste. Not only will we enjoy our food more but something many people do not realize is that giving our brains a more sensory rich experience in general helps to create new neural networks. There are many positive health and psychological benefits from expanding our neural pathways.

A majority of what we taste is greatly influenced by it’s associated smells. The reason for this is simple, if we would only taste the flavors our tongues were designed to process, we would end up only able to distinguish a very small pallette of flavors. Sweetness, sourness, saltiness and bitterness. You can easily test this the next time you walk into any home or restaurant while food is being prepared. You will notice that even before we see food we can easily smell it. Not only that, but many times we are able to pick out the different aromas and we end up instantly hungry as our taste buds begin to water.

Here are a couple of easy ways to incorporate aromatherapy into your own cooking.

First any good chef will tell you, do not be afraid to experiment with your food! playing with the many different varieties of herbs, spices and edible flowers can help breathe a wonderful new life into many dishes which may have became tiered with time. Using these types of powerful taste enhancing ingredients will almost surely turn the most boring of simple foods such as plain vegetables into meals you truly look forward to eating.

One of the many benefits of incorporating aromatherapy into your home cooking is its ability to help you lose weight. A common reason why many people are drawn toward foods high in fat is the simple fact that many of these foods just taste so good. While it is true that cheese, creams, gravies and butter can help add a lot of flavor to many dishes, they also have the side affect of adding quite a bit of extra calories. Try using more vegetables, fruits and lean meats in your recipes while flavoring them with a powerful aromatic herb or flavored oil. By doing this you will not only provide your self with many additional vitamins and nutrients but also give your self a healthy alternate way to enhance flavors without using high fat ingredients.

In order to add aroma and flavor to food with mother natures treasure trove, you have got to first release the powerful oils from the various plant material. Using heat to extract a plants aromatics is a common and effective method, however if you use to much heat you will burn the plants and end up spoiling your meal. To get the ideal results, it is always best to heat the herbs very slowly under a low heat.

The different ways you can use aromatherapy in your cooking.

Infusions

One great way to incorporate aromatherapy into your cooking is through the use of infusions. An infusion can add a tremendous variety of different flavors to your meals and as bonus they are very easy to make. An infusion is just a combination of an oil or water base that has been steeped with some sort of herb or flower for a period of time.

Herbed butter

Many herbed butters can be a fantastic addition to your dishes. They can add a lot of flavor as well as an incredible aroma to just about any meal. But due to the butter base you want to use herbed butters sparingly and in moderation. As with infusions, making herbed butters is quite easy.

Fresh herbs

If you use fresh herbs in your cooking, you will get much more pronounced flavors when compared to the use of dried herbs.

Here are some quick ideas you can easily use to incorporate aromatherapy into your cooking.

A Healthy alternative for pasta instead of the standard cheese and meat combination is to try tossing in some vegetables that have been sauteed in an infused oils.

Also the next time you are cooking poultry, vegetables or seafood, try brushing them with an herbed butter, then just wrap in aluminum tin foil and grill or bake. The trapped steam inside the wrapped aluminum foil will help the flavors of the herbed butters seep throughout whatever it is you are cooking.

There are many additional ways to use aromatherapy in cooking, as was said before don’t be afraid to experiment and let your creativity run wild!

Yes, there is no doubt that the microwave oven was one of the eighties hottest must have kitchen appliances. Do you remember how much the first ones cost to own? Look how cheap and common place they have become since. Sure heating foods and liquids in seconds, not minutes, has caused most people to abandon any intuitively negative thought they may have had in suspecting radiation cooking to be bad for you. Due to this convenience factor, denying and not acknowledging the danger is normal. But, there are reasons why the sale of these appliances was banned early on in countries like the Soviet Union.

One of the worst outcomes of microwaved food is not so much the radiation factor, as most people feared, but the almost complete (97%) nutrient loss in healthy fresh food like vegetables, for instance, when micro-cooked. There is also the formation of new radiolytic compounds. This chemical structure change in foods and liquids has been the focus of a few studies done to determine what kinds of changes occur in microwaved foods. Rest assured, however, that although the studies have been few, the changes discovered have been significant.

Hans Hartel, a swiss food scientist, is a man of intense passion, he determined that there is no need to violate the laws of nature by corporate man and his state-supported monopolies in science, technology, or education. Hans was one of the first scientists to form an idea to conduct a quality study on the effects of microwaved nutrients had on the blood and physiology of human beings. This small but well-controlled study pointed a very firm finger at a highly degenerative force in microwave ovens and the food produced in them.

