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Festive Gift Foods: Chocolate Truffles
Chocolate truffles are elegant food gifts that are easy and fun to make for the festive season. When lined in pretty mini cake cases, these home made goodies will definitely win the hearts of your...
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Looking Back and Moving Forward 2013-2014: Best Cooking Video
There has never been a lack of cooking shows and reality TV programmes related to the subject of cooking. However this heart warming short beats even our favourite celebrity TV food goddess Nigella...
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A Calm and Easy Way to Give: Home Print Gift Tags
Balancing work and finding gifts at the last wee hours in the cold wintry season can be an exhausting task. We like our gift shopping to be calm and easy. Thus we have designed a set of animal gift...
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Mushroom Pesto Fettucine
Our bodies crave for comforting during the winter months and naturally a plate of pipping hot and creamy pasta can be a delightful nourishment. Comfort food often carries the stigma of being too rich...
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Winter Comfort: Mushrooming Ideas
In last month’s journal, we shared with our readers on how mushroom could be a key ingredient in making delicious and satisfying comfort food during the winter season. We would like to share a few more...
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Vegetarian Wontons
A steaming bowl of won tons is welcome in any season, and making them at home is a fairly easy process. Purchase a package of high-quality won ton skins, which are available everywhere, and then it’s...
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Smooth Operator
I have always been attracted to Martha Rose Shulman’s health food column on New York Times. I would read her articles with diligence and then wander away to Melissa Clark’s videos, to find a heartier...
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World Cup Nibbles
Feeling listless, lacking in appetite, and having a short attention span…well it could be the temperature rising as summer gets ready to take over…or it could also be the World Cup fever. For the...
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Wild Rice Paradise
Rice is a great ingredient for summer salads. It adds texture and takes away the mundane of having to eat a big bowl of foliage. It is also a great natural carbohydrate instead of having bread as a...
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Raw Tomato Pasta Sauce
Raw food consists of (usually plant) food that is uncooked and unprocessed, such food often termed “live” or “living”. The raw food diet is based on the belief that a high-enzyme diet will ensure...
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Mushroom Tartine
Brown mushroom tartine with Basil and Brie The tartine is a french open-faced sandwich that is usually served with an elaborate or fancy spread. Despite its ‘frenchness’, with a little patience and...
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Food Wisdom 2014
As the saying goes, we are what we eat, and here are a few interesting articles on how food and the cultivation of food shaped the world as it is today… AMERICANS and Europeans stand out from the rest...
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Tofu with Grated Radish and Ponzu Sauce
We love exquisite starters that are just too simple to make…The spring and summer seasons are perfect seasons for grated horseradish on grilled tofu flavoured with Ponzu soy.
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Spring!
It’s the spring season – don’t forget to have a sprig of blossom on your dining table!
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Fresh Egg Tagliatelle with Silver Beet Pesto
If you have a guest, he or she may think you have kidnapped a trattoria cook to prepare this seemingly sophisticated meal!
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Vegetarian Fajitas with a microbrew
A great way to space out one's social schedule is to have friends over on weekdays for a no fuss dinner...
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Burbur Cha Cha!
Steamed taros and yams smothered in caramelized coconut cream. Caramelizing coconut cream with bananas gives the cream a natural sweetness.
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Summer Tang | Lemon Flavoured Chilli and Garlic Oil Pasta
Spaghetti tossed in lemon flavoured chilli and garlic oil – a perfect summer lunch treat Ingredients: Olive oil + chilli + garlic cloves + lemon zest + a generous touch of lemon juice + rocket leaves...
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Summer smoothies: Peaches, Bananas, Kiwis, and Yoghurt
The simplest recipe for a healthy start to the summer. Buy these summer fruits (preferably organic and fairtrade) off the market and blend them fresh with half a tub of yoghurt.
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Cold Pasta with Fresh Tomato Pulp | Pasta al Sugo Crudo
An easy dish to prepare for a hot summer weekend lunch. Credit must be given to Maria Teresa ingenuity…the tomato sauce is a simple preparation of fresh tomato pulp flavoured with fresh basil, salt,...
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