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Packed With Healing Power: Roasted Garden Vegetable Salad

As a rule, the redder the pepper, the more beta-carotene it contains.  Add the vitamin C found in peppers, and they can help prevent cataracts and reduce the risk of heart disease.
Ingredients:

1 1/2 lb small red potatoes, quartered
12 oz green beans, cut into 1″ pieces
2 red bell peppers, thinly sliced
1 red onion, thinly sliced crosswise [...]

Lentil Salad

Lentils have a mild lovely taste and they take on a nice flavor and texture in this dish when cooked up with shallots, cloves, vegetables. 
Ingredients:

3/4 c green or brown lentils, rinsed and drained
1 shallot, halved lengthwise
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1 bay leaf
1 c chopped celery
1/2 c chopped yellow bell pepper
1/2 c finely chopped red onion
1/2 c chopped plum [...]

How To Get the Most From Fresh Herbs

Fresh herbs have a taste and texture that their dried counterparts can’t match.  You can add their rich flavor to your cooking daily.

When preparing hot dishes, such as minestrone or rice pilaf, add the herbs toward the end of the cooking time to prevent the delicate flavors from dissipating.
For cold dishes such as herb-marinated carrots [...]

Why Use Dried Herbs

Convenient to use and store, dried herbs make it easy to have a vareity of different flavors on hand.  Dried herbs come in three forms:  whole, crumbled, and ground.
The large size of whole and crumbled herbs allows them to retain their freshness much longer than the ground kind.  To extract the most flavor from whole [...]

Five Tips for Measuring Herbs

Cooking with herbs is easy, with a few tips regarding the use of fresh or dried herbs.  The measurements and amounts are very different.
Five Tips for Measuring Herbs

Mound dried herbs on the measuring spoon.  Use your fingers to crumble them into foods.
Measure ground herbs by the level spoonful.
Pack chopped fresh herbs to measure.
Use two to three [...]

Healing Herbs Recipe – Black Bean Dip

Chili powder combines the strengths of many healing herbs.  It’s a mixture of dried chile peppers, garlic, oregano, cumin, coriander, and cloves.  The pain-inhibiting power of the “hot” in chile peppers can also be found in cayenne, Tabasco sauce, and the dried pepper flakes some people like to sprinkle on their pizza and pasta.
Ingredients: 

1 can [...]

15 Powerful Healing Herbs In Your Kitchen

Right in your kitchen pantry, sitting on the shelves, waiting for you to choose them, are 15 of the most powerful healing herbs!  Decide for yourself how to use them, and take a look at recipes provided in the “cooking with herbs” section of this site. 
Here is a list of healing herbs and how they [...]