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Being fans of cheese (and having just returned from the Midwest ), we were so excited to be invited by the Wisconsin Cheese Board to a dinner held at Brasserie 8 1/2 in NYC. They were in town for the Fancy Food Show and had arranged for Executive C

While shopping at the meat section of my grocery store, I was smitten with a row of beautiful, thick boneless pork loin chops. I don't recall the last time I cooked this cut of meat, so I asked the butcher to wrap up three chops to make for Sunday supper

Since I have some mango juice in the fridge I try on making this mango chiffon cake. The flavour is not so obvious and will be better if I add in mango flesh as well. Well is pretty hard to get fresh mango as now is not the season. Anyway I still like thi

Dear All, Cookies are made of butter and love. ~Norwegian Proverb Who can say no to an Oreo Cookie? I am still yet to meet someone who dislikes Oreo's. These are very popular amongst kids as well as older generations. During my vi

I love the green tea, and I just can't stop using it in any recipe that I can ^^. I know that if you have an affair with it you will be like me. So this time, I put it in a simple crepe cake, and filled the cake with Japanese ingredient. Cr

Kalkandu Vadai is a very famous Chettinadu vadai. This is a sweet vadai instead of the usual salt vadai. Tastes Great. In my native place whenever we want to do some group pooja or if it is an auspicious day like diwali, thiru karthikai like that then

Like a lot of small, densely populated metropolitan Asian cities, traffic, both human and vehicular, is a daily fixture in Manila. If you have been to Bangkok, then you have a very good idea of what traffic is like here in Manila. The traffic here is so

Just mention pasta and visions of Italy immediately spring to mind :) Joanna next destination will be Italy ( she is touring Europe now....wow...imagine all the authentic pasta she will get to taste from there with lots of cheese on them...mmmm I need to

I have had my copy of Laduree Sucre the Recipes for a while now and although I have looked through the glorious little book more than once, eyes and mouth open wide in utter amazement at the glorious array of recipes, I have not yet actually made anythi

This pasta tastes just like chicken alfredo, instead of fettucini I have used normal macaroni pasta. ingredients 3 cups cooked pasta 2 chicken breasts 1 1/2 tsp garlic powder 2 cups mushroom sliced 1 cup chopped onion 2 tbsp choppe

'Koorka' is also called as Sheema Kizhangu/Chivakizhangu in Malayalam. Siru Kizhangu in Tamil and Sambrali in Kannada. I searched a lot on internet about different names in different regions names and uses of Koorka. This is what I got. It is call

If you are following my posts, for sure you knew about my attempts on banana cakes. Some cakes texture didn't turn out well as what I expected, mainly I'm too wild in changing the original recipes or could it be the method used :) When I saw Joelyn????

It's Anzac Day today. We've been to the Anzac Day parade, and when we got home we decided to make some Anzac Biscuits in memory of the Anzacs! "Lest we forget!" (You can read about the history of Anzac Biscuits here .) After all the

This is my first "BARBIE Cake"...the result of baking course 2 weeks before my little one bday. I made it especially for her 3rd bday. Special cake for special day. She was very happy afterall watching me made a new creation of the cake. She is not the on

Heard about this jeera rice/ pulao from my cousin many times but was hesitant to try as I doubted whether hubby will like it or not. But when I asked him , he gave a green signal so called her up to get the recipe, I tweaked it a bit to suit our taste..

I have had this recipe for a few years. I tore it out from a magazine, but unfortunately there is no name of the publisher, so I cannot give credit to anyone. I suspect that it comes from a Mediterranean tradition as the recipe calls for ricotta and some

One of the things my family always used to do at Christmas was make Christmas cookies. When I moved in with The Husband and he told me he had never eaten a home-made Christmas cookie after I got over my horror I decided to rectify the situation. When we w

mathura ke dubki wale aloo recipe a thin spiced curry made with potatoes and famous in mathura one of the holy cities in the northern part of india, in uttar pradesh. i have been both to mathura and vrindavan. while mathura is associated with the b

Dosa,being the staple breakfast in many south Indian homes appears regularly on their breakfast menu.These days many people avoid eating them as it has large proportion of white rice which makes then feel it is bit unhealthy.For such kind of people brown

Traditional Indian food has protein but not enough. Though lentils (one of the sources of protein), milk and curd are enjoyed on a daily basis, the quantity isn t in large quantities. An occasional rajma (kidney beans) and channa (chickpeas) are thrown in

As I was researching (some prefer to say wikipedia) the origins of Pizza, I stumbled across the valiant efforts of an organisation known as Vera Pizza Napoletana (VPN) , or the Real Neopolitan Pizza Association. Obviously, they are non-profit and their

Plain Khoya / Mawa (Milk Solids) is the base of many indian sweets. Though it is a time-consuming process, they give better taste than store-bought ones. You can also prepare Khoya using Microwave, but i have not yet tried that option. I'm always comforta

I baked this cake from a very old recipe that was on my-to-do list for a long, long time. Using very basic ingredients, this cake is moist and the brandy blended very well with the chocolate and orange flavours.

To me Chinese New Year season should have some cookies and sweets place at home whether its store bought or hand made. Thus will try to find time to make at least one type of cookie for festive season. Pineapple tarts, kuih bangkit, kuih makmur and my hel