Cooking with Clay: 5 Tips to Enhance Your Clay Pot Cooking Experience

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Cooking with Clay: 5 Tips to Enhance Your Clay Pot Cooking Experience

Cooking with clay is the “in” thing for healthy cooks around the world who, after testing numerous modern cookware varieties, settled for the only time-tested cookware material: natural clay. Miriam’s Earthen Cookware realized the importance of using all-natural primary clay without additives or glazes long before they even started making clay pots. Here are 5 useful tips you can adopt to ensure your food cooked comes out great each time, as well as guaranteeing longevity for your MEC pots and pans.

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Healthy Dutch Oven Vegetarian Recipes You Have to Try in MEC

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Soups, side dishes, desserts, and one-pot meals – there are so many vegetarian Dutch oven recipes that you can try in MEC. Cooking in MEC’s clay pots retains the ingredients’ natural flavors, enhances the aromas, and preserves the recipe’s nutritional value — turning your meals more delicious and nutritious. In this article, we have 5 popular Dutch oven recipes for vegetarian cooking on the stove top in MEC!

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How “Green” Are Ceramic Pans?

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How “Green” Are Ceramic Pans?

After studies revealed how Teflon-coated nonstick pans were contaminating both our bodies & the world around us, manufacturers had to look for alternatives — thus popularizing ceramic pans. No one can argue that ceramic pans are a safer alternative to Teflon, but is it actually eco-friendly and fully healthy? Unfortunately, it is not as great a cookware set as you may think. Here’s why:

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How Your Choice of Cookware Contributes to a Sustainable Kitchen

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How Your Choice of Cookware Contributes to a Sustainable Kitchen

Reimagining your kitchen as a sustainable place is an important aspect of green living and reducing your impact on the environment. Making any eco-friendly adjustments in the kitchen goes a long way in bringing a positive change. However, many overlook how a simple change can hugely impact the energy consumption of a household: your choice of cookware.

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Black Beans With Parsley

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Black Beans With Parsley

Beans are an important part of any diet. They do more than just provide fiber, they are a source of protein as well as complex carbohydrates and antioxidants. And parsley is more than just for garnishing food: it adds excellent flavor just like any other herb!

This recipe brings beans into the spotlight as an entree that can be served with a roll or over a healthy serving of rice!

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Delicious, Nutritious Greens In a Clay Pot

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Cooking greens in your pure clay pots is a quick and easy process!

The following recipe can be done with any type of greens such as collard & turnip greens. Don’t limit yourself to just spinach and kale!

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The Healthiest Non-Stick Cookware, Made in USA

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Modern cooking has mandated our cooking pans to be non-stick. Nobody likes a frying pan that allows the food to stick to the cooking surface and burn. To resolve this, many synthetic materials have been used over the years, but studies revealed that these cause serious health problems. In contrast, MEC naturally has nonstick properties, without the need for a synthetic nonstick coating! Read more about this here.

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How to Cook Potatoes, Yams, and Other Root Vegetables in MEC

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How to Cook Potatoes, Yams, and Other Root Vegetables in MEC

Cooking potatoes and yams can be a delightful treat or a bit of a mess depending on what pot you’re using.
When using MEC to steam cook your yams and potatoes they turn out way less starchy, more nutritious and thoroughly cooked.
You can also use these instructions as a guideline to prepare corn on the cob!

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