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Food Challenge: Star Fruit
Star Fruit is quite a familiar ingredient in Asian cuisine, but yet I’ve never actually tried one myself. Although it has a pretty appearance, I always had the impression that it would not taste good. To prove whether my bias had always been true (or false), I bought one this week and finally tried one. [...]
Food Challenge: Beets
Beets is one of those vegetable that I always see at my local farm market. They seduce me with their mesmerizing deep purple colour, but at the same time, they scare me away because their juices will stain my hands and my clothing, if I’m not careful enough. And since I am always clumsy in [...]
Food Challenge: Dried Figs
When I go grocery shopping at Asian supermarkets, there are always packages of dried figs right beside the check-out counter. However, I never thought about buying it before because I had absolutely no clue how to prepare them. But after seeing them repeatedly appear at nearly every checkout counter, my curiosity grew quite strong and [...]
Food Challenge: Homemade Walnut Butter!
This week’s food challenge was totally cool and amazingly fun — I made nut butter! At first when I decided to do this, all the homemade nut butter recipes that I found online mentioned the use of a food processor. I got a little discouraged because I do not have a food processor (I plan [...]
Posted in Cooking, Food Challenge, Recipes Also tagged nut butter, nuts, Recipes, walnuts 11 Comments
Food Challenge: Zucchini
Image by Food Thinkers (Flickr) For this week’s food challenge, instead of exploring a new food, I decided to try making something that I never enjoyed in the past — zucchini. I’ve always found that zucchini had no flavour and mushy in texture – in short, just plain nasty! Sometimes I wonder if it was [...]
Food Challenge: Kale
Kale is a stellar vegetable. It is a dark leafy green that is rich in iron and calcium and packed with a whole lot of other good-for-you nutrients, works great as the body’s natural detoxifier. Canada’s Food Guide recommends that we should have a wide variety of vegetables in our diet, especially aiming to have [...]
Food Challenge: Leeks!
Photo by LollyKnit Leeks: the giant version of scallions (which I was never too fond of as a child). And only until recently did I started to discover the ability of scallions to liven up a dish, but still I only add in the least amount necessary. So, leeks –bearing very strong physical resemblance to [...]
Food Challenge: Canned Sardines
Okay, to be honest, I had always thought that canned sardines would smell extremely fishy and most likely taste ten times more fishy. But boy was I wrong! The canned sardines smelled fine (by that, I mean they did have a slightly fishy smell, but it was a lot less than I had expected, and [...]
Food Challenge: Wheat Berry
For this week’s Food Challenge, I’m trying out a whole grain — wheat berry. So far the only whole grain options that I am familiar with are: oats, popcorn and brown rice. I definitely have not been courageous in the past with expanding my taste for whole grains, so I’m really excited about adding wheat [...]
Posted in Food Challenge, Healthful Tips, Personal Thoughts, Taste Tests Also tagged healthy, nutrition, whole grain 9 Comments
Food Challenge: Pesto…Cilantro Pesto!