Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
More often than not, something always goes wrong when baking macarons. These salted caramel macarons were almost perfect (not hollow – tick; feet – tick; thin shell – tick), but I did the worst thing of all. The worst. I oversalted the filling. Way to go. But every mistake is a lesson [...]
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
While I’ve been to Malaysia many times before, this time it wasn’t with my family (rather it was K’s) or in my hometown. It meant, for once, the visit was through the eyes of a tourist, with a bit (okay, quite a bit) of insider knowledge thrown in. Which (yes I’m late to the [...]
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Because it’s summer (and who doesn’t love ice cream on a hot day?), we have 1.5L Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker from Kitchenware Direct to give away! It comes in a choice of cute colours – red, green, blue, yellow (my favourite, just saying), orange and pink. And even white. (I won’t think any less [...]
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Poori Though these poori were bigger than I expected, they were almost as good as I remember them to be. It’s funny that we always seek the food of our childhood, no matter if it was eaten many times or just once. The last time I ate poori was about 15 years ago and here [...]