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I love staying at home when it’s raining cats and dogs outside.
The cool weather makes me drool for some stew over steaming rice.
Since I have some eye of round beef in the fridge, a beef stew it is going to be for dinner. It’s pretty simple to make yet packed with a homey flavor.
You can’t really go wrong with this dish.
The recipe is merely a guideline and you can add or remove any ingredient you like and make it your own.
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I don’t use any soy sauce, mayonnaise, mustard or any of the store bought sauces/condiments/marinade mix.
But I am a huge fan of spices and herbs.
My pantry is full of them. Most of the spices are in ground form. Nowadays I like the seeds version better.
Grind the pan roasted seeds in a spice grinder or using mortar and pestle and the whole house is filled with the aromatic smell. Below is a sample of the spice kit that I use regularly to marinade meat dishes to making my own chai latte.
One of the reasons that I like going to Starbucks in the month of December is due to the warming smell of spices oozing out from their special Christmas drinks.
I rarely indulge in any of their sugar-ladden “special lattes” anymore, but the smell is certainly inviting.
The only way to be sure of what kind of food or drink you are ingesting is to make it yourself of course. Therefore I sourced for simple recipes to make my own chai latte and hoping I would get the similar smell and better taste that is also good for my body.
Note: I don’t recommend any of the pre packaged chai latte available in the supermarket. Most of them are full of sugar and preservatives.
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