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There's always a cake on Christmas day, and everyone love cakes. I found this Christmas fruit cake from Jamie Oliver site and decide to give it a try. http://www.jamieoliver.com/magazine/recipes-view.php?title=traditional-christmas-cake After reading the website, I realise I'm too late to bake this cake on Christmas eve. This cake need to be bake and let it age for at least 2 weeks before serving. However, according to some website, Christmas fruit cake can be store for up to a year in a cold, dry place. "Feeding" alcohol in between. Anyway, i decided to continue to bake this cake as it look so nice. This cake will be serve for Chinese New Year instead, keke.. :p I have copy and paste the Ingredient, the baking method directly from the site. Too lazy to type out everything. As I can;t find treacle from the nearby supermarket and decide to skip this ingredient. After the cake have cool down, I used a toothpick and poke holes onto the cake before pouri

It's Christmas season again and decided to cook this Philippines dish for potluck. I found this ingredient from this website and it turn out pretty well. http://thedomesticman.com/2012/08/21/pork-adobo/ Ingredients 1.3kg pork belly, well-marbled pork shoulder, or a combination of the two 1/3 cup wheat-free tamari 10 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped 2 tbsp black peppercorns 5 bay leaves 2/3 cup vinegar (cane vinegar preferred) 1 cup water 2 tsp coconut oil Some sugar, this is not in the original recipe. I have use all pork shoulder as it's not so fattening compare to the pork belly and have also skip the coconut oil. Adding coconut milk does give a more richer and creamy taste. I have also added some sugar to make it taste less sour. Well, It;s all depends on how you want your adobo taste like. Adjust accordingly to your preference. Steps Marinate the pork with garlic, black peppercorns and tamari. Kept it in the fridge for around 1 -2 hours. I have m

This is my second time baking this cake, the first time was 1 week back where i baked for my colleagues in the office and they love it. I have reduce the sugar content to make it less sweet as the banana itself is already sweet and it taste better this time round This is another classic cake where everyone will ate it since young. Getting banana squash, adding flour, sugar, butter,eggs and bake it.

Day 2 of my baking dairy start with this rich butter cake. This butter cake is really rich and buttery. This is quite a heavy cake, weighing about 800g. Guess i have mess up the parchment paper in the baking tin and end up having uneven pattern on the side of the cake. This cake might look burn on the outside but this is the color of the cake after baking. Lucky ;p

Second cake for the morning and I'm tired out. Am so use to the office life, lying back on my seat, enjoying the air con, sending email. Now i have been standing for the whole morning and I start to feel back aching, tiring legs. Am I getting old?? ha ha. Maybe it's time for more exercise. The second cake is this earl grey tea cake. My friend actually gave me some earl grey tea and decided to use it on a not so dense butter cake, that how this cake came about. Ha ha. Well, with some adjustment of the ingredient to make it feel prefect. This cake is for those who are looking for a relax afternoon, roting at one corner. Enjoy a cup of tea and have some cake. This is the cake. It's light buttery and the earl grey tea flavor make the day real soothing. Just imagine eating this with some English tea, listening to some music, chit chatting with friends and yawwwnnnn... So relaxing. Wanted to proceed with baking another cake, guess I'm too tired to start with a

Since i'm clearing my annual leave for these few days, decide to spend my time baking some new prroduct. My first cake for the day is this dark chocolate cake, using 70% dark chocolate for its ingredient. This chocolate cake is pretty rich, i;m able to feel the burning chocolate sensation in mouth. The dark chocolate powder on top of the cake add a additional kick to the cake. Look at the dense texture of the cake. Any chocolate lovers craving for this dark chocolate cake? :p

