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The smooth soft white, or slightly brown powder is one of the most common staples in stores around the world. With a little help from water and a few other ingredients, you can transform it into cakes, bread, muffins, cookies…
Have you ever made a beautiful pesto blend, full of basil flavour, with a vibrant green colour, that didn’t look all that vibrant anymore the day after? Or left that peeled banana or sliced apple for a few hours to…
Red cabbage juice changes colour when you add a squirt of lime juice or a spoonful of baking soda. Baking powder causes your cake to rise beautifully in the oven. You can ‘cook’ fish by adding lemon and lime juice,…
If you have your own sourdough starter, kept alive by carefully feeding it on a regular basis, you are growing your own micro organisms. Micro organisms are all around us, in the air and on most surfaces. In most cases…
After kneading the chapati dough, rolling it into circles and baking it on our tawa, we never skip one essential last step. Adding a thin layer of ghee on top. Whereas the ghee is hard when it comes from the…
Nothing better on a cold day: a warm cup of tea. Not just to warm the inside, but to warm my hands as well. Making the cup sounds simple, just bring some water to the boil. Pour the water in…
We eat freshly baked bread with a spread of butter. Put a little bit of margarine on a sandwich to help the sprinkles stick. Use lard and shortening in a pie crust. And can’t make a decent paratha or chapati…
This is a guest post by Michael, author and founder of Robust Kitchen. Beer is awesome. Declare it from the rooftops! Or maybe that’s old news to you. If you’ve ever enjoyed downing a cold glass next to me at…
Sugar definitely is one of the most complex and fascinating ingredients in the kitchen. It sweetens your food, but can also be used to create a whole lot of different textures and structures in your food! Sugar helps thicken a…
“Chetna is the queen of spice”. All throughout her journey through the British Bake Off competition Chetna Makan manages to pull off great flavour combinations. In her crispy lentil kachori “the volume of spices (…) was frankly staggering, that’s lovely”.…
Walking into a kitchen or production location where nuts are being roasted tends to be a delight. The air is full of nutty, caramelly aroma’s. Taking it one step further and burning those nuts deftly removes all that pleasantness and…
For years, if not decades, meringues, whether Italian, French or Swiss, relied heavily on eggs to make that light and airy texture. If you didn’t eat eggs, meringues were out of the question. Egg whites are just such a unique…