squeezed into a pot ½ an onion 3 cloves garlic 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 bay leaves 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano, crushed (optional) Cook tomatoes for about 2 hours over a low flame, let cool for 10 minutes and blend it by batches, in blender, with onion and garlic. Strain back into the same pot together with the extra virgin olive oil, 2 bay leaves and (optional) dried oregano and let cook for another 45 minutes. At the last moment, add salt to taste. You can freeze the sauce for…
How easy is it? A duplicate recipe for the onion dipping sauce from Outback: Blend together 1/2 cup mayonnaise, 2 teaspoons ketchup (Heinz is best), 2 tablespoons cream-style horseradish, 1/4 teaspoon paprika, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon dried oregano, Dash ground black pepper and cayenne pepper. Chill for one hour, covered, to let the flavors set, and serve with onion rings or your Blooming…
Mexican cuisine is one of America’s favorite flavor profiles. From chain restaurants to high-end authentic Mexican restaurants, Americans have embraced Mexican food as a popular choice for their dining experiences. Anchorage’s Hacienda Restaurant shares a history of Mexican food in America. Mexican cuisine is a fusion of Mesoamerican cooking (extending from central Mexico to areas in Central America) with European influences, particularly Spanish elements after the Spanish conquest of the…
Toothache is very common now days because most of us usually fail to maintain a good oral hygiene. Toothache sometimes becomes too severe for us and we run to see a dentist for fixing it. We must not ignore a toothache at anytime. Many causes of such an ache are cracked tooth, exposed tooth root, jaw malfunctioning, spasms of muscles surrounding our oral cavity or a simple cracked tooth due to any trauma. A toothache may be mild in the beginning and becomes severe if we keep on ignoring it for…
I have had trouble with my sinuses ever since I was old enough to understand what a nose was. I was prone to colds, sinus infections, and bronchitis as a child and into my adult years. I have tested postive for allergies to indoor and outdoor irritants, such as dust, mold, pollen, grass, you name it, it makes me itch or sneeze, and it used to be routine for me to go through a box of Kleenex in less than 3 days because I would have to blow my nose constantly. I can clearly remember my mother…
bread can be consumed. Treating Candida with a diet only will require from 3 to 6 months. Consuming anti-fungal medicines or supplements such as caprylic acid can also aid the healing process. Caprylic acid is actually a product of coconut oil. Oregano oil can destroy the Candida, but can also destroy the friendly bacteria. Regular intake of probiotics will restore the previously destroyed friendly bacteria. 25 to 100 units are recommended. At the end, your gut will be healthy again without…
Over the last 50 years the use of essential oils has become more popular in my house and all around the world, but do they really work? These oils that are pulled from plants are said to have therapeutic properties; dab some lavender and melaleuca oils on your ear and your earache will surely go away! Many people are skeptical of the healing properties within these glass bottles while others use them everyday for everything. So do these oils really have therapeutic properties? Could this be a…
Wouldn’t it be fun to grow a pizza? Well, maybe you wouldn’t grow the pizza, but you could grow some of the ingredients. A simple cheese pizza has tomatoes and herbs in the sauce. In a pizza garden you can grow tomatoes and a few common herbs, such as oregano, parsley, and basil. These plants are easy to grow, and it is a bunch of fun to watch it happen. Planting the Pizza Garden The first step is to decide where to grow your pizza garden. Tomatoes and many pizza herbs can be grown in the…
sauce made from chili peppers, however, is truly Mexican. Another tasty little tidbit of Mexican food history is that many of the spices that are traditionally considered to be Mexican actually hail from Spain. Cinnamon, coriander, black pepper, and oregano are all popular spices used in Mexican cooking, but they actually come from Spain. The French are yet another chapter in Mexican food history. Under a brief French occupation in the 1860's, Mexico was introduced to other new foods and…
Slice and marinate your pork overnight in a mixture of lemon juice, olive oil, fish sauce, salt, oregano, thyme, and red pepper flakes. The morning of your barbeque assemble the kebabs alternating chunks of pork with thick slices of onion and green peppers. Bring them to room temperature and toss them on the grill. Rotate them 90 degrees every five to…