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Let's kick start the New Year with a post on my favorite restaurant in KL - Sage Restaurant Wine Bar. We were here in December for an early Christmas lunch (as well as daytime dating with Hubby). Chef Daniel comes over for a chat and asks if I would like something off-menu which I would like to eat,...
Happy New Year to all, wishing you a great 2014!Lavender from our gardenWaterlily in bloom
Last Christmas, we decided to have a canape-style brunch with lots of small bites of our favorite food. Hubby loves caprese salad, a classic Italian saladmade of sliced fresh mozzarella cheese, ripe tomatoes and fresh basil and seasoned with salt and extra virgin olive oil. I decided to make some...
2013 has been a good year for me in the kitchen - being able to experiment, try new recipes as well as getting the kids involved in our daily baking/cookingand having fun together. I am also happy that I was able to post a blogpost almost everyday (358 to date) this year and hope to continue this...
We love serving canapés at parties, be it at Christmas, New Year's Eve or Hogmanay. A canapé looks really pretty on the plate and can be eaten in one bite, making it easy for your guests to stand around, mingle and eat at the same time.Smoked salmon and cucumber yogurt salad canapésThe technical...
One of my favorite ramen places in KL is Menya Musashi. I used to frequent the outlet at Jalan P. Ramleebut I do the find the parking there troublesome as we need to park in KLCC and then walk over to the outlet. So I was delighted to find that they have opened a new outlet recently at The Intermark...
This year, during the Big Bad Wolf sale, I got Marcus Wareing's cookbook "How to Cook the perfect..". Knowing how much I love afternoon tea, Hubby got the book out and set out to make me the perfect date scones.The perfect date sconesThe recipe in the book is actually for sultana scones, but we had a...
On Boxing Day (26 Dec), it is common to have leftovers from Christmas dinner for lunch/brunch. We usually cook roast beef for Christmas Day, hence any leftovers would be used to make stovies (a traditional Scottish meat and potato stew).If you find yourself with leftover roast chicken or turkey, it...
Dear readers and friends, a very Merry Christmas to you all. Wishing you a wonderful celebration with your loved ones at home.***************A yule log orBûche de Noël is a cake traditionally served during Christmas time. Last year, The Unc was home with us for Christmas and we decided that we...
When I visited the baking supply shop last week, I walked out with a brand new 12-hole doughnut pan. Since I was quite busy these few weeks, I was planning to use the new pan after the New Year but Hubby and the kids surprised me one afternoon when they got the pan out and baked us all some doughnuts.
It's that busy time of the year again where Christmas markets are open all around Europe. There is a magical feeling about the smells and sights as you scuttle around the markets at snail pace, just soaking it all in. The beautiful handicrafts, smells of sweets, bratwurst and mulled wine are an experience...
Since discovering oven-fried chicken, I would occasionally make it for my family to satiate our craving. Compared to deep fried chicken, it is healthier, less messy and best of all, I don't have to stand by the stove cooking it and worry about getting oil splatters.Crispy cornflakes chicken with...
We saw a photo of these Mini Strawberry Santas on Instagram and thought we could make it at home too. And so can you ;) It is easy to put together (no cooking required!), looks great on the table and will make a great pre-dessert on Christmas Day.Aren't they adorable?For our version, we used strawberries,...
I was recently rekindled with one of my favorite British appetizers, prawn cocktail. And then I thought, this would be a really nice starter to be served during our Christmas meal this year.Prawn cocktail is a popular British hors d'oeuvre, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s. Prawns are dressed with...
Scottish shortbread is one of the most famous Scottish biscuitsand is traditionally eaten around Christmas time as well as Hogmanay, the Scottish New Year eve. A good shortbread should be crumbly, dense and rich, thanks to the copious amounts of butter used.Who better to make these Scottish shortbread...
Last year, we made some gingerbread man biscuits with our kids before Christmas time. They had a lot of fun helping out in the kitchen - rolling out the dough and cutting out the various shapes. We made quite a few batches and gave them to friends as a Christmas gift. We thought it would be nice to do the...
Ah, wouldn't it be great waking up to the smell of cinnamon and nutmeg on Christmas morning? That was exactly what happened in our home on Christmas morning 2012.Every Christmas, we would spend all day in indulging in good homecooked food. Usually for breakfast, it would be scrambled eggs and smoked salmon,...
Whenever the weekend approaches, I get excited thinking about the Sunday roast that I could serve on the dinner table, be it roast beef, or lamb or chicken. I was browsing through one of my cookbooks and came across a simple roast chicken recipe by Thomas Keller, Michelin-star chef of The French Laundry and...