Spices for a palace kitchen

There is one problem with these pictures…. they don’t bring to you the aromatic scent these spices fill the air around them with. On the same day I received the cucumber plant gift, of which I ate the first cucumber today!, a colleague brought me a beautiful gift of a selection of spices from a [...]

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A note to all beginning cooks.

You have to start somewhere and I know as a beginning cook there are some barriers. I don’t mean the dishes and the explosion in the kitchen you are left with after the cooking, but the recipes itself. I remember finding the most delicious recipes in food website and cooking books, but as soon as [...]

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If you can’t fall asleep and you need something to comfort you…

Chai Tea This is an addiction I had in Australia. Every time I had class, either before or after, I would stop by a coffee shop called Mario’s at Glenferrie rd(one that actually sells coffee, not the type we have in Holland) to drink my favorite drink, Chai Tea. This is an Indian type of [...]

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