Seasonal recipes - page 81

I've been dreaming of banana cream pie ever since I had a taste of Melissa Chou's (Aziza) deconstructed version inspired by The Essential New York Times Cookbook . I thoroughly enjoyed Chou's elegant take on the dessert, but I had a hankering for so

This was a task for which I was thoroughly prepared: I?d bought all the ingredients (taking a list as long as my arm!); I?d watched the TV programme for the recipe I was going to do so I could visualise everything I should be dong and when; I had the book

As you can see (this picture was taken two Thanksgivings ago, at my house), desserts are a BIG deal at Thanksgiving in my family. Big. My mom usually makes about six (or more!) different pies. Yes, six. Two pumpkin, two pecan and most importantly, two but

When you read a typical South East Asian recipe, especially Thai curries and Nyonya based dishes, the Kaffir Lime Leaf is actually quite essential. The fresh ones have a deep green colour to it and evokes a fresh lime essence when you smell it. Even dried

Okay. I admit it. I'm not a fan of Halloween. Well, not quite, but I don't go quite as all-out as everyone else does. I mean, I do on the baking end (obviously). But I didn't even go out for Halloween this weekend. I think it has something to do with how

Living on the Central Coast of California, our change of seasons happens in a very subtle way. Ground snow doesn't happen in my part of California. Instead, our golden hills begin to show signs of life again with patches of bright green grass. In our b

In my last post I wrote about an Oktoberfest party that our friends threw, and in addition to cheezy beer dip , I also brought along this German Apple Cake from The Joy of Vegan Baking . It was my first time making this, and unfortunately I didn t hav

Hi everyone! Trish here, from Pink Preppy Lilly Lover . I'm channelling my inner-Giada today, wait until you see what we have in store for you! (Curly pony tail, pink sweater, and a big pot of pasta...that's my kind of girl!) I wa

My husband is getting into a bad habit nowadays. The one who scowled at eating snacks of any kind (except the super healthy types), he has started demanding for evening snacks when he gets home from work. And not any snacks he needs the fresh from th

My husband has been nurturing an olallieberry plant that we purchased about four years ago at Linn's Farmstore in Cambria, California. I took these photos a little over two weeks ago. Craig's green thumb has paid off, because there are a lot of berri

This week's SMS was chosen by Ellen of Blue Tree Green Heart : chocolate orange macaroons. After having spent two glorious weeks house sitting for my in-laws, I returned home on Friday and these macaroons had the honor of being the first thing I baked

As promised, following up from last weekend, here are the results of the Mother s Day soul food feast. I think the pictures practically speak for themselves. The food was a triumph! The only problem now is that since I know how very easy it is to make per

I?ve heard from friends how amazing Chunky Cinnamon Bread is. LOTS of good bakeries have their version of a cinnamon bread loaf. I thought it was my turn to come up with a ?signature? recipe of my own. I don?t often get daring like this, but it worked

Our next Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes a Day bread braid is coming up this weekend and the first of the two recipes on our agenda that I wanted to try was Milk and Honey Raisin Bread. I love cinnamon raisin bread toast for breakfast so I was excited to see

I love to cook, but I'll be the first to admit that food presentation is definitely not my forté. I think this is mostly due to my upbringing on Chinese/Malaysian cuisine where, unlike the French or Japanese who pride in meticulous presentation, messy rei

I m not sure I should be admitting to this (since I lambast my poor mother every time I go home and find long forgotten ingredients at the top of her cavernous cupboards that are so out of date the packaging looks like it belongs in a brand museum) but I

If you can get fresh anchovies, called gavros in Greek, forget those canned, salty ones and you must definitely try this dish. Gavros is one of my favourite small fishes because it is not only cheap but it also tastes good and of course a good source

In our own personal advent calendar, Lin , Billy and I went on a trip around Melbourne?s CBD in search of the perfect mince pie. ?On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me?.12 mince pies and 2 macarons in a pear tree.? Joyce:

Time for more man friendly food. The Husband is a huge fan of anything in a flaky pie crust so when I offered to make this particular recipe he was rather pleased. This recipe comes from Racheal Ray's magazine , although I made quite a few modifications

It's crunch time kids. Time to seriously get out there and do some Christmas Shopping and start thinking about what we're baking for family, friends and neighbors. Somebody kick me in the rear to get me started will ya!! LOL!! We've got some pretty terrif

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

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

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

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