When I was in Nova Scotia I stayed at the Glenora Distillery for a night.
While the highlight of this stay was purchasing a bottle of 18 year old whiskey that was bottled from their very first barrels, another highlight was the creative cooking in their restaurant.
In fact, it was the bread they served before the meal that impressed me the most.
The bread was infused with cumin…delicious and remarkably different. I’ve had olive bread and honey oat bread even cranberry bread, but never cumin bread.
This act of kitchen creativity gave me the idea for this post – 3 ways you can start eating better today.
Of course, by eating better I mean eating less and enjoying the foods you eat while emphasizing fruits and vegetables and herbs and spices.
1 – Purchase 3 spices that you have never used before. They don’t have to be spices you have never tasted before, just ones that you have not used in your kitchen in the last 3 months.
2- Create a meal using foods you commonly eat
3- use the new spices to add a unique twist to foods you typically eat.
I bought medium curry powder, cumin and paprika and combined it with chicken and sweet potatoes to create curry and cumin chicken with mashed sweet potatoes flavored with curry and ginger.
It turned out really well and helped me broaden my cooking abilities to include some new flavors.
Give it a try and let me know what you came up with.
BP
