Glorious Ginger

Advantages: Has culinary, medicinal, cosmetic uses
Disadvantages: Should be avoided by people with peptic ulcers

...What can I say about ginger? It adds spice to absolutely anything and everything you add it to, even the Spice Girls! ;-) Jokes apart, this is so true that the word 'gingery' has come to mean piquant, sharp and lively. I've always enjoyed adding a hint of ginger to my food. I not only relish its spicy aroma and peppery flavour, but also use it for its digestive qualities. Being an Indian and an avid fan of Thai food as well, ginger is an essential ingredient of my everyday diet. Ginger tea is an absolute must for me whenever I'm down with cold. Even otherwise, I just love the zing it adds to my tea. It's very simple to make, too. The next time you make tea, just try boiling a few thin slices of ginger along with it and voila, your very own herbal tea is ready. Ginger facts: ************* Ginger (Zingiber Officinale) is...

supreah 06.12.2006 · Read review
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Ginger and Other Healthy Herbs

Advantages: Anti-bacterial. Anti-nausea. Good for getting rid of indigestion
Disadvantages: Hot for some people.Not so widely available

...Chinese culinary arts are not only angled towards delighting the sense of taste - to the Chinese eating well is a very important part of life - but also in providing preventive measures against possible ailments and illnesses.Ginger(zingiber officinale),renowned as a anti-bacterial and anti-nausea herb,is one of the most popular herbs among the Chinese but there are others as well. Traditionally the Chinese have classified all foods by their innate properties: heaty, those which stimulates the system; cooling , those which soothes the system; and neutral , those herbs which neither stimulates nor soothes. This article focuses on the best known or most common herbs and ingredients used in Chinese cuisine and discusses some of their less well-known therapeutic values. Dried Longans, Lotus Seeds and Red Dates The Chinese believe...

ashford 15.10.2001 (25.10.2001) · Read review
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Ginger delights

Advantages: Tasty and luxurious
Disadvantages: expensive but indulgent

...I really like a cup of coffee and a biscuit when I?m watching the soaps, I?m a creature of habit really and I like all kinds of biscuits, especially the luxurious ones and Walkers Stem Ginger Shortbread are very indulgent. This week for my treat I bought a box of these special biscuits to indulge my biscuit habit. Although sometimes I buy the cheaper brands of biscuits its always nice to have some luxurious biscuits in the tin for when visitors come around, or for cuddling up on the sofa with the fire lit at night watching and relaxing in front of the television. I bought Walkers Stem Ginger Shortbread this time I was shopping and they cost me £2.25 for a 175g box of tasty treats. I know this is much more than a packet of Morrison?s own brand of shortbread, but these biscuits are well worth paying extra for as they the little...

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Great Ginger

Advantages: Easy to take, very effective
Disadvantages: 'A bit alternative?!'

...Why Ginger?? --------------------- It was a bargain 'pre-Christmas' shopping spree in France with a whole load of friends - fantastic. The key word to remember here is 'bargain'. I've recently come to understand that a lot of things in life with the word bargain require extreme caution. France is generally accessible by either ferry, air or train. Here's the first use of the word 'bargain' - our means of travel was ferry. It was December and the weather over the previous few weeks had been extremely unseasonal for December, mild and sunny. Two days before our planned departure date, there appeared to be a change in the weather forecast for the south coast of England, there were gales, increasing to extreme gales for a time. The lads who never get affected by weather and travel conditions convinced themselves they could drink...

sazy 10.01.2006 · Read review
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A warming ginger brew.

Advantages: Warming
Disadvantages: its alcoholic so consume in moderation.

...This is a very traditional drink popular in the winter time. It can be drunk in many ways from the tradtitional whiskey mac which is whiskey and ginger wine or my particular favourite is to drink it neat. More suggestions can be found on their website which is www.stonesgingerwine.com. Whiskey mac can be made different ways one version is 1 part ginger wine to 3 parts whiskey and another is 1 part ginger wine to 1 and a half of whiskey. It is personal preference try it several ways and deceide which way you like best. With or without ice. As it contains ginger it is very good at warding away colds and flu. Other ingredients present are raisins as well as the ground ginger. It is a gingery brown colour liquid in a green glass bottle. A 700ml bottle costs around the £8 mark. It is produced and bottled in London by Stones, this...

wildtinsey 21.10.2009 (22.10.2009) · Read review
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Review of Stone's Ginger Wine

