Have you ever checked the ingredients on your vegetable or vegan stock? If you do, you will have noticed that the ingredients are very simple, so simple you can actually make your own and carefully choose what to include in it. My friend, Pearly, taught me how to make my own vegan stuff including Vegan [...]
Read more »How to Keep Aubergines, Zucchini, and Mushrooms Tender When Cooked
As much as I like these vegetables, I am, however, disappointed when cooking them because they either melt or get really soggy especially aubergines and zucchini because they contain mainly water and of course fiber. But they are good for barbecues, only don’t cook them too long or they will shrink to a pea size. [...]
Read more »How to Make Beans Super Soft and Black Bean Recipe
I finally figured out how to make beans soft –I mean really soft, it actually melts between your tongue and palate — without using a pressure cooker by just adding a little bicarbonate of soda. Thanks to my cooking guru, Pearly, who told my cooking team that baking soda will soften the super dried dates [...]
Read more »How to Wrap Spring Rolls
Well, I have never made another post in my Cooking Tips category since I don’t remember when. Anyway, this is a step-by-step process with photos. Step 1. Take a spoonful or two of your stirfried mix vegetables and arrange it in one corner of the wrapper. Step 2. Take the corner and fold it making sure [...]
Read more »Herbs & Spices Give Life to Your Cooking
Spices bring out the best in your cooking. Garlic powder, Onion granules, ground pepper, cinnamon ground, ginger, dried sage, mixed spice or all spice are the most-commonly used herbs and spices in recipes and these are just a few of them that you have to stock up on–having these around comes in handy when I [...]
Read more »Pre-soaking Legumes, An Essential Must
pre-soaked beans and frozen for future use What are Legumes? Legumes are carob bean, chick pea, and all other peas, kidney beans, lentils, lima bean, mung bean, broad bean, peanuts, soya bean, etc. Why we need to soak legumes I’ve always read that it’s a must to soak legumes before cooking them but I could [...]
Read more »How to make soy milk
step by step process of making soy milk I wasn’t a big fan of soy milk until lately. For me it tasted horrible unless flavoured to conceal its taste. On the other hand, I can’t handle dairy milk well and there’s a plethora of reasons why I should drink soy milk. Number 1 is [...]
Read more »How to cook pasta the Italian way
This is a simple tip on how to cook pasta the right way, that is the Italian way. The secret to making a delectable pasta is in cooking the pasta. When you boil the pasta make sure to use liberal amount of salt before the water boils. This will ensure the salt penetrates the pasta. [...]
Read more »How to cook white or brown rice
It’s very simple, I hear someone say, just put the rice and water in a rice cooker, plug it, switch the cooker on and let it do the job for you. Done! Well, even the rice/water ratio is an issue to some people. For white rice, use 1:1. For brown rice 1:1.5 and the reason [...]
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