Not so long ago, I’ve tried making donuts and been getting frustratingly inconsistent results. Sometimes the recipe worked just fine, but other time it’d be a complete disaster with no apparent reason that I reached a point close to giving up…….. Read the rest
A basket of breakfast pastry Do you skip breakfast in the morning? Back then in the old days, I used to skip breakfast all the … Read the rest
If you ever look at recipes on how they tell you to make chocolate ganache icing, sounds as complicated as rocket-science to me. Part of the fun of living in a faraway neverland like this is constantly being pushed to be creative. Okay, so if I can’t get to buy the ingredients the rocket scientists tell me to, that would leave me with two options: get the pastry chef from deli shop downstairs to make them or make one with whatever I have in the kitchen. Read the rest
Wild spring onions from the grassland are still sitting in the fridge, crisp like freshly picked veggies. I can remember vividly the taste of stir fried wild spring onions we had for dinner in the farmer’s home not so long ago. It was a simple dish, no meat used. I can’t think of ways to cook them because these ones have almost unbearably strong fragrant. Read the rest
August is the busiest month in the grassland of Inner Mongolia as there will be so many different festivals for the entire month. Most farmers will … Read the rest
This is a special edition of CLICK! , tinged with sadness and filled with hope. Yellow is the happiest colour in the spectrum. It signifies hope and enlightenment.
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Baking is like something that other people should be doing. I like cakes and cookies as long as I don’t have to bake them. Then I realized that cakes and cookies make better photo models than, say, veggie stirfried or barbecued chicken. They’re kinda…. cute! Besides, Mike loves sweets. So there you go. I have to start learning to bake at some point. Read the rest
I can barely remember years and years ago when this soup was introduced for the first time in Jakarta by a small Italian cafe snuggled in … Read the rest
Cottage pie, also known as shepherd’s pie, is a traditional English dish made with minced (ground) meat covered with mashed potato. The meat is typically beef or lamb left over from a Sunday roast. Read the rest
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