Recipes — Special Items

Christmas Eve, chilly afternoons, or when you’re feeling blue… any excuse is a good excuse to enjoy a hot cup of chocolate. Satisfying and warming, hot chocolate is always good when made with real chocolate, and even better when spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon. Both nutmeg and cinnamon have comforting flavor profiles that tend to bring memories of special events and holiday meals, making them ideal for Christmas. In this recipe, we’re giving classic hot chocolate an aromatic flavor boost with these two festive spices. Sweet spices have long starred in hot drinks for thousands of years across Mexico--the motherland...

This week's recipe: 4-Ingredient Matcha Ice Cream Ingredients:250ml Heavy Cream250ml Condensed Milk5 tbsp Matcha Powder1 cup fresh milk Directions: Pour milk in a sauce pot and let it simmer for 5 minutes. Add the matcha powder and stir with a wire whisk until the matcha powder is fully dissolved. Set aside to cool. In a bowl, whip heavy cream until soft peaks form. Slowly add condensed milk and fold the mixture together. Add the cooled matcha and milk mixture and fold in all ingredients until all ingredients are thoroughly incorporated. Transfer to a container with a lid and leave in...

Papadum is a very simple Indian snack dish served often with meals. Also known as Appalam or Papad, it is a light and crispy snack, often deep-fried in any vegetable oil, and sometimes toasted over fire. When fried, the papadum's flour forms hundreds of tiny bubbles all over the disc, letting each disc take on its own distinctive shape. South Indians love to crumble the crispy fried papadum with their hands and drizzle it over their curry-soaked rice to give their meal a crunchy texture (when eaten quickly before the papadum becomes soggy!). North Indians take a different approach by...