Idle Ginger

Advantages: Easy to use and store
Disadvantages: Slightly less aromatic than a fresh root

...Lurking amongst the root vegetables on our supermarket shelves, there is often root ginger. Attractive to those of us who like to add a little spice and interest to our food, these roots are a dark biscuit brown on the outside with knobbles or antlers making for a very strange looking foodstuff. The interior of the root is typically pale or straw coloured with a slightly woody appearance. Without doubt whole fresh roots still provide the freshest taste and pungency. These curious roots are collected and shipped when they are still immature, and the outer skin is a light green colour, often with little green shoots still sprouting. These can sometimes be found like this in Oriental markets/shops, but I have never seen any green coloured roots in our mainstream supermarkets, they have always matured to the brown covering. Fresh ginger can...

suehome 27.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of The English Provender Co Very Lazy Ginger

Ginger preserved in a jar

Advantages: tasty
Disadvantages: none

...Duerr's ginger preserve I love the taste of ginger and recently bought some Duers chunky ginger preserve. Duerrs ginger preserve is a jam/marmalade that comes in a 454g glass jar with a resealable twist metal lid. The jar with its orange content is quite attractive to look at. Twist the lid open sniff and you get a sweet gingery smell. Toast ready then dip a spoon or knife into the jar. This preserve is quite thick, not runny. It has some small chunky pieces in the gel I love this spread on toast. The taste is sweet a bit sweet hubby says. It tastes lovely and gingery not over powering. If you get a chunky piece of the ginger it is quite chewy and very flavoursome. I like this preserve a lot. I just have to eat two slices of toast with this preserve on while writing this review. Calories, lots well this is a preserve jam...

mumsymary 02.06.2009 · Read review
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Crinkle Ginger biscuits ?

Advantages: Food
Disadvantages: coconut

...Tesco stem ginger crinkle biscuits. These biscuits don?t deliver the taste they promise - or at least they don?t if you sensitive to coconut flavour! Despite no mention in the biscuit?s name of any flavour but ginger, there is a very strong flavour of coconut. The ingredient list shows that desiccated coconut is the fourth most common ingredient (by percentage mass), stem ginger is the eighth commonest at a mere 4%. Another odd thing is the fact that despite listing coconut as an ingredient the packing claims, ?No Nuts?. I have less trouble understanding the claim that it is suitable for vegetarians; or the warnings about milk, wheat and gluten. To the biscuit eating experience: The rectangular biscuit looks to have come from the mould that is used for shortbread or slightly too fat Nice biscuits. They are golden coloured...

mumsymary 12.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tesco Stem Ginger Crinkle Biscuits

Ginger dark chocolate

Advantages: Ginger, tasty, sweet dark chocolate
Disadvantages: Too sickly

...Green and Black's ginger chocolate is a sweet dark chocolate bar containing 60% cocoa with 20% embedded pieces of crystallised ginger. Costing £1.89 for a 100g bar, it is one of the posher everyday widely available brands that you can pick up in most supermarkets or health food stores (though don't make the mistake of thinking that means they are healthy - they aren't!). All of the ingredients of the bar are organically certified according to the Soil Association's standards and do not contain any genetically modified material. Green and Black's are based in London and have been making organic chocolate since 1991. Unlike their Maya Gold brand, the Ginger brand is not fair trade; their website says that they pay premium price for all their ingredients, but not all are available under the fair trade scheme. The bars The ginger...

beckyXX 11.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Green & Black's Organic Ginger Chocolate

Ginger dream!

Advantages: Warm ginger scent without being too strong, works well, half price, not tested opn animals.
Disadvantages: Will soon disappear!

...and has a sticker on the lid which has the usual Body Shop logo and says LIMITED EDITION GINGER WHIPPED BODY SOUFFLE Energising hydration with stimulating ginger and organically grown Community Trade Soya oil. Normal skin. 200ml 6.8oz (194g) The right side of the label shows ginger that has been sliced. The side has a label going round it that doesn't really have any purpose what so ever! It just has the logo again and says either end GINGER WHIPPED BODY SOUFFLE 200ml 6.8oz (194g) (one side is in French) Then it says in twelve languages and small print body soufflé. I'm sorry and the point is???!!! The base has yet another label and this says Energising hydration for normal skin. Store in a cool dry place, in many languages. There is also the barcode, recyclable symbol, use within twelve months of opening symbol and it says that...

nursie_nursie 21.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Body Shop Ginger Whipped Body Souffle