If you are in charge of doing the grocery, you’ll notice an ever-growing selection of butter and margarine while walking down the dairy aisle. Most people have strong opinion about which one they prefer. However, do you know the difference between butter and margarine? Butter is a milk commodity produced by churning milk or butter. […]
Breakfast is nonetheless most important meal of the day. Here are some of the most popular breakfast options around Asia. Turkey: Börek, Gözleme Japan: Miso soup, Himono, Onsen Tamago Southern India, India: Idli Lebanon: Manakish Indonesia: Nasi goreng India: Paratha Jakarta, Idonesia: Gado-gado Myanmar: Mohinga Philippines: Arroz caldo Thailand: Khao tom
Cake is great stuff — there’s a reason we ‘re celebrating birthdays with it! Still having it may be a hassle — plus you have to find out what to do about it all. Yeah, on those rare nights (well, it’s been more like most nights lately) where our sweet tooth is acting crazy, but […]
If we got you into eating salad all of a sudden from our previous post, here are 5 styles of salad dressing recipes that you’d never go back to the store-bought ones. 1.Balsamic vinegar dressing 3/4th cup extra virgin olive oil 1/4th cup balsamic vinegar Salt Freshly ground pepper 2.Honey Mustard Dressing 1/4 cup + […]
Salad is a dish made up of a mixture of small pieces of food, usually vegetables or fruit. However, various salad varieties can contain virtually any type of ready-to – eat food. Salads are usually served at room temperature or chilled, with notable exceptions, such as South German potato salad, which can be served warm. […]
Rumming in your refrigerator to discover that the “new” food you purchased earlier this week has gone wrong may be frustrating. Luckily, there are ways to hack your way to fresher, longer-lasting food. Below are some of the easiest places to store your produce for maximum freshness. Fruits shouldn’t be washed before you store it […]
Most of the edible flowers are best eaten raw — simply pick and rinse with water. Flowers will taste and look their best right after they’ve opened, rather than after they’ve been open for a couple of days. These are only two essential items to know about edible flowers: first, not every flower is edible. […]
Craving for mouth-watering apple pie in the middle of the night but don’t have pie dough on hand? Here is an easy apple pie recipe for your midnight cravings without using pie dough! Wash, peel and dice the amount of apples of your desire Melt a small cube of butter or margarine and fry the […]
Have you noticed that more and more stores are charging plastic bags? Some areas forbid plastic bags entirely. Because we’re re-using our plastic bags for our kitchen trash, I do cough up the 20 cents every now and then. If I feel particularly cheap, I’ll let my grocery run free on the car floor as I drive […]
Different types of honey are categorized by the source of the flower, but did you know that even if it was extracted from the same flower at the same location, its taste could still differ by a very large margin? That’s because of the difference in temperature or rainfall. Often, the lighter colored honey appears […]