Dessert – that was the first thing that came to my mind when I took my sip of the new banoffee milk by Lewis Road Creamery. It had to be with single-origin chocolate so I messaged my friends at Foundry Chocolate for some advice on which of theirs would be great with bananas. Turns out…
Category: Recipes
Chinese doughnuts 笑口棗
I have fond memories of going shopping with mum around CNY and she would always pick up sweet treats from this Chinese pastry shop in an older suburb. There would be fried sweet dumplings with nuts and sesame, large hollow sesame dough balls that are crisp when you first bite into it and then chewy…
Healthy Banana Ice Cream
Looking for an activity with the kids? How about making this healthy banana ice cream. It’s super easy and all you need is a bunch of ripe Dole Bobby Bananas. Simply freeze them and blitz in a food processor/blender with the option to add additional ingredients depending on your desired flavour. This creates a creamy…
Sweet and sour pork (咕噜肉)
The most iconic of all cantonese cuisine would have to be sweet and sour pork 咕噜肉. I dare say there would be a Chinese takeaway shop in any town any city, selling a variant of this. The Hong Kong version I grew up with is sweet and tangy, with thick pieces of meat thinly coated…
Basque cheesecake
Fool-proof baked cheesecake without cookie crumb or water bath? Sign me up! When I first read about this recipe, I couldn’t believe how simple and straight forward it is. Could it truly produce glorious results like so many others? Can it be close to the original, by Chef Santiago Rivera of La Viña in San…
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