Seafood lunch, Kelly Tarltons Aquarium, a visit from a neighbourhood representative, a fun runaround at the park, what a wonderful day! Photos taken with my new Nikon D800. Don’t forget to check out my earlier post for a chance to win $200 to spend at a camera shop!
Category: Photos
Farewell Cake for Tom
It was my colleague Tom’s last day on Friday, and I made him a chocolate cake.
Black sesame macaron with black sesame chocolate ganache
I decided to make a black sesame ganache to fill my black sesame macarons to see how intense will the overall black sesame flavour be. Follow my black sesame macaron recipe and replace the mascarpone and red bean filling with the following ganache. Black Sesame Ganache 100ml heavy cream 100g semisweet chocolate, roughly chopped 40g…
Citrus Shortbread biscuits
This week at Sunday School, the kids made little cut outs from carrot slices, using little cookie cutters. It immediately brought me back to my childhood years, where these are almost always found in chinese stir fry dishes in restaurants in Hong Kong. Next moment I get a flash back of these wonderful citrusy shortbread…
Spiced cookies
In my quest to put together a series of basic recipes, I came upon this cookie recipe from my formative years. It looked simple enough, here I made only one change – using Valrhona cocoa powder instead of ordinary ones. V cocoa is totally irresistible and gives an addictive cocoa aroma not found in others….
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