LEEKS
March 10th, 2012 → 1:10 am @ Shanti
“Vitamins and minerals in fresh food” LEEKS Leeks are a vegetable belonging to the allium family like the onions and garlic. They are used widely in cooking, especially in Europe, where they have been used for a long time. Where the onions and garlic grow bulbs, leeks are a stem vegetable. When grown, they are […]
KOHLRABY
March 10th, 2012 → 1:05 am @ Shanti
“Vitamins and minerals in fresh food.” KOHLRABI Kohlrabi is an unusual vegetable in the way it grows. It grows above ground and the leaves grow from the bulb. There are a few varieties, the purple (knol-knol) and the white, the latter seems more readily available. It is a nice addition to your diet and should […]
KALE
March 10th, 2012 → 1:00 am @ Shanti
“Vitamins and minerals in fresh food” KALE Kale and as I knew it Boerenkool, ( the farmer’s cabbage), is a fantastic supplier of some important vitamins and minerals. I would say the highest of all foods. See below. It is a common vegetable, but sometimes hard to get, unless you can shop at a market […]
GREEN BEANS
February 10th, 2012 → 1:20 am @ Shanti
“Vitamins and minerals in fresh food” GREEN BEANS The old green bean. What would we do without them? It is such a popular vegetable and now we have so many different varieties, Some are green, others yellow, some round, others flat, string beans, string-less beans and it goes on. The green bean of course is […]
ENDIVE
February 10th, 2012 → 1:15 am @ Shanti
“Vitamins and minerals in fresh food” ENDIVE I introduced the endive as an unusual vegetable on the previous page, only that in Australia it hasn’t become a very popular vegetable amongst the true Aussies, but the European and Eastern migrants, certainly have made it more popular. It can be a little bitter and that is […]
EGGPLANT (AUBERGINE)
February 10th, 2012 → 1:10 am @ Shanti
“Vitamins and minerals in fresh food” EGG PLANT / AUBERGINE The eggplant, usually a purple colour and fairly pear shaped, comes also in lighter colours and banana shape. They taste very much the same as one another. I love them just lightly fried in ghee, without anything around them, such as flour, desiccated coconut or […]
CUCUMBER
February 10th, 2012 → 1:05 am @ Shanti
“Vitamins and minerals in fresh food” CUCUMBER Cucumbers are a very refreshing vegetable and most people eat them raw or cut them up into a fresh green salad in the summer months. They are supposed to have originated in India, but now they are grown all around the world. Even though they seem to have […]
CAULIFLOWER
February 10th, 2012 → 1:00 am @ Shanti
“Vitamins and minerals in fresh food” CAULIFLOWER The Cauliflower, a member of the same family as the cabbage and broccoli, is another very good food. Notwithstanding the high vitamin C value, this vitamin can be reduced drastically, by cooking. Raw cauliflower florets, can be eaten as a medium for a dip, instead of a biscuit […]
CARROTS
January 10th, 2012 → 1:45 am @ Shanti
“Vitamins and minerals in fresh food” CARROTS We all love carrots, even rabbits do. Carrots are also grown all around the world it seems. Part of a staple diet for many people. What is a salad without carrots? Apart from the food value they give us, the colour always makes a salad more appetising. The […]
CAPSICUM (BELL PEPPERS)
January 10th, 2012 → 1:40 am @ Shanti
“Vitamins and minerals in fresh food” CAPSICUMS / BELL PEPPERS Hey, what’s in a name? As long as we understand what we are dealing with, right? Now here we have a vegetable that is superb for real health. It is full, no very full of vitamins and quite good on the minerals as you will […]