Weekend finally came and i start my baking with my Baby Belling!!!! Since it's one of my colleague birthday, decided to bake her a rich orange cake for her birthday. I am really amaze by the performance of the Baby Belling, heat is constant throughout the baking period and the top of the cake does not get burn easily, although the cake seem quite close to the heating element. The strong door does help to retain the heat inside the oven. And here is the cake. The orangery yellow color make me smile, look so good. I slightly touch the top of the cake, it's moist, soft and smell good. Accidentally touch the side of the cake while opening up the box and "injure" the cake.   The cake taste pretty good, texture is soft and it has a orange tangy after taste.   Guess what I need to do it to improve on the presentation of the cakes and my photography skill. :p   But conclusion, the Baby Belling is something worth investing for a baking oven. Thu

Been baking for 10 years and decided to invest on a reputable oven. Read many review on this oven call Baby Belling, well known for its quality, durable and maintain even heat temperature during baking. But this oven is not commonly found in Singapore, I have looking around, called the distributor and it's coming to Singapore. Quickly go around looking for it and saw it in a electronic store. This oven has those old fashion look and is really solid, the door is pretty thick and closed really tight. You can find more details of the oven here. http://www.belling.co.uk/baby-belling Wasting no more time, I quickly place an order for it and have to wait 2 days for it to arrive. Finally today, I got my new oven!!!! My Baby.. came wrapped up nicely... After unwrapping it. It has also 2 hobs on top of the oven, cool.... Peeling off the protective sticker on the stainless steel door   The inner potion of the oven. Can;t wait to bake u

If you do have a sweet tooth and craving for quality cakes in Hong Kong, you can check out this shop. Patisserie Tong Wong . Been to the outlet in Wan Chai, and the cakes are just too beautiful to be eaten.   Chocolate-Truffle Rich chocolate coating with chocolate truffles in it.   American Cheesecake Hazelnut and Chocolate Crunchy Cake The amercian cheesecake is smooth and creamy with a soft crust. The top white layer of the cheesecake is a thick creamy cheesecream. Hazelnut chocolate crunchy cake taste like Ferrero Rocher chocolate. Thick, creamy hazelnut and chocolate. Chocolate Rose This chocolate rose is their signature. Each rose petal is made of dark chocolate and coated with chocolate powder, it's really really rich. And that's not all, in the middle of this rose, is a chocolate cake with rum, kind of like Tiramisu. One of this will make you fe

Have been to Hong Kong for a few times and is always a food paradise for me. The food never fail me, their dim sum, wanton noodle, roasted meat, smelly tofu and much more, always make me craving for more. This time round, I went to try this famous dim sum stall which have been awarded with the MICHELIN award and yet selling at normal price as what they call 平民价。 Tim Ho Wan (添好運點心專門店) Address: Flat 8, Ground Floor, Phase 2, Tsui Yuen Mansion, 2-20 Kwong Wa St, Mong Kok, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Phone: +852 2332 2896 ‎ View Larger Map Tim Ho Wan MICHELIN award for 2011 and 2012. You can see the number of people waiting outside the shop. Average waiting hours is around 1hour 30 mins.   Their signature dim sum   酥皮焗叉烧包     Forget the traditional Hong Kong char siew bao that you always have, this is a total different concept.   The crust is kind of like baked custard, thin, soft yet crispy. The filling is the normal char siew, its swe

Sapa, located in Lao Cai province, about 350 km south west of Hanoi is Hanoi city and it has the Vietnam’s highest peak, Fansipan, 3143m above sea level. There's overnight train from Hanoi city to Lao Cai. Trains depart from Hanoi train station and arrive around 530 am in the morning. There are quite a few companies operating and tickets can be bought online. Upon reaching Lao Cai railway station, you need to catch a taxi which will bring you to Sapa. The journey takes about 50 minutes. You can also get a agency to help arrange a package for you. We have engage a local agency to help out, our train is "Oriental Express" and depart at 930pm. The train's interior look pretty new and clean. Bed is soft, air-con is cold except that the bed is abit short for me. The overall train ride is quite enjoyable, listening to the train running on the railway. Toilet are close before the train move off and only open up for usage after reaching a certain point of the ride.