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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…
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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…
Spiced Stained Glass Cookies
It’s only one more week to Christmas! How is everyone’s Christmas baking/cooking going? This year I’ve been steering away from the usual log cakes (healthier version one here and the more sinful one here) – baking cookies and assembling a different type of cake altogether. I saw a recipe on stained glass cookies while browsing my cookie cookbook…
Vietnamese Beef Pho (Beef Noodles Soup)
Pho is a popular street food in Vietnam, which is a noodle soup consisting of broth, flat rice noodles, vegetables, herbs and meat. The most common version is beef, but chicken pho is usually offered as well. I cannot remember when was the first time I tried pho or when I got hooked to this…
Blueberry Cheesecake
I baked this cheesecake sometime last year and posted the recipe only on Instagram. Since then, I’ve been wanting to rebake this for the blog and only managed to do so a few weeks back when I needed to clear my refrigerator for this 3-week holiday – I think I’ve never seen my refrigerator so empty before! Technically…
Nutty Granola
I am never a cereal-for-breakfast person. When I was a kid, my breakfast was usually 2 slices of bread filled with spreads like jam or peanut butter, prepared by my mom. During the holidays when we visited our maternal grandparents, I would start the day with 2 soft-boiled eggs laid by my grandparents’ hens, with a big cup…
Sweet Potato Mini Cakes
I bought a few sweet potatoes last month to make green bean soup and ended up with one lonely sweet potato at the end. This lonely one sat in the pantry for quite some time before I decided that it’s high time to use it. So while browsing through the Cake Keepers Cake, I found a sweet…
Chili Con Carne with Baked Tortilla Chips
Several months ago, while thinking of ways to use up the two cans of tomatoes idling away in my kitchen (without making pasta sauce), somehow it dawned on me that I can make chili with it. (Don’t ask me how, but somehow it did heh.) Chili, or chili con carne, is a spicy stew containing…
Plum Tartlets
I baked these tarts a couple of months back for Bake Along, but didn’t manage to blog it on time. Finally managed to blog about these little treats! I remembered my mom nagged at me for purchasing a punnet of plums just for this recipe… but I just can’t resist not making them after seeing…
THB #39: Cocoa-Dusted Cranberry Cereal Muffins
I’ve been so busy posting potato recipes that I almost forgotten it’s my turn to host The Home Bakers! Thank you for the reminder Joyce! What is The Home Bakers? We are a group of home bakers who share the same passion in baking and we love collecting cookbooks! At THB, we bake from one…
THB #35: Almond Streusel Baileys Cake
Realised I’ve been posting lots of savoury food these days, so let’s take a break and head over to desserts first! This is another overdue The Home Bakers bake (sorry for the delay!), chosen by Mich from Piece of Cake. This bake is very similar to other THB bakes, whereby a streusel topping is topped…
THB #32: Blueberry-Almond Coffee Cake
Time for the The Home Bakers event again! All these baking/cooking events are what keep me going despite the busy schedule – it really motivates me to not neglect my blog too much! And it’s also motivating me to hit the gym / yoga studio more often… a moment on your lips, forever on your…
THB #30: Chocolate Walnut Coffee Cake
Been a really long time since I last blogged, pardon the absence! Managed to sneak some time amidst all the overtime (work) to blog this simple and delicious cake! This is a bake that you most likely won’t find in cafés – purely because it doesn’t look as pretty as those that are frosted or…
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Last day of November! Where did all the time go? Before today ends, I better hurry blog about my oat entry for Little Thumbs Up! I’ve chosen a classic for my oat-themed bake – the oatmeal raisin cookies! I love oatmeal cookies as they are soft, chewy and delicious. In fact, sometimes I will leave…
THB #27: Sticky Caramel Pinwheel Bread
