Perfectly Spicy

Spices and herbs are the best way to add great interest and variety to your food.  Most recipes can be transformed from the plain to the sublime with the addition of certain special spices and herbs. The variety of delicious sizzling hot & spicy tastes you can create using spices and herbs is so diverse that anyone can find lots of different ideas from many countries and cultures. Spices and herbs enliven your bored taste buds, lift your mood and generally give a real boost to your heath and well being in a variety of ways.

Certain spices and herbs are known for their healing, settling, cleansing and antibacterial properties. There really are positive medical effects on weight loss, heart disease and colon problems just through adopting a hot & spicy diet. It used to be thought that anyone suffering digestive problems, such as ulcers or IBS should avoid foods containing hot spices and herbs but that is no longer the view and they are now considered very beneficial and embraced by the medical profession and nutritionists alike. All in moderation of course!

Crock Pots (electric slow cookers) can be left simmering all day and you can arrive home from work to the aroma of spices and herbs floating through the air and a perfectly cooked chili con carne or tender chicken curry ready and waiting for you.  Wok stir frying provides the ultimate quick hot and spicy fix. The main time spent on this is preparation of the ingredients as thin even slicing is required for the best results. This can be done super quickly with the proper chef knives. Once this is done, quickly stir fried, your spices and herbs added of course, a meal can be served in 10 minutes or less. For those people who don’t want to cook at all, try salads to which you can add meats or prawns with zingy spices and herbs dressings, so quick to make and totally delicious.

This style of cooking is so adaptable to both your taste and lifestyle. Almost any  recipe can be made hotter or milder according to both your own or your families’ personal tastes by simply adding more or less spices and herbs to the mix. Also if you know you really don’t like a certain ingredient, you can just leave it out or use something else instead! Cooking with spices and herbs can fit in with the most hectic of lifestyles, for instance many recipes can be prepared in double portions for two meal occasions, or super fast stir fries for harassed parents or the time challenged individual and perhaps even a spicy lunchbox salad put together as fast as a sandwich!

To learn more on how superb tangy spices and herbs can benefit your health and your lifestyle and the history and origins of various cooking styles in different countries and cultures, we have provided lots more information for you.

We welcome suggestions, information and tips from our readers, so please feel free to contact us with any of your ideas.

Are your taste buds already tingling with anticipation?   Heat up your life with those tantalising spices and herbs – start cooking today!