Category Archives: Cooking & Baking

Rabbit Buns for the Rabbit Year

I’m sure none of you remember my incident involving a rabbit bun stabbing me more than a year ago. Since I’m so kind of steamed bun high, I decided it was time to attempt rabbit buns again, for the upcoming rabbit year.

Pumpkin Steamed Manju Cakes

When given flour and sugar I usually bake something in the oven. This time round, I tried a steamed recipe. I found the recipe in a book titled Baking Index. I am not sure why this steamed caked is classified as baking, but let’s ignore that.

Gnocchi

I was watching a cooking programme by David Rocco the other day, and he was making gnocchi. It didn’t *seem* too complicated, so I decided to try my hands at it. Boy, oh boy, what did I get myself into?

Chocolate Wassant

I walked past my refridgerator and last year’s chocolate wassant recipe is still stuck on it. I failed pretty badly last year; my chocolate was molten and just refuse to be wrapped. I decided to try my hands again at this recipe. I followed it to the letter, and dutifully froze my chocolate for two…

Japanese Cheesecake

Some of you may know I love Japanese cheesecake. What is a Japanese cheesecake you might ask. Essentially it’s a soft fluffy chiffon cake-esque ethereal cake from heaven. You get the drift. Compared to heavy creaming fattening Western cheesecakes (baked or not), Japanese cheesecake is a delight to have. So of course I have to…

Carrot cupcake with cream cheese frosting

I made some carrot cupcake for TS’ early birthday celebration over the weekend. I have tried this recipe before, and I really liked the way the cakes turned out the other time and so I reused the recipe, tweaking it a little based on my previous experience. I cut down the amount of butter and…

White wine chicken stew

I don’t usually cook, but out of necessity (and detest of buying food from coffee shops), I cooked a chicken stew. I’m not declaring myself an expert on savoury western stew dishes, but this is one mean stew, thrown together haphazardly. It is basically made of celery, carrot, potato, chicken, onion, garlic, salt and white…

Cookout!

I attended a cookout organized by my sister and her friends on Sunday. I brought my cheesy herb biscuits along, and watched the rest (read: children) cook. *Warning: image-heavy post*

Cheesy Herb Biscuit 2

More than a year ago I attempted to recreate Red Lobster’s cheesy herb biscuit. Today I made some again for my sister’s gathering/party/cookout. I combined different recipes for buttermilk biscuits on the internet and derived my own recipe, which is posted below.

Wholemeal Crepe

I bought a pack of organic wholemeal wheat flour from Jasons’ the other day and have been itching to use it. Since we have a loaf of wholemeal bread from the supermarket at home, I decided not to make bread. Instincts, and a search on the internet told me that I should use the flour…