2 Simple Recipes from the Exotic Land

Pees and pasta soup with bacon

This ham and pea soup can be a mood changer if you want something green and the pantry storage is empty. You can use frozen peas to make this delicious soup. Since peas make an important ingredient, they need to be taken fresh straight from the farm because they tend to lose their natural color and sweetness after they are picked. In order to preserve their freshness, they must be frozen. If you want it to be a purely vegetarian soup, you can use vegetable stock instead of chicken stock.

Ingredients

• 4 cups of chicken stock
• ½ pack of frozen peas about 250g
• 200g macaroni or pasta
• ½ bunch of chives
• Rashers bacon

Preparation

Bacon is prepared under an overhead grill till it gets brown and crispy. Boil the chicken stock in a cooking pot. When it comes to a boil, add peas and pasta and allow it to boil for another 8 minutes or till the pasta is properly cooked. Add seasoning according to taste and remove the vessel from heat. Serve the soup hot with bacon toppings. Garnish the soup with chopped chives.

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What you get from a Bowl of Salad

 

I was asking my meat-loving sister to eat a lot of veggies and fruits instead of consuming more meat. However, when she asked me the particular reason why to eat salad then I was nothing to tell than just it’s good for your health. I didn’t know a single specific reason to compel her to eat veggies with the meat. This is widely known that eating salad has a number of benefits but most of us don’t know what benefits plant food offers us particularly. Then I tried my best to dig out the benefits of vegetables daily in order to live a healthy life. A bowl of salad offers you an easy and delicious way of consuming veggies in everyday diet. Here are a few noticeable benefits listed below to compel you why to add fresh and raw vegetables in your daily diet:

The balanced diet consists of a particular portion of veggies and your healthy diet doesn’t accomplish without the supply of essential nutrients such as vitamins and minerals of veggies. Vegetables are full of fiber, vitamins and minerals with a lesser number of calories and almost no fat. It’s recommended to choose multicolor vegetables for your salads to make them look good also. Pick up the dark in color vegetables as they are particularly high in nutrients.

Eating veggies is a proved way of losing weight in a healthy manner. Keeping a balance of consuming and burning calories becomes relatively easy with a salad bowl. It keeps you full with minimal calories. Most of the vegetables that are used in salads are low in energy density and are a perfect option to eat a large amount without fear of having a lot of calories.

The one of the best parts is the variety of vegetables through which you can expand your variety of meals, raw or cooked, through picking the veggies of your choice. It makes you never get bored with your veggies diet as every time you can prepare it differently by adding vegetables alternately.

There are many salad recipes that use meat, nuts and dressings in the salad. These salads can’t be considered as healthy as they are higher in calories and fats. It’s better to add beans than meat and olive oil than creamy dressings to keep the salad healthy. Keep your salad bowl simple yet healthy with full of nutrition.