Vegetable slicers, like cucumber slicers, are what they’re called. For chopping and slicing fruits and vegetables, these are essential kitchen equipment. No matter whether you are a first-time cook or an experienced cook who enjoys spending time in the kitchen, having the best cucumber slicer on hand will make your job a lot easier. We’ll…
Chili is the shortened term of a dish named ‘Chili con Carne’, which translates into ‘chili with meat.’ This dish originally came from northern Mexico or southern Texas. This is a popular main dish mainly consisting of chili peppers, meat, tomatoes, various kinds of spices, and sometimes red kidney beans. However, Texans tend not to…
Demerara sugar is a type of raw sugar that comes from sugarcanes. It originated from a country of South America named ‘Guyana’ that was formerly known as Demerara, which explains the reason behind the name of this certain type of sugar. But it currently comes from a country of East Africa called ‘Mauritius.’ Many people…
Winter melon soup is considered a ‘Yin’ food in China, meaning once consumed, it helps to reduce the heat in one’s body. This Yin food is a very popular dish in Chinese culture. Although its main ingredient- the Chinese winter melon, is now cultivated more or less all over the world, the soup itself is…
It’s possible to wind up with 10 different spice mixes if ten separate jars of curry powder are pulled from ten different cupboards. Even though the ingredients that go under the moniker “curry powder” are widely used in cuisines all over the world, the composition of each version and the applications for which it is…
Washing rice, as simple as it may sound, is not that simple when it comes to understanding the reasons why one needs to do so. Therefore, we will start by discussing the different parts of rice, the main component of rice, different kinds of rice, different ways people usually like to consume them, and finally,…
Buying, Cooking, and Recipes Chinese winter melons go by various names: White gourd, Winter gourd, Wax gourd, Sufed Kaddu, Chinese preserving melon, Ash gourd, Tallow gourd, etc. It comes from the gourd family named ‘The Cucurbitaceae.’ It originated from south and southeast Asia and is now cultivated pretty much all around. The wax gourd plant…
Buying, Cooking, and Recipes Calamari, popular seafood, is the Italian word for ‘squid’. Squid is a type of Cephalopod that comes from the family of Cephalopoda. Oftentimes, Calamari is confused with being made out of octopus instead of squid. Squid does look similar to an octopus, but its flesh is much more tender and thinner….