Hello! It’s been a long, long time since my last recipe/travelogue, here’s what happening recently: Back in Singapore – we are now back in Singapore for good! Packing up to ship almost 3 years of our lives back home was total mess and madness. The packers did the packing for us (for insurance purposes) so…
Recipes
Mango Caramel Sauce
This is one of the rare cases where the supporting “actor” is better than the lead “actor” 😛 I had a stash of frozen mango purée that I had to finish up before we move back to Singapore so I decided to bake a Mango Pound Cake. Not wanting to dress the pound cake with…
Homemade Breakfast Sausage Patties
Was browsing Pinterest (do you pronounce it as pin-terest or pin-interest? I mispronounced it as pin-interest for so long that I can’t correct myself anymore 😛 ) for breakfast ideas last weekend and stumbled on a sausage patties pin. It brought back childhood memories of a particular popular fast food chain’s breakfast menu – though I can never…
Savoury Okara Pancake
Hello! Back to share another okara recipe! I stumbled upon this savoury vegetarian okara pancake recipe while Googling – and it turned out to be a very simple yet delicious pancake that is perfect as a side dish with other dishes and rice. Also, unless you tell your guests, I don’t think they will be…
Okara Croquette [No Potato Needed!]
![Okara Croquette [No Potato Needed!]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DSC_5656-320x320.jpg)
Mottainai literally means “what a waste” in Japanese, but besides using it as an expression, it is also a tradition, a culture, a philosophy and a lifestyle to the Japanese. In brief, mottainai encompasses the “don’t waste”, “utilise as much as you can”, “reduce, recycle, reuse”, “respect”, and “be thankful” values. So what does this has…
Cheesy Laksa Baked Rice (Made With Leftover Laksa Soup!)
X loves laksa a lot, but because it’s hard to get the ingredients to make laksa from scratch overseas, we stock up on laksa premixes whenever we go back to Singapore. Each box of premix makes enough for 3 (nowadays 4 as I try not to consume so much of the soup), so I will…
Mocha Cake (Chocolate Cake, Coffee Buttercream, Chocolate Ganache)
Even though I don’t celebrate Halloween, I wanted to create something fun for this day. Since I didn’t have time to go to a baking shop to grab new supplies, I baked a Mocha Cake and decorate it Halloween style!
No-Mixer Okara Chocolate Cake [Eggless & Dairy-Free]
![No-Mixer Okara Chocolate Cake [Eggless & Dairy-Free]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/DSC_5686-320x320.jpg)
If you make your own homemade soy milk, you will always end up with a by-product – the soy pulp, also known as tofu dregs or okara. Okara is an extremely nutritious by-product, containing proteins, soluble and non-soluble fibre and isoflavones. However, okara has a slightly gritty texture that I don’t enjoy with my soy milk, so…
No-Mixer Banana Loaf / Bread / Cake with Peanut Butter Swirl
Before going for a holiday, it is a must for my friend and I to purge the refrigerator and the pantry to make sure there won’t be any mouldy or smelly surprises waiting for us when we return home. There were times when we would pass each other groceries that we couldn’t finish (the beauty…
Stove-Top BBQ Pork Ribs
We are moving back to Singapore soon! We have been living overseas for almost 2.5 years now and I honestly can’t believe how time flies. We have also collected our keys to our home a month ago during our trip back to Singapore, so I’ve been busy designing and re-designing the house these days, hence…
Salted Egg Yolk Cream Puffs
I brought back a new ingredient when I went back to Singapore recently – salted egg yolks in powder form! Salted egg is a preserved food product made by soaking duck eggs in brine or packing them in damp, salted charcoal. The resulting egg will have a white that is salty and a yolk that…
Baileys Chocolate Cake with Sour Cream Chocolate Frosting
Hello everyone! (And hello blog! Sorry for neglecting you for quite some time!) Taking step-by-step photos in the kitchen these days is getting a bit difficult because the driver for the LED lights that lit up my countertop exploded blew recently. Not to mention my camera’s a little cranky too – it’s not able to…
One-Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes with Vegan Chocolate Frosting For Two [4 Cupcakes]
![One-Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes with Vegan Chocolate Frosting For Two [4 Cupcakes]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC08434-320x320.jpg)
I was looking through my old recipes to revamp them and I saw a really old Vanilla Cupcakes recipe blogged 9 years back (my blog is turning 10 years next oh my god!) Not only were the photos horrible, they weren’t even rotated upright (meaning you are looking at the cupcakes sideways)… so they are definitely…
Egg and Cheese Crêpe Square
