- Tried & Tasted -

Sunday, 6 July 2014

Lemon Curd Tart




It's tart time again. I did a chocolate tart with a digestive biscuit base the last time. This lemon curd tart uses the vanilla butter cookies recipe as its base. 

Sunday, 29 June 2014

Teochew Braised Duck



Under the guidance of my mum (during the CNY period), I managed to reproduce this dish twice. It is my mum's recipe and this duck recipe is for keeps. One day, I will teