My brother is a health nut. Almost every day for lunch he has a tuna salad (tuna in springwater, chopped vegetables with no dressing!) and he rarely if ever indulges in naughty things such as sweets, cookies, cakes or chocolate. In fact, I often have to cajole him to give any of my baking a [...]
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I have always been a lover of mushrooms, they come in a huge variety of varieties and each have their own distinct characteristics and flavours that can really give a big boost to almost any dish. Though their bodies mostly consist of water (hence the drastic shrinkage during cooking), many varieties contain lots of fibre [...]
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There are many different kinds of dumplings, but here I’m going to concentrate solely on the Korean kind, called mandu. Here are some little tidbits of information regarding these treats: Wahng Mandu are ‘king’ dumplings about the size of your palm with a slightly thicker and fluffier skin (called ‘pi’) When served on their own, [...]
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Everyone knows that brussels sprouts aren’t exactly the most loved vegetable in the world. In fact, I’m fairly sure that most people have, at one stage or another (and usually during childhood) held some degree of loathing for these tightly furled little dark green bundles. I myself fell into this catagory…despite the fact that I [...]
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Well, mung bean’ed at any rate For the opening of my parent’s new business we had to prepare a whole lot of food, and this particular food was made in great quantity. Made with a base of pureed mung beans, it’s called ‘bin-dae-dduk’, it is another of those foods which appear at most feast day [...]
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