How to Carve a TurkeyWritten by Michael Lansing
To someone who is just learning to cook, this topic may seem like one of hardest meals you will ever have to prepare. Needless to say, if you’re having a turkey there’s usually company involved which means a number of hungry people are relying on you to prepare a great meal. This can be very intimidating. Luckily we have all information you need, in order to ensure a great meal for you, your friends and your family. In order to successfully carve a turkey, you will need to have following pieces of equipment: •One warm serving platter •A pair of kitchen scissors •An electric knife or a large slicing knife (you may want to choose a manual knife since they provide more control than electric ones) •A small carving knife or fork for arranging and serving meat Now that you have equipment you need to carve turkey, follow these steps in order to become a turkey carving expert: 1.Leave turkey to sit 20-30 minutes after roasting and before carving. This will make meat moister and easier to cut. 2.After turkey has sat for time indicated above, transfer turkey onto a cutting board; this is where you will begin carving turkey. 3.Remove Leg: To do this, hold drumstick firmly with your fingers and gently pull meat away from body of turkey. While doing this, cut through skin between leg and body. Next, cut through joint joining leg to backbone. Then separate drumstick and thigh by cutting downwards through joint, until knife hits cutting board. 4.Slicing Drumstick (Leg) Meat: Once you have detached leg from rest of body, you will want to slice meat. Hold drumstick in an upright position and turn drumstick in a circular motion while cutting downwards. This will produce tasty slices of meat which are approximately equal size.
| | Coffee and Depression: Coffee as an Antidepressant! What?Written by Randy Wilson
Coffee and Depression:
When you grab that morning cup of java, you’re probably not thinking of it as an antidepressant. You’re just trying to get that morning pick me up to get your day going. However, recent studies have shown that java really does function as an antidepressant, raising spirits of people who regularly drink stuff. It acts on central nervous system and has mild antidepressant effects. Coffee and depression studies have found that drinking it reduced rate of suicide in large demographic populations observed. The first coffee and depression study that raised topic of java as an antidepressant was done in 1993. In this study, a Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program study of 128,934 nurses found that java drinkers were significantly less likely to commit suicide than nondrinkers. This Nurse’s Health Study on coffee and depression did not go so far as to establish a causal relationship between java drinking and drop in suicide rate. The study stated that it could be that coffees itself had little to do with it, but that people who drink coffee share other characteristics that make them less likely to commit suicide. A second study on coffee and depression, however, confirmed these controversial findings and went farther as to state that it was coffee that dropped suicide rate. This study was especially noteworthy, as it was large-scale and adjusted for confounding factors. Published in Archives of Internal Medicine in 1996, study followed more than 86,000 registered nurses in United States between 34 and 59 years of age for ten years. Dr. Ichiro Kawachi, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School who led this study, looked at data from Kaiser Permanente study hoping to discount their findings. Instead of what he expected to find, he confirmed original study’s results with his own: using coffee as an antidepressant reduced suicide rate in these nurses.
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