Grandma Sita
🌱🍊 Mandarins are sweet, juicy, and packed with vitamin C, making them the perfect seasonal fruit to enjoy during colder months. But how can we use every part without wasting it? Grandma Sita’s mandarin fruit jewellery (necklace, ring, bracelet and earrings) is designed for a…
🌶️💘🍅 Happy Valentine’s Day! For Grandma Sita, Valentine’s Day is about sharing love through vibrant, nourishing, and sustainable food. And what better way than with red-themed plant-based delights? Red foods like tomatoes, peppers, beets, and berries are not just romantic; they’re packed with flavour, nutrients,…
🌱🥝 Did you know that you can eat the brown and fuzzy skin of kiwi fruit? The skin is perfectly edible and provides lots of fiber, folate, and antioxidants. While the texture may intimidate you at first, in reality, it is similar to the skin…
🌱 🫘✨ Don’t throw away the chickpea starchy liquid, it’s a treasure! Grandma Sita has always believed in making the most of every ingredient, and aquafaba, the cooking liquid of beans and other legumes like chickpeas, is one of her favorite zero-waste secrets. Because, it’s…
🥬🤔 There’s more to kale than just the leaves, did you know the stems are edible? Don’t toss them transform them into delicious treasures! Grandma Sita has creative ways to repurpose every last bite. So, cutting them crossways shortens the fibres and can be cooked…
🌱🍊 Did you know that dried orange peels can be used to flavour tea, soup, oil, sugars, stews, and soups? Orange peels should not be thrown out because eating orange peel is perfectly healthy and safe. Grandma Sita loves warming herbal tea using dried orange…
🍇✨2024 comes to an end! Do you want to do something different for New Year’s Eve? Let’s welcome 2025 with a glass of twelve grapes like Grandma Sita. Originating in Spain, the tradition of eating twelve grapes at midnight on 31st December is believed to…
🌱☃️ Oh, the weather outside is frightful and I’ve bought some corn for popping. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Did you know that popcorn, a special kind of flint maize, is considered a whole grain? Bring the frosty festivities in, celebrate…
🎄🍊It wouldn’t be Christmas time without pomander balls making the home smell citrus and spiced fragrance, making it warm and cosy for the holidays. Pomanders are simply oranges pierced by cloves, one of Grandma Sita’s favourite holiday decorating traditions. Did you know you can pickled…
🌱🌰 Did you know that nuts of all kinds are key ingredients in Christmas baked goods and other dishes? It just wouldn’t be Christmastime without the sound of cracking shells as part of the holiday soundtrack. Luckily nuts can be eaten and enjoyed at any…