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Warm up vegetable oil in a frying pan; add bacon, onion, celery and rosemary, and simmer under a lid for 10 minutes. Add cranberries and half of apple juice, to increase fire. When liquid level decreases by third, remove a frying pan from fire, set aside to cool down.

Add in a forcemeat nutmeg, allspice tree, salt, black pepper, walnuts, dried orange peel, rice, eggs and crumbs. Mix well.

Preheat an oven to 200 °С. Wash the hen, dry it and fill with the prepared stuffing.

Rub the hen with a butter, salt and pepper. Put in the oven in a scallop. Bake for 50 minutes.
Take out the hen from an oven, cover and set aside for 30 minutes.

Prepare sauce. Apple pour in a stew-pan. Add meat from wings, a broth, and starch dissolved in a small amount of water, and simmer slowly stirring for 5-7 minutes while the sauce thickens.

Ingredients:
1 hen
40 g bacon
1 onion
1 stalk of a petiolar celery
1 sprig rosemary
250 ml apple juice
2 table-spoon walnuts
0,5 glass boiled rice
1 table-spoon fresh bread crumbs
2 table-spoon butter
100 ml chicken broth
0,5 tea-spoon starch
Salt, black ground pepper to taste
Dried peel of half of orange
Pinch of a ground nutmeg
Dash of ground allspice tree
Handful of fresh cranberries

Prepare a stuffing. Peel and finely cut onion. Wash rosemary, take it to leaves. Wash celery, grind. Bacon cut thinly, walnuts chop.

Laminaria promotes improvement of digestion, strengthens immunity, normalize functions of thyroid gland, central nervous system and cardiovascular systems, removes toxins, radioactive nuclides (owing to alginates) cholesterol, controls vitamin starvation. Laminaria also promotes clearing of blood in an organism.

Doctors all over the world recommend eating laminaria to treat atherosclerosis, hypertensions, ischemic illness, chronic constipation. Laminaria is well for an unloading diet, with the purpose of weight reduction.

Researches have revealed, that laminaria can help to treat oncological illnesses (stops growth of tumors!). That is why the low percentage of breast cancer at Japanese and Chinese women is explained with using for food great amounts of this seaweed.

For many years people procure and use laminaria for food. Ancient Chinese were the first who has talked about unique properties of laminaria. They have even put it on the register of medical products necessary for the person.

Today this seafood enjoys huge popularity in Japan (it is used in more than 300 dishes!) and China, however recently a number of the European countries have also paid attention at it.

The most thick woods of these brown seaweed grow in the cold seas (Arctic Ocean, Northern Atlantic Ocean, Northern sea), in the southern seas laminaria reaches only average size and is considered less useful, considerably conceding on the chemical compound.

Laminaria is a well of vitamins, microelements and amino acids; it is also an excellent means for organism purification. Laminaria, as against usual cabbage, has twice more phosphorus, 11 times more magnesium, 16 times more iron and 40 times more sodium. It also contains polysaccharides, fructose, alginic acid, iodine, vitamins В1, В2, В12, D, A, Е, an ascorbic acid, potassium, dietary fiber, micro- and macroelements.

Cooking of vegetables can not only keep, but also increase their food value for an organism, inform the Italian researchers in «Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry». Though many biologists claim, that raw vegetables are more nutritious, Nikoletta Pelegrini and her colleagues suggest increasing of some useful to health substances in products due to culinary techniques.

Experts have estimated effects of three methods of cookery usually used in the Italian cuisine - boiling, steaming and frying-up - for the contents of vitamins in carrots, vegetable marrows and broccoli.

Boiling and steaming have activated the antioxygenic structures of vegetables, whereas frying-up has caused considerably higher loss of antioxidants in comparison with cookery methods based on water. Substantial increase of glucosinolats - the substances struggling with cancer cells - has been marked in broccoli.

