Here’s what you will need to make Garash cake, and then let’s talk about why make this cake.

• For the cake: 6 egg whites; 250 grams walnuts; 1 cup powdered sugar; 1 teaspoon flour.
• For the chocolate ganache: 250 grams dark chocolate; 200 grams whipping cream; ½ cup sugar.
• For the chocolate icing: 100 grams dark chocolate; 1 teaspoon avocado oil.

For cake lovers and for all those who love a good chocolate cake, Garash is the sweetest kind of sweet and the ultimate chocolate cake to prepare for any occasion, and this right here is the main reason to have a go at making it. [Read more…]

You know what’s good with ketchup? Fries. French fries. And then some more fries.

You know what’s even better with ketchup? Read on to find out.

A table sauce initially made a whole lot differently than today and derived from a totally different array of ingredients, ketchup may be sitting at the dining table of 97 percent of the American population today, may very well be an iconic American condiment, but the origins of this sauce are far from being American. [Read more…]

Coca Cola is a favorite soda drink from one corner of the earth to another. Forever found in supermarkets and convenience stores, there’s hardly a soul out there who’s not had at least a sip of the caffeinated beverage.

The Coca Cola beverage is very much intertwined with American history, and the Coca Cola experience brings together people all over the world, from all walks of life. Like Andy Warhol said: “The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.” [Read more…]

Ah, the difficult task of cutting a watermelon and not making it look like a fruit of mass destruction!

There are several ways to cut a watermelon. Some are simple yet clever, others are quite original, and a few are the genius of slicing techniques.

From the simpler to the most brilliant, here are the cutting techniques that make cutting watermelon a worthwhile accomplishment. Learn them, memorize them, practice them, and you’ll be cutting watermelons for the sake of cutting watermelons in no time. [Read more…]

Zucchini is a fairly recent vegetable. It was developed in Italy in the nineteenth century, although earlier variants of zucchini go back to more than seven thousand years ago.

The ancestors of the modern zucchini originate in today’s Mexico and in the northern regions of South America, from where they were brought to Europe. And from Europe zucchini were introduced to America by Italian immigrants. [Read more…]

When you’ve had enough of tasteless frozen pizza and restaurants serving the same kind of pizza over and over again, it’s time to reward yourself with some homemade pizza.

And not every pizza night has to be BBQ chicken pizza, or pepperoni pizza, or pizza marinara, or any of the usual because you know what? There are enough pizza varieties to satisfy your distinct pizza taste besides the usual specialties. [Read more…]

Travelling around the world is easier than you’d think, not so expensive, but oh, so very delicious. Sometimes all it takes is some dulce de leche prepared the traditional way to take you straight to Buenos Aires or a decadently sweet baklava to teleport us to Turkey.

People have been perfecting hundreds of years old dessert recipes and adapting them to satisfy sweet teeth of all levels. Traditional decadent desserts have been transformed into lighter treats and vice versa, because some like their dessert sweeter, while others prefer a little less sugar, a bit more flavor. [Read more…]

Picking up where we left off in the list of coffee drinks from everywhere around the world, we get to frappuccino, which steps up in the coffee game with a couple of variations.

Varieties of frappuccinos include this beverage made with different ingredients added to the standard recipe. These can be espresso, caramel syrup, whipped cream, white chocolate syrup, chocolate chips, mocha sauce, toffee nut syrup and many others. But the standard recipe is only one. [Read more…]

The list of coffee drinks and coffee-based beverages invented in different parts of the world continues with café mélange, a type of coffee that is extremely popular in Vienna. It’s often sold in cafes throughout Austria as a traditional kind of coffee.

Café Mélange – Is similar to the Italian cappuccino, except instead of foamed milk, café mélange is made with whipped cream. It’s considered the classic coffee option in Vienna, and this black coffee is also popular in the Netherlands and Switzerland. [Read more…]

There are many popular coffee options, both in regards to the types of coffee we have available through supermarkets and specialty stores, and in regards to the types of coffee drinks that have been invented since the time coffee was discovered as a beverage.

Similar coffee to the one we know and drink today was introduced in Arabia in the 13^th century when people began roasting coffee beans for the first time. Before that, however, coffee had served other purposes for a long time. [Read more…]

Good steak calls for a good sauce, and speaking of sauces, here’s one that cooks often refer to as a mother-sauce – Béarnaise. But before dwelling on Béarnaise sauce, let’s talk some more about mother sauces.

