I don’t know about you, but I find that Monday dinners are the hardest to get on the table, fast. Coming home from a full day’s work after a relaxing weekend – it’s hard to get back into the routine and I’m always in a rush to prepare anything decent. What I’ve found to work…
Author: michip
Chocolate hazelnut mousse entremet
“What’s more delicious than a pot of velvety chocolate mousse?” I asked J, my 5 year old daughter. She looked puzzled, not that she didn’t understand me, but that it was already quite up there on her ‘best food moments’ list I think. “One decorated with all sorts of chocolatey bites and pearls, perhaps?” I…
Soft Yoghurt Bread
If you want to have at least one little piece from this loaf, take my advice and make a double batch. This is because after making a single batch, about 11 small rounds, half of it disappeared within 20 minutes of it coming out of the oven. Two hungry hippos came home and gobbled them…
Naan bread
J loves bread. Baguettes. Focaccia. Pizza bread. Chinese buns. Chinese pancake wraps. Naan bread is one of her favourite among this lot. When she was younger, her tolerance to spices are not that great so when we went for Indian meals she would often just eat the bread and not the meat and the sauce,…
Earl Grey macarons
Finally I held my first macaron class this weekend! After sampling my macarons at a gathering last week, a few of my friends asked for a class and as the saying goes ‘Strike while the iron is hot’ we organised for a class straight away. While we did some of my usual flavours, like coffee…
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