As Japanese, I grew up drinking green tea. Many Japanese drink green tea every day, with their meals, after meals, with their snack, after work… Green tea is not only delicious but also very good for our health.
Here are the health benefits of green tea; Continue reading “Health benefits of green tea”
If you have strawberries left in the fridge, here is a great recipe to make strawberry sauce. It’s super easy and super delicious! I sometimes go buy strawberries just to make this sauce.
Yield : About 30 servings Cooking time : About 1 hour Continue reading “Strawberry sauce”
Coffee has been a best friend of breakfast for a long time. Recently, more and more researches have proven that coffee is not only good for energy boost but also has a lot of health benefits.
I love ice cream. Who doesn’t? I love it so much that I eat it every day after dinner. I used to eat any kind of ice cream especially cheap ones because they are just reasonable for a person who eats ice cream every day. But now I try not to eat store-bought ones and instead, I make some myself. It’s the same reason for coffee cream and whipping cream that I talked about, “partially hydrogenated oils” which contain trans fats. Of course there are some high quality ice cream without any partially hydrogenated oils or artificial additives, however, I realized that most of the cheap ice cream that I used to eat are with these harmful ingredients.
When we go to a bakery or cake section in a supermarket, we find a lot of cakes decorated with whipping cream. But did you know that a lot of those cream is not really “cream”?
Did you know that coffee creamer is not really cream? I usually drink coffee with milk and honey but today I thought I would make instant coffee just for a change. I bought instant coffee mix called “French Vanilla Cappuccino drink mix” before so I poured hot water into the powder, then I realized that this drink mix has a long list of ingredients and I started to read it. Many of the ingredients do not seem natural and the worse thing is that creamer made from partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is the second ingredients, which means this product has high percentages of it.
ingredients label on the coffee drink mix
Did you know that some cooking oils are better for eating raw whereas some are better for cooking over heat? The main difference is the”smoke point”, that refers to the temperature at which cooking fat or oil starts to break down and the substance burns and produces smoke. This smoking oil not only gives unpleasant bitter taste and smell, but also creates cancer-causing compounds that are harmful to our body. Some cooking oils have higher smoke point which makes a better choice for cooking over heat and some have lower smoke point, which are best for salad dressing.
Here are some of the oils with relatively lower smoke point; Continue reading “Which cooking oil we should use to cook”
Did you know that some vegetables and fruits have higher pesticide residues and some have lower? Here are the ones that we should choose organic as possible as we can because of the higher pesticide residues.
Apples
Pears … Continue reading “Which vegetables and fruits we should buy organic”