Blood samples of the volunteer test subjects were taken before the ingestion of the foods offered. Then, at predetermined intervals after the eating of raw milk and raw vegetables, or the same food conventionally cooked, or microwaved.

What was eye-opening, and rather shocking, was that there were significant changes discovered in the blood samples of the test subjects who had ate the foods cooked in a microwave oven. These changes included a decrease in all hemoglobin and cholesterol values, especially between the HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) values and ratio.

White blood cells also showed a more distinct short-term decrease after eating microwaved food than opposed to eating food conventionally cooked or raw. Hartel’s conclusion was this, due to extensive scientific literature describing the different hazardous effects that microwave radiation has on living systems, it is astonishing what little effort has been made to replace this technology with something more nature friendly.

From the conclusions of Swiss, Russian, and German scientific studies, here are 10 good reasons to ditch your microwave oven for good.

1)Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term -permanent- brain damage by ’shorting out’electrical impulses in the brain [depolarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].

2)The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food.

3)Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.

4)The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.

5)Minerals, vitamins, and other nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.

6)The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.

7)Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increasing rate of colon cancer in America.

8)The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.

9)Continual ingestion of microwaved foods causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.

10)Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.

Now, I do not know about the rest of you but, once information like this enters my head it is hard to just toss it out. I roll it around for a little while, then, I make a conscious choice. My nineteen year old has been trying to get me, for quite a while, to get rid of our microwave and replace it with a toaster oven.

After doing some intelligent researching on line and reading of this subject, you too have the same option I did in making a healthy choice for your health, and your family’s health. Remember one point, our society pretty much runs on money (the bottom line). The corporations who manufacture microwaves make a lot from the sale of them. There is no money for me, or any of the scientists who know that eating food processed in one of these things is dangerous.

You do, however, have the satisfaction of knowing that you are helping others to live more healthy, you are saving lives, and you are spreading future happiness by encouraging anyone to, including yourself, stop eating microwaved food.

Ever thought of including cooking with chiles in your daily routine? Or, ever thought of how much chiles help your heart health? Or, ever realized that chiles are now credited with curing cancer? They have long been recognized for their healthy benefits, even by the ancients.

For example the ancient Chinese until Modern times in the 1940’s, reserved chiles as a pharmaceutical in the heavily populated portions of China. Evidently they considered chiles too precious to waste on the well.

Recent research released in Great Britain at the Cancer Research UK reflects that capsaicin, the unique substance found only in chiles has been found to kill cancer cells. Capsaicin is the substance that also produces the spicy, hot tingly sensation on the tongue and pallette and is uniquely produced by chiles.

There is more research and testing to be done, however it is good enough for me just to know that chiles have even more healthy properties than I already knew. Capsaicin works on cancer cells by binding to the protein within the cancer cell mitochondria and triggering aptosis or death of the cancerous cells.

The major message is to include chiles of some sort in your regular diet. Researchers in Asia have found that eating chiles a majority of the time increases one’s healthy life span and vigor.

One of the easiest ways to eat chiles is to sprinkle them on food instead of salt. When coupled with fresh squeezed lime instead of black pepper, the flavors of foods are really enhanced.

Additionally, adding chiles to the foods you are preparing from appetizers to desserts increases their health benefits. This includes all the food groupsvegetables, meats, fruits and baked goods.

Just think how much fun you can have, adding chiles to your food?

To give you a start for busy days, I am including a favorite really quick maindish soup, Chicken Tortilla Chowder from my latest book, “Real Women Eat Chiles”.

Chicken Tortilla Chowder

The hearty, full flavor and creamy consistency of this chicken soup tastes like work, but this dish is actually fast and easy to make. Cutting the chicken breast is the most time-consuming part of the recipe. This is a versatile dish that you can vary in many ways. Instead of chicken breasts, you could use leftover roast chicken or turkey, firm-fleshed fish or shellfish with fish stock, roast beef, or ground chuck with beef stock.

Cooking Time: 10-12 minutes Yield: 2 servings

1, 14 ½ oz. can chicken broth, preferably low sodium, with water added to make 2 cups

2 white or yellow corn tortillas, broken up

1 pound chicken breast, trimmed,cut into 1-inch cubes

3 scallions, thinly sliced (some reserved for garnish)

1 ½ tablespoons minced pickled jalapenos with juice

Optional Garnishes: Cilantro leaves Crushed red caribe chiles Lime wedges

1. Place the chicken broth and water in a 3-quart saucepan over medium heat. Add the tortillas and chicken. Cover, reduce the heat to low and simmer, stirring, for 5 to 6 minutes.

