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    Spice for Life: Delicious Recipes Using Everyday Healing Spices
    Spice for Life: Delicious Recipes Using Everyday Healing Spices
    Spice for Life: Delicious Recipes Using Everyday Healing Spices
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    Spice for Life: Delicious Recipes Using Everyday Healing Spices

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    Spices not only add a flavorful kick to meals, they also have some amazing benefits to improve certain ailments and improve overall health. Rich in antioxidants and polyphenols, spices and herbs like turmeric, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, ginger, garlic, cloves, coriander, and sage can fight inflammation, protect against chronic conditions, and can even help with losing weight.

    Featuring dozens of recipes for meals and beauty remedies, Healing Spices is a great tool for anyone looking to add more flavor to their diet and cut out unhealthy seasonings like salt, sugar, and fatty oils. You’ll find great recipes like:

    Chickpea and carrot tangine
    Sweet potato and coconut soup
    Probiotic ginger beer
    Chicken tikka masala with turmeric rice
    Lemon-garlic sorbet
    Cayenne toasts
    Orange, fig, and sage chutney
    Mexican hot chocolate cupcakes
    And much more

    There are also remedies for burns, problem skin and hair, losing your voice, toothaches, and a guide detailing the benefits of each spice and herb. Healing Spices is the ultimate compendium for anyone wishing to cook with healthier seasonings.

    Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateJun 21, 2016
    ISBN9781510703971
    Spice for Life: Delicious Recipes Using Everyday Healing Spices
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    Instructables.com is a bona fide Internet sensation, a web-based community of motivated do-it-yourselfers who contribute invaluable how-to guides to the site on a wide range of topics, from gardening and home repair to recipes to gadgets that defy categorization. The site hosts more than 100,000 projects. More than 15 million people visit the site each month, leaving comments and suggestions on the ever-growing list of do-it-yourself projects.

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      This was not what I was anticipating, although I may be harsh in judging it based on my anticipations. It is very light on the health benefits of only a handful of spices and herbs. Not much information about how to treat or preserve them, either. It gives a selection of blog-type recipes, most of which sound good enough to try, which incorporate a few spices and herbs. For a beginner cook, I think this would be good.

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    Soups

    ■Pumpkin Soup

    ■Ginger Carrot Soup

    ■Roasted Garlic Soup

    ■Sweet Potato and Coconut Soup

    Pumpkin Soup

    By James Williamson

    www.instructables.com/id/Creamy-Pumpkin-Soup/

    This soup is great at the time of year when the days are getting colder and everyone’s scooping out all that fantastic pumpkin goop to carve their Jack-o-lanterns! It’s warming, creamy, nutritious, and really tasty! Once made, it keeps great in the fridge for up to five days. It also freezes really well, and if frozen in blocks it takes up less space than a skinned chopped pumpkin.

    I added a small amount of cumin to give it warmth and add to the flavor of the pumpkin. This recipe’s also fantastic with butternut squash and good with any other squash.

    Pumpkins are in season from September onwards.

    Step 1: Ingredients

    •   2 onions

    •   4 tbsp. olive oil

    •   1 kg pumpkin or squash flesh (mine was of a medium size; it weighed 1,600 g before chopping up and 900 g after. Small pumpkins tend to be the tastiest.)

    •   ½ tsp. cumin

    •   ¼ tsp. turmeric (optional)

    •   2 garlic cloves

    •   2 vegetable stock cubes

    •   500 ml boiling water

    •   150 ml heavy cream

    •   Dash of pepper

    Step 2: The Onion

    Finely chop the onions. Heat the olive oil on low heat in a large pan. Add the onions and sauté until they’re soft, not brown.

    Step 3: Prepare the Pumpkin

    Lop off the top and bottom of your pumpkin to make it more stable, then divide it down the middle. Scoop out the seeds and save them. They’re great roasted. Mine was a fresh, young pumpkin from my garden, so the skin was still very thin. A peeler did the job of removing the skin. If yours is slightly older or bigger, you may need to shave it off with a sharp knife. Cut the two halves of the peeled pumpkin into evenly sized cubes.

    Step 4: Add the Pumpkin

    Add the pumpkin to the pan. Sauté with the onion for about 10 minutes or until the flesh becomes darker and begins to soften.

