Kitchen gadget: Vegetable cooking basket

Owning a vegetable cooking basket makes steaming, straining and boiling simple and it can practically fit in any cooking pot or pressure cooker

By WAMBUI KURIA

Ingredient of the week: Mrenda

Once your tongue has mellowed to the taste and texture of mrenda, you get to enjoy the benefits of this vegetable

By WAMBUI KURIA

Kitchen gadget: Spill stopper

Cleaning the stove after cooking can be time consuming not to mention hard on your stove from constant scrubbing; this gadget takes care of that

By WAMBUI KURIA

Ingredient of the week: Celery

Celery is one of the ingredients in the Bloody Mary drink and in the popular KFC secret spice sauce

By WAMBUI KURIA

Kitchen gadget: Ice cream machine

Making ice cream or sorbet is easy and simple with an ice cream machine

By WAMBUI KURIA

Ingredient of the week: Cantaloupe

Cantaloupe is very filling and nutritious

By WAMBUI KURIA

Kitchen gadget: Rice cooker

With a rice cooker, one simply follows instructions given which are straightforward

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Ingredient of the week: Rice flour

Rice flour is a great flour alternative for those with an intolerance to gluten

By WAMBUI KURIA

Kitchen gadget: Cake shapers

These are fun, easy to use and come in connectable pieces that are leak-free, nonstick and flexible

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Ingredient of the week: Granulated sugar

Sugar is one of the key ingredients in cake baking seeing that cakes are a sweet food

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Kitchen gadget: Sparkling water maker

The sparkling water maker comes as a kit; the sparkling water maker (machine), a CO2 (carbon dioxide) cylinder and a reusable carbonating bottle

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Ingredient of the week: Sparkling (carbonated) water

With no added sugar, sparkling water has the fizzle of soda with no extra calories

By WAMBUI KURIA