Cooking With Fresh Herbs
| Recipes by Robyn Webb, MS, LN |
Flank Steak Salad With creamy Herb Dressing |
Taste and scent are intertwined, working together to make food delicious. The lovely aromas of fresh herbs heighten the flavors of both savory and sweet foods. Tune into spring and compose your own aromatic meal with one of these fresh recipes.
Herb Hint: Fresh herbs should be unwilted and fragrant. Check for damaged, dried, or slimy leaves, which mark plants past their prime.
Herb Tip: Avoid excess sodium and calories—use chopped or minced herbs instead of salty seasonings or sauces to perk up your recipes.
Storing Fresh Herbs: To store fresh herbs for three to five days (some sturdy herbs, such as rosemary, may keep for longer), remove them from their packaging, shake off excess water, and loosely wrap them in a paper towel. Place the wrapped herbs in a perforated, resealable plastic bag and store in the crisper drawer of the refrigerator. Very cold temperatures may cause dark spots on leaves; discard spotted ones. Basil and oregano stems do well stored on a cool kitchen counter, away from direct sunlight and heat, with the cut ends in water.
Flank Steak Salad With Creamy Herb Dressing
Seared Scallops With Cucumber Chive Mint Relish
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Can't you print recipes with plain food somethings that don't cost a fortin to buy?
plain foods
I understand what you are saying......I have a meat and potatoes Midwestern husband and I would love to use herbs but with plainer foods. I would love to see some recipes with herbs for chicken...as an example. I won't be able to convince him to try minted fruit but might be able to serve herbed chicken or vegetables!
Cost of Diabetic Diet Foods
No. They can't print recipes that don't cost a fortune to buy.
That's the problem with diabetic diets. If a recipe is worth anything as far as really dealing with diabetes IT WILL NOT BE CHEAP -- because cheap equals carbs and lower nutrition.
With diabetes you want maximum nutrition with low carbs, high vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants. That means FRESH --and should really be -organic -- fruits and vegetables, whole foods, not genetically altered, no anti biotics in meat and dairy, and FRESH fish -- ideally not frozen.
All that equals expensive in most of today's grocery stores.
Which just goes to prove how bad the American diet is that plain, wholesome nutritious foods cost so much money.
Cost of Diabetic Diet Foods
I found that when my shopping cart no longer had ANY ice cream, cookies, chips, diet soda, etc. and when I no longer stopped for fast food burgers and fries, my budget had more room for fresh produce and good whole grain bread, and some hormone free chicken. Except for a couple containers of Mrs. Dash salt-free seasoning, I NEVER buy specially labeled food for diabetics. I find I'm gradually adopting a more plant-based diet. My weekly grocery cart typically includes a box of old-fashioned oatmeal, skim milk, Greek yogurt (has more protein), good whole grain bread, a bag of brown rice, sweet potatoes, bag of apples, bag of oranges, a bunch of kale, bag of carrots, bag of dry white beans, low sodium chicken or vegetable broth, bag of onions, natural peanut butter (no salt added if you can find it, big bunch of romaine lettuce (cheaper than bagged and stays fresh longer, cucumber, grape tomatoes, hormone-free chicken breasts, frozen cod or haddock, and a selection of fresh vegetables (whatever is in season or on sale.) The beans, kale, sweet potato and chicken broth go into a soup that lasts three days. I eat smaller portions of chicken than I used to, so one package of 3 chicken breasts is two meals for my husband and I. I occasionally make a big pot of rice and freeze it in 1/2 cup servings. A desperation dinner might be rice with half a plate of steamed broccoli and a salad. Or 1/2 a microwaved sweet potato with vegetables, a salad and milk. Don't stress about organic produce, expensive specialty foods and fresh herbs. Just start simple and experiment as you have time, energy and budget. If you have food allergies, it would be worth the time and money to consult a registered dietician who can set you on the right path. You could also email the contact listed under the article with specific questions. I wish you many years of happy, healthy eating.
COST OF DEABETIC DIET FOODS
YOU HAVE HELPED ME SO MUCH! I JUST MADE MY GROCERY LIST USING YOUR LIST. THANK YOU SO MUCH! HUGS AND PRAYERS
Shopping List
This is very usefull information. The actual naming of what to buy takes the mystery, or guess work out of the process.
Thanks
Excellent. Thanks for the
Excellent. Thanks for the post.
a small herb garden
A small container herb garden with a few herbs - inexpensive to buy as seedlings/plants and even cheaper as seeds - would be a great way to prepare these recipes. Too expensive to buy fresh herbs from the grocery store. herbs can be grown in small spaces such as an apartment balcony, patio or even in a window sill box.
I'm looking forward to trying the these recipes, saving the fruit salad recipe for when strawberries are in season!
Your Recipes Have Too Many Allergy Components In Them
I just got the bad news about being diabetic.
So I came to this website looking for something other than the traditional answers I have known about diabetic diets from watching other family members deal with diabetic diets.
The four recipes listed on this web page may work for some people, but are typical of the bad food choices diabetics are encouraged to make. I don't eat raw, lean meat like flank steak because it is as tough as shoe leather - because I can't chew it and it has no natural flavor left after the fat is gone. I don't eat any lettuce salad because it gives me diarrhea.
I am DEATHLY allergic to scallops and shellfish and mint DOES NOT GO with onions and cucumbers are too hard to chew.
Hummus is okay for chickpeas but NEVER with tabouleh because I am allergic to wheat and tabouleh I am DEATHLY allergic to.
Adding thyme to fruit salad is RUINING the basic fruit salad flavor. I hardly EVER eat fruit because it has WAY too much sugar in it.
So far all I see are the typical fussed up recipes with wierd tastes, and all the normal natural flavors taken out.
Can you try again with recipes made from normal natural flavors without allergy substitutes that make people with allergies deathly ill? I really need some help with this recipe stuff because if this is the kind of food I would have to eat, I will never be able to "conquer" the diet end of the equation. HELP! Thank you very much.
High sugar and food allergies
I also have food allergies, like fish and shell fish. Fruit is great when eaten in very small quantities, but buying expensive things like mint doesn't make sense to put on a few wedges of an orange. Fruit salad? Big joke! Fruit salad for two people to have a half cup or less, depending on carb count, is way beyond our means. A single serving size of one fruit or type of berries makes more sense. Skip the herbs or mint.
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