Low Fat – Fact or Fiction?
Low-fat foods seem to be a conundrum, a paradox and maybe more. The very reason we eat is to stockpile energy and resources, much the same way as a camel stockpiles water. So, eati…Read More
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Anything but Basic
As in most areas, kitchen capabilities start with some basic building blocks – fundamentals that every home cook needs to know. Ok, so you know where the kettle is and how to turn…Read More
Swedish Smörgåsbord.
For most of us, our interpretation of Swedish cuisine might be limited to IKEA meatballs and Swedish fish. But the Land of the Midnight Sun has food so abundant and diverse that to…Read More
Snack Attack
Most of us don’t really need to create our own snacks, not when supermarket shelves and indeed our pantries, are often lined with boxes of this or packets of that. But if you are e…Read More
Becoming a Mumbai Maestro
We do love our Indian cuisine here at El Gusto, but for many cooks who haven’t unlocked the spicy secrets, curry consumption is limited to the take-out across town. If you’re alway…Read More
Have here, or take away?
Fast, easy, and oh-so-convenient, the lure of takeaway food can be very strong. But so often the best part about it is the anticipation of the moment before you eat it! Not long af…Read More
Easy as Pie
‘Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie’ or so says the old nursery rhyme. Strangely enough, the words of the sixpence song weren’t too far removed from the truth at one time,…Read More
The Daily Grind
Coffee is the second most valuable item in the world, coming a close runner-up to crude oil, and together you could say these two commodities keep the world in motion. So many of u…Read More
Olive Oil – More is more.
Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained from olives, a traditional crop of the Mediterranean Basin, produced by pressing whole olives and extracting the oil. So far, no surprises. It ha…Read More
Garlic – not just for the Gallic!
A powerful food, flavour and medicinal wonder plant, the unattractively named ‘stinking rose’ has been popular for millennia. Pyramid-building slaves of Egypt were fed garlic to ke…Read More
When life gives you lemons. . .squeeze them!
Like little fragments of sunshine, lemons bring a pop of colour and brightness to the kitchen, and their tartly tantalising flavour is second to none. A burst of fresh fragrance hi…Read More