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How Do You Salt Food the Right Way

Can you imagine food without salt? Salt gives your food its delicious taste. It reveals the truest flavor of the different ingredients that produce a good blend of taste.  When salt is added in the various stages of the cooking process, it intensifies the natural flavors and aromas of food making it quicker to combine with other ingredients. But be careful, while a pinch of salt is enough to enhance flavors, double it and you're making a mistake. Salt can either make or break a dish.  If you know how to salt food the right way can make it work magic from how your dishes smell to the way they taste.  ➖➖➖➖➖ How Do You Salt Food the Right Way?  Vegetables  Salt helps preserve the green color in cooked vegetables.  When boiling and blanching, salt the water first before cooking. To poach vegetables, add salt to the water and simmer for a few minutes. Steamed veggies   should be salted right after cooking, while r oa...
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Who First Used Herbs & Spices for Food?

Written records show Ancient Egypt, India, and China first used herbs to enhance flavor and keep food fresh. Historically, herbs and spices have been around millions of years ago as these flowering plants co-evolved with all the living things around. Ancient Egypt wrapped meat using the leaves of bush and discovered how the process has enhanced the flavor of the meat. Uncovering this, spices and herbs became an effective way in masking unpleasant tastes and odors of food, until eventually unearthing the wonderful zest and aroma of some herbs in improving the flavor of food. Over the years, people began to distinguish the herbs used as flavor enhancers from those used for medicinal purposes through their pleasant or agreeable odor.  Early on, ancient India have black pepper, turmeric, and cinnamon as among the spices used for culinary and health purposes. Turmeric and cardamom are spices indigenous to the region and have been cultivated in the gardens of Babylon as early as the 8th ...
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7 Uses of Your Leftover Bread

This post was originally published on March 14, 2013. Most of us always have bread in the house and whether it's home-baked or store-bought, we seem to keep getting leftover bread. Have you ever caught yourself staring at a stale bread that you can't afford to throw away? Leftover bread can be used. Here are what I find the best suggestions to convert them into something new and delicious.   Note:  This post contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you make a purchase. _____ Bake it one more time                                                                                                                                 ...
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