<nutella tart>
Inspired by a Pierre Herme recipe.
Topped with roasted pecan nuts.
For T’s birthday.
<Whole meal French toast roll-ups>
Saturday morning breakfast! Organic peanut butter on the inside - agave nectar, cinnamon powder and crushed walnuts on the outside.
<earl grey chocolate cake>
this is gg to be our dessert at shakespeare in the park at fort canning later. might just be a little tame for a bloody theatre highlight like Othello ;)
recipe from Culinary Tea - which i highly recommend!
i flirted with these raw cracker recipes in my kitchen on Labour Day. blended carrots, cauliflower, flax seeds (+paprika+cumin+salt+pepper) and stuck them in my oven at 60deg cel practically overnight. I also punched in the nutritional values on myfitnesspal.com. Guess what, only about 15.7 calories for each cracker - 0.5g fat / 2.1g carbs / 0.6g protein and loads of happy omega-3 (ok sorry - a little obsessed there ;)). More experimenting to come! yay!
<green pea and mint dip>
Best had with marks and spencer salt and pepper crackers
<mini spinach and mushroom quiche>
an appetiser for dinner later..
My last day at work today - so made a Swiss roll trio for the colleagues.. Think the matcha + nutella roll was the most well received!
<condensed milk cake>
another baking project with the sister this week.
this is a rather basic recipe with just 1 can of condensed milk + 1 cup of flour + 4 eggs + 1 teaspoon baking powder + 50g melted butter. mix all and bake at 175 deg cel for 40 mins!
it’s a dense cake with a subtle taste of condensed milk that smells wonderful! it goes great with some berries and ice cream.. also, very easily adapted for other tastes. I’ve already seen some adaptations involving grand marnier as well as chocolate.. hmmmm ;)
<peanut butter chocolate sandwich cookies> While there’s a minor obsession with anything peanut butter-y and chocolate-y, I did have some of the ingredients left from the peanut butter chocolate cake I made. So my sister was over at mine this week and she made some peanut butter cookies. I swiped some peanut butter frosting and chocolate ganache on the cookies and waaalllaa - we have some peanut butter-plus sandwich cookies! :)
super fun to make! not to mention getting a sugar high from test tasting all that peanut butter frosting and chocolate peanut glaze. awesome recipe from smitten kitchen..
i ran out of sugar so added only half of what was required of the recipe. but that turned out really ok since it might have been a *tad* too sweet with the frosting and the glaze
i personalised each slice.. with chocolate alphabets for C & J who had it for dessert after Easter brunch today..
bacon & egg galette! made this for brunch with C & J. What’s Easter without eggs! ;)
<almond butter + pumpkin muffins - grain free!>
so L sent me some really yummy almond butter all the way from Melbourne. then i came across this wonderful grain-free recipe for almond-butter pumpkin muffins and i knew i had to make them - with less honey, a wee bit more pumpkin spice, topped with some chopped Whittaker hazelnut chocolate that my Kiwi friends gave me (i am so lucky to get food gifts all the time!;) )
as i am rather obsessed about carbs these days, i did a quick nutrition info calculation for the recipe on myfitnesspal (great app!) and the nifty little app generated only 7.9g of carbs/serving, compared to about 20 - 30g for the regular blueberry muffin with flour, sugar et al!
*joy* indeed!
hmm <ma po tofu (sichuan style) w/ minced chicken> for the family who came over for dinner over the weekend..
grandma is not so big on spicy food i think, so i added less sichuan pepper and also made a few other dishes like braised pork ribs, wonton soup, stir fry long beans etc.
ma po tofu (or anything sichuan-ish) is reminiscent of my three carefree years spent bumming in beijing!
<upside down pineapple cake>
this recipe (adopted from a couple of other sources) is just perfect!
i love the glaze - and the vanilla seed beans add such a lovely taste and aroma to the cake. looks great too ;)
*note: batter makes three 21cm x 11cm loaf tins..
last night was Mediterranean at home with the friends. cruised through a 5-course affair. but my favourite was one of the starters: halved-avocado with tomato salsa filling, drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette. this was not only the prettiest, but took me the least time to make as well! :)