The diet is simple in both understanding, and its performance. Within a week you eat only those products from the list which hangs on a refrigerator. These foodstuffs can be eaten in completely different, and even at first glance, absolutely incompatible combinations. There is only one condition: all ten items should be in your diet every day. Print and hang up on a foreground this list of top-products:

Chicken (brisket)
Eggs
Kefir
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Vegetable marrows
Cabbage (white or cauliflower)
Eggplants
Mushrooms
Apples
Plans: to work off 2 kg for a week

Advantages: products from the list are easily accessible. Everything can be bought in the nearest grocery store or in the market.

Complexity: You can eat no more than 1,5 kg daily.

The author of restaurant’s gastronomic concept - the young talented head-cook Ivy Stark, who has already been awarded with several premiums, had time to work at many fashionable restaurants (Dos Caminos, Rosa Mexicano, Match).

To create completeness of a restaurant image, Stark combines aromas, colors and smells, creating a certain unity of cuisine and a place.

Elegance and the refinement peculiar to the French cuisine, mix up here with courageous aromas and components recall associations with the Mediterranean countries.

After the recent visit in Morocco, Stark became inspired to create such dishes, as the crust hen stuffed with Wienerwurst. Ingenuous nature of the Moroccan cuisine is combined here with refinement of the French cuisine.

Menu contains a number of tempting dishes, which can satisfy tastes of the most refined gourmets.

The chief-confectioner of the restaurant, John Mil, acknowledged by magazines Pastry Art and Design as one of ten best chiefs-confectioners of the country, combines queer components and aromas in the desserts.

In New York’s downtown on 204 West 55th Street has opened two-level restaurant Amalia.

The Founder of Amalia – Greg Brig, the owner of such popular New York restaurants, as Aspen, Groovejet, Jet East and Jet.
He has tied the concept of the restaurant to adjoined Dream Hotel and has named in honor of great Sigmund Freud’s mother.

Amalia embodies the Freudian concept. This is an improbable state, where unreal things become real and unexpected at first sight elements carry out the set role in the project.

The impressing and unusual internal design, specific musical background and complex Mediterranean menu have transformed here in a unique combination.

An eccentric atmosphere of the restaurant is built on a sexual appeal and a secret of a ramshackle Prague private residence.

Eutrophy doesn’t demand change of products’ purchase places. Mentioned below rules will help you to purchase correctly foodstuff needed for a healthy diet.

1. Make the list of purchases beforehand. Planning of purchases will make your shopping more effective and will lower probability of casual purchases.

Making the list of purchases, take into account your diet and select products reasoning from it.

It is desirable that your purchases included: carrots, celery, apples, pears, oranges, fresh berries, grapes, low-fat cottage cheese, low-calorie yoghurts and so on.

2. Buying foodstuff give preference to fresh and not processed ones, as buying half-finished products you lose an opportunity to control mixture of ingredient in them, and it leads to consumption of superfluous amount of fats and calories.

3. Do not buy foodstuff on an empty stomach. Such shopping can lead to purchase of too fat and high-calorific food. If you have to go shopping hungry, then drink before a little water or eat some fruit.

4. Read labels on products. Almost any of them contain information on ingredients and caloric content. These data will help you to get only that food, which you need.

Mulled wine (from German gluhende Wein - hot, flaring wine) is irreplaceable in a cold season. This drink is perfect for long winter evenings and open air activities. It is usually prepared from red (less often white) wine with sugar and kitchen herbs, cinnamon and cloves, sometimes rum, cognac, liqueur and lemons are added.

Mulled wine is also recommended during recovering after infectious diseases, or at physical and mental exhaustion.

Directions:

The most important - mulled wine should not begin to boil! The temperature should be about 70 C. The wine should be heated in fire-resistant utensils until the white foam disappear.
It is important not to forget - mulled wine does not bear cooling, as the wine heated up once, loses for ever the bouquet and flavoring qualities. Use high glasses to prevent fast cooling.

If the structure of mulled wine includes hot water, it should be boiled just before use.

Mulled wine may be kept in a usual thermos. By the way, the drink will only win from it: it will slightly thicken and be brewed. The only condition - if you are going to thermos a drink for more than an hour, take out lemon peel, or the wine will be bitter.