While cooking can be relaxing and inspiring, sometimes the daily grind gets in the way of your enthusiasm to put effort into cooking dinner. This is probably one of the reasons why fast food is so popular (amongst others). But quick easy meals don’t have to just be steamed veg and stir fries. There are
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A Wok is perfectly designed for stir frying. Its rounded shape makes tossing food about – or stir frying – an easy process; the small bottom concentrates the heat and distributes it up the sides of the Wok. It also forces the ingredients to fall where the heat is strongest i.e. the bottom of the wok.
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Is breakfast the most important meal of the day? A lot of media coverage seems to comfirm this, but in reality the research isn’t so clear. Gabriel ponders the importance of breakfast over a bowl of delicious Bircher muesli… As I sit here eating some Bircher muesli for my mid afternoon snack, my mind turns
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Eating over-boiled vegetables, all mushy and flavourless, can leave any hungry diner steaming mad. All of the flavour and freshness can leach out into the water – not to mention the water soluble vitamins such as vitamin C and folate. Why not try steaming your food instead – the best way to cook a healthy,
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Potato is one of the most used staple foods. It is the main ingredient of perhaps the most popular dish in the world – chips. But for many it has become a food to avoid with its high carb content, including diabetics and weight watchers. Is it on the health hit list for a reason?
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Do other vegetables have reason to be green with envy at kale’s almost celebratory status as super food in vogue? Has the plain ol’ cabbage been unfairly left behind? Nothing sends me into a rage more than a foodie trend that springs from nowhere, only to be gone the next year – replaced by the
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Autumn is a time of plenty. What better time than to start celebrating food with friends than to strike up a tradition of dinner parties to help get you through the oncoming winter? Learn the four best themes to get everyone excited and enthusiastic about inviting you over for dinner… As the seasons turn, my
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Poaching ideas is nothing new to us here at NOM NOM. And there are a great many ideas on how to achieve the ‘perfect poached egg’. Let’s examine three great methods of achieving cracking poached eggs, stolen from the best chefs and cooks around the globe. But which method is the best? Stealing ideas –
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Brown rice is one of the great foods. Nutritionally outstanding, complex in flavour and putatively versatile. Yet something about it just doesn’t make it appealing to eat come dinnertime… Summer is obviously a happy time for most. Long hot days, delicious fresh produce and even the odd dip in the pool. But like any season
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Does your brain feel fried when thinking about the ins and outs of buying free-range? With the term ‘free-range’ having no legal definition and industry standards both lax and often misleading, are we really putting our money where our mouth is when we choose to pay for a more humane existence of chickens? If you
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