Showing posts with label cook with garlic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cook with garlic. Show all posts

Sunday, May 29, 2011

How to make your own cuticle garlic oil


After you finish cutting one clove of garlic as shown in this video, add it to olive oil, let the sit for one hour so that can garlic infuse naturally with olive oil so that the oil begin to smell just like garlic; if you want to make garlic oil you can use right away heat up the garlic in a pan over stove for few seconds just to get it warmed up, add it to olive oil then once it cools you can add any essential oil of your choice, our favorite is Jasmine Rose because it has a sweet romantic fragrance aroma and it has antiseptic-prevents bacterial, fungal, viral infections; it has anti-inflammatory properties, Anti spasmodic-relaxes the nerves, calm the body and helps to relieve anxiety and depression; Cicatrisant-meaning it clears scar marks, after spots and cellulite; it can be used as a sedative, jasmine oil has been used for a longtime to enhance natural libo, treat impotence/infertility, premature ejaculation, frigidity and many other properties makes jasmine one of the best essential oil for the nail. Pure rose essential oil antiseptic, anti viral, astringent, antibacterial, cicatrisant properties makes it ideal an ideal oil for the hand and nails. It an aphrodisiac oil that has mood-lifting and antidepressant properties known to boost self-esteem, confidence, relaxation and mentality strength. Rose oil has similar properties like jasmine oil. This essential oil will help to hide the garlic odor. Preserve this recipe in an air tight container and keep it refrigerated, it can last for a long time but it's best when fresh. That is how you make garlic oil

Note from Science Daily: Researchers at King's College London and the University of East Anglia have discovered that women who consume a diet high in allium vegetables, such as garlic, onions and leeks, have lower osteoporosis, lowers cholesterol, increases metabolism, helps to regulate the digestive and reproductive organs.
Crushing garlic before use enables the beneficial compounds to be released.
Because most people sauté or bake their garlic before eating it. Researchers wanted to know if cooking reduced garlic’s blood-thinning effects. They also wanted to see what to see what impact crushing the garlic before cooking had on its ability to bust up artery-clogging platelets, they found that Lightly cooked, crushed garlic provides most of the health benefits found in raw garlic. Microwaving garlic stripes all almost all of its thinning-effect (antiplatelet properties).
The next time you use garlic for its renowned antibacterial effects, consider fresh garlic instead of those bottles of chopped garlic. Researchers in Japan report that fresh garlic maintains higher levels of a key healthy ingredient than preserved versions and may be better for you.
Garlic oil possesses significant potential for protecting hearts from diabetes-induced cardiomyopathy. Antioxidant properties of garlic helps protect them against diseases, sunspots, inflammation and to slow down aging caused by pollutants and free radical damage.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

How to cook vegetables to preserve nutrients

 It is true living healthy is good but it takes knowing how to live healthy to live healthier. Many of us eat vegetables and for a vegetarian - eating vegetable is staple but how can you prepare delicious vegetables and preserve its nutrients. Although once heat is applied to vegetables or fruit it's nutrient is reduced but in some vegetables such as tomatoes, the enzymes are activated when heated. The way you cook your vegetables determines the freshness and nutrition value. So let's learn how to prepare vegetables like spinach, broccoli florets, kale, carrot, red/green peppers, green onions, garlic, tomatoes, etc. Keep in mind when making soup or stew you add the vegetable last when the stew is almost done.  For carrots and beets cook till soft.  For vegetables like spinach, kale,broccoli steam for 2-3minutes, you can cook directly in a pot over stove but it's best to cook these with a steam basket.

First, wash vegetables with clean cold water.
Add 1 cup of water to pot.
Put a bamboo steam basket over the pot or steam using a mechanical vegetable steamer
Mix chopped vegetables with pure flavored/seasoning apple cider vinegar,then put vegetables into the bamboo steam basket immediately.
Add pinch of sea salt, and 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil and seasoning.
Cover the pot, to stop the steam from evaporating, and to preserve nutrient.
steam for about 2-3minutes then remove heat.
The oil and vinegar helps to soften the vegetables and it cooks faster.
Serve with stir fried vegetarian sausages or cooked brown rice with stew.

Note: Cook root vegetables direct without using steam basket because you want the steam to cook the inside of the vegetable, you can use the juicy vegetable flavor water as a broth. Root vegetables includes rutabaga, beet, radish, carrot,sweet potatoes, daikon, cabbage etc.

Cook starchy vegetable first before adding other non-starchy vegetables since the starch one's are much harder e.g rutabaga, sweet potatoes, daikon etc.
                                                                                                                                              
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