There are 2 exciting things happening in my life right now. Firstly, I’m flying to London this Friday for my very first Food Bloggers Connect conference, meeting fellow bloggers that I have met through blogging, via Facebook and Twitter. The response to this meeting is tremendous, far more than we expected, with 70 confirmed attendees… Continue reading Balti Chicken

There are a few desserts on my blog that I completely conjured in my head like the Chocolate Pear Cake, Coconut-Choc Scrolls, Coconut Chocolate Nut Cookies or the Carrot-Zucchini Cake etc. This new recipe is no exception. It all started with an innocent picture in a magazine of a layered apple slices, and from there… Continue reading Caramelized Walnut Apple Pie

This is part 4 (the last challenge) of Daring Cooks’ November Challenge hosted by Audax of Audax Artifex and Rose of The Bite Me Kitchen. Now I’m making Nigiri sushi – the type of sushi most often made in sushi bars. Nigirizushi (hand-formed sushi) is made of an oblong mound of sushi rice which is… Continue reading Nigiri Sushi

This is part 3 of Daring Cooks’ November Challenge hosted by Audax of Audax Artifex and Rose of The Bite Me Kitchen. Now onward to making a Spiral Sushi Roll – similar to makizushi but with 2 sheets of nori joined together at the end edge, and filled with 6 different types of fillings. Spiral… Continue reading Spiral Sushi

This is part 2 of Daring Cooks’ November Challenge hosts by Audax of Audax Artifex and Rose of The Bite Me Kitchen. Today I’m going to make a lady Dragon Roll dressed in fresh slices of salmon. It is a westernized version of Uramaki called ‘Dragon roll (often also referred as Caterpillar roll), rice on… Continue reading Dragon Rolls (Caterpillar Rolls)

After months of hesitating to join Daring Cooks, I decided to take the plunge. I’m excited but at the same time scared – what if I can’t meet up the challenges? For my first Daring Cooks Challenge (the November 2009 one is brought to you by Audax of Audax Artifex and Rose of The Bite… Continue reading How to make Sushi Rice

As all of you already know, Pierre and I love Indian food, besides cooking some at home, we frequent a lot of Indian restaurants too. The menus always have a lot of unfamiliar words that we can only understand thanks to the provided translation. As I was writing this post, I decided to do some… Continue reading Aloo Gosht (Delhi-styled lamb cooked with potatoes)

The good thing about having your own cooking blog is that you can quickly refer to certain recipes without having to flip to through your notes, cookbooks or surf the internet just to find that recipe. Having said that, my little family has finally had enough of me cooking the same old dishes from my… Continue reading Hot Chicken Curry

Little One is now almost 3 and 1/2 years old. What a difference a year makes! Now she is talking non-stop at times, singing to her heart content when she wakes up in the morning until she reaches school. Holding a conversation with her is quite amusing – the things she thinks and says. Just… Continue reading Madeleines (Lemon Flavoured)

One of the nicest things about living in France (as opposed to my equatorial Singapore) is not just the 4 seasons but the food that come -and go- with them: fruits, mushrooms of course but also cheese or seafood. As we enter Autumn (or are supposed to, as temperature went from a nice 22°C to… Continue reading Walnut-Chocolate Cake