2. Add the scallions and jalapenos with juice. Stir to combine well. Simmer for approximately another 5 minutes. Serve garnished with the reserved scallion and, if desired, the cilantro, chiles, and lime to squeeze on the chowder.

Per Serving: Calories 326, Protein 50g, Carbohydrates 14g, Fiber 2g, Fat 8g, Saturated Fat 2g, Cholesterol 130mg, Sodium 338mg.

Girl games are understandably different from the sorts of games boys like to play online. When you head online with your daughter, you’ll find her playing all sorts of games you never even realized existed. Chief among these are roll playing games and dress up games. Other girl games include smaller versions of these and fast-paced thinking games such as cooking games.

Dress Up Games

Easily one of the most popular girl games online, dress up games let your child experiment with fashion and design. The dress up games incorporate doll bases, much like Barbies, and corresponding fashions Your child can dress celebrities, favorite characters, mermaids, witches, Goths and any number of other interesting elements. The dress up games are often shared with others in the community and can be used for avatars on social websites or for contests often hosted directly on the dress up games websites.

Role Playing Games

Popular with boys and girls alike, role playing games allow for tremendous creativity through make-believe. While some role playing games focus on warriors and battles, others that are more popular with girls focus more on relationships and life within a community. The number of role playing games is increasing online, but your child will likely develop a favorite rather quickly. In the role playing games, your child can take on a character. By logging in to that same character, she earns points by playing games and going through various quests. The points or money are then used to advance the character and the role play aspects of the game.

Cooking Games

Another fun version of girl games are cooking games. In cooking games, your child spends time online in a virtual kitchen or attending a virtual grill. The game sets a time limit on how quickly she needs to flip burgers and dogs on the grill or how fast she can get pizzas in and out of the oven. The cooking games require foresight and planning. You have to anticipate what is coming up next while still working on the current order. Meanwhile food is burning on the grill that can’t make it onto an order and things back up if you’re not keeping the right balance. Cooking games are fast-paced and exciting. As you progress from one level to the next, the intensity heats up making it even more engaging.

Make Up Games

In a smaller version of dress up games, make up games allow girls to practice their make up skills. In the games, a doll base stares out in bare skin. It is your job to put the right amount of make up onto the doll’s face. You have a wide selection of eye shadows, lip liners and glosses, mascaras and eye colors. Many of the make up games including hair styles as well so that your final creation is substantial and fun in an entirely new look. You can go back countless times and create all new looks for the same doll with a bit of creativity.

For those that love the simple things in life and like making or cooking things for giving joy to others, there’s nothing better than enhancing these values of good living with a bit of food-for-thought kind of activity: and here’s where easy to understand and simple to follow country cooking recipes come in! We’ve lined up for you some of the best, most nutritious and traditional country cooking recipes that have been passed down in families from generations that love the joys of simple cooking.

Some people liken the sharing of recipes to getting a glimpse of another person’s heart and find it a caring gesture.

For more details go to: www.thanks-giving-recipes.com This feeling may have something to do with the fact that most country cooking recipes have a one-point focus of creating unsophisticated dishes that are wholesome and nourishing, like bread, rolls, soups, meat and casseroles besides a variety of cakes and puddings. Made with love and served with care, these simple recipes are the kind of cuisine tastes one finds makes them nostalgic about eating home-cooking that is an all-time favorite.

Among the best places to source info on this topic is the immense variety offered by online portals of country cooking recipes, which typically store numerous web pages filled with time-honored family recipes. Hundreds, if not thousands, of family recipes that have been hot favorites for years are updated here on these websites on a daily basis with more scope for newer recipes to be created.

If you are the inventive types and like cooking as a hobby, you too can put up a country cooking website. For more details go to: www.300-chicken-recipe.com some people begin this as a measure of sharing family wisdom but it is also a good opportunity to make money as adverts start pouring in that companies will pay you for if you allow them to publish them there on your web pages! A great way to combine a love for cooking and sharing recipes that is a money-making chance too – what better way to not only get traffic but earn from it as well! It’s all about being enterprising and creative to generate new sources of steady income that is enjoyable and fun too.

Those particularly keen on studying from cookbooks are also sure to find these in the hard copy in book shops besides getting to purchase or read them online; you can also keep an eye out for interesting country cooking recipes or those for a balanced, simple, health-conscious cooking at grocery stores or the shopping mall.

