Discovering Easy Cooking Recipes From Around The World
There are many different areas that make every country around the world unique somehow. The language, traditions, beliefs, clothing and foods all make up these very individual cultures. It is possible to sample different countries through books, movies, language classes and easy cooking recipes without ever leaving your home or city. This is certainly something that you and your family can enjoy and experience together.
It may not be as simple a task as you thought to decide which easy cooking recipes to try. There are so many tasty ethnic foods to enrapture your taste buds with. You may never go back to the same old meatloaf and mashed potatoes again. It could be fun and educational to create theme nights around these newly found easy cooking recipes.
Give the Globe a Yummy Spin
Begin your food sojourn in beautiful and exotic Africa with an easy cooking recipe for Chicken Couscous. Just wait until you begin to smell the delicious aromas of chicken, sweet limejuice and zesty garlic, as it will be enough to make your mouth water buckets. Garbanzo beans, artichoke hearts and raisin couscous ensure this easy cooking recipe to be a definite favorite.
Next, head to the Far East and sample some of the oldest and healthiest easy cooking recipes. While you might be tempted to conjure up a batch of fried rice and spicy chicken that would make General Tso blow his top, your taste buds will have more fun with a sweet and sour stir fry or even a teriyaki cabbage stir fry. Many popular Asian recipes call for duck instead of chicken, which is still poultry, but a slightly tastier alternative.
A food trip around the world would not be complete without a night in Tuscany. Or even Rome. While spaghetti has been a family dinner favorite for many years, there are many more amazing Italian dishes that remain undiscovered treasures for your stomach. Give your family something really different on this night with an easy cooking recipe for Lamb Chops Scottadito. The succulent taste of lamb paired with olive oil, garlic, and rosemary will draw a chorus of praises.
Easy French cooking is as delicious as springtime in Paris. It is not all chocolates, croissants and red wine though. The French love food and love preparing it. Follow their lead with dishes that entwine eggplant, asparagus, potatoes and the tastiest herbs in the Western Hemisphere. Stew Provencale is rich and full of flavor, just like the French countryside where it was created and remains so very popular.
Cooking With Fresh Herbs
Herbs are fun and easy to grow. When harvested they make even the simplest meal seem like a gourmet delight. By using herbs in your cooking you can easily change the flavors of your recipes in many different ways, according to which herbs you add. Fresh herbs are great in breads, stews, soups or vegetables. Every time you add a different herb you have completely changed the taste.
If you are a beginner start slowly, add just a little at a time adjusting as you go along until you have it just right. You will see in most instances that an individual herb is associated with a particular food item. Basil is paired with tomatoes, Oregano with sauces, Rosemary with lamb and Chives with butter or cream cheese. Of course, none of them are limited to these items, but you will see them paired most often with that particular food. Use your imagination and experiment, experiment, experiment!
You can make herb vinegars for salad dressings, marinades, or soups. Herb oils are very useful in cooking whenever a recipe calls for it.
Fresh herbs as garnishes dress up any dish making it look truly spectacular. Lay individual sprigs of rosemary over broiled lamb chops. Chop fresh parsley and sprinkle it over the top of your potato salad. The combinations are endless and the outcome delicious.
Fresh herbs will keep in the refrigerator for several days but then you must freeze them. They can be frozen by laying them a paper towel and putting them in a plastic bag. Once they are frozen only use them in cooking not as garnishes. A friend of mine washes them, puts them an ice cube tray, covers them with water and then freezes them. When she needs them for soup, stews or sauces she just drops a cube in.
My favorite herbs to grow are basil, oregano, lemon balm, parsley and mint. Mint is great but is careful; mint can over run your garden. A tip here would be to bury an empty coffee can and plant the mint in it. The can prevents the mint from “creeping” all through your garden.
I love to make herb butters. Take a half of a cup of softened butter and mix in about 4 tablespoons of a fresh herb. Lay out a piece of saran wrap, place the butter in the middle roll the saran wrap up to form a “log” out of the butter. Put in the refrigerator and anytime you need a pat of butter just cut it off the “log”. (Hints for “log” butter: potatoes, bread, steaks, noodles or any kind of sauce).
