From childhood we are told not to eat sugar, just not too much sugar, one slice of cake is enough. But why? Turns out there are many reasons and causes to abandon white sugar forever!

Pesto is one of the most famous Italian sauces. With the advent of blenders and food processors it has become so simple to prepare, what to do it ourselves under the power of the most inexperienced Housewives. Ways also use this sauce a lot.

Habitual mashed potatoes can sparkle with new colors, if you make it a color, adding additional ingredients – spinach, carrot, pumpkin, green peas or other vegetables.

Pate is a dish that is not true for traditional Russian cuisine, but, nevertheless, it is very popular. There are many types of pate, and much of the pleasure of their use depends on whether you serve this dish together with the right add-ons. So how to correctly apply the paste?

It would seem that diet and bread – are incompatible. Nutritionists usually recommends not to abandon this product by scaring people with a great deal of carbohydrates. However, even with its use it is possible to get rid of excess weight and regain a slender figure. Most importantly, give preference to only some kinds of bread and combine it with other products.

Long gone are the days when onions, dill and parsley accounted for virtually the entire list of spices. Now in stores you can find the most exotic spices and herbs. Their range is really dazzled, and now the host is the problem - how to combine spices and seasonings in dishes.

A substance such as fish oil, often used in medicine, for example, for the treatment of rickets. How should take it?

Sea urchins are shellfish, are able to move slowly on hard surfaces. As a rule, they attach themselves to underwater stones. Hunting them is carried out quite simply by diving at a shallow depth, and scraping them with a knife from the surface of the stones. Of course, you can use this to catch fish for cooking, however, most useful and correctly to eat sea urchins raw.

A feature of this drink as a liqueur, is a sweet and sugary taste. The culture of drinking such a drink is the careful choice of snack that is most often harmonizes with the taste of the liquor.

Yeast – single-celled microorganisms which have long been used for the preparation of bakery products and some alcoholic beverages. Currently cooking you can find several types of this product, but the best is to create a test still considered fresh pressed yeast.

Chicken goes well with almost all types of garnish. But it is also worth remembering that the meat can easily spoil. This meat likes a strong acid, lemon juice or vinegar. A lot of people make that mistake. Consider the most delicious and the most appropriate types of marinades for chicken.

We all have different tastes, someone who likes to cook pork with salt and pepper, and some prefer the kitchen to experiment with different seasonings and spices. There are certain spices which are always a good complement to the pork - whether it's lard or pork loin.

Quail eggs are sometimes called vials of health. They increase the body's resistance to various viruses and infections, have a positive impact on the work of many organs and systems. No wonder, because they contain many nutrients, vitamins and amino acids. But to get them all in full, doctors and supporters of proper nutrition advise to eat these eggs raw.

Pork – meat with a sweet, delicate taste. It goes well with sour, salty and even sweet ingredients. Pork carcass can be cooked as a whole or divided into parts. In "business" goes from the snout to hoof. Depending on what cut you make, you should choose the dish you will serve.

Stewed cabbage – dish flavorful and juicy, cooking it can take less than an hour if you do not prepare some special dish that is similar to the Polish Bigus. Recipes braised cabbage there are many, but they often have additional ingredients added to the dish, not the method of its preparation.

This is a very simple and delicious dessert that you can prepare with your own hands. The delicate flavor of sour cream goes well with many fruits and berries.

Fish contains essential substances – minerals and vitamins that are so essential to the human body. Therefore, fish dishes are an integral part of our diet. In addition, fish dishes are very tasty and not as heavy as meat.

Rice noodles is a type of pasta that looks like a semi-rounded or wide strips from a few millimeters to two to three centimeters. Made from rice flour and water, some manufacturers for greater flexibility add a little corn starch.

If you want to get the perfect frozen vegetables, bright, flavorful and crispy, you will have to blanch them before you send in the freezer. Blanching not only helps the products to retain appearance, but also helps further protect them from damage.

Chinese tea PU-erh tea has not only the unusual aroma and taste, but also a very healthy drink. It regulates digestion, normalizes metabolic processes in the body, relieves hypertension, lowers cholesterol, beneficial effect on the skin, relieves fatigue and promotes weight loss. But in order to appreciate the tea of PU-erh, it is necessary to properly brew and drink.

The egg is a real storehouse of nutrients. It contains valuable for the human body proteins and fats, as well as many vitamins as A, E, D, PP, H, B12, B3. In addition, the eggs have a large number of trace elements: iron, calcium, potassium, sulphur, magnesium, sodium, phosphorus, iodine, etc. However, in the preparation of this product the amount of the contained nutrients in it decreases. This is one reason why eggs are best consumed raw.

Many bakers want to turn an ordinary, albeit delicious cake into a work of art. Help provide a variety of food dyes that can stain decor items, cream and cakes.

Bran is a by-product of flour milling consisting of unsorted flour and the remaining envelopes of the grain. Due to the large amount of fiber, minerals and vitamins they have a positive impact on digestion and health in General. However, they need to consume in a certain way, otherwise they will lead to the opposite effect.

Snails are one of the products considered in Russia very exotic, but in France they are often served as a snack with herbs and aromatic oils, hot sauces, or just with white bread. If you want to handle these mollusks, like a real Frenchman or a refined French, you should familiarize yourself with the rules for their use.

Fox hunt is extremely popular in many countries around the world. The most valuable part of the obtained production is meh. The carcass is generally used to lure larger predators. However, some sophisticated foodies hunt the Fox with the goal to treat yourself to a fancy meal.

Solid Italian Parmesan cheese is used in many dishes to give them a share of the spice. Real cheese is created from large quantities of milk and is matured for sometimes up to three years. No wonder the price for this product is quite high. It is for this reason often there is a desire to replace it with some other, cheaper counterpart.

The taste of nuts is known to all. Some people prefer peanuts, some walnuts, someone's heart pistachios, and for someone there is no difference, and he is happy to eat any. However, not all know how to eat nuts right.

It just so happened that the kitchen is the famous "boot" is a popular and successful far beyond the European continent. What is the secret of this success? I think that for cooking, the Italians use a wide list of ingredients, most of which grows in this Sunny land.

Muesli – a perfect balanced Breakfast consisting of cereal, various fruits and nuts. Such food charges the body with energy and has a beneficial effect on digestion. And this is a very tasty product that won't need to cook and easy to combine with other ingredients.

Celery root, or celeriac is a variety of this plant, grown for its round and juicy root, not lush and fragrant stems. Celeriac is known and loved by cooks since Roman Empire. Deceptively ugly, knobby vegetable hiding under dirty and wrinkled skin the gentle sweet creamy white flesh.