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24th Oct 2009 My 3rd workshops in a week. Continuously from 22th to 24th (Thur to Sat), I was attending baking classes. Really quite tired... This was my 2nd time attending Joycelyn's class. As usual, her teaching and recipes are very cleared and detail

Today we had two reasons to celebrate. It s my son s birthday but it was also his graduation from the University. Although the lemon cake was made for my husband ten days ago, I didn t have the time to prepare the post for the new cake, which is a Van

Our fridge is always full of cream cheese so that anytime my craving for cheesecake hits, I'd have all the basic ingredients handy. Its a good thing that I have a leftover graham cracker crumbs from the banoffee pie that I did last week because I sudden

?Ginataan?, sometimes spelled ?guinataan?, is the Filipino term for varieties of dishes cooked with coconut milk or ?gata? as it is called in the Filipino language. It literally translates to "cooked with coconut milk". The term is actually generic which

I am very excited to announce that I have joined the baking group Heavenly Cake Bakers . We are going to be baking through Rose Levy Beranbaum's new book Rose's Heavenly Cakes. As an avid baker I knew that there was a serious gap in my baking library sin

It's Halloween morning and I'm feeling the start of a sore throat. Great. It's sunny outside, but Fall is beginning to turn the morning temps to be a little crisp. Still, we are predicted to be in the low 70's. I'm going to hunker down, at home, and do

Yesterday was Stephen s birthday and, as is only right and proper, he got to choose how we spent the day. Luckily for me, it involved a trip to Charing Cross Road to look at cookery books, followed by a visit to Borough Market, a quick stop off at the Ta

Recently, I posted a blog about non-alcoholic Halloween drinks for kids but as we all know, Halloween is just as much a holiday for adults as it is for kids. Instead of bringing spooky cupcakes or Halloween truffles to your Halloween gathering this

As you probably read on my previous post I've been on a book buying frenzy for the last almost two months because most of the major bookstores here in Manila were recently having their sale consecutively. One of my most recent purchase was Shirley Corri

If you are like me then you probably get cravings for chocolate cake at random odd moments and don't have time to do anything about it - or don't want to commit any large portion of your chocolate stash to a large cake that when there isn't a special occa

Continuing on the trip that we took during the Raya week, we were in Ipoh again on the 26th of September on the way to Setiawan for a birthday dinner. We actually planned to arrive before lunch to try out some new places, but we could not make it on time

One of the beauties of living in Hong Kong....apart from... - HK$10 wonton noodle - Coffee shop whole day breakfasts - In some places, food being smashed on your table delivered to you within seconds after you uttered your orders - HK$18 BBQ pork lunch

I had so much fun at our family Oktoberfest, this Saturday-- though, I cooked for hours. For heaven's sake! No, those aren't my real "knoedel's"! It's a printed vest! I have several recipes to share with you, but today, I'm starting with the

Posted by johngl Back in the olden days, when I was in my late teens and lived in Des Moines, IA, there were these two drive-in style places that had just awesome breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches. The first, a little place called Millie s , where I

Ox or Beef Tongue is the tongue of a cow. Our, or to be precise, the human consumption of this unusual beef meat dates back to the days of Paleolithic hunters, who preferred the fatty portions of the carcass including tongues, as well as organs, brains, f

Remember the Chicken with Foraged Apples post from last week? Well, I have plenty of foraged apples still and though I'm a fan of stewed apples, apple butter, apple crumble, apple pie etc. etc., these are all sweet variations and I love apples in savo

We were in a Chinese restaurant here in Colombo, Sri Lanka when one of my friends who?s really into eating pork with fat jokingly ordered ?Pata Tim?, a Filipino dish made of pork hock slowly braised or stewed in soy sauce and sugar until very tender. Of c

Surely I must have consumed more cholesterol-laden seafood in the two days we were in Kuching than for the whole of our 3 week holiday. Kuching is blessed with abundance of fresh and delicious seafood, and our guide S made sure we filled up on a lot of it

Puglia is becoming more and more famous around the world for the Altamura bread . This bread has been the first, in the bakery category, to receive the DOP seal (Denomination of Protected Origin) in Europe. The DOP recognition is equivalent to the DOC on

During our week-long stay in Malaysia, we flew east over to Kuching , one of two Malaysian cities located on Borneo. We were there for a very short two days, and we devoted most of that time to explore the culinary specialties of that region. We were for

From this blog , I've learned a lot about various types of high quality flour,yeasts which produces a totally different taste on bread whether is simple plain toast or country rustic bread. Been upset by lacking of choice we could source in local s

Ingredients: Cod Fish: one nice fillet 30ml Olive oil for searing Cod Seasoning: 1 pinch Paprika 1 pinch Onion and garlic powder 1 Pinch Cayenne pepper 1 pinch Assorted dried herbs 1 pinch Fine salt and cracked black pepper

What do you make, when you should have gone grocery shopping yesterday , and hubby says "whats to snack on?" Hmmmm , well, I did a quick check of what I had on hand and came up with this idea. The possibilities are endless; tuck in a few chopped m

The name's quite a handful isn't it? Its just that I can not seem to name this creation any other way. When I look for cupcake recipes on the net or in my books it always seems that the ingredients are almost always too "westernized" (not much of a surp