Spread and Besserts aka dessert pots at Original Kitchen

Came across Original Kitchen in 2020 when they had a stall in London with all these cashew based spreads and sweet treats.

Three years later, their dessert range has gone to the next level with all these choices for dessert pots.

The savoury ones can be used as spreads or stirred into pasta for a creamy sauce.

Starting on the spreads, there were creamy pesto, creamy mushroom and creamy tomato.

All were nice in different ways, the creamy mushroom had a nice hint of dill and strong earthy mushroom in it, while the pesto was nice and fresh with sweetness because of the peas and courgettes.

I found the spreads comforting as it was a bit like baby food with flavour.

It is interesting that both sweet and savoury contain Rosemary extracts which does not add any taste/aroma to it like cashew.

The besserts were a delight with Chocolate, mango passion and lemon.

They are called besserts on the concept better-for-you dessert

The chocolate was like a rich ganache, while the mango tasted like a fresh mango in dessert form and the lemon was really comforting and reminded me of the M&S lemon desserts which I can't remember the name because I don't think they do it now but they were in glass pots.

To summarize, the texture of the desserts were thick like ganache with a starchy gritty texture.

Overall, I really liked their spreads and desserts and glad to see their new and exciting offerings.

Thank you Original Kitchen for sending them over to me.

 

[Review] Alpro cashew milk - Chilled

Alpro is a non dairy brand that has been around for ages.
They have oat, almond and hazelnut milk but Cashew was one that I have not seen or tried before hence 
I had to try it.
For people who want a milk that does not have a nutty taste, I would definitely recommend Alpro Cashew milk because it does taste creamy as claimed and it tastes just like whole meal which brought me memories of drinking milk during break at school.

There is a slight sweetness to it but not that noticeable if you gulp it down.

After trying the cashew milk, I can understand why cashew is used to make cheese because it is just like milk.

As well as cashew milk, the other non dairy nut milks that I like are hazelnut and almond purely because of the nutty aroma they have which goes nicely when you add it to tea, coffee or whatever you are making.

Ingredients in the Alpro cashew milk - Chilled
Water, Cashew (3.1%), Sugar, Calcium (Tri-calcium phosphate), Sea salt, Stabilisers (Locust bean gum, Gellan gum), Emulsifier (Lecithins (Sunflower)), Vitamins (B2, B12, E, D2).

HART roasted cashew nuts

Delicious salted cashew nuts from my dear friend....

www.hart.com.hk

Tom Yum Crisp Original

http://www.tomyumcrisp.com

Most of the elements in this was nice but because the Kaffir lime leaves were strong I did not like the overall taste, but inside there was dried shrimps, cashew nuts, kaffir lime leaves, fish sauce, lemon juice, onion, sugar, dried squid, red pepper.

The spicyness levels was light however I could not find the pieces of squid.

MTR Navratan Kurma Vegetable and dried fruits curry

I don't know why, but I ate it straight from the packet without reheating!

Anyway it was the same as other curries in this range which were quite salty.

I was expecting it to taste quite fruity and tangy but it was just savory.

Overall it was not too spicy, but it reminded me of casserole because there was so much chunky carrots in the curry.

Apart from carrots, you could visually see lots of peas, french beans, there were about four pieces of cottage cheese which had the texture like boiled pig's liver!

There was one piece of cashew nut and the texture was interesting because it was soft instead of hard and crunchy.

The pineapple pieces were woody.

O.N.E. Cashew fruit juice

The O.N.E. has come up with some really interesting drinks.

I tried the Cashew fruit, which had an exotic fruit taste with some nutty sediments in it.
Apart from that the packaging was great!

Quoted from the website: http://www.onenaturalexperience.com
The Cashew Fruit has two parts – the Fruit and the Nut.
We are all familiar with the Cashew Nut. However, what is not really known is that the nut actually grows from the bottom of the “Cashew Apple.” The Cashew Apple is an oval or pear-shaped fruit that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower. Called the Cashew Apple, it ripens into a yellow and/or red fruit about 5–11 cm long.