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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Review of Ginger

Refreshing Peach

Advantages: refreshing healthy drink
Disadvantages: more expensive

...for a while, before I finally realized to choose the cheaper option like squash. Robinsons fruit & barley was my first choice because I've tried the orange flavour on my friends house and the taste was just alright for me. A lot of the cheaper brands also tend to have lots of added colours and artifical flavourings so I chose Robinson instead. We have tried different flavour such as orange, lemon, summer fruit , kiwi but the one we fell inlove with was the peach. From then on, that's the only flavour we consume everyday. The prices also varies on the flavour and peach is one of the expensive flavour available. Gladly they offered them few weeks ago for half price and I only paid 66p for each so I have enough stock at the moment. AVAILABILITY & PRICE Available in almost every supermarket and convenience store Price £1.22 on tesco...

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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...

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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...

Sunnysmiles 19.05.2009 · Read review
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Passion for peach!

Advantages: Fruity, delicious, low calorie and fat, versatile
Disadvantages: Aspartame, price

...I have been wanting to write this review for ages, however ciao took about a month deciding weather or not to accept the bloomin' thing! Much to my delight though, I recieved an email yesterday telling me my "Smooth Peach" had been accepted! About time too! I have enjoyed Muller yogurts from a very young age. It all started when I was about 5 years old and I went to stay with my grandparents for a week while my mum was in hospital. This week was the first time I was ever introduced to Muller. My first experience being with Muller Corners! I devoured many a crunch corner in my younger years, and then when I was about eleven I discovered the Muller jellies, which I'm not sure if they were discontinued. Then when I was about thirteen I had an obsession with strawberry fruit corners, however like most things that died down after a couple...

SweetTooth93 17.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Muller Light Smooth Peach

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

Giant peaches, bugs, insects, and imagination!

Advantages: Great storytelling and characterisation
Disadvantages: Some longer paragraphs that may bore kids at times

...We have a very old copy of James and the Giant Peach. I believe it was my wife's when she was a little girl. Now, we have started reading Roald Dahl books to our son, with him reading bits and bobs for himself as we go along. The latest one is Jame sand the Giant Peach, and it really is a very well created and told story. Dahl is one of the most celebrated children's authors ever. His storytelling was amazing in my eyes when I was a kid, and it still is now that I am an adult. I had never read this one before we started reading it to Will, so it was as much of an exciting read for me as it was for him. James is a sad boy. He lives with his Aunt Sponge and his Aunt Spiker in a house with a sloping garden. They are horrible to him, and he longs for the day when he doesn't have to be looked after them any more. His time comes sooner...

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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

Each Peach...

Advantages: delicious, good quantity
Disadvantages: pricey, unhealthy

...I would first of all like to take the time to dedicate this particular yoghurt review of mine to Greenierexieboy, as on a previous review his exact comment was: "The strawberry one? Meh. The peach one? Lovely." So this one is for you... If I were asked what my favourite brand of yoghurt is, no two questions about it; I would say the delights of Muller in an instant. They do all sorts, from Muller Light to Crunch Corners, right down to the delicious Amore yoghurts! I have enjoyed quite a few of these recently, and one of the more recent flavours is the Muller Amore Peach Yoghurt. The yoghurt, like the rest, comes in a deep round tub. Mounted on the front of the deep luscious blue background you can see a juicy looking image of a whole peach and its slices. As delicious as they look, there is no actual indication as to what...

Amy69 01.09.2008 · Read review
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