Chickpea dishes enjoy a great popularity in the Mediterranean countries. Chickpea is a tasty, yellow sort of Bengal large pea. Dishes with it are pleasing to the eye and the heart, they are warm and satiating. Chickpea has a slightly nutty taste and contains more nutrient materials than other leguminous crops. It goes perfectly well […]
Obesity, heart and blood vessel problems are the main global health issues of the day. Whereas health depends on food to a large extent. Vegetable juices can help people gain considerable health advantages. John Foreyt Ph.D., director of Behavioral Medicine Research Center at Baylor Medical College and co-author of the new study, said that the […]
You can prepare a very tasty jelly from milk and cocoa. It is a light dessert, not difficult to make at all. Chocolate jelly can be the best bet to round off your lunch or dinner with. We added almond syrup into the jelly and decorated it with almond nuts to enhance its rich pleasant […]
Sport medicine scientists have good news for sportsmen who go in for daily strenuous workouts. A new study puts forth strong evidence proving that milk chocolate helps sportsmen regain their energy quicker and more efficaciously than some commercial sport drinks. A group of scientists from James Madison University published the results of their research that […]
Potato, mushroom and sauerkraut make a marvelous combination for a delicious salad. We used for this salad two kinds of mushrooms – honey mushrooms and champignons which we pickled ourselves, but you can take pickled mushrooms from the store. You can make sauerkraut using this recipe for Sauerkraut. Celery’s specific unique flavor gives this salad […]
The development of modern science gives us a better understanding of the qualities of different foods and how we can use them for our benefit. A team of researchers led by Marc Winnefeld from Beiersdorf, Germany, published a study in the BioMed Central’s Journal Nutrition and Metabolism devoted to the influence of white tea on […]
Here is another recipe for homemade bread. To our mind this bread is great and very tasty; it is spongy with a crispy crust. We used semolina with white flour and olive oil in this recipe and got two loaves of bread like the one in our photo. You can see this bread in Italian […]
Pumpkin is the main feature of Hallowe’en, one of the world’s oldest celebrations. There are plenty of dishes you can make with pumpkin. Its thick orange pulp gives a delicious, fresh and sweetish, taste and a marvelous color to any soup, sauce or dessert. But besides being a tasty and bright-looking vegetable, pumpkin is very […]
There are plenty of vegetables in Italy all year round. That’s why Italians love to make minestrone with a large quantity of ingredients. Sometimes they put up to 15 different vegetables into this well-known thick vegetable soup, creating very interesting flavor compositions. Usually minestrone is cooked in cold seasons since it warms up the body […]
Fall is the season of ripe, juicy and fragrant pears. Pears make an excellent dessert. They contain slow carbohydrates that won’t make your waist grow. Try to eat pears unpeeled. If the skin is soft, there’s no need to peel it off, for it is as rich in cellular tissue as the pear flesh. Pears […]
The very simple and natural foods keep revealing their anticancer qualities. Hi-tech developments are of great assistance in that. All the amazing scientific discoveries of late offer people very uncomplicated ways to protect them from developing illnesses. The latest research relates to sour cabbage, or sauerkraut.
Fall is the season of preparing sauerkraut in Russia. Sauerkraut is very tasty and can be used in salads, soups, various pies; it is used for stewing meat and potatoes. Generally cabbage is salted with carrots, sometimes with the addition of sweet pepper or some sour berries. To ferment cabbage in weak brine you better […]
The Mediterranean diet is already renowned as one of the best diets to protect from cancer and heart diseases for a long time. The latest research shows that it helps against depression as well. The results of a wide-scale research conducted by Dr Almudena Sanchez-Villegas were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association […]
Risotto in its multiple variants is the most popular dish (giving way only to pasta) to be served as starters – primi piatti. Risotto with oyster mushrooms and white mushrooms is especially tasty due to strong mushroom flavor. There are many rice fields in Italy in Lombardy and Piedmont where they cultivate excellent large rice […]
Pepper marinated by this recipe is wonderfully tasty and flavorful. It will enrich your meal being a veritable delicacy. It is good as an appetizer and an excellent side dish to fish, poultry, meat, liver and even to fried potatoes or cheese. Every dish will get new shades of taste with it. If you prepare […]
