Click on the links above to learn how to use fresh herbs, dried herbs, spices, herb and spice blends to your advantage. Take the time to experiment with garlic, dried chilies and fresh peppers and different kinds of onions, green onions, shallots, leeks and ramps. In time, your yearning for fat flavor will diminish as your tastebuds broaden for a whole new world of FLAVOR!

There is no denying that fat adds flavor as well as cholesterol and calories. The clue to healthy eating and low fat cooking is how to offset that loss of flavor with seasonings when you cut the fat. See some of the bright new seasoning ideas in our low fat recipes.

Try your hand at gardening. If you do not have a small plot of earth, try a window box in your kitchen window. You can grow a good little variety of herbs and spices in your window sill.

Once you start cooking with fresh herbs, you will never want to use the dried varieties again.

You think a baked potato is not good unless it has chives. Wait until you taste it with fresh chives! You won't want to be without the lovely little green leaves again.

And your favorite pasta dishes without fresh basil will just not compare, once you chop up some fresh basil to garnish your next pasta primavera or marinara.