You know you’re not “blogging regularly” when you forget the password to your own blog! No excuses this time, as I’m beginning to sound like a broken record. The hubs is back home in Malaysia with me and now it feels like a Real Holiday. I’ve been pretty busy in the kitchen too [...]
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Home made mooncakes
Posted in Food, Malaysia, tagged homemade mooncakes, Malaysia, mooncakes, mooncakes for sale on February 21, 2011 | 7 Comments »
My hectic holiday
Posted in Food, Malaysia, Thoughts & Ramblings, tagged baking class, cooking class, Malaysia, puff pastry class on January 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Is there even such a thing? A hectic holiday? Well that’s how my holiday back in Malaysia is turning out to be! It’s almost the end of January 2011, and it’s only my first blog entry. It’s my own doing really. I signed up for baking classes and I have classes once a week. On [...]
Being home
Posted in Food, Malaysia, Thoughts & Ramblings, tagged Batu Pahat, flowers, garden, Malaysian food, soto on December 30, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I love being home. The best thing is that it hasn’t been ALL.THAT.HOT. Perhaps it’s due to the monsoon season. The days are balmy, and it tends to rain in the evenings. I love it. The family and I spent Christmas back in Batu Pahat at my uncle’s home. Everytime I see an uncle from [...]
“Exotic” fruits in Modena
Posted in Food, Italy, Thoughts & Ramblings, tagged carambola, exotic fruit, Modena, rambutan, starfruit on December 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Lookie lookie at what I found at the supermarket opposite my house. Yes, they’re rambutan !! The pack said that they’re from Vietnam though. I wonder why they don’t come from Malaysia. I usually giggle silently when I see rambutans in the supermarkets here because they’re ALWAYS brown, almost black; basically rambutan we would throw away without [...]
Chocolate Pistachio Fudge
Posted in Food, tagged chocolate pistachio fudge, dessert, Nigella Lawson on December 3, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Remember my dinner party for almost 20? I had wanted to make a dessert that was fuss free and easy, considering the fact that I had to dedicate more time to my other more complicated dishes. I searched online and found this recipe by Nigella Lawson. Easy. Chocolate. Pistachios. No bake. No sweat. I couldn’t [...]
Scratching my head
Posted in Food, Thoughts & Ramblings, tagged dinner, party on October 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
So here’s the thing. I have a dinner party to host next week, and I have been scratching my head for the past two weeks trying to come up with a menu that would suit EVERYONE. I will be having about 15 guests over, and the thing that makes it so darn difficult is the [...]
Say hello to Lola
Posted in Food, Life, Thoughts & Ramblings, tagged Candy Apple Red, KitchenAid, KitchenAid Anniversary, KitchenAid mixer, Limited Edition, mixer on October 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Say hello to my new best friend Lola. She’s the reason I’ve been absent from the blogosphere for quite a bit now. Isn’t she absolutely beautiful? Lola is a 90th Anniversary Limited Edition KitchenAid Stand Mixer. The first time I saw this particular Candy Apple Red KitchenAid was in John Lewis, Cardiff. I fell in [...]
Super yummy Cinnamon Roll Muffins
Posted in Food, tagged baking, cinnamon roll, cinnamon roll muffins, muffins on September 20, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Ok fine. I admit. I can cook, but I can’t quite bake baking isn’t my forte. As they say, cooking is an art, but baking is all about science. Science and me aren’t exactly best friends. When I was still in Malaysia, I used to bake cheesecakes that my colleagues seemed to have loved. I [...]
Indian style okra
Posted in Food, tagged Asian, Indian, ladies fingers, okra, recipe on September 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I don’t cook as much Indian food as I probably should, partly because of all the chopping it requires. Especially onions. And somehow, I’m always out of tomatoes. Go figure. I got me some okra at the market, and decided on an Indian style dish. My mum usually makes okra ( more popularly known in [...]
Vinturi Wine Aerator Review
Posted in Food, Thoughts & Ramblings, Uncategorized, tagged Amazon, Italy, review, Vinturi, wine aerator on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have been wanting to write this for some months now, but somehow, things always got in the way. (read: I usually forget) The hubs and I quite enjoy our red wines, and living in Italy where wines are good, abundant and rather cheap, one cannot say no to a glass of good wine [...]
