Kaffir lime leaf

 A Squid only has head and feet, but it has 3 harts. A squid belongs to the  Cephalopods. Until now, there have been discovered more, than 300 different species of squid. An ancestor of today’s squid is known to have lived about 550 million years ago. The biggest type of squids can grow to a size…

Cashew nuts are not nuts but seeds and comes from the cashew apple. The shell of the cashew nuts or seeds is toxic, that is why they are never sold with the shell on but always peeled, you can say they are always unpacked. Roasting the nuts will destroy the toxin. The roasting process must be…

Chili peppers also are known as Cayenne pepper. Red Chili peppers or Red Cayenne pepper is from the genus Capsicum annum. It is not the most used Chili pepper in Thailand though you will find it a lot. It is not the hottest of chilis it has a Scoville scale from 30,000 to 50,000 SHU….

The nutrient fact, below, is based on 100 gram of yardlong bean. Vitamins Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid mg 18.8 Thiamin mg 0.107 Riboflavin mg 0.11 Niacin mg 0.41 Vitamin B-6 mg 0.024 Folate, DFE µg 62 Vitamin B-12 µg 0 Vitamin A, RAE µg 43 Vitamin A, IU IU 865 Vitamin D (D2 +…

Red leaf lettuce is the red variant of one of the 6 subspecies of lettuce. The cultivation of lettuce dates back to the Egyptians 4500 years ago. Lettuce is properly derived from wild weed and through careful breeding, we have the hundreds of lettuce we know today. The farmers have though selection, being able to…