Tasty Organic Spices

Keeping organic herbs and spices available for use in your kitchen leaves you prepared for a wealth of possibilities when it comes to preparing wonderful home-cooked meals.  By having a good variety of organic seasonings readily available makes it easy for you to cook in a range of different ethnic and regional cuisines.  You will also find that by preparing meals with organic herbs and spices at home, you will save a great deal of money over using prepared foods or eating out, and you can custom-suit recipes to your specific preferred tastes.

 Consumption of spices in North America is at an all-time high. In fact, spice consumption in North America has increased by 50 percent in the past decade. We are not only using spices more frequently and in greater volume, but in a much wider variety; approximately 28 spices are used in the average North American home. Watkins, America’s original natural products company has been the pioneer in premium herbs and spices for over 100 years, so it’s only natural that we would be among the first to offer a premium line of organic herbs and spices. All are USDA certi­fied 100% organic and come to you in beautiful gold tins reminiscent of the Gold Medals we’ve received for the highest quality spices.

• USDA certified 100% organic

• Quality raw materials: We buy the pick of the world’s herb and spice crop-each selected from the best growing region.

• Strict quality control: We select our spices for taste, color, and appearance; then more thor­ough tests are performed to further determine the quality.

• Trademark gold medal tin: Packed in our custom tin.

One way you can save money by preparing meals with your organic spices is by searching the local store flyers for their sale items, and building meals around those ingredients.  You can combine the ingredients with organic spices

 for different meals of the day as well.  Perhaps you find that pears and mushrooms and onions are on sale one week.  Mushroom and onions are excellent when sauteed and added to breakfast scrambled eggs, along with some goat cheese and organic herbs and spices like black pepper, a little garlic powder and Italian seasoning mix.  These same ingredients, along with salad greens, could be the basis of a beautiful autumn salad you could serve for lunch or dinner.  Add a simple seasoned vinaigrette using  organic spices such as black pepper, oregano or dill, and sprinkle on some toasted pecans and dried cranberries, and you will have a recipe hit that utilizes the best of what is on sale that week.

Another great way to save money on food costs is, instead of buying lunch at work, bringing a great-tasting lunch seasoned with organic spices from home.  It is simple to prepare a bit extra of a dinner recipe that utilizes organic seasonings, with the resulting leftovers the basis of a super lunch the next day. 

It also tends to be less expensive to purchase food items that are in season, rather than out-of-season items that have been shipped in from far away.  In this way, you can create recipes that offer great flavor because the food ingredients you are using are completely in season and at the peak of flavor, and these can be enhanced with a timely touch of organic spices.  Try apples and squash, in season during the fall months.  These can be turned into wonderful dishes with the addition of your select organic seasonings.  Organic spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, and ginger pair together nicely with apples in an apple crisp.  Squash benefit from a bake in the oven, with butter and maple syrup in the cleaned out centers, along with a sprinkle of bulk organic spices like cinnamon, nutmeg or ginger.  As the butter melts and the squash bakes, you can use a pastry brush to cover the interior of the squash with the delicious glaze.

Use organic herbs and spices for home cooking that tastes great and save money.

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