How to Cook Healthy and Delicious Food
We all know how to eat right: consume fruits and vegetables, raw nuts, not so much meat or cheese. There is no great secret about what constitutes a healthy diet. The secret lies in making healthy food taste good. So let's focus on cooking delicious food that happens to be good for you.
Oh, I could write some lazy article that you've read a thousand times in mass-market consumer health magazines. You know the one, the one about how using fresh ingredients or cooking with love will make your favorite recipes that much tastier. That would be too easy. The intention of this article is to reveal the secrets of great culinary creations. Everybody knows that stuff about freshness and cooking from the heart, or at least they should know it.
The first secret of cooking delicious meals is that every tasty dish is comprised of some combination of the following:
- Fat -- It is a simple fact that we like greasy, oily stuff. Choose high-quality and healthy fats such as those found in olive oil or grapeseed oil. Animal fat or saturated fats such as those found in coconut oil are OK once in a while, but not on a regular basis.
- Salt -- Too much sodium will absolutely, positively kill you. Every cell in your body screams for it just as a heroin addict's body wants drugs (biochemically, this is literally true) It is so easy to over-consume given the opportunity. Your favorite restaurants serve food that is, actually, dangerously high in sodium. The human brain is hard-wired for salt. It's like a drug. I won't go into the reasons why, but it boils down to tens of thousands of years of evolution during which salt was hard to get. Every dish needs some salt. Use sea salt to keep the sodium level down a bit.
- Sugar -- the body breaks everything it eats down to good old glucose. Ants spend their lives in search of sugar, and so do humans when all is said and done. 100 percent of our bodily energy comes from sugar. Sweet food tastes so good because it provides a quick burst of energy. Every delicious dish will have some level of sweetness. The key is to keep this element to a minimum and use fruits or sweet vegetables (such as onions or squash) to add this flavor to your dish.
- Sourness -- every delicious dish will have some sourness to it. This is why we add things like vinegar to so many recipes. Use apple cider vinegar or real balsamic vinegar. Apple cider vinegar contains a lot of potassium and mitigates the dangerous acidity that arises in the body due to over-consumption of sugar.
- Spiciness -- Ever wondered why apple pie needs cinnamon? It is because every delicious thing has some level of heat or spiciness. Use fresh spices. Some of them are very good for you.
The second secret of great cooking... will remain a secret for now. But if you keep in mind that all delicious dishes need the five flavors above, and that three of the five are potentially bad for you, you will be well on your way to creating delicious and healthy dishes.
In case you are wondering what qualifies the author to expose the secrets of superior cooking, you should know that he has been described as the Greatest Culinary Artist on the Planet by his wife, and she should know.
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