Ingredients

White & Brown Sugar Types

What are the types of sugar – short descriptions with images.

Cardamom Pods

Cardamom – fragrant, lemony spice popular in Indian cooking but also mulled wines and Nordic recipes.

Celebration / Carnival Squash

Useful info on celebration / carnival and other squashes including gem squash, spaghetti squash, butternut, marrow, zucchini and Buddha hand squash.

Spaghetti Squash

Spaghetti squash – Cucurbita pepo recipe ideas.

Jack Daniel’s Smokey BBQ Sauce

Tapioca Pearls, Boba and Sago Seeds

Donut, Nectarines and Other Peaches

Sazón by Goya

Sazon seasoning – authentic Caribbean and Latin American flavours.

Passion Fruit, Parcha, Lilikoi or Maracuya

Persimmon / Sharon Fruit

A bit info about persimmons also called sharon fruits.

Tabac Zombie (Pluchea carolinensis) also known as Ghost Tobacco, Bitter Tobacco, Indian Tobacco, Mal Mouton, Tabac Diable, Devil’s Tobacco, Wild Tobacco, Tobacco Cimarron, Tabac à Jacot, False Tobacco, Riverside Tobacco or Tabac Marron. It grows in the Caribbean and southern Florida, pictured here leaves came from island of Dominica. Teas and compresses prepared from it’s […]

Physalis / Cape Gooseberry / Ground Cherry / Mexican Tomato

A bit info about Physalis and it’s varieties.

Peppadew – Sweet Piquanté Peppers

Kiwiberries

Tamarind

The Tamarind (Tamarindus indica), from the Arabic: tamar hindi = Indian date, is a tropical tree, native to tropical Africa, including parts of the Madagascar, the tree grows wild throughout the Sudan and was so long ago introduced into and adopted in India that it has often been reported as indigenous there also, and it […]

Avocados

Lotus Root

Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is flowering water plant but except having decorative values, every part of this plant is used in cuisines of China, Japan and India.

Hibiscus Tea or Sorrel Drink?

Sorrel drink, hibiscus tea and other drinks made from the same Hibiscus sabdariffa plant.

Kumquats / Cumquats – Miniature Citrus Fruits

Miniature citrus fruits that can be eaten whole.

Purple Sprouting Broccoli

What is purple sprouting broccoli, how to cook it and recipe ideas.

Lemon Thyme, English Thyme, Jamaican Thyme and more…

Honey Pomelo and other Pummelos

Cantaloupe / Rock Melon

Cantaloupe refers to two varieties of muskmelon. Cantaloupes are typically 15–25 cm in length and are somewhat oblong, though not as oblong as watermelons. The European cantaloupe is lightly-ribbed, pale green skin looks quite different from the North American cantaloupe. The North American cantaloupe, common in the United States and in some parts of Canada, […]