Garlic and Celery Aphrodisiac Recipes

It is probable that the label of aphrodisiac tonic that garlic has comes from the fact that it has a noticeable warming effect on the body. If it is eaten every day along with the normal habitual food, or in capsules, it is an excellent help for giving vitality and health, which are indispensable when it comes to being able to obtaining good results in sex. As far as celery is concerned, talking in purely scientific terms, it has been determined that it is one of the best natural tonics. It re-mineralizes the organism, as do onions. It is an oxidant and a great tonic for the brain and nerves. Every good lover should always have these indispensable vegetables at hand.

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Myths tell that the priestesses that controlled the temples of Eros, Aphrodite or Dionisio were experts in preparing love potions. It is said that the base of their power lied in garlic, “that made woman fall in love and made men powerful”.

The Jews considered it magical and an incantation against pestilences. The Rabies suggested eating garlic on Fridays (day dedicated to Venus) to get a just married couple moving.

A recent website about cooking and technology of spices, signed by two Japanese scientists, affirm that garlic has aphrodisiac virtues in it.

Well, this is nothing new. Garlic has had this reputation throughout the centuries.

Garlic is a plant that forms on its root a group of several oval bulbs that have a spicy and peculiar taste, and is important in many meals. Garlic has a great nutritional value and is rich in vitamin B and C content. It also contributes proteins to the organism. But its vital ingredient is a volatile oil, which is what produces the penetrating aroma it has, and also possesses antiseptic properties.

Raw garlic is an efficient energizer. It helps to keep the organism in a healthy state. Recent investigations have shown that it reduces arterial tension and the level of fat in the blood. If it is eaten daily along with the rest of the habitual foods or in capsules, it is an excellent help for vitality and health, which are indispensable ingredients for obtaining good results while having sex. It is also speculated that it prevents premature aging and other arthritic or rheumatic type ailments.

On the other hand, it is probable that the label of aphrodisiac tonic garlic shows is derived, besides the traditions and legends, from the fact that when it is eaten, there is a notable heating effect on the body that is capable of stimulating desire.

Of course its smell is enough to discourage many especially because it’s effects are even greater when it is eaten raw. In order to counteract the bad breath it causes, there is nothing like chewing on some grains of coffee, cumin, cardamom, or a few stems of parsley.

Bread and garlic have always gone well together. One of the greatest expressions of this affinity is known in Spain as garlic soup, which can be an entry dish or a lunch on a cold winter day and also excellent after you have drunken the night away.

Garlic soup is simple: it has garlic, oil, hard bread and water.

In a frying pan with oil fry some garlic teeth sliced in sheets. When they start to get golden brown, the frying pan is taken off the heat.

When the oil is warm, add in a teaspoon of pepper.

The content of the pan is poured into a pot that has chicken broth in it, which give it much more flavor then just using water alone, and everything is put to cook for a while.

The bread is placed in little pieces in individual soup bowls. These soups become even tastier when another ingredient is added. You can add in a few slices of sausage, or some ham.

At this stage you will need to put it over the heat again.

An egg is cracked in each one of the soup bowls and is then covered with the broth, boiling if possible, and the soup bowls are placed in the oven the right amount of time so the egg whites sit but not the egg yolks.

Raw egg yolks also provide potency and desire to the body.

And there it is, ready to be served out. For two that is, obviously.

Obviously garlic can be found in many every day meals. However this does not take away that popular wisdom has created some recipes to be used, more directly, in the theme we are talking about: aphrodisiac food.