Last Day of the Egg Week and let me present you something to start your day right the Eggs Benedict! This breakfast item is a dish made out of English muffin topped with bacon, poached eggs and Hollandaise sauce. It is one of the most popular breakfast here in New Zealand and I want to share this … Continue reading »
Sometimes when you are successful with a recipe you try to reuse it as much as possible, this post is no different as we love this cinnamon roll recipe we had for ages and were trying all sorts of different flavour variations with it. So far we had created the classic cinnamon rolls, apple caramel … Continue reading »
A while back I made some Cinnamon Rolls and it was a big hit so it was requested again and again but now I will be trying a different version using apples and caramel as its main ingredients, I got this idea when one of my colleagues brought some baked goods at the office and … Continue reading »
Still got leftover ham? Like yesterday we will be using again that leftover ham you got in that fridge. Another great idea is to use them as a pizza topping so for this post we will make the classic Ham, Cheese and Mushroom Pizza. This pizza might be a popular flavour but did you know … Continue reading »
I am not sure if this will qualify as a recipe as it does not involve cooking and only contains four items, bagel, salmon, cream cheese and capers but I am posting this to share my favourite bagel filling. Bagel for those who does not know is a type of bread similarly shaped as a … Continue reading »
French Toast is a type of dish where pan fried bread rolled in a mixture of milk and eggs. A very old recipe which dates back to the Medieval period where old stale bread is revived by moistening it and reheating, people living those times need to use every bit of food before to feed their … Continue reading »
Chicken Mayonnaise is a sandwich filling made out of chicken and mayonnaise flavoured with herbs and spices. A dish that originated from the “Coronation Chicken” which was invented by Rosemary Hume (chef) and Constance Spry (florist), it was created while preparing banquet food for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, hence the name. … Continue reading »
Pan de coco which means “coconut bread” in Spanish is a popular bread in the Philippines and Honduras. Though two versions are named similarly they are made differently to each other, the Philippine variant is a sweet bread with a sweetened grated coconut filling served as a dessert or a snack item while the Honduran … Continue reading »
I don’t know why this is called Spanish bread as I guess it does not have anything to do with any Spanish types of bread. Anyways for those who know why, please let me know, I can’t find any resource on why is it named such. Anyways Spanish bread is a popular bakery item in … Continue reading »
Mushroom Burger is type of burger where its patties are made out of mushrooms; it was created in the Philippines by a mushroom grower during thr 1980′s which then started selling mushroom burgers called “Mushroom Burger“ situated in Tagaytay, Philippines. It all started when a customer of them a Swiss Executive Chef commented that mushrooms are … Continue reading »
I guess I said a lot of times, as long as you have a good pizza base nothing will go wrong, I even see people love it in any state it is in, whether it’s freshly cooked or fresh from the fridge it’s such a good comfort meal for a lot of people. For me … Continue reading »
Last weekend I was looking for something to make for a snack, when I was looking at the fridge I saw some leftover steamed barbecue pork bun fillings which I made a couple of days ago, I prepared the ingredients like the way I mentioned in that post but forgot I did not have enough … Continue reading »
Paratha is a type of Indian flat bread which literally means “layers of cooked flour”. It came from the words “parat” which means layer and “atta” which means flour. This bread is the most popular bread in the Indian cuisine, commonly it consists of wheat flour, ghee or oil which is layered and pan fried. … Continue reading »
Empanada is a baked or fried pastry stuffed with meats, vegetables or fruits. The word came from the Spanish word “empanar” which means bread. A dish that originated in Galicia, Spain and Portugal during the 1520 and was derived from the Arabic meat filled pies called samosa (similar to how Italian calzones was invented). This … Continue reading »
Bolognese (Italian) or Bolognaise (French) is a meat based pasta sauce flavoured with a small amount of tomato concentrate. A dish that originated in Bologna, Italy that dates back since the 15th century. Old versions of this dish barely use tomatoes and it was just added in the modern versions of this dish, Italian’s do … Continue reading »