Whenever I make crêpes – be it for a cake, a dessert or just with ice cream – there will tend to be a few crêpes leftover. Not wanting to just eat them with more ice cream 😛 I decided to make a savoury Egg and Cheese Crêpe Square instead, which takes less than 10 minutes to…
Coffee Cheesecake with Chocolate Ganache
It’s been more than a year since I last posted a cheesecake recipe here! The reason why I seldom bake cheesecakes these days is because there’s a bit of planning involved – and I’m just not a planner person when it comes to cheesecakes. Whenever I have a craving for cheesecakes, I usually won’t have…
Nasi Lemak Burger
When I first read about the launch of the special Nasi Lemak Burger by a popular fast food chain in Singapore 2 weeks ago, I was intrigued but not that interested because I’ve always liked my food in their original form (I’m boring I know). X, on the other hand, was quite interested to try…
Chinese Eggs and Tomatoes Stir-Fry [番茄炒蛋/西红柿炒蛋]
![Chinese Eggs and Tomatoes Stir-Fry [番茄炒蛋/西红柿炒蛋]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DSC07603-320x320.jpg)
When I was younger, I’ve never really liked tomatoes so I never understood the appeal of this Chinese Eggs and Tomatoes Stir-Fry dish, even though I had a fervent love for eggs. Now that I’m more in love with tomatoes, I decided to give this a try recently and I was totally blown away –…
Mom’s One-Pan Fried Bee Hoon with Canned Stewed Pork and Bean Sprouts [红烧排骨豆芽炒米粉]
![Mom’s One-Pan Fried Bee Hoon with Canned Stewed Pork and Bean Sprouts [红烧排骨豆芽炒米粉]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DSC08163-320x320.jpg)
I absolutely love the days when my mom decided to cook fried bee hoon. Her fried bee hoon consists of only four ingredients (excluding the seasoning) – bee hoon (rice vermicelli), garlic, bean sprouts and the secret ingredient that makes it so good and delicious – Narcissus Brand Stewed Pork.
Piña Colada Cake (Egg Yolk Cake + Pineapple Filling + Rum Swiss Meringue Buttercream)
Woo hoo~ Today 10 July is National Piña Colada Day! Piña Colada is a famous cocktail originating from Puerto Rico, made with rum, coconut cream/coconut milk and pineapple juice. It was claimed that the bartender of Caribe Hilton Hotel’s Beachcomber Bar, Ramón “Monchito” Marrero Pérez, was the creator of this cocktail in 1954. Another restaurant…
Egg White Cupcakes with Dark Chocolate Ganache Frosting
After my éclair-baking spree for the past two weeks, I find myself with leftover egg whites from making the pastry cream. So I turned to the books for a cake recipe to use up the egg whites and I stumbled upon Rose Levy Beranbaum’s White Velvet Butter Cake recipe. I adapted the recipe and turn them…
Taiwanese Salt and Pepper Popcorn Chicken (椒盐鸡块 / 咸酥鸡 / 盐酥鸡)
Today, 6 July, is National Fried Chicken Day (seriously who came up with these days?) so I’m back here with another history lesson on this delicious dish! Apparently since a long, long time ago (as far back as the Middle Ages), Scots liked their chicken deep-fried instead of boiled or baked. So when Scottish immigrants…
Eggless Baileys Chocolate Pudding [Small Serving, For Two]
![Eggless Baileys Chocolate Pudding [Small Serving, For Two]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/DSC07969-320x320.jpg)
Happy National Chocolate Pudding Day (26 June)! To be honest, I have absolutely no idea who created this day – but I would really like to thank him or her for creating this day (and also the person who invented pudding) because I never, ever knew that chocolate pudding can be so easy to make,…
Triple Chocolate Éclairs
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…
Chinese Fish Bee Hoon Soup (With An Easy Soup Base) [鱼片米粉汤]
![Chinese Fish Bee Hoon Soup (With An Easy Soup Base) [鱼片米粉汤]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/DSC07826-320x320.jpg)
Fish Bee Hoon Soup is one of my favourite comfort foods. The key lies in the soup, and the traditional way of making it is to use fish bones – the bones are first coated in cornflour then pan-fried until crispy. Boiling water (the key to a milky-coloured soup) is then added into the fish…
Watermelon Iced Tea
While we were having brunch at a café in San Francisco during our holiday in April, we saw a very interesting item on their menu – Watermelon Iced Tea. We ordered one to try and were pleasantly surprised at the flavours – the refreshing watermelon taste greets us first, followed by a sweet tea flavour. After coming back from our…
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…
Peach Moscato [Refreshing, Fizzy and Just in Time for Summer!]
![Peach Moscato [Refreshing, Fizzy and Just in Time for Summer!]](https://www.foodiebaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC07714-320x320.jpg)
X has been playing around with several cocktail recipes recently and when he brought back a peach from work last week, he decided to make some Peach Moscato to use up the peach and peach juice we have lying in the refrigerator. Which is all fine by me because the summer heat is beginning to…