Happy Easter!What’s your favourite filling for linzer sandwich cookies? We have chocolate ganache, strawberry jam and lemon curd! My favourite bits are actually the tiny shape cutouts – they are super crunchy and malt-caramel-tasty delicious. My trick to easy-handling of these cookies is to roll out the dough in between baking paper, before they go…
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Butter cookie logs
Realised our classic butter cookies was still in draft and not published on the blog so I had to quickly remedy that!! What makes these outstanding is the perfect ratio of sugar, butter, and flour. This recipe serves well as a base for other flavour additions, like: Cocoa – go with 30% black and 70%…
Flexible and adaptable – HelloFresh in our new normal (+ NZ $140 off discount when ordering through me! )
(Italian Pork & Fennel ribolitta with Orzo pasta and garlic crumbly cheese) (Easy Lemon Pepper Chicken, potato wedges, crumbly cheese salad) (Cheesy Pork Bunless Burger Bowl) (Seared Pork and Creamy Peppercorn sauce) (Spicy Lamb Rump with potato wedges and garden salad) [Note: we received 2 meal kits as a gift. ] Having enjoyed Hellofresh meals…
Chashu Pork Ramen with soft-boiled egg
Master Chashu Pork recipe with links to: Ramen noodles soft-boiled and marinated eggs (Ajitsuke Tamago) Soup (tare) (coming) Marinated bamboo shoots (coming) The extended lockdown this year has got us longing for our favourite melt-in-your-mouth Chashu pork belly ramen. Thick, deep broth, tender braised pork belly with al dente home made ramen egg noodles…. Yum!…
Hong Kong Wonton Soup
Another silver lining of lockdown is that I’ve finally nailed the recipe to make a HK style wonton soup. These wontons are best described as bouncy balls of meat, wrapped with silky thin egg dough, swimming in the most fragrant, HK memory-evoking smell. The bounce is a result of a prolonged kneading, done easily with…
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