Thus, keeping your eyes and ears open to the scope of finding a likely source for country cooking recipes is the best way to find and share this worthy and wholesome hobby with others that have a liking for learning simple ways to enhance the quality of living.

Corporate cookery classes are growing in popularity.  In the last year alone, one major cookery centre reported a 67% year-on-year increase in bookings.

These activities are popular as they offer an enjoyable, low-stress activity which still promotes problem-solving and good communication.  At the event, the team create a meal together that they can all sit down and enjoy at the end. Cooking activities are used by many businesses to help lift employees’ spirits and to reward them for their hard work.

Activities such as corporate cookery classes can help staff get to know each other – even shy people can get involved as there is the shared focus of the cookery task. It also helps employers get to know staff’s strengths and weaknesses – often ones they would have never have had chance to notice in the normal work environment.

Menus for corporate team building events can usually be tailored to suit your company and accommodate any food sensitivities. A competitive edge can even be added to inject some excitement and provide a challenge.

Health and safety

Another major reason many businesses are looking for new ideas is due to the introduction of the Corporate Manslaughter Act which came into force in April 2008. The Corporate Manslaughter Act effectively means that companies can now be charged with manslaughter if an employee is killed while participating in a staff development activity.

Companies are now often looking for team building activities that keep health and safety risks at a minimum and they’re avoiding anything that is potentially dangerous.

The change in the law is seeing a move from high-octane office team building pursuits such as quad-bike racing and paintballing to more sedate activities such as cooking.

Corporate entertainment and more

Corporate cookery classes are also attended by many businesses to entertain clients as an alternative to a bland restaurant or outdated boozy lunch.

A number of businesses also choose cooking classes as an end-of-year treat or a change to the usual turkey-and-tinsel Christmas party for staff.

In this article I give advice about ways in which you can increase the amount you earn from Google adsense. I run adsense on a number of my sites and it is proving to be a very good form of second income. Many other people are now putting the code onto their own sites which can help them to pay for hosting and domain renewal costs.

Should you run adsense on your website?

In my opinion there are many positive reasons to have these google ads on your website but there are also reasons why you may not want them on there.On the positive side you are of course likely to earn money when people click on one of the ads, this can be a useful income, however unless you have either a high traffic site or a large number of sites, you are unlikely to get rich from it.

On the negative side when people click on one of the ads it is actually taking away that visitor from your site. If you are offering a service it therefore probably is not worth signing up for adsense for that site. If the site is purely for information purposes I would say that it is worth adding the code.

How to increase your adsense earnings

There are many ways in which you can blend the adverts into your website by choosing a particular colour for the ads as an example. Placement of the ads is also quite important and there is information on the Google site which advises where to put the adverts for maximum impact.

I believe the best way to increase your earnings however is to get more traffic to the website. There are many ways of doing this:

Google adwords

You can create an advertising campaign using google adwords. You could opt to pay near enough the minimum fee per click and this will keep the costs down. People will then visit your site and hopefully click on one of the other ads, therefore making you money.

This can work very well for certain subjects, but not so well for others. It is a matter of trial and error, I always run the adwords for around a month and then evaluate if it is worth carrying on after that point.

It is obviously important that we do not spend more on our own advertising, than we are likely to earn.

Purchase a text link ad

This is becoming more and more popular as one way backward links are becoming ever more powerful in the eyes of the search engines. These type of links are however quite hard to come by.

By purchasing a text link advert you are likely to have an increase in web traffic from two avenues. Firstly from the advert itself and also from the page rank value of the backward link.

At articles-submission.com you are able to purchase nine of these permanent backward links for only £50, which includes a link on a page rank five page.

Writing articles

Writing articles can also help you to obtain more visitors to your site. The people who read the article are potential visitors, you also obtain a one way backward link from the article directory which you submit the article to, and other webmasters may also include the article on their own site, thus creating another one way backward link. These backward links help to increase your overall page rank. The higher the page rank, the more traffic you should receive.

Link exchange

Exchanging links with other websites which are hopefully in the same business sector as your own, also has value. These links are not as powerful as the one way links mentioned above but are still worth seeking.

You can e-mail or phone other webmasters to ask if they would be happy to swap links with your site.

Build a site network

If you have the time and available funds you could also consider building a network of sites, all on the same theme. Each of the sites in the network would have a link pointing to the main site. They could also have adsense on the sites thus increasing your earnings in a two-fold manner.

I hope this article helps you in your quest to increase your adsense earnings.

