Today is National Chocolate Éclairs Day! So… Happy Chocolate Éclairs Day! I recently added the National Food Day (you can get it here!) calendar into my Google Calendar to motivate myself to bake/cook more new dishes and to revisit some of the old favourites that are in a dire need of a revamp (seeing some of the…
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Easy Crustless Quiche for One
Quiche is one of X’s of favourite brunch options on weekends, but for me to wake up early to make the crust, blind bake the crust and make the quiche filling for just one serving – I’d rather sleep in 😛 So to make my life easier and yet satisfy X’s cravings, I go for a crustless…
蛋餅 Dan Bing (Taiwanese Egg Crêpe Roll)
One of my favourite breakfasts while in Taiwan is 蛋餅 Dan Bing, a traditional and popular Taiwanese breakfast that many locals eat on a daily basis and travellers’ must-try food when in Taiwan. Beaten egg is fried on a hot plate and top with a thin crêpe (some call it pancake), then flipped over and…
One-Bowl Mint Chocolate Cupcakes (With Chocolate-Mint Swiss Meringue Frosting)
Chocolate can never go wrong for desserts. But chocolate and mint? That’s a double winner right there. I’ve always loved mint chocolate (you know those After Eight and Andes chocolate mint thins? I used to devour lots at one go, regardless of the time of the day haha). Funny though, I seldom baked any chocolate and…
![Taiwanese Braised Pork with Rice [Lu Rou Fan / 滷肉饭]](https://i2.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DSC06136-2.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
Taiwanese Braised Pork with Rice [Lu Rou Fan / 滷肉饭]
Lu Rou Fan, which means “Braised Meat Rice” literally, is an extremely popular and incredibly delicious Taiwanese specialty. Made with pork braised primarily in soy sauce and other aromatics, the mixture is spooned over a bowl of steaming hot rice and served with eggs and firm tofu. It is one of my favourite dishes – so good that…
Classic Chocolate Tart
I love tarts – give me anything with a tart crust and I will devour it immediately and probably go for a second serving. But tart making can be quite a chore because of the tart base – I don’t own a food processor yet so all the rubbing/cutting of butter into the flour has to…
No-Mixer Double Chocolate Banana Cake / Bread
To me, banana is a holiday fruit. I only eat them when I go on holidays because it’s a quick source of energy and easy to bring along when we go on hikes. So when the grocer gave me some “free” bananas a few weeks back (before we went on a holiday), I started looking for…
![Mrs NgSK’s Butter Cake [Flat Top with Egg-Separation Method]](https://i0.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC05324.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
Mrs NgSK’s Butter Cake [Flat Top with Egg-Separation Method]
I think butter cake is my most-eaten cake during my childhood. My mom would occasionally buy a loaf for our breakfast or sometimes treating us to a butterfly butter cupcake after our swimming lessons. The first cake that my mom baked after buying the our first oven is also a butter cake! I love butter cakes – they are soft, buttery, have this skin…
![Gimbap (김밥) [And How to Revive a Day’s Old Gimbap!]](https://i0.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC07251-1.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
Gimbap (김밥) [And How to Revive a Day’s Old Gimbap!]
Whenever we go on a holiday, we usually have to wait for quite some time after checking in before we can board the plane. And most of the time I’ll become hungry while waiting and will want to look for some food. Or our flight is a budget flight and no food is served on the…
Chinese Tomato and Egg Noodle Soup (番茄鸡蛋面汤)
As we are heading into colder weather, we will need a bowl of hot, comfort food more often. This is where the piping hot Chinese Tomato and Egg Noodle Soup comes in! This one bowl of goodness can be made in just 30 minutes and it will be gone faster than that, because you can’t stop slurping the goodness…
TangZhong Pork Floss Buns
Here’s the last instalment of the bread series (for now)! I used some of my previous batch of TangZhong dough to turn them into pork floss buns. I think it was BreadTalk who first came up with this bun and it was an instant hit. Many bakeries also came up with their own version of this bun within a span of…
![Basic Dinner Rolls & Burger Buns [TangZhong Method]](https://i2.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC04017.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
Basic Dinner Rolls & Burger Buns [TangZhong Method]
After my success with TangZhong bread – with the help of my new lovely assistance the Kenwood Chef Sense – I became a bit more confident in bread baking. I know it’s just one success, but sometimes we all just need that little push in life, isn’t it? (Okay I should stop trying to act deep.)…
Honey Financiers – No-Mixer, Easy & Delicious Mini Cakes
A financier, formerly known as visitandine, is a small French almond cake that is light but moist, with a crisp exterior. It is usually made in small rectangular loaves, which gives the cake its name financier, as it looks like a bar of gold. Though this mini cake cannot be sold for the same price as a bar of…
Asian-Style Egg Noodles Stir Fry (with Prawns and Chicken)
I love, love, love noodles. Currently I have 8 kinds of noodles stocked at home – spaghetti, tagliatelle/fettuccine, rice noodles (hor fun), rice vermicelli (bee hoon), somen (thin Japanese noodle made of wheat flour), soba (Japanese buckwheat noodles), udon and egg noodles. This is not including the other pasta shapes that are sitting in the pantry! So… yup,…
![Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き Japanese Savoury Pancake) [Okonomiyaki Sauce from Scratch Too!]](https://i1.wp.com/www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC04322.jpg?resize=320%2C320&ssl=1)
Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き Japanese Savoury Pancake) [Okonomiyaki Sauce from Scratch Too!]
Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) is a popular Japanese savoury pancake said to be originated from Osaka. There are many variations of this delicious pancake throughout Japan and the world, but in general it’s made with cabbage coated lightly with pancake-like batter. Different ingredients can be added into the okonomiyaki – so you can easily create one that is your favourite!
Matcha Lava Cake for One or Two in 30 Minutes
There are times when I have a lava cake craving but whenever I Google for a recipe, the recipes usually make 4 or 6 servings at one go, which can be quite frustrating because all I need is just one! And it’s hard to scale these recipes down because I don’t want to have 1/2…
Mini Sausage Bread Rolls (TangZhong Method)
Bread-making has always been a daunting task because my bread seldom comes out as fluffy and soft as I wanted them to be. I did consider buying a bread machine but X and I don’t eat much bread so I think it will be underused and a waste of counter space. Handheld mixers usually come…
Thai Glass Noodle Salad (Yum Woon Sen / ยำวุ้นเส้น)
I first made this Thai Glass Noodle Salad (or also known as yum woon sen in Thai) a few months back and I was so blown away by how delicious it was. The salad dressing is made with just three ingredients – lime juice, fish sauce and Thai sweet chilli, which is readily and greedily absorbed by the…
Opera Cake
Hello! Today I’m sharing an Opera Cake recipe, which is a French cake made with layers of joconde (a type of almond sponge cake) soaked in coffee syrup, layered with ganache and coffee-flavoured buttercream and covered in a chocolate glaze. This kind of cake is also known as an entremet because of the many components, complexity and…
Baked Tonkatsu (Japanese Pork Cutlet)
Tonkatsu, aka Japanese deep-fried pork cutlet, is one my ultimate and favourite food. Juicy and moist pork chop coated with a simple panko and deep-fried to perfection – it’s extremely sinful but also extremely satisfying all at the same time. I found 2 pork chops at home when I was checking my freezer stock, but as…
Quick, Easy and Healthy Kimchi Ramyeon
Wait, what? Healthy ramyeon? Yes you didn’t read wrongly! This healthy, homemade kimchi ramyeon does not come from a packet with sachets of dehydrated vegetables and unknown flavourings – yet I assure you that it tastes absolutely delicious and satisfying!
Kimchi Fried Rice
This is my third time making kimchi from scratch at home (without gochugaru some more!) and one dish that I’ll always make with them is kimchi fried rice. I like to incorporate plenty of vegetables in my fried rice but chopping up cabbage, carrots, onion etc can be a chore sometimes, making fried rice a bit more time-consuming to…
Perfectly Silky Chawanmushi (Japanese Savoury Egg Custard)
And here is the continuation of the previous dashi post! Chawanmushi is a popular Japanese side dish that I made immediately after I made the dashi because it is one of my top favourite Japanese dishes ever. I love how the egg custard is so silky soft, tender and quivers under the slightest pressure. It is also…
Cookie Dough Brownies
Ever thought of how brownies and cookies will taste together? Well, with these cookie dough brownies, you have the perfect marriage of buttery and crispy cookie with chocolatey and fudgy brownies. Served with cream or even better still – ice cream – and it’s hard not to fall in love with them!
Nigella’s Honey Chocolate Cake
I first blogged about this honey chocolate cake back in 2011 and I thought this would be a great chance to update this recipe with both clearer instructions and better photos as it fits the Little Thumbs Up theme this month – honey! I always have a jar of honey at home – besides mixing spoonfuls of it with…
Baked Puff Pastry Apple Pies
Jump to: Step-by-Step Photos · Recipe I’m a sucker for puff pastry – how can one not like this crispy, light, flaky, buttery, rich and indulgent pastry? Be it plain like croissants, stuffed with chocolate, fruits, or savoury stuff like mushrooms and cheese or simply a topping on pot pies – as long as they contain puff pastry, I…
One-Pan Fried White Bee Hoon (Rice Vermicelli)
Fried white bee hoon is a delicious dish that appears very often during potlucks and barbeques. It is usually served plain with probably just a bit of vegetables as there will be many other dishes to go with it, especially curry chicken! I love to make mine a one-pan meal with lots of meat, egg and vegetables so I…