Cooking with herbs and spices with Leslie Cerier

Do you like to cook with spices? Are you familiar with some of the best herb and spice combinations that go well together? Do you know why cooking with spices is the best way to enhance your health?

​If you want to learn more, this episode is for you!

My today’s guest ​is Leslie Cerier.  Leslie is an international gourmet personal chef, educator, cookbook author and recipe developer. She specializes in vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free whole foods and organic cuisine.

Leslie is a pioneer and national authority on gluten-free cooking and baking, the entire spectrum of whole grains, and cooking with wild foods. ​ She teaches private and group classes.

Leslie lives in New England and runs a business that encompasses custom culinary work, food as medicine, and her own organic B&B  in Western MA for private clients. ​

By the ​end of this episode, you’ll become much more knowledgeable about herbs and spices Leslie uses in her cooking.  ​

​TAKEAWAYS

  1. Leslie’s journey ​to becoming an organic chef
  2. history of spices
  3. ​​​combinations of spices in different cooking traditions ​
  4. difference between cooking with fresh versus dried herbs
  5. tips and tricks on how to preserve fresh herbs, ginger and turmeric and prolong their shelf life
  6. storing spices when purchasing in bulk
  7. making oils with herbs and spices, and reasons why oils are wonderful ​flavor enhancers
  8. ​​5 of Leslie’s favorite ​resources on spices

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FAVORITE QUOTES

​​”​I’m offering people a recipe for inspiration.”

​CONTACTING OUR GUEST

Leslie’s website The Organic Gourmet​, ​her Facebook page and her Instagram feed and Twitter account to follow

Leslie’s first interview Vegetarian cooking from the heart

Leslie’s article on how to grow your own herbs

​WEB RESOURCES

Simply Organic

Frontier Herbs

​Mountain Rose Herbs

Jade Alicandro Mace

​BOOKS

Going Wild in the Kitchen: The Fresh & Sassy Tastes of Vegetarian Cooking

Sea Vegetable Celebration: Recipes Using Ocean Vegetables

Gluten-Free Recipes for the Conscious Cook: A Seasonal, Vegetarian Cookbook (The New Harbinger Whole-Body Healing Series)

The Quick and Easy Organic Gourmet: Delicious, Healthy Meals Without Meat, Wheat, Dairy, or Sugar

Taste Life! Organic RecipesCooked: A Natural History of Transformation

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Image courtesy of Leslie Cerier

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