How to buy fresh fruits and vegetables is often seen as an art form – the intricacies and secrets of which are only known to career homemakers. While most of us might not have the time to learn about buying fresh fruits and vegetables through trial and error, it’s certainly not reason enough to compromise on healthy, home cooked food. So here’s looking at how you can stop using this lack of knowledge as an excuse, bust out some cash and a big environmentally friendly carry bag, and head straight to the nearest grocery market for a healthy supply of fresh fruits and vegetables…Read on to unlock the mysteries behind how to buy fresh fruits and vegetables…
How to buy fresh fruits and vegetables is often seen as an art form – the intricacies and secrets of which are only known to career homemakers. While most of us might not have the time to learn about buying fresh fruits and vegetables through trial and error, it’s certainly not reason enough to compromise on healthy, home cooked food. So here’s looking at how you can stop using this lack of knowledge as an excuse, bust out some cash and a big environmentally friendly carry bag, and head straight to the nearest grocery market for a healthy supply of fresh fruits and vegetables…Read on to unlock the mysteries behind how to buy fresh fruits and vegetables…
Before any of the smart alecks can say it, when I say “setting up an Indian kitchen”, I do not mean a kitchen that uses cow dung fuel and has walls made of grass and mud - the pictures are a joke. Sheesh! And my apologies to all you modular kitchen type companies, I don’t mean set up an Indian kitchen as in install your beautiful, convenient and long-lasting kitchens either. What I mean is all the pots, pans, spices...
Indian cooking is an art form but in our kitchen, our Indian cooking is full of cheats and tricks. For the simple reason that Indian cooking recipes call for everything starting at zero, which can be a long drawn out, painful process. So what we usually do is mess around with the cooking process. What we’ve got here are the methods involved in Indian cooking and how to use cheats and tricks to get to the finished meal quicker. We found...
Anyone who has looked for a recipe for Indian food off the net will notice one thing. There are a million different Indian cooking spices in every dish. And every recipe calls for a different combination of the same spices. Now, in a perfect world, we would be able to pop into the grocery store and buy 2 cardamoms and 10 pepper corns and 3 cloves. Do that – let me know how it works out for you. You would...
Probably the only masala you’ll need that actually needs some amount of work. It works beautifully with olive oil. Adds a little flavour and gets the oil smelling good as well. You will end up using it in most Indian chicken, fish and vegetable recipes. Ingredients Jeera (Cumin seeds) Rai (Yellow mustard seeds) Sauf (Aniseed) Methi seeds (Fenugreek seeds) Kalonji (Nigella. Some call it onion seeds, which is incorrect) Method Mix the seeds in the ratio 1:1:1:½:1 The ½ proportion is because methi seeds tend to make...
If you're starting from scratch, this should help you out. For starters, you will need all this. Looks like a lot but you will end up using all of them at some point or another. You can click the picture for a closer view...
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