Here’s a cookbook which would change the lives of families with Filipino domestic helpers. I am sure there are many households out there who have to go through the difficulty of teaching domestic helpers how to cook and prepare some of our local dishes here in Singapore. These helpers probably already learned basic cooking skills…
I got to discover the existence of nut butters about 2 years ago when I get to know about the raw vegan diet. The vegan alternative to dairy butter is nut butter. So are vegans missing out alot when they have replace dairy butters with nut butters? Not quite. Nut butters are pretty legit in…
I had a request to make a raw vegan cheesecake using acai berries and I thought, why not? The fact that acai berries itself doesn’t have much taste except for its sourness which can be easily overcome by adding some sugar or fruits to sweeten it. But my cheesecake version, I thought it would be…
Following the rules isn’t in my nature of doing things. Even when it comes to recipes, I prefer to experiment with the different types of ingredients based on my preferences and intuition as I think it would be more authentic to make a dish that you really like. So when it comes to writing recipes,…
Photo credit: The Wellness Report I’m back again for some yoga by Saakalya‘s very own founder and yoga instructor, Alexandra. It’s a little special this time as we get to practise yoga outdoors, in a beautiful green open space at Open Farm Community. It was a Chakra yoga session where we focus on our root chakras,…
Once you’ve started to pick up the love for cooking, the next thing you will know is that your kitchen is filled with various types of kitchen tools. I have more or less got everything I’ve needed to facilitate my cooking preparations but I still needed a couple more tools like a food processor and…
The most beautiful vegetable on earth has got to be beetroot. It has such an intense and vibrant red colour that makes it such an outstanding ingredient in a dish. To make a real pretty dish, you will drop need a drop of beetroot juice mixed with anything creamy and white to produce a hot…
I haven’t really touched raw meat right in my kitchen for the longest time. Most of the times, I prepare vegetarian dishes at home and I only consume some meat while I’m dining out on most weekends. It felt refreshing to be using meat again as my ingredients in preparing meals for myself. When it…
I’ve always thought that Canon’s PowerShot G series of the compact camera which is meant for those who just wanted to high quality compact camera for photography. But you know something, the Canon G3X which I’ve just tested out recently completely blow my mind and changed the way I think about PowerShot G series of…
I finally understood why it is worth investing in a powerful high-speed vortex blender can perform 15 functions. I thought I wouldn’t need such a powerful blender at home since I need to blend things in a huge bulk. I’m always satisfied with my mini blender that is powerful enough to make smoothies but not…
