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homemade chai tea It’s all Christine’s fault, really. There I am innocently browsing through my favorite food blogs early Sunday morning and not really expecting to find anything. Then I chance upon her post on masala chai tea, or chai tea. So poetic is her recounting of sipping chai tea at London’s Camden Market...
read more It’s a most compelling store that rivets my attention and holds it until I walk inside and browse. Every time I go in here I come out several hundred pesos poorer, but immeasurably richer in terms of spice wealth and knowledge gleaned.Spices ‘n Flavours is a new food store that’s tempting and tantalizing...
read more Sigh. Pie. I love to make it, eat it, talk (write) about it. But making pie is laborious, especially since there’s the task of having to mix the dough together, roll it out, and then letting it “rest” in the fridge so that it achieves its flakiest, most tender potential. Sometimes when I’m most craving for...
read more biggest to smallest: ostrich egg, chicken egg, quail egg As an avowed egg lover, it was inevitable that I would one day come across what is THE mother of all eggs, the ostrich egg. The largest egg in the world, it reaches weights of up to five pounds. (Excellent for doing bicep curls with.) It’s approximately 5-6 inches in...
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