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Making Homemade Ice Cream Part 1

Whenever I don't feel like making a fanciful dessert such as puddings, tarts and so on for after meal treats, it usually means a hasty, albeit switched-up Ice Cream moment forme and everyoneelse at the family dining table. When I say switched-up, I am literally referring to Anna Olson's Sugar TV series where she bakes something, for example a cookie and later on devise ways to upgrade the plain cookie to a nice looking and great tasting dessert fit for guests. She calls it a 'switch-up' concoction. Hope you get the idea, ya? Lately, I have been having more and more of ...

Chocolates for Events

Fancy serving chocolates throughout your party? When we mention chocolates, we immediately think of the sweet treats that comes in individual pieces like the image here, or the bar. And most of the time it would be the cocoa brown color, not the white chocolate variety.

Tarte Tatin Part 2

Now - Let's tackle the pastry side of the recipe. If you want to make it from scratch, that is. How do we know which flour to use, and when? Flour is in truth, fine powder milled from different seeds including wheat. When adding a few grain types and milled together, it makes tasty whole wheat flour. All wheats are not created equal, though. Some flour have high gluten which is contributed by the presence of the wheat germ. Gluten could make a cake tough. Therefore, for dessert purposes, usually pastry flour is best. But All-purposed flour can be used both ...

Tarte Tatin Part 1

Try Ending the splendid dinner affair with a simple upside down apple tart or Tart Tatin as the French calls it. All you need is a cup of sugar heated on the pan and place sliced apple the way you want the tart to be seen. But you also need the base of the pastry and you could make it simply from scratch or have a ready-made pastry dough, it's up to your convenience.

Baking and Desserts

Making Homemade Ice Cream Part 1

Whenever I don’t feel like making a fanciful dessert such as puddings, tarts...

Chocolates for Events

Fancy serving chocolates throughout your party? When we mention chocolates, we immediately...

Tarte Tatin Part 2

Now – Let’s tackle the pastry side of the recipe. If you want to make...

Tarte Tatin Part 1

Try Ending the splendid dinner affair with a simple upside down apple tart or Tart...

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Herbs and Spices

Gravy and Side Dish to Accompany The Baked Chicken

Somebody submitted a question to me a couple of days ago for advice on what is a...

Choose Herbs to Enhance Our Dishes with Unforgettable Aroma and Taste

A good way to enhance your dishes with unforgettable aroma is to use herbs. Be...

Dutch Influence, Indonesian Delights

Recently I watched an interview of Bobby Chinn by CNN Talk Asia’s Anjuli Rao. ...

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Seafood and Meat

Gravy and Side Dish to Accompany The Baked Chicken

Somebody submitted a question to me a couple of days ago for advice on what is a good gravy and side dish to go with her baked chicken and here is my answer. The simplest gravy to go with the baked chicken is as follows. The most Basic 3 items – Chicken broth, cream and corn starch. Prepare roughly equal parts of broth and cream to make a... [Read more of this review]

Cooking the Turkey

Generally, when we think of cooking turkey, it is usually meant for Thanksgiving and Christmas. You know, the roasted whole turkey, with all kinds of stuffing and the whole enchilada of gravy and sauce. Now why is that so? Perhaps due to the thoughts of its huge whole size and longer time of preparation and cooking, held back many of us from making... [Read more of this review]

Dutch Influence, Indonesian Delights

Recently I watched an interview of Bobby Chinn by CNN Talk Asia’s Anjuli Rao. Bobby lives in South East Asia and travels throughout the continent for his show World Cafe Asia. The way he presented is quite refreshing and I managed to catch one of his episodes showcasing Indonesian food. Well mainly what’s available in the capital city... [Read more of this review]

Tips on Buying Seafood

To me, knowing how to buy seafood is important, because low quality ones can get people sick from eating them. I believe most of us tend to buy seafood from the big stores. Some of us love waking up before the sun rises to tramp the wet fish market so that we get the better choices of the day, just like an executive chef of a restaurant. And then... [Read more of this review]

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