Growing up, my mum’s sister would come over sometimes to cook our dinner. She’s one of the best cooks I know, so when she cooks, it’s always a treat. She makes the best sweet and sour pork, so I adapted her recipe to make this Hainanese Pork Chop. Recipe:2 Pork cutlets deboned and pounded with… Continue reading Hainanese Pork Chop
Tori-tsukune Nabe (Hotpot with chicken meatballs)
This dish has a great story for me. During my first solo trip to Tokyo, I walked into an underground restaurant near closing time. Not wanting to impose on them, I told them omakase. The owner and chef then cooked me 2 small dishes with this dish as the main one. He cooked the dish… Continue reading Tori-tsukune Nabe (Hotpot with chicken meatballs)
Banana Crumble Cake
Banana cake is one of the cakes I’ve experimented a lot. I’ve made many different variations of it and this is definitely one of the best banana cake recipes that I’ve written. It’s moist, full of banana flavour, not too sweet and the brown sugar crumble gave it a nice bite. Crumble:50g butter cold100g plain… Continue reading Banana Crumble Cake
Pain De Mie (Pullman Loaf)
The most versatile bread in my opinion. You can make a sandwich, bread and butter pudding or even French toast both savory and sweet with it. Hope you enjoy this as much as we do. Recipe Makes one loaf (8.5" tin) Ingredients:250g Bread Flour140g Water (room temperature)7g Dry Active Yeast / 36g sourdough starter +… Continue reading Pain De Mie (Pullman Loaf)
Paper Wrapped Chicken (Chee Pow Kai)
Chee Pow Kai Recipe Chicken Marinate:2 chicken thighs (deboned and cut into 4 pieces each)2 TBSP oyster sauce2 cloves of finely chopped garlic3 TBSP Hua Diao Jiu1 TBSP Ginger Juice1 tsp of light soy sauce1 TBSP sesame oilGood sprinkling of white powder pepper *Marinate Chicken in the above for at least 2 hours. Chicken Parcels:8… Continue reading Paper Wrapped Chicken (Chee Pow Kai)
Petit Four Sec: Madeleines and Financiers
As my friends would know, I love my coffee. I've often said that my kind of dessert is actually a really good cup of coffee. However, there are days that I wished there was a just a bite of cake on the side.
Food Snobbery Causes Blindness.
Dropping restaurant names during a conversation, posting images of that meal at a well sought after restaurant or publishing your thoughts about that aka uni (red sea urchin) from Kyushu that you've tasted, yet making all that sound common and frivolous seems normal. After all it is the "enviable life" that everyone wants to portray on social media right?
Old Beans, Bad Beans?
What do you do with your old coffee beans? Do you know if they are still good?
Pear Amaretto Cake
Learn how to bake my Pear Amaretto Cake.
The Journey
Learning Food Styling and Photography.
Dreaming in Flavours 