Summer Sangria
Celebrate the best of summer with a refreshing glass of Sangria replete with the sweetness of stone fruit.
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Scallop & Potato Salad
Light, simple and fresh summer salad featuring ceviche-style scallops with earthy yukon gold potatoes, drizzled with kernels of creamy pine nuts.
Ngoh Hiang (Chinese Five-Spice Pork Roll)
After my last appearance on Rasa Malaysia, Bee and I started talking about another popular dish: Five-spice pork rolls wrapped in beancurd skins, a standard issue at festive meals for the Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia. Named after the Chinese five spice powder that gives the rolls their unique flavor, …
Let’s Lunch! – Thai Green Curry
Well, Hello There. It’s been a while hasn’t it? All this holiday travelling, feasting, gift-giving, Champagne-ing, laughing and celebrating sure sweeps you through time like a magic carpet. We spent the last week of 2009 in rainy and cold Burgundy, marvelling at the acres and acres of vines, discovering the …
Christmas Dinner: Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder
Bonjour from snowy Alsace! After a 40-hour journey that brought us through four airports, a major winter storm and bone-chilling temperatures, we’re finally warm, fed and rested at my in-laws’. Continuing with the main course for our virtual Christmas dinner (you didn’t think I’d forget would you?), here’s one that …
Leeks, Truffle, Tomatoes & An Anniversary
It’s been a whirlwind of activity since returning from Denver last week. On Saturday, I drove up to San Francisco to spend the day with Dianne Jacob and a host of other aspiring writers (including Patricia from Brownies For Dinner and Joel from Six By 10 Tiny Kitchen) for a …
Apple Tarts (Tarte Aux Pommes)
Among all the fruits in the world, I’m probably most apathetic towards apples. Perhaps it’s the time it takes to finish one – I like my fruit in quick nibbles – or its crunchy texture, that I start to tire of ploughing through the juiciest red orb even before it …
World Bread Day 09: Moroccan bread & Baba Ganoush
Did you know that today was World Bread Day? No? Well, not to worry because I didn’t either, until a week ago when I stumbled across Kochtopf’s post about the event. An initiative of the International Union of Bakers & Baker-Confectioners, the organization selected October 16 to commemorate the joys …
Pączki – Polish Doughnuts
Doughnuts seem to be the cupcakes of the season, judging by the recent spate of doughnut recipes and posts. There were these tempting Nutella-stuffed bunuelos from Cowgirl Chef and an oh-so-pretty banana variation with dried banana streusel from Tartelette and these Apple Cider honey-glazed doughnuts for Rosh Hashanah over at …