10 food facts which will blow your mind

1. Yoghurt may contain pork or beef gelatin.

2.   An average person's yearly fast food intake contains 12 pubic hairs.

3.  The most expensive coffee comes from civet cat poop. The partly eaten berries come out as civet droppings and are sold for upto $600 per pound.

4.  Peanut butter may contain rodent hair and bugs.

5.  The roast camel is the largest item on any menu in the world.

6.  The Swiss Cheese actually originates from Normandy, France.

7.  Grilled chicken sandwiches and salads may actually contain beef.

8.  Truffles can cost up to $1200 per pound.

9.  You would have to walk straight for 7 hours to burn off a Super Size Diet Coke, a Big Mac and fries.

10. All cheese products contain less than 51% cheese.

The soup and pasta post

After weeks of pleading, I convinced my flatmates to let me cook chicken soup and pasta for dinner. I don't know what they feared. You see, they have never tasted my cooking before. And our last joint attempt at making simple fried noodles turned out to be a mishap, mishap being a mild word for it.

So yesterday, I boiled some chicken, carrot and an onion together, added salt, pepper, tomato sauce, butter and egg white to it, took out the chicken and shredded it, put back some of the shredded chicken and voila, our chicken clear soup with egg drop was ready.

The soup vanished within minutes of its preparation (since everybody went 'Slurp, slurp, slurp') and it was time to create the pasta. The pasta was boiled in salt water till Al Dente as my mom has taught me. The white sauce was concocted by thoroughly mixing milk, flour, salt, pepper, butter on a hot pan. Chopped tomatoes, carrot, broccoli and the shredded boiled chicken were fried in butter. Tomato sauce, salt, pepper, white sauce, pasta and some cheese slices were added and mixed well. After few minutes of cooking, Chicken Pasta with Broccoli and Carrot was ready to be served.

Hello fellow food enthusiasts

Paul Child: What do you like to do most?
Julia Child: Eat!!

I would have the same reply Paul. Don't fool yourself with my lean figure, I adore eating and CAN eat vast amounts. Therefore I love to cook. Whether challenging or not, I love to assemble things and make it into a meal. This blog is therefore dedicated to food- food, food and only food. Stay tuned on tips, recipes and information on various gastronomical delights. :-)