March 8, 2009
Excerpt from Bragg Vegetarian Health Recipes — Chapter 8
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Vegetables and fruit, both raw or lightly cooked, are among the “curative” foods, and should represent at least three-fifths of the diet. These foods not only contribute vitamins and minerals to the diet, but add the fiber required for proper body functioning, in addition to helping maintain the alkaline reserve of the body. They add variety, color, tasty flavor and texture to your meals. For some people vegetables are an unappetizing, uninteresting food – sad loss! The customary method of over-cooking garden-picture vegetables and serving them straight from a pool of surplus cooking water is certainly an unappetizing way to serve nature’s gifts. Any cook with ingenuity can prepare a vegetable to be a beautiful delicacy. Properly prepared vegetables, raw or cooked, combined with delightful herb seasoning will enhance flavors and conserve vitamins, minerals, and food value. It is not necessary to prepare them with rich sauces or heavy spices. They can be standard items of fine food, exquisitely flavored and served in entirely new ways designed to excite the palate and nourish the body.
Cooking with herbs is a delightful and healthy experience. Herbs enhance the flavor of vegetables. The chapter on cooking with herbs and this vegetable section should be used interchangeably. Vegetables can become healthy delicacies rather than boring foods to be regarded with distaste.
Buying Organic Vegetables for Your Family
It is often very difficult to buy vegetables for a family of two or even four people without running the risk of having leftovers. Of all foods, vegetables have the least food value after they have been cooked and then stored. Vegetables are meant to be eaten as soon as possible after cooking, to obtain the utmost of their vitamin and mineral content. Avoid saving vegetables for a second meal or a second day. Instead buy wisely and cook carefully to avoid waste or leftovers.
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February 9, 2009
Excerpt from Bragg Vegetarian Health Recipes — Chapter 1
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Ordinarily, cookbooks have a stereotyped sequence. First come the tables of measurement, then the soups, salads, etc. To my mind, no recipe Book — Can start without flavor as a basis – and especially no health food recipe book. In cooking for health, the pleasure of well-savored flavor is almost as important as nutritional quality, as it makes mealtime more enjoyable, which also helps with digestion. Good cooking is the combination of two great fields of human experience: science and art. The science of food tells us what good nutrition is. The art of preparing food requires learning the art of flavor. Using herbs such as Bragg Sprinkle (24 herbs & spices) and Bragg Kelp Seasoning, garlic and 100% whole, fresh, organically grown foods are always the best.
Stock: the Foundation of Flavor
Flavor can only be as good as the stock from which it is based. Good stock, properly used, is the difference between excellent and mediocre cooking. When the stock (or consommé) is excellent, the creation of fine flavor is easy. When food lacks flavor, meals can taste flat and dull. In foreign lands, mention of stock in a cookbook would be superfluous. However, in our culture it is a little-known and seldom practiced principle of the basic art of cooking.
There are several reasons for this: unless a great deal can be prepared at a time, the cooking of stock is time– consuming. You can make three quarts at one time, freeze some in ice cube trays, and transfer to freezer bags to use as-needed for small amounts. Place remaining stock in jars and refrigerate. Put a date on all stored food items! A stainless steel pressure-cooker is a great time-saver in the preparation of stock. The cooking time can be divided by ten.
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January 26, 2009
Excerpt from Bragg Vegetarian Health Recipes — Chapter 13
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Actions speak louder than words and can change your mood if you feel depressed. Take a walk outside – it often helps you sort out and solve your problems. Spend time with a young child — it simplifies life and puts everything in perspective. Find the comics section in the newspaper or something funny to read and laugh.
If someone is upset, try to analyze the situation from that person’s perspective. Make yourself physically smile and laugh, it opens the blood vessels in the back of your head and physically lifts your mood. Choose to be happy in spite of circumstances. No one “makes” you happy – it’s an attitude that comes from within.
This Blog is moderated. It is created to be informative, inspiring and uplifting. Our positive philosophy at Bragg is to communicate with love and respect. As Paul and Patricia Bragg teach, in expressing your thoughts and opinions to others, ask yourself: "Is it good, is it kind, is it necessary?" All comments that do not fit this philosophy will not be posted.
December 14, 2008
Excerpt from Bragg’s Vegetarian Health Recipes Book — Chapter 12
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It is sometimes difficult to achieve the true Far Eastern flavoring because we do not always have the proper ingredients. It can be difficult to secure fresh ginger root, for instance, or the very young garlic bulbs such as the Chinese use that do not have the strong pungency of the more matured garlic bulb, or lotus leaves, small Chinese peas or bamboo shoots. Many of these ingredients are now becoming more available in the United States.
The Far East is the home of the soybean, the water chestnut, and the sesame seed, as well as some of the world’s finest health foods. The people of East Asia, like their Western neighbors, have yielded too much to popular methods of food preparation. Too many of their foods are now prepared by deep-fat frying and other dietary practices that are unhealthily. However, if we look for the best in Far Eastern cookery, as we search for the best of our own, we will find a treasure trove to prepare of delicious, wholesome food.
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December 4, 2008
Excerpt from Bragg’s Vegetarian Health Recipes Book — Chapter 14
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One of nature’s greatest gifts to mankind is the tiny, golden berry of grain. Whole wheat, rye, barley, oats – all nourishing nutlike grains – impart rich flavor to the menu and tremendous energy and healthy food value to the diet.
In modern civilization, one of the greatest crimes against food has been committed against the whole-grain! Since it contains elements that do not keep well in storage (for instance, the bran and the germ of the grains), the grain companies have established commercial practices of milling the bran and the germ right out of the grain and offering only a fraction of the original substance as an excuse for a rich, golden grain. They have robbed and refined the grains of much of their life, vitality, vitamins, and minerals, by removing part of their most precious substances! The tiny golden flake (the wheat germ), the rich, nutlike flavor of the bran, and the full-bodied flavor of the completely blended grain flavor, are lost forever in the refining processing.
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