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The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca.
I didn’t attempt the gluten free recipe but used wheat flour instead. The graham crackers turned out surprisely nice! Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of them before proceeding to make the bar. The bar was very yummy too. In fact, a colleague who has eaten nanaimo bars from Nanaimo, Canada gives them a 10/10.
It’s been a long while since I updated. I hardly had much time to cook but there was much eating done, and yes, much pics to put up. We went to Japan recently for our year-end holiday and took many photos of the lovely seafood at Hokkaido. I will be updating with the pics soon… I hope.
Meanwhile it’s busy busy busy in preparation for a Christmasy dinner tomorrow. Hubby’s friends are coming over. More photos on the way, after the dinner. Now it’s off to prepare the Buche De Noel.
The November 2009 Daring Cooks challenge was brought to you by Audax of Audax Artifex and Rose of The Bite Me Kitchen. They chose sushi as the challenge.
I kinda waited till the eleventh hour to complete this month’s challenge. With the overseas trips and all, I hardly had time to cook, bake, let alone make sushi. Anyway, I steeled my resolve and managed to complete this in the nick of time. I’m still not happy with my dragon roll though. The avocados were too raw and couldn’t adhere to the rice. Otherwise, everything else was tasty. I would however, add a little more water to the rice during cooking. It was not soft enough, in my opinion.
 
The 2009 October Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to us by Ami S. She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe.
I have always enjoyed making macaroons, though they don’t always turn out well because of the lovely humid weather in Singapore. I realised, through a couple of tries, that the Italian Meringue method of making macaroons seem to yield more consistent results. The problem with those are that there is sometimes an air pocket between the base and the shell.
Anyway, since this challenge involved the French meringue method, I decided to give it a shot, yet again. To be honest, [...]
Read More Daring Bakers October Challenge – Macaroons
The October 2009 Daring Cooks’ challenge was brought to us by Jaden of the blog Steamy Kitchen. The recipes are from her new cookbook, The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook.
I made this last Saturday for lunch, to fulfill the Daring Cooks October Challenge. This is my first challenge, and so I was quite excited about it! I had most of the spices, and thankfully, it’s really quite easy to find them in this part of the world. I had some trouble finding the rice noodles though, for some weird reason.
I decided to try the longer version of the recipe, which can be found here. Hubby helped with the chopping of the [...]
Read More Daring Cooks October Challenge – Vietnamese Chicken Pho
I baked up a new batch of these yesterday for mom, since I was meeting her for dinner. I like the way the crust crumbles when you bite into it, the fragrance of the lotus seed paste mixed with the walnuts and salted egg yolk. The good part about baking them on your own is that I can be indulgent with the amount of walnuts I add. Mom was commenting that the walnut pieces were huge. You’d never find them in store bought ones. Here are some photos! (Photoshop is down so there are no captions, for now.)
For those that were asking, here’s the recipe. It’s taken from here, another [...]
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We had a visitor from New Zealand and so decided that an introductory trip to the Singaporean’s favourite dish – Chilli Crab was in due. A friend suggested Jumbo seafood restaurant so off we went. We patronised the branch at Dempsey, seeing this as a wonderful opportunity to introduce this part of Singapore to our guest as well.
Personally, I’ve never been to Jumbo, and so was taken aback to see so many customers that weekday night. Indeed, the restaurant was packed! My hopes at finding good food that night was elevated. We went for a set dinner package for 4 people, so that we could try a variety of things. [...]
Read More Dinner at Jumbo Seafood Restaurant
I had loads of left over eggwhite that I was saving to make macarons. I never found the time to make them and figured that using them for meringue was so much faster, and simpler. I served my meringue basket with freshly whipped cream and some blueberries and strawberries. You can use whatever fruit you desire.
Recipe:
3 egg whites
175g caster sugar
1 tsp lemon juice or white wine vinegar
1 tsp corn flour
300 ml whipping cream, whipped
Blueberries and strawberries
Method:
Whisk egg whites at high speed till dry.
Add in half the sugar slowly, while whisking.
Carefully fold in the vinegar, corn flour and remaining half of the sugar.
Fill a large piping bag with the meringue.
Prepare a [...]
Read More Berries Meringue Baskets
I had to attend a course last Monday and mom was coming over for dinner in the evening. There wasn’t much time to prepare an elaborate meal, and so I thought that this would be perfect, seeing that mom enjoys salmon. I used ready made puff pastry in this case. It simply is not worth the effort to make your own puff pastry, I think. Perhaps if I had alot of extra time at my disposal, I just might be crazy enough to try it one day. Till then, I think Pampas is good enough.
For this dish, I added some mushrooms for extra flavour. If you do not like mushrooms, [...]
Read More Salmon En Croute
Ristorante Da Valentino serves authentic Italian Cuisine. The restaurant is run by an Italian family and they’re good at it. Very good at it. It is one of those fairly cosy establishments that makes you leave with not just a warmth in your stomach, but also a warmth in your heart. Of the couple of times I have been there, the service has always been impeccable. One of my friends, M, absolutely goes gaga over the food whenever we go there. Here’s an idea of the things we like to order.
This mozzarella cheese is an absolute favourite among us. It is different from the usual Caprese that most Italian restaurants [...]
Read More Italian Dinner at Valentino’s
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