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  • Egg plant: purple, smooth, delicious when cooked right

    Smooth and delicious Eggplants are great for cooking with dishes that would showcase the smooth textures, either as ingredient added  contrast or compliment the dish. However to get the smooth texture, you can cook them, steam or bake. The desired texture is really up to personal preference. Great with tofu One of the best and…

  • Napa: Eastern counterpart of cabbage

    Cabbage of the east One of best known napa dishes is Korean kimchi, fermented napa is like the fermented cabbage of the east, sauerkraut. Both serve a great many cuisines in their respective cultures. Great when cooked Being famous for its kimchi serving uncooked, it is just as famous for many cooked dishes, great with…

  • Squash: Great complimentary ingredient to many dishes

    Pals to any dish Squash is a great veggie that comes rich in calcium and it also compliments almost any dish. Good with pasta Squash is good with pasta, toning the flavor at the same time adding more texture to the smooth pasta. Great for sides Squash is also great for side dishes, it can…

  • Organic Oranges: Great as fruit, good to cook, peels that is

    Versatile fruit, good to the last peel Oranges are great fruit, healthy, tasty and full of vitamin C for your immune system. There is, however, one more thing about oranges, that many people did know them for and that is for cooking. Many cuisines around the world, maybe even American would use oranges for cooking.…

  • Tofu: firmness to every meal occasion

    Many shapes of soybeans  Have you tasted a soybean? Most of the time you have had soybeans, just in many different forms: vegetable cooking oil (often made from soil bean oil), Soy milk and of course, TOFU. Tofu has been a staple diet in eastern cuisine and it has come a long way with many…

  • Spring Mix: as the name suggested, fresh taste that harvest from spring

    Freshness starts in spring As with many green, springtime is the best harvest for those tender and soft leaves like those spring mix greens, perhaps in your garden or the grocery stores. Great mix with lettuce Adding more crunchiness to your salad with spring mix, consider adding some romaine or iceberg lettuce. However romaine lettuce…

  • Fried rice: a great way to save overnight leftovers

    Fried rice could be a quick meal, cooking with overnight leftover steamed rice Fried rice requires dried steamed cooked rice which is perfect from the overnight leftover rice (moisture is drawn out by the refrigerator). When cooked right, it would result in a restaurant quality fried rice where every single grain of rice is separate…

  • Blueberry: great antioxidant and for baking too!

    Antioxidant fruit makes the baking see blue How many of you have those blueberry muffins or better yet, blueberry pancakes. Besides being rich in antioxidants, it has colonized the baking industry. Ah, don’t forget the drink When it comes to drinks, blueberries certainly hold a large share of the market no less to its competition,…

  • Chicken: versatility cross main course and appetizer

    Full course meal Chicken is so versatile, you can just about order everything for a full course meal with chicken as an ingredient: buffalo chicken wings for appetizer, chicken pasta for main course, and chicken breast pudding for desert. Chicken good for meal or on the go No matter how busy you are or having…

  • Garlic: ancient spice that still rocks

    Thousands of years in the making Garlic being consumed for several thousands of years, today we still enjoy them in many of our favorite dishes: garlic bread, favorite spice with many veggie dishes among others. Fresh garlic prep One of the best ways to flavor your dish is with fresh garlic cloves, simply follow the…