In The Godfather, Part I, the character Pete Clemenza orders the other guy in the car after a murder has been carried out to leave the gun and take the cannoli. While this line has been parodied and repeated a thousand times, what exactly is a cannoli?

A cannoli is a Sicilian pastry dessert that is an essential part of the cuisine of Sicily. They are fried, tube-shaped pastry shells filled with a sweet, creamy filling. These treats have a long and storied history and just as many variations.

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Here’s another great recipe, Veggie Spaghetti, for the health conscious people like you.

This is a simple recipe which doesn’t require much preparation and hard work. Nowadays, I feel that time is sometime which I am lack of. The amount of time I spend in projects or school’s work has increased dramatically where as the time for me to explore new recipe is scarce. Therefore, it is important to cook something that is quick and easy to prepare. This recipe definitely satisfy the criteria for “quick and easy”. You can enjoy a healthy meal in just 15 minutes without any hassle. If you are like me who couldn’t make time to prepare something healthy and nice for yourself or your family. Do give this recipe a try.

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This week I managed to scrump a particularly perfect wind-fallen apple, and share it with my daughters. The first juicy crunch transported me back to my childhood garden where my swing and rope ladder swung in the shade of the apple trees. My mum and I would feast on fresh apples every day during apple-season, taking for granted the intense lemon-apple-sherbet taste of a newly picked fruit. At the end of the summer we would visit a house on the edge of our town where a lady sold tiny red Beauty of Bath apples from her garden; the taste was sublime, but the gift of each fruit was the red flesh under the skin, fading to the delicate pink of apple blossom; each bite revealing a new palette of colour.

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If you are looking for fine German wine and food, consider the Mosel region of central western Germany on the border of Luxembourg. You may find a bargain, and I hope that you’ll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a local white Riesling tasted with several meals and paired with imported cheeses.

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Before we start cooking our first Thai dish. I would like to tell you that after posting my blog yesterday, there are many people sending me emails asking me about curry paste, coconut milk and chilies whether they are the basic condiments that you need to have in a kitchen when cooking Thai food. Well, in my opinion…they are not because not many Thai food uses curry paste or coconut milk, particularly chilies. From my experience, all my friends (Westerners) can’t eat hot and spicy Thai food (with chilies). Moreover, these stuffs like curry paste, coconut milk have short expiration. You can’t keep it in the fridge or in the kitchen for a long time like fish sauce or light soy sauce. Therefore, I would recommend you to buy it whenever you need to use them. All right, that is clear enough.

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FABULOUS PASTA RECIPES

LINGUINE THAI PRAWN BALLS

• 1 pkt (375grams) Plain Linguini
  
• 200g green King Prawns pealed and chopped
  
• 80g bean shoots
  
• 1 bunch Coriander. Leaves and roots, roughly chopped
  
• 1 bunch Basil, roughly chopped
  
• 50g peanuts, roughly chopped
  
• 1 tbsp grated ginger
  
• 2 Kaffir lime leaves finely sliced
  
• 4tbsp seafood curry paste
  
• 3 free range eggs
  
• 150g rice flour
  
• Vegetable Oil for deep frying
  

Method

Cook Plain Linguine in salted, boiling water until al dente, then drain. Place linguine in a large Mixing bowl. Add prawns, bean shoots, coriander, basil, peanuts, ginger, lime leaves, curry paste and eggs.

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The history of ice cream dates back to before Jesus’s birth, when the Chinese used snow to mix up the most basic version of iced foods. The big ice cream revolution didn’t really explode until the early years of the last century though, when the introduction of mass-produced products appeared, along with the very first ice cream cone.

Tip 1 – Ice cream wafers.

Wafers were first mentioned around 1770, and were included with iced desserts to aid digestion. Although not yet considered a “cone”, these wafers could be rolled into funnel-like shapes and filled with iced desserts.

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Fans of oolong tea are clamoring to get Imperial Formosa oolong tea. Because oolong teas in general are fairly rare, many people want to look to other sources to find their favorite oolong.

Oolong teas are produced in China, where oolong tea originated, Taiwan, and a small amount is produced in the Darjeeling region of India. Creating oolong tea is a labor intensive process that cannot be managed by large scale tea gardens that produce tea in a mechanized fashion. This is why oolong teas can be rare and harder to find than some other teas.

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Decaf or decaffeinated coffee is much in demand nowadays. With findings confirming harmful effects of caffeine content of coffee, this has been the emerging trend. Caffeine has been held responsible for chest pain (or heartburn) that is often experienced after taking in a coffee drink, as well as producing other problems.

Heartburn and other ills of consuming caffeine

Upon consumption of coffee, heartburn is often caused because of stomach acids leaking into the esophagus. The lining of the esophagus gets irritated as a result of the action of the acid thus leading to feeling of heartburn or an uneasy chest pain sensation. Caffeine consumption has also been known to cause constipation and lead to insomnia or sleeplessness.

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How Chocolate Became Such A Popular Flavor

The chocolate is such a world wide super commodity that it deserves some research into its background and history. Well, to start with, the history of chocolate began with the domestic plantation of coco plants by the Olmec Indians way back in 1500 BC. Not that they made a handful of chocolate bars, packed in beautiful cartons for sale in the open market. Their traditional method of consuming this wonder commodity was by drying it first and then making a brew of it, not unlike the way we brew coffee now. This delicacy was meant only for the elite and not for the common man. History, however, took a back seat here when a shipload of coco beans was intercepted by Columbus who had reportedly ordered the cargo destroyed on the presumption that it was nothing but “sheep’s droppings”.

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