RecipeMuncher

A few months back I thought it would be cool to experiment with sprouting mung beans and share the process. It’s a pretty simple one: soak beans for about 12 hours, drain, then keep in a jar in the dark for a few days, rinsing every 12 hours or so, …

I was never a salad person. The buffet table laid down with tons of salads never did attract me. I could probably pick at them, but never indulge myself over a bowl. At Pizza Hut, you will never catch me wandering towards the salad bar. ‘Gosh you land in a pizza joint to lavish on pizzas right, so why bother on salads’ was always my thought. If I wanted to eat salad, I might as well have stayed back and made one myself. Well that’s me. I can always take the cucumber, onions, tomatoes or carrots on the side, in a daily meal, but that can never be a full meal on itself! Maybe our food habits and cultural attitude never prepared us to salad way of eating. While Dad and Hubby dear insist on salads before eating, we mostly try to manage with onions and carrots.

But changing times, we find ourselves getting accustomed to new ways of eating. And yes, I can now say, we have included salads and raw vegetables in some way or the other. Beginning of the year, saw us changing our food h…