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List of herbs used for teas and culinary and aromatic purposes

If space is at a premium, you might like to grow your herbs in groups according to their uses.  A garden filled predominantly with herbs always looks lovely, but small collections for a specific purpose are interesting and create a good talking point.  Following are several collections, each comprising of ten plants, but you could alter these to suit your own requirements.

                                                        Culinary herbs
 

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Calamari need to be either cooked quickly on high heat, or cooked for a long period on a slow simmer. To clean the squid, first pull out the tentacles and head. Set these aside.

Start by cleaning the Calamari. Holding the body in one hand gently pull on the tentacles to remove the insides, then remove the quill from inside the body cavity, finally peel the skin away from the outside of the body. Once the inside are out you can cut the head away from the tentacles The remove the mouth positioned at the base of the tentacles. Now wash the tentacles and body under cold running water.Once they are cleaned cut the body into rings about 1/4 inch wide.

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Wine gifts can be appropriate for just about any occasion. From housewarming presents to birthday surprises, the gift of a good bottle of wine is always fashionable. However, if you’re not a wine connoisseur choosing the best bottle can be a difficult one.

It helps if you know the personal preferences of the person you’re giving the bottle to. Things to take into consideration include whether the person prefers a more dry or sweeter wine, as well as if they like red over white.

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With the long hot days of summer, you will find that you will need something lighter than a T-bone steak.

If you are seeking a fresh and light pasta salad, they you will need to serve this at your next gathering.

Summer Basil Pasta Salad

Recipe:

16 oz. box Whole Wheat pasta, find a fun shape.

10 oz. frozen chopped spinach (2 cups fresh could be substituted)

1 cup fresh diced tomatoes

1/4 cup finely sliced red onion

4 Tbsp. fresh basil, chopped

1/4 cup Balsamic Vinegar

1/4 cup Olive Oil

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If you are diabetic or even if you are facing the challenge of flavoring food or how to flavor coffee minus all the junk such as calories, aspartame, chemicals, fat, other harmful artificial flavoring you will want to continue reading this. Within this quick article you’ll find out how to flavor coffee, tea and food the natural way.

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There is no mystery to why gourmet truffles taste so good - all you have to do is use the best chocolate. Despite being decadently delicious, truffles are actually easy and quick to make.

Dark Chocolate Truffles (and Easy Variations)

1/4 cup unsalted butter

3 tablespoons heavy cream

4 ounces of dark chocolate, chopped

2 tablespoons liqueur (choose any flavor: orange, coffee, black current, raspberry, etc) (Tip: if you are making chocolate-orange truffles, add 1 teaspoon orange zest.)

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The acai berry is is strange in the way that only 10% of the berry is actually edible, the main reason for this is it has a large stone which takes up most of the berry. It is a dark purple berry slightly smaller than a grape, acai is more communally mixed with ice cream, meal bars and also energy drinks. The acai berry requires rapid precessing after its late harvest.

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Cheese fondue is a delicious hot cheese sauce used for dipping a variety of foods into. This can be bread, vegetables, or meats. The concept is generally used for a fun get together but it was actually introduced in Switzerland. In the winter they had a hard time finding enough food. They often had to survive on old cheese and stale bread. They learned that heating up the cheese and dipping the bread in it gave it a much better taste.

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Maple sugar candy is one of Nature’s little-known gifts. It has three times the sweetening power of cane sugar. Maple syrup is that rich in sugar because it 43 gallons of maple sugar sap need to be boiled down in order to make one gallon of maple syrup.

With an ingredient that sweet, making maple sugar candy at home is extremely rewarding…as long as you can avoid wasting many jugs of maple syrup trying to get it to turn out right. One common mistake is that people think making maple sugar is just like making fudge. Here are a couple tricks I learned that result in less frustration and more great maple candy every time.

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These chicken casserole recipes are delicious. Just check these out and I’m sure you’ll be amazingly surprised.

So here we go for some chicken casserole recipes:

>>Chicken Mac Casserole

~3 boned and skinned chicken breast halves cooked & cubed

~8 ozs elbow macaroni — cooked and drained

~20 ozs frozen chopped broccoli — cooked and drained

~8 ozs fat-free Sour Cream

~1 can reduced fat cream of chicken soup

~1 can cream of broccoli soup, condensed salt and pepper — to taste

~2 c shredded low fat Cheddar Cheese

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