Cleaning Plantain Flower Smear your palms and hands with coconut oil.  Alternatively use clinical gloves. As this flower leaves a deep dark stain on your hands, which is hard to get-rid off. Now slowly remove all the thick leathery bracts and discard them. Separate the fine finger like — yellow florets, from it. These are […]

Making cottage cheese at home is piece of cake. Once you start making it on your own, you wouldn’t care for the store-bought paneer anymore. This is lot healthy, cost-effective and freakingly delicious. Choose whole milk over 2% or 1%, of course there is taste-difference. Heat milk in a wide, heavy bottomed vessel, add lemon […]

Fresh shrimp could lot more tastier than the frozen and per-processed seafood. Most of us shy away from the idea of buying fresh shells-on shrimps, just because its cleaning is the tedious job! But, once you leaned how to clean them, it could be very satisfying  and your dinner menu will turn fabulous. Wash and […]

Cleaning and cutting fish could be little bit of fishy until you master the technique. If you ever got a live fish, and still wanna make some progress in doing the mean job…here it is some of the pointers that may help you. If nothing works…no worries…persuade your butcher to do the job:) 1. Fish […]

Butchering meat for consumption could be quite an art, if done properly. Additionally it brings a more serious karma feeling in you; henceforth…the frequency of killing an animal for food goes down. Besides, buying a whole chicken will be economically lot cheaper when compared to a special pack of chopped chicken. From my Biology background….slaughtering […]

I love Chinese food. But for many years I had no idea how to use chopsticks! I happily dined in my own way, fork and knives. When I joined the International club at Oxford, MS. All my friends were from Asia…whenever we went out for dinner, I was the only one who kept asking for […]