Daring Cooks April Challenge – Brunswick Stew

The 2010 April Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Wolf of Wolf’s Den. She chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make Brunswick Stew. Wolf chose recipes for her challenge from The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt Lee and Ted Lee, and from the Callaway, Virginia Ruritan Club. She offered two recipes – one a […]

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Hot Cross Buns

I will confess that I’ve never baked bread before. Yes. Me, an avid baker (well, sort of), not baked bread before? Well, that’s because I’ve always been intimidated by the one million steps required to bake bread. The activating of the yeast, the proofing, the punching, the re-proofing. It all seems to tedious. Nevertheless, I […]

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Friends for dinner – french food at home

It has been some time since we had friends over for a nice dinner. After some planning, we finally managed to fix a date where our three lovely couple friends could join us. I spent some time pondering over the dinner menu, and finally came up with the following. It’s a mixture of different kinds […]

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Miso Cod @ Home

Most people enjoy a good Miso Cod despite the fact that it usually carries a fairly hefty price tag. And come on, what’s not to like about it? The moist flavour of the black cod steeped in miso that has just the right blend of sweetness and saltiness. Delicious. I came across some nice cod […]

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Daring Bakers Challenge – Nanaimo Bars

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 […]

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It’s been a long while

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… […]

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Daring Cooks Nov Challenge – Sushi

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 […]

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