    Step 5: The Spice Must Flow!

    Add the cumin and turmeric. My pumpkin wasn’t particularly orange, so I decided to add the quarter teaspoon of turmeric to give it some color. Sauté the pumpkin and onion with the spice for five more minutes.

    Step 6: Garlic and Stock, then Simmer

    Finely chop the garlic and crumble the stock cube, then add them to the pan. Pour in 500 ml boiling water. Cover and simmer on medium-low heat for 20–30 minutes or until the pumpkin is soft. Stir occasionally.

    Step 7: Cream It!

    Turn down the heat and add 150 ml heavy cream and a dash of pepper. Stir it in, bring the soup to a low boil, then turn off the heat.

    Step 8: Blend and Season

    I used a hand blender straight in the pan so I could blend it while it was still hot. Alternatively, allow to cool slightly then pour into a blender or food processor. Taste the soup. You may need to add a little salt or more pepper to taste.

    Step 9: Serve

    Add a sprig of parsley on top and serve piping hot with buttery toast or crusty rolls. Enjoy!

    Ginger Carrot Soup

    By canida

    www.instructables.com/id/Ginger-Carrot-Soup/

    This is a simple, quick, and tasty winter soup.

    Prep time: About 10 minutes

    Cook time: 30–45 minutes

    Step 1: Ingredients

    •   1 pound carrots (shredded)

    •   ½ large onion (shredded)

    •   1 bouillon cube + water (or substitute with stock or broth)

    •   Several chunks of ginger (depending on your taste)

    •   Bay leaf

    •   Fresh ground black pepper to taste

    •   2 tbsp. coconut milk (optional)

    Step 2: Cooking

    Shred carrots and onion, then place in a pot. Add water until the vegetables are just covered. Add bouillon cube, ginger, bay leaf, and pepper. Simmer soup on low until vegetables are cooked through and most of the water has evaporated. Taste and adjust seasonings; add coconut milk if desired. Remove bay leaf and ginger chunks and serve.

    Scaling this recipe is easy! I used four pounds of carrots (approximately seven cups shredded) and two onions with four bouillon cubes and a big handful of ginger.

    Roasted Garlic Soup

    By wold630

    www.instructables.com/id/Roasted-Garlic-Soup/

    Ah, the time of year when everyone seems to be sniffling and sneezing. Since garlic is oh so tasty and a natural antibiotic, it is a match made in heaven. This soup will clear the sinuses while tasting great!

    Step 1: Chicken Stock

    Every great soup starts with a great base—in this case, homemade chicken stock. You can substitute store-bought stock if you prefer, but if you have the time and resources you should really make your own. You won’t regret the extra effort, especially when you warm the whole house with the savory aroma of roasted chicken and vegetables and taste the difference in the end product.

    Homemade Chicken Stock:

    •   4 chicken thighs–bone in (very important)

    •   6 cloves garlic

    •   1 onion, sliced

    •   4 large carrots, quartered

    •   Salt and pepper

    Preheat oven to 350°F.

    Add all ingredients to an appropriately sized roasting pan, making sure fat side of chicken is up. Salt and pepper generously.

    Bake 45–60 minutes or until chicken reaches 165°F.

    Remove pan from oven and let chicken cool until you can pull all of the meat off the bone. Reserve for a later meal.

    Add all chicken bones, fat, and veggies to a large stock pot and fill with one quart of water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover, and simmer about 45 minutes.

    Using a large, fine-mesh colander, strain liquid into a large bowl and set aside.

    Eat the carrots because you can’t resist and discard the rest.

    Step 2: Roast Garlic

    Preheat oven to 350°F.

    Cut the top off one head of garlic. Drizzle with olive oil and place in a garlic roaster.

    Roast 45–60 minutes or until garlic is tender.

    Let cool then squeeze out the garlic into a small bowl. Set aside.

    If you don’t have a garlic roaster, wrap the garlic loosely in aluminum foil instead. You will get the same result.

    Instead of having the oven on twice, you can roast the garlic at the same time as the chicken if you are making stock.

    Step 3: Make Soup

    Roasted Garlic Soup:

    •   1 head garlic, peeled and sliced

    •   1 large onion, diced

    •   2 tbsp. olive oil

    •   1 head roasted garlic

    •   1 quart chicken stock

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