White tea – the mild one from the tea family
White tea is made from the leaves of Camellia sinensis. So are the yellow, green, blue-green, red, and black tea And yet there is a difference. The difference between these teas is in the processing. The beginning of processing is…
Fruit salad with spices -which fit well?
Now they are ripe again! The many wonderful summer fruits: peaches, melons, apricots, and various berries. A fruit salad is a perfect dessert. Refined with different spices, it can be wonderfully varied and spiced up. There are some spices that…
Chicken Yassa – the recipe
Chicken Yassa – a Senegalese national dish
Yassa is a spicy, hot dish from Senegal or Gambia It consists of beef, chicken or fish marinated with lime juice, mustard and lots of onions. I used chicken legs for this recipe. However, I can also imagine it with…
Galangal – ginger’s little brother
There are two varieties: greater and lesser galangal Lesser galangal is also called true galangal. It is mainly used for medicinal purposes, but in some Asian countries, it is also used in cooking. Greater galangal is used in Asian cuisine,…
Chicken Badami Murgh
Here’s a recipe for a curry dish with yogurt and almond sticks It turns out wonderfully creamy and goes well with rice or naan bread – anything you can use to put the sauce on. The almond sticks also make…
Chicken Badami Murgh – the recipe
Curry-mixtures – the aromatic spice mix
Actually, the spice mixture that we call curry in Europe, is not called curry in India But simply “Masala”, which means as much as mixture. In Sri Lanka, however, the dish itself is called curry. The already ground curry-mixtures were…
Tasmanian pepper – the peppery berry
Tasmanian pepper is as the name suggests originally, from Tasmania However, it also thrives in other Australian states, in News South Wales and in Victoria. It is now grown also in other tropical countries, but it is still expensive and…
Magic cakes – one dough, three layers
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