Category Archives: Types of Food

Thirst-Quenching Cucumber & Mint Lemonade

There has been an ongoing fad in recent years about drinking only fruit juices for an entire week (including breakfast, lunch and dinner) to help the body to detox and get rid of all those harmful toxins within. The guy … Read more

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Crispy Cheesy Potato Gems

Cheese and potatoes – they are like a perfect match made in heaven. They always go well together, regardless of what the resulting dish is: mashed potato with melted cheese toppings, hasselback potato drizzled with cheese, baked jacket potatoes with … Read more

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Vietnamese Spring Roll With Loads Of Fresh Herbs

The thing that makes a Vietnamese spring roll especially tasty is that it combines the freshest ingredients together in a relatively bite-sized manner – fresh herbs, sweet and juicy boiled shrimps and crunchy vegetables. Herb lovers like myself would definitely … Read more

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Medieval Chicken With Rice & Ground Almond

‘Blawmanger. Tak the two del rys, the thridde pert of almoundes; wash clene the rys in leuk water & turne & seth hem til thay breke & lat it kele, and tak the melk & do it to the rys … Read more

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Happy 49th Birthday Singapore!

It wasn’t a very successful experiment: the texture was too soft (the layers cannot be peeled off easily) and the sweetness a tad lacking. But the whole point of this experiment was to make a Singapore flag, an attempt which … Read more

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