A fresh herb in any salad dressing really makes it sparkle. You can use any herb or a combination, be creative.
I learned a trick a long time ago using basil, lemon and avocados to create and instant natural face mask. Put a big handful of basil in a blender and run it on high. Once the basil has been pulverized, throw in a half of an avocado and a large teaspoon of lemon juice, mix until smooth. Wash your face, pat it dry and gently rub the avocado mixture on. Leave it on as long as you like, then use warm water to it wash off.
These are just a few ways you can use fresh herbs from your garden. I am sure you will come up with many more. Happy cooking
[Top]How to to Cook Biskuti Ya Nazi Recipe
Those who love dessert recipes will agree with me that Biskuti ya Nazi is one the best dessert recipes in Kenya. I have tasted and enjoyed it and I wish to teach you how to make it.
Some of our African recipes are less known by the outside word and for that matter we see it as our responsibility to show the world how to make these Africa recipes.
In a place like Mombasa and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania Biskuti ya nazi is highy regarded as the best food to serve your guest and on this page we will give you the engredients and methods to make it.
INGREDIENTS TO MAKE BISKUTI YA NAZI
Three egg whites
One cup granulated sugar
Two and a half cups desiccated coconut
One cup macadamia nuts or cashew nuts, finely chopped
DIRECTIONS TO MAKE BISKUTI YA NAZI
1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
2. Lightly grease two baking sheets.
3. In a medium bowl, with an electric mixer on high, beat egg whites into soft peaks.
4. Gradually add the Sugar, beating after each addition until peaks are glossy.
5. Fold in the coconut and nuts.
6. With wet hands, roll tablespoonfuls of the mixture into rounds and set on baking sheets.
7. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until lightly golden.
8. Cool on racks and store in an airtight container.
Though it may sound strange to you if you are not from East Africa, Biskuti ya Nazi recipe is one of the food recipes you should learn to make for your family.
Who said that you dont how to cook? Having been born from a family of many girls, I was not supposed to cook when all my sisters are present but when I joined work and start to live on my own, thats when cooking lessons became a reality.
Of course not every person like cooking but for those who enjoy to explore new foods and have the taste for delicious yummy yummy, this recipe in a must not miss.
[Top]You cook better with Alan Ferrari. Today talk about Spaghetti.
Dear Friend,
Today many people say that pasta is the enemy of light and high fiber diet. IT IS WRONG !
Remove the pasta from your diet is wrong. Pasta is an ally of your line, intestinal function and good humor.
Yes, it’s true, pasta is a kind of natural antidepressant and then “stimulates” good humor.
It’s important not to exaggerate, a portion of 2 1/2 oz per person is good.
The pasta is rich of B vitamins and iron. It’s also low in sodium and doesn’t contain cholesterol.
The traditional Mediterranean diet confers more health benefits than current dietary patterns common in western countries.
Currently there are many diets that can be found on the internet but the Mediterranean diet is considered by most doctors in the world as the best to use.
Many false diet gurus tell you to eliminate carbohydrates and not to eat the pasta, the real secret is to eat well and in the right quantity, the pasta is the best food you can have. Do not trust people which insult the pasta, in my opinion they are stupid.
The real problem is too much sauce in the spaghetti. Too much sauce creates weight gain. If you want to eat well and healthy using the right amount of pasta and the right amount of sauce. Believe me it’s the truth.
Too much food and less sports are the main causes of obesity in most industrialized countries. Another causes is the trend to sleep less and those who spend more hours awake more often also tend to open the refrigerator and snacking outside meals. Another causes is stress, another is
that many pollutants in the environment have the ability to alter the hormonal balance and therefore the metabolism of the human body.
On cold weather the body consumes energy to produce heat, but also it’s very hot in the summer you burn calories to activate the mechanisms that govern the physiological regulation of body temperature. Radiators and air conditioners urge us to stay home with the consequence of burning less calories and be tempted to go for drinks, juices, ice cream, etc..
No one says that the guilty is the pasta. Believe me.
According to me you think it’s true what I say before.
Eat well and be happy, This is the true philosophy.
Buy the cookbook, it’s original and teaches you many things.
Guaranteed.
Sincerely,
Alan Ferrari