The process of ‘healthy cooking’ involves careful selection of ingredients and then cooking them “healthfully”. While we may meticulously choose healthy ingredients in the hopes of cooking a healthy and balanced meal, how can we be sure if these nutrients are intact after the cooking? The answer lies in the cookware! Because the cookware you choose can either preserve the food’s nutrients or strip it of its potential and make it toxic. Find out how as you read on: Continue reading Best Pots & Pans: They keep Food 100% Healthy & Nutritious after Cooking
Cook Healthy Greens in MEC’s Pure Clay
Cooking greens is tricky to say the least, and there are so many kinds and types. Cooking them in MEC’s pure clay pots ensures there are no toxins leaching into them and their nutritional value stays intact. Before you start cooking, it is important to read about the best way to wash them:
Greens are best washed by soaking in water in the sink or in a large bowl for at least 20 to 30 mins so any sedimental sand or mud would settle at the bottom of the bowl/sink! Just rinsing under water, even for a long time is not as useful and is a waste of water. Continue reading Cook Healthy Greens in MEC’s Pure Clay
How to Cook Rice without Arsenic?
Rice contaminated with Arsenic is a major health hazard in the US. In the rice growing belt, the crop is made to stagnate in water containing industrial waste/tailing. This makes rice toxic and increased risks of lung and bladder cancer and skin changes have been reported in people ingesting arsenic this way. Let’s see what steps can be taken to make sure the rice you are eating is safe and free from toxins like arsenic. Continue reading How to Cook Rice without Arsenic?
How is MEC Dutch Oven Cooking different and better?
Dutch Ovens aren’t appealing to most people just because they look beautiful in the kitchen, they are also incredibly versatile and reliably useful. A Dutch oven is a heavy cooking pot with thick walls and an equivalently sturdy lid. While Dutch Ovens can be made out of a variety of materials, including cast iron, aluminum and ceramic, Miriams Earthen Cookware (MEC) – a US based company known for making cookware from pure and natural primary clay, makes pure clay Dutch Oven that promise to offer a range of healthy features that others don’t. Here are the features that make MEC Dutch Ovens so different and better than others: Continue reading How is MEC Dutch Oven Cooking different and better?
Cook the Perfectly Healthy Rice: 3 Useful Tips
Rice is a favorite food for most people but only few know the right way to cook healthy and tasty rice. Here are 3 tips to help you do that:
1. Choose Healthy Rice
Avoid heavily processed, modified or bleached rice because they might look good on the outside but are very unhealthy and lack nutritional value so choose only the healthy varieties: Continue reading Cook the Perfectly Healthy Rice: 3 Useful Tips
How is Clay Pot Cooking different in Miriams Earthen Cookware?
The health benefits of clay pot cooking over cooking in metals are well known today. The internet is flooded with information on this time-honored and yet modern method of cooking food healthfully and in a more natural way. Let us see how clay pot cooking is different with Miriams Earthen Cookware (MEC): Continue reading How is Clay Pot Cooking different in Miriams Earthen Cookware?
Make Yogurt Naturally Thicker, Healthier and more Delicious with Pure Clay!
Adam comes home after a long day and is eagerly looking forward to having a few scoops of “healthy” yogurt. He takes out the metal yogurt pot and finds his yogurt watery and tasting a bit sour so he adds sugar but still, it’s not the kind of yogurt he was hoping to cherish. Also, the toxins leaching out from the metal pot raise questions over the health value of such a yogurt. His yogurt would have been healthy if not for the metals leaching in from the pot. What if there is a natural way to make yogurt thick, creamy, healthy and delicious? Continue reading Make Yogurt Naturally Thicker, Healthier and more Delicious with Pure Clay!
Pressure Cooking with No Nutritional Loss and Bland Taste!
Pressure cooking is a fast and convenient method of cooking food but it comes at the cost of nutritional loss and food tasting bland and turning out mushy – thanks to conventional metal or ceramic pots being frequently used as pressure cookers. Let’s find out why these pots cannot cook healthy food: Continue reading Pressure Cooking with No Nutritional Loss and Bland Taste!
Healthy Holiday Cooking: 5 Great Tips
The holiday season often brings delicious meals and treats, and it can be tough to cook and eat healthy with so many good foods to choose from. But it is still best for your health to follow healthy cooking so here are 5 tips to help you do that: Continue reading Healthy Holiday Cooking: 5 Great Tips
Cook Rice Perfectly and Healthfully: The Easiest Way
Cooking rice is an art – once you get the hang of it, nothing can ever go wrong because it is one of the easiest to cook recipes once you know the right steps, but the most important is to cook it healthfully yet perfectly. Here is the best and easiest way to do so: Continue reading Cook Rice Perfectly and Healthfully: The Easiest Way