Some people like cooking, and if you’re reading this article, you probably do too. However, it’s not so easy to have the time it takes to prepare a good meal. Throw in the time you need to get the ingredients and it’s something hard to do. Fortunately, there’s a new game from Nintendo that will let you prepare your meals anywhere. It’s called Cooking Mama.

Cooking Mama is one of the most fun games for Nintendo’s latest portable video game console, the DS. You take the role of a chef and try to prepare several dishes, according to “Mama’s” recipes. The game is unique in the sense that you don’t press any buttons at all. Instead, you use the DS’s touch screen and the stylus to imitate cooking movements. For example, if you want to chop something, you tap on the screen each time to cut a slice or a piece off. If you want to stir something, you make circles with the stylus. You can even cool something with your breath by blowing on the microphone.

There are 15 basic recipes you start with, but completing them unlocks over 70. Dishes come from all the world, so there’s something for everyone. Don’t be surprised if you get hungry after a bit of playing.

Casual Players and Hardcore Players.

One of the great things about this game is that it appeals to both casual and hardcore players. People who don’t normally play videogames aren’t much keen to play games that require pressing one of 6 buttons to throw a punch. It isn’t natural to them. But since the stylus reflects the actual movement (for example, chopping from the top to the bottom) it feels much more normal to them. Also, there isn’t a “game over” screen. If your performance isn’t that great, “Mama” fixes it so you move on. This way anyone can go through the end of each recipe.

For the hardcore games, the game evaluates your performance and gives you a medal based on your performance. While anyone can finish a recipe, it takes great skill to get a medal gold.

Other Cooking Games

If you don’t have a DS, you can still play cooking games on your PC. There are many games related to cooking on hundreds of sites. One of such games is called Better Barbecue Challenge. In this game, there is some meat on a grill and you need to cook it from both sides. If you turn it over too early, it’ll be too raw. If you turn it over too late, it’ll burn. It’s not as simple as it seems, which allows for a fun challenge. One of such games is called Better Barbecue Challenge. In this game, there is some meat on a grill and you need to cook it from both sides. If you turn it over too early, it’ll be too raw. If you turn it over too late, it’ll burn. It’s not as simple as it seems, which allows for a fun challenge.

So, as you can see, there are many options on both consoles and Internet for you to practice your culinary skills. Some of them are simple, and some are complex enough that they’ll make you want to try them out in your real life kitchen.

If you are a beginner who is just trying out new recipes every day in the kitchen, then you must be getting flummoxed now and then when a recipe simply does not perform the way it should or when you actually forget to carry out certain important steps in spite of going through the recipe twice or more. It is true that cooking recipes can often be complicated, but long cooking recipes are generally detailed and simple, provided you get the hang of handling them. Some tips and tricks that will help you handle all kinds of cooking recipes and turn cooking into a successful and enjoyable affair for you are listed here.

Start With Simple Recipes: You might argue that this is besides the point when all you want to know is handle long recipes, but you need to remember that just like in every other discipline, with cooking too, we need to go one step at a time. Jumping too high up will often have you landing flat on your face. So if you just started cooking tomorrow, then do not start making lasagna that requires three homemade sauces, four cheeses and two types of meat. Start with plain old pasta! As you get the hang of smaller, simpler recipes, you will easily be able to handle long and complicated ones naturally within some time.

Go Through The Recipes A Number Of Times: Just reading through a recipe once, specially a new one is a recipe for disaster! In order to get a recipe right, you will actually need to go through it at least two to three times in order to understand the steps properly. And of course, you will also need to keep going through it time and again while cooking.

Assemble All The Ingredients Before You Start: You might have seen your parents assembling their ingredients after they put the pot on the stove, but even though it looks really easy to do, it can be tough for a newbie. If you do not want to mess up your recipe, go through the list of ingredients and assemble them before you start cooking. If you are using vegetables or meats, make sure that they are chopped in the right way and that the meat is washed and duly prepared to be tossed into the pan before you put the pan on the fire.

Use The Right Proportions: We often see chefs on TV and in real life tossing in ingredients by the fistful only to deliver gourmet delicacies within minutes and the carefully listed proportions in a recipe start feeling redundant. Trust me, they are not. Most beginners have a long way to go before they can start doing this, because experienced cooks do not “ignore” the proportions given in a recipe, but rather they know how much a fistful is due to years of experience. So whenever you try out a recipe, try and do justice to it by using all the ingredients in the exact amounts provided. Of course you can scale it all if you are cooking for a larger or smaller number of people, but following proportions is mandatory if you want your recipes to turn out well.