I was mulling over what to bake for breakfast and asked my husband if he preferred oatmeal bread or honey wholewheat bread. “Chocolate Banana bread!” my little one chimes in. Chocolate banana bread? Now where did that come from! She has never tried chocolate banana cake, bread, muffin or anything of that combination. It did […]
Continue reading...Old Fashioned Cheese Bread and my Bread-making Journey
I received a photo, followed by a voice message while at work today. The voice message was my daughter asking me to make her the bread in the photo – some raisin roll. A second message soon followed with “instructions” from her on how I should make the bread. “Mama, you need to put some […]
Continue reading...{Closed} Pre-Holidays Giveaway! – Cook’s Illustrated Nov & Dec 2013
October and November is always a period of celebration for the family. Both my husband and my birthdays fall in these months and so does our wedding anniversary! Amid the celebrations, I thought that it’s apt to share some of our joys with you, our readers, with this little giveaway. Some of you may know […]
Continue reading...Passionfruit Marble Cake
I love the combination of passionfruit and chocolate. I remember tasting my first passionfruit chocolate macaron some years back. It was love at first sight taste – the tangy sweetness of the passionfruit combined with bittersweet chocolate. Pure bliss. This passionfruit marble cake is my attempt to recreate the passionfruit chocolate flavour that I love. […]
Continue reading...Potato Crusted Spinach and Ham Quiche
Potato crusted spinach quiche – just because I was too lazy tired to make a proper shortcrust pastry for the quiche. Why? Last weekend was a crazy weekend. I was coordinating a wedding on Sunday, my girl was the flower girl for the wedding and hubby was coordinating a Children’s Day carnival at the same time, somewhere […]
Continue reading...Bacon and Chicken Alfredo Pasta
Chicken alfredo pasta is a staple that one sees at almost all pasta joints. If you walk along the pasta aisle in a supermarket, I can almost guarantee that you will find a bottle of ready-to-go alfredo sauce. In fact, many bottles of it, and different brands of it. It is THAT popular. I distinctively […]
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