Common Spices For Cooking
Common Spices For Cooking

Spices Diet for all and any one
Here are 5 spices high in anti-aging antioxidants and nutritional benefits. They are inexpensive and widely available. I believe that by using them regularly in our food, we can do great things for ourhealth.
What is the difference between herbs and spices?
Herbs are seasonings from green, leafy plants like parsley or cilantro. We mostly use the leaf part of the herbs.
Spices are aromatic plants, the part that is generally used is the seed, fruit or root. Spices include ginger, black pepper, cinnamon, turmeric, saffron, and cloves.
Be sure to watch the videos for some terrific recipes for curries and meals using these spices.
This article features my favorite spices and their health benefits.
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Turmeric health Benefits
Turmeric is native of Indonesia and southern India, where it has been grown for 5,000 years. Turmeric is rich in curcumin, a special phytonutrient, which has powerful anti-inflammatory properties. Being an excellent source of manganese and iron, turmeric is used in curry powder and mustard.
You can use turmeric in soups and stews, add to salad dressings, add to rice and vegetables dishes. Curry powder is a great spice for cauliflower.
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Ginger
Ginger, native to China and Asia, is a good source of potassium, magnesium, copper and vitamin B6. It is well known for its ability to soothe upset stomach. Ginger has strong anti-inflammatory properties, gives a boost to the immune system and is known to help people with arthritis who consume it regularly experience less pain and improvement in their overall mobility.
It's best to use ginger fresh, as the dried one looses a lot of its flavor. You can spice your vegetable, chicken or fish dishes with ginger, add grated ginger to side rice dishes or salad dressings, add small ginger slices to hot tea with lemon (that's my favorite) or make ginger lemonade.
Ginger lemonade recipe (mix freshly grated ginger, honey or agave nectar, lemon juice and filtered ice water, let stay in the fridge for one hour.
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Red Chili Peppers and Paprika
The Cayenne-hot and spicy red pepper, and paprika-its milder version reduce blood cholesterol and relieve arthritis pain. Red Hot Chili Peppers contain a powerful phytonutrient called capsaicin which is known to help burn excess fat. Consuming enormous amounts of red pepper still does not give you an excuse not to go to the gym by the way.
You can use red pepper and paprika in any way you can possibly think of. Add to salad dressing for extra color and spice, add to soups, stews, curries, sauces, on top of your pizza, sauteed greens and stir-frys.
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What fragrances or odors do you associate with places you've traveled or lived earlier in life?
I bought Ariel detergent(which is one of the 3 common detergents in Morocco) and started using it. I think of Morocco each time I use it. Also incense and spices that are common in the bazaars and smoke from food cooking for the street foods. When I smell fresh-cut alfalfa it brings my memories back to the farm, even after more than 40 years.
Quenepas http://vimeo.com/300286 remind me of early childhood in Puerto Rico. It's a hard fragrance to describe. Perhaps a mixture of grapes, tangerines & cream. Besides being tasty, they were fun to eat. And my grandmother did nothing but worry that we'd choke on the large pit b/c we always laughed while we ate them.
The parfum, "Tabu" & the pomegranate fruit make me think of Turkey. That's the spicy scent my mother wore when we lived there & that's the 1st place I ever ate that fruit.
Aside note: Alfalfa makes me think of raising rabbits. Going to the feed store to purchase that treat food for them. It was sold in bales but I was allowed to pull out a few handfuls for free b/c I only needed a little for 3 rabbits. A bale would have lasted me years.
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