Recipe Type: Dessert Prep time: 30 mins Cook time: 5 mins Total time: 35 mins Serves: 6 Flawless combination of bananas and homemade toffee — absolutely delicious!!! Ingredients Ingredients for the biscuit base Butter melted 100 grams Digestive biscuits crushed 250 grams Ingredients for the filling Dark brown sugar 100 … Read more
Older adults who take vitamin D and calcium supplements may live a bit longer than their peers, a new research review suggests. Researchers found that older adults who were given vitamin D and calcium supplements were 9 percent less likely to die over three years than those given placebo pills. Vitamin … Read more
You might not be surprised to see water at the top of the list of ingredients in soups. After all, soup does require a lot of water. It’s more surprising to find it so prominent in prepared foods such as packaged sauces, condiments, frozen meals, and more. And when water … Read more
Recipe Type: Dessert Serves: 12 Ingredients: 3/4 cup whole milk 1 large egg 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract with seed 2 cups self-rising flour 3/4 cup superfine sugar 3 1/2 ounces white chocolate chunks, heaping 3/4 cup raspberries To serve: confectioners’ sugar, for dusting You will need … Read more
The Alkaline Diet – If you hadn’t realised, 2013 is the year that we all go hard core for health. Now this can be great, getting a bit more clued up about healthy eating is obviously a winner, but some of the diets that have burst onto our scenes promising us the world have … Read more
Recipe: Type: Main Cuisine: Pakistani Much like any other child, I had a special hatred for the deceptive ‘tinda’ which looked just like a potato but much to my dismay, wasn’t one. However, as I grew older I developed a taste for the stuffed gourds which my aunt was a … Read more
There’s no doubting the powerful role smell can play in stimulating a craving—freshly baked apple pie, anyone? But here’s some surprising good news: Smelling certain scents can also help you with weight loss. Extra Virgin Olive Oil A new study from the German Research Center for Food Chemistry found that even … Read more
Recipe Type: Side Prep time: 10 mins Total time: 10 mins Serves: 6 A nice and tangy side dish that can be relished with rice. Ingredients: 1/2 cup of mangoes (raw) cut into small pieces 1 cup grated coconut 4 Smoked red chillies (roasted on direct fire) 1 tsp cumin … Read more
Many of the foods people around the world traditionally eat for luck to ring in the New Year are also good for you. Here are 6 lucky foods worth including at your gathering for a year of prosperity and good health!
Greens
Supposedly greens are eaten on New Year’s Eve because they resemble money. They are also teeming with vitamins and minerals so eat up!
Beans
Beans, like greens, resemble money. More specifically, they symbolize coins.
Amina Elshafei, one of the most popular contestants on MasterChef Australia’s season four, finally set foot in the cultural city of Lahore on Thursday evening and allowed a lucky few to get a taste of her hands. Chief chef of Pearl Continental Hotel, Anjum Javed and Amina performed a live cooking session … Read more