It’s my turn to host The Home Bakers! Can you believe how time flies? We are already on the 27th recipe, almost halfway there (total 30 recipes)! I’m sorry I wasn’t able to update the blog earlier, been really busy these few days, and all I want to do when I reach home is to…
Chocolate-Cinnamon Tuiles
When I found out that we are baking tuiles for Bake Along – I was really excited because I’ve procrastinated baking them for God knows how long! Originated from France, tuile is a thin and crispy wafer that can be sweet or savoury. “Tuile” means “tile” in French, and is supposed to resemble the shapes…
Baked Maple Ribs (Nigella)
When we subscribed for SCV/Starhub TV (aka cable tv), the channels that I watched most are the cooking channels, especially Jamie Oliver and Nigella’s cooking shows. I love Jamie Oliver’s style of cooking – always so spontaneous and energetic! On the other hand, Nigella’s style of cooking is more laid-back, but she’s always capable of…
Williams-Sonoma Classic Cinnamon Rolls
It’s another round of Bake Along! These cinnamon rolls are so sinful – they are not only filled with a cinnamon-sugar filling, but also topped with a maple-brown sugar syrup that makes them a stickily sweet and heavenly treat fresh from the oven! But somehow I lacked inspiration when taking photos of them – I…
THB #21: Pear Caramel Streusel Cake
I’m really thankful that The Home Bakers event has such a long duration for us to post the recipe, otherwise I would have missed this bake! Sorry for the very plain styling of photos… I usually like to bake on Saturdays so that I will have plenty of time to style and shoot them on…
Asian Braised Pork Ribs
Look at the glistening sauce! It’s been a while since I last shared a savoury dish! I actually made this dish more than 1 month back, when I was browsing for lunch ideas (as usual haha). I chanced upon this recipe at one of my favourite foodies’ blog – Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids….
The Home Bakers#18: Blueberry Almond Cake
It’s time for The Home Bakers again! This is supposed to be a marionberry (a type of blackberry) filled cake made with ground hazelnut, chosen by Janis of The Kitchen is my Shrink. Because blackberries are crazily expensive here, I substituted them with blueberries and decided to swap the hazelnut for almond as I already…
Banana Nut Loaf
This is a simple, classic, no-nonsense, moist and delicious loaf (I simply refuse to classify it as a bread or cake, so I’m just going to stick with loaf), made with brown sugar, plenty of bananas, chocolate chips and a hint of cinnamon. I actually scaled down the recipe to 2/3 so that I can…
The Home Bakers #14: Chocolate Streusel-Ribboned Cupcakes
It’s time for The Home Bakers again! Gosh, time really flies, it just seemed to me that the previous Home Bakers was only days away! I am gonna keep this post really short and sweet – the host this time is Louanne from Louanne’s Kitchen, and she had picked a very lovely butter cake recipe…
Honey-Banana-Nutella Loaf
Bread, or cake? I can’t make up my mind! (So I’m just gonna call it loaf…) But one thing for sure, it’s pretty darn delicious! Do you all know Nami? I’m sure many of you do! Nami is the author of Just One Cookbook and I’m a huge fan of her blog, because she features…
The Home Bakers #11: Banana, Macadamia, Coconut and Cinnamon Muffins
It’s our 11th bake for The Home Bakers! Started by Joyce from Kitchen Flavours, The Home Bakers are a group of home bakers who aimed to complete baking all recipes in a chosen cookbook. If you’d like to join us, do find out more about us here: About the Home Bakers. We are currently baking…
The Home Bakers #10: Danish Chocolate Swirl Coffee Bread
This is probably by-far the most challenging bake for The Home Bakers and second most challenging bakes I’ve ever encountered (the first would still belong to these macarons – I had failed at least 5 times baking them…) To be honest, I almost wanted to give up baking it – I’ve tried it twice and…
The Home Bakers #9: Cinnamon-Apple Walnut Torte
This is the 9th recipe that we are baking from Coffee Cakes by Lou Seibert Pappas! If you’re wondering where’re my 7 and 8, unfortunately I missed these 2 bakes as I was overseas… But do check out here (#7) and here (#8) for the wonderful bakes from all other home bakers. Today is my…