The grand dame of cupcakes. I decided to return to the basic after making a batch of nutella cupcakes which turned out to be a disaster. While mixing the batter for the nutella cupcakes, i could feel something amiss, but couldn’t quite make out what was wrong. When the cupcakes finished baking, the whole cake was too wet.
I always remember the commercials by Oreo cookies, they are so simple and effectively. Like the one where the kid and his dad communicate through skype while eating their Oreos, or the one where the glass was too small, and they couldn’t reach the milk at the bottom. The classic one is their slogan, twist, lick and dunk!
Sometimes it is a hassle to cook up a meal, and especially so if you are talking about a three or four course meal. But all of us can’t live without desserts, well at least i can’t. So when i saw this simple and “instant” recipe by Nigella Lawson, i immediately wanted to try it out. Chocolate mousse is a great dessert to serve to your guests since it is pretty, everybody gets their individual serving, and you can prepared it in advance in one two hours (if you do it correctly).
With the world in it’s current chaotic state, the financial crisis which is turning the world around, the Mumbai terrorists attack, the airport saga in Bangkok, who knows what just might happen next. Banks who are supposed to know their stuff, suddenly appeared, like the amateur on the street, not knowing what they are really selling.
This was my first time baking, and i finally did it after thinking about it for so long. There was the problem of oven since i didn’t have one at home. Had been pestering information about baking from Evan, Sihan & Vicki, who are all excellent bakers and was deciding between getting Rowenta or Delonghi oven. But in the end i decided to borrow a Tefal one from my aunt first, its better to try out before splurging on an expensive oven. I was looking at Nigella Lawson cooking video, and boy she made baking seems so easy!
Char siew and roast pork rank very highly among the parts of the pork that i love to eat. While there are people who doesn’t like char siew as they got “porky” after-taste, i simply adore it. Sinful as they may sound to you, you are totally missing out! My advice to those who feared for their coronary vessels after eating fatty char siew? Do more exercise dude!
There are different variations to char siew, the lean and the fatty one. Personally i felt that char siew cannot be too lean, the portion of fatty to lean meat must be just right. With some bites of fatty meat in between, there’s the melt-in-your-mouth effect!
I always have weakness for crustacean, with the exception of crab. Think lobster, crayfish, and of course prawn. I am a lazy person, so eating crab do seems a hassle for me, but lobsters, ah they are easy to eat and simply out-of-this-world. Crayfish is good too as it provides a cheaper alternative to lobsters, yet they got rather similar taste to their more expensive cousin.
Curry Pork ribs
Home-cook food are always the best because they are our comfort food, the taste that we grow up together with. My mom’s curry are always a favourite dish in the family. She usually cook curry pork ribs, or curry vegetables, or curry fish head, but never curry chicken.
Why? Because she felt that the chicken in Singapore aren’t that healthy, unless she can get Kampong chicken, otherwise no way to curry chicken. The best part about home-cook food is that you can always play to your creativity, add whatever ingredients that you fancy, which obviously is not possible when you dine outside.
