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Chickpeas are a rather cheap and healthy ingredient to use in your cooking. But if you don’t have many ideas about what to do with them, then it’s time to check out these chickpea recipes. Pulses are some of the healthiest foods in the world right now and chickpeas are a chief part of that. […]
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Looking for something fresh and delicious to chase away the meat-and-fat heavy menus of the holidays that are now behind us? You’ve come to the right place! Here are a few nutritious salads you will surely enjoy. The selection below aims to give you plenty of energy, boost your immune system and make you feel
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Have you ever eaten semolina porridge when you were a child? For me, it was THE DESSERT to have when my cravings kicked in and I had nothing else around. Let me tell you more about how to use semolina in your kitchen. Have you ever seen recipes that ask for semolina and you’ve avoided
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The earliest documentary evidence notes that stuffing in cooking referred to stuffing animals like chicken, dormouse, hare, and pig. Nowadays, being more preoccupied with eating healthy and reducing the meat consumption, we turn to stuffed vegetables as well. And fortunately, fall offers us so many vegetables good for stuffing. Fall smells like chrysanthemums, cool air,
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The Paleo diet is based on the idea that, instead of counting calories, you should focus on eating the right foods. In this case, that means basing your menu on the foods that cavemen used to eat thousands of years ago.  To make a long story short, the Paleo diet means eating like our ancestors did.
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If you want to truly feel that fall has arrived, one simple way to do it is to cook with butternut squash! It’s not very complicated. You can add it to soups, pasta, sweet or savory pies or you can just roast it! Butternut squash grows during the summer, but it’s harvested in the fall.
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Are you in the mood for some Middle Eastern flavors? Here is a quick vegetarian snack, that will not hurt your diet. A veggie and couscous salad, with a touch of Feta cheese, and served in a tortilla. And, let’s not forget the tzatziki sauce, which brings its deliciously fresh flavor right on the main stage.
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For the tzatziki sauce:
3.5 ounces of Greek yogurt
1 small cucumber
1 small red onion, chopped
fresh mint
1 tablespoon fresh dill, chopped
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
salt
pepper
For the veggie salad:
3 ounces of couscous, cooked
1 spring onion, chopped
5 cherry tomatoes, chopped
1 small cucumber, diced
3 tablespoons of fresh parsley, chopped
fresh mint
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tortilla wrap
canned chickpeas (optional)
feta cheese (optional)
fresh dill (optional)
Tabbouleh is quite a common dish in Arab cuisines and there’s no wonder why. It is one of our favorite salads because the way it mixes its different ingredients and flavors together. Its main ingredients are parsley (lots of it), couscous, pomegranate, and of course, like in all other salads, olive oil, and lemon or lime juice.
2 bunches of fresh parsley
1 pomegranate
3.5 ounces of couscous, cooked
6 cherry tomatoes, halved
salt
pepper
½ lime
1 tablespoon olive oil
Pop quiz! What’s the best, simplest way of bringing more flavor to your dishes? Why, choosing herbs to go with it, of course. Not all of them work for every dish your imagination might come up with, so here is what goes with what. If you don’t know where to start, we’ve got you covered.
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They can be quite a chore to make, but once they’re done, caramelized onions are exquisite. So, after you’ve mastered those, why not make a bigger batch and freeze it? Then we’ll tell you what to use caramelized onions in, to make for excellent meals. Caramelized onions are that type of dish that can give
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Who doesn’t love a great risotto, a pilaf, a rice salad, or even a simple rice dessert? No matter how simple though, there are plenty of cooking rice mistakes you might be making, that lead to mushy, melty rice, drowned in liquids or make it too dry to have an actual taste. If you’re having
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Cooking lentils: are you avoiding it because it seems like a boring food to you? Think again! Lentils aren’t just a nutritious ingredient, but also a versatile one because they easily absorb all the flavors from other foods and seasonings. Lentils are edible pulses which grow in pods, like beans. They come in brown, green, red, yellow,
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