There are a lot of different salad variations you can make with some greens, fruits, nuts and cheese but there are certain things that you always love or stands out like this salad in particular, I like it because of its nutty, oily but light and fresh thanks to the avocadoes, lemons, almonds and feta … Continue reading »
Pineapple fried rice is a Thai style fried rice made out of rice with pineapples and prawns, you might find it weird but if you had tasted Thai dishes then you would say that this would make sense as it follows the basic principle of Thai dishes which is the right balance of hot, sweet, … Continue reading »
It looks like having a theme for a week has been quite popular so we will try to bring you a themed post once in a while and for every special occasions. Since there is something for us to celebrate this week (can anybody guess what it is?), our theme is gonna be cakes! To … Continue reading »
Soup week: Day 5. For chicken as the main ingredient, lets go back to the Philippines and end it with a very interesting soup called Chicken Binakol. Chicken Binakol is a chicken soup dish similar to Tinola but instead of using rice wash or normal water this chicken soup dish is cooked in coconut water. There … Continue reading »
Red Wine Poached Pears is a dessert made out of pears poached in sweet red wine, sugar and spices syrup, it originated from a French dessert called Poire belle Hélène which is a nearly similar dessert where pears are poached in sugar syrup served with vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup and crystallized violets. The dish … Continue reading »
Today’s post will be Mixed Berries Cheesecake and I was invited over at Taste It My Way as a guest blogger so for the recipe please head over to my Mixed Berries Cheesecake post or continue below. For those who haven’t been to Taste It My Way, Its a food blog created by Chef Gary from … Continue reading »
Second day of our Chinese week and for today we will be making a cold dessert which is called Almond Jelly. This dish is a traditional Chinese dessert traditionally made out liquid extracted from Chinese almonds (apricot kernel) or sweet Chinese almond which is sweetened and mixed with agar served together with fruits. Modern versions … 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 »
KBL or Kadyos, Baboy at Langka like the name suggest is a soup dish made out of Kadyos (Pigeon Peas), Baboy (Pork preferably pork leg) and Langka (Jackfruit), similar to sinigang this dish is sour due to the flavours of Batwan fruit used (I don’t know what’s the English name for this). A popular dish from … Continue reading »
Let me present you the 7th most delicious food in the world in 2010, the Penang Asam Laksa a noodle dish flavoured with flaked mackerel, tamarind, pineapple and lots of different spices. It is sour, spicy and definitely addictive. Penang Laksa originated from the original Malay Laksa and had evolved with mix of flavours influenced … Continue reading »
Halo-halo is a popular Filipino dessert made out of mixed beans (kidney beans, garbanzos, sugar palm fruit, pounded crushed young rice), fruits (coconut sport, plantains caramelized in sugar, jackfruit), gulaman, tapioca pearls, nata de coco and sweet potato served with milk flavoured shaved ice topped with purple yam, leche flan and sometimes ice cream. I guess … Continue reading »
I am not sure if I call this a repost but this is the second time I will be doing a salmon and sushi roll but this time there is an extra salmon wrapped together with the nori sheets, I got this idea latetly at one of our favourite Japanese restaurant here in Auckland called … Continue reading »
Peaches and Cream Cheese muffin is a type of muffin flavoured with peach and filled with a soft and warm cream cheese in the middle, this one of my favourite muffin variety. I still remember my first time trying this muffin variety and it was here in New Zealand, it was so unforgettable as every … Continue reading »
Waldorf salad is a type of salad traditionally made with apples, celery and walnuts dressed in mayonnaise served on top of lettuce. This dish was created by Oscar Tschirky during the 1896 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Original recipe did not contain any nuts and was just added in 1928 when it appeared … Continue reading »
California roll or California Maki is a type of sushi roll that contains cucumber, crab stick (kani) and mango / avocado which is made inside out then sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds. Though this looks so Japanese it did not originated in Japan but in United States by a Japanese chef during the 1970′s. It … Continue reading »
