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There are three basic reasons why a roasted coffee should be keep in a tightly capped jar. 1) Rancidity. Improperly capped jar permits the entry of oxygen. Oxygen plus the ground coffee equals rancidity. The rancid aroma and taste can be noticed in just few days. 2) Escape of volatiles. Some customers are snipping the [...]
There are many kinds of tonic or energy boosting supplements, liquid or solid, natural or artificial. Cereals – Energen, BusogLusog, Nesvita Tablets – Enervon, Rogin-E, Centrum Beverages – Lipovitan, Cobra, Red Bull, Sting Natural – Coffee, Ginseng This one is different. I heard about this on Jessica Soho Episode. Some horse lovers from Benguet Province [...]
Garlic is the worse vegetable dish for me. It can make any dish a lot better but eating a piece of it makes me about to vomit. The taste is plain bad. Do you hate garlic too? What if this bad tasting garlic is a cough cure. It is almost always available and could be [...]
I bought a pack of sampalok candy for my toddler. He was the one who chose it, not me. I thought the candy have no seeds cause it passed by the hands of food processors. My wife grabbed the package. She was pressing every candy before gaving it to my son. She said most of [...]
I was eating chico. I accidentally bit the seed. It broke and I hurriedly spitted it out. I was afraid that it might contain poisonous substance. Some fruits have edible flesh but have toxic seeds. The perfect example of this is guyabano.Its a delicious fruit with a sweet to sour taste. Its pulp, leaves, bark [...]
For me, star margarine is an excellent bread spread. Apply a moderate coat on bread loaf and sprinkle some sugar. The mix of margarine salty taste and sweetness of sugar is perfect. I will refuse consecutive servings of peanut and mayonnaise sandwich but never do it against margarine sandwich. Another popular use of margarine is [...]
One of the Boy Scouts training is cooking with improvised materials. Cooking rice on a fresh piece of large bamboo. Wrapping eggs in a wet newspaper and broiling. Cooking eggs on a piece of paper instead of frying pan. I personally witnessed the last cooking style but never got a hands on experience. Mom never [...]