Mother sauces refer to the main sauces of the French cuisine. The term itself was coined by Marie-Antoine (Antonin) Carême who wrote the multi-volume work L’Art de la Cuisine Française in the nineteenth century. [Read more…]

Ghee is one of the best cooking fats there are and an exceptional butter. What makes it so?

Number one:

Having a smoke point higher than its regular counterpart, it is a great butter to cook with at higher temperatures, deep-fried foods including.

Number two:

Providing a rich and nutty aroma, ghee is a great ingredient to make homemade sweets and desserts. It’s quite flavorful, so much so that when making ghee, many people prefer to keep the caramelized brown solids than to throw them away. They’re indeed delicious.

And ghee itself is addictive. People confess to eating it with a spoon straight out of the jar. And, of course, there are those who fondly remember their grandmother making ghee and how much they enjoyed it as kids. [Read more…]

The fluffy American pancake isn’t all there is to pancakes. Every country has a variation of this ultimate breakfast foods that also counts as the comfort food.

Would you be surprised to hear that even the Romans ate pancakes which they sweetened with honey? And it goes even further back in time. If we can think of pancakes as flat cakes that people made from batter and then fried to eat, then this is a food 30,000 years old. [Read more…]

Tumbo is an oval-shaped fruit that belongs to the genus Passiflora and is thus part of the passion fruit family. In fact, tumbo is also known as banana passionfruit due to it resembling an elongated egg. Some people compare its shape to that of a small banana.

Tumbo was given the banana passionfruit name in New Zealand, where it is widespread in Greater Wellington and the West Coast among other regions. It is actually considered a pest plant in New Zealand because the plant can climb high into the trees, smother and even kill them. That is why people make sure that the plant grows properly. [Read more…]

Tandoori chicken is a dish originating in India and served at Indian eateries throughout the world. It was invented in 1947, so it’s not as old as some of the other Indian dishes, but it is extremely popular with people everywhere.

Cooking with chicken – Tandoori-style

The ingredients that make Tandoori chicken a delicious main-course food are the chicken itself, which should be fresh and high quality, Greek yogurt, which is used to marinate the meat, and a variety of spices that are added to the marinade. [Read more…]

Carrot and beta-carotene are almost synonymous, and while beta-carotene is known to improve eyesight, the benefits of carrots extend well beyond boosting vision.

What’s in carrots?

Often disregarded as a simple vegetable, carrots are amazing foods that provide so many nutrients and multiple health benefits. Although not as popular as kale nowadays, carrots definitely deserve to be consumed on a regular basis. [Read more…]

All the food processors in the world and the high-tech kitchen utensils available today won’t ever replace a mortar and pestle.

Why?

This two-piece device has been in use since the ancient times, and it’s not yet disappeared, so highly unlikely for that to happen in the future either. [Read more…]

Reusing frying oil has some potential negative effects on health. This has a lot to do with the smoke point of oils, which is the temperature up to which oil can be heated before it starts to break down and release free radicals that not only affect food and how it tastes, but also health.

When oil gets too hot, it starts to break down.

The smoke point for cooking oils

You’ll be able to apply more uses to your cooking oil when you know its smoking point. You’ll also be able to use any fat appropriately, plus you’ll avoid endangering your health since reused oil can lead to health problems when used again and again. [Read more…]

Did you know the coconut is two things – fruit and seed – at once?

While coconuts are for the most part considered fruits, specifically fibrous one-seeded drupes, they are also reproductive units, which is why some scientists refer to them as seeds. The seed in coconut is the white flesh that people consume, although coconut can be found in so many forms.

• Coconut oil, coconut milk, coconut sugar and coconut flour, which are produced from the fleshy white meat.
• Coconut water, which is found inside the center of the fruit and coconut vinegar, which is made from coconut water.

In whichever form are found, coconuts boost a nutritional value that very well justifies why they are called “tree of life.” Every part of a coconut can be used to produce either food, drinks or various objects such as musical instruments, utensils, and as décor items. [Read more…]

If you ever felt uilty about treating your dog to some homemade dishes, don’t. Many people do it. I mean, how could you possibly resist when he’s staring at you like that? No dog lover or dog parent will ever blame you if some table scraps end up in your dog’s bowl because they all understand. We’re all in this together.

But as a responsible dog parent, you probably don’t want to feed your dog unhealthy stuff that may affect him in the long run or even immediately. Some foods that are good for humans are way too toxic to be feeding them to dogs, so it is the human’s responsibility to choose the appropriate foods. [Read more…]