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Many of our favorite foods to eat don’t require anything added to them to be tasty and nutritious.  How can one improve upon a ripe peach or a sweet watermelon?
Within the vast menu of  cooking and preparing foods, there are wonderful herbs and ingredients that will contribute exciting flavor and taste to dishes that would [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Storing herbs is the first step to their use.  They should be on a cool, dry shelf in a covered container marked with the purchase date. 
How Much to Use?

The general rule is to use 1 teaspoon of dried herbs for each two servings.
Use three times as much of the fresh herb as the dry.  Then [...]

If herb cooking is a whole new vocabulary for you, then start by tasting the herbs on your shelf.  Learn all you can about the fun and flavor available in your garden.  You’ll discover zesty alternatives to the salt, sugar, and fat that plague our modern diet.
Get hooked on herbs, but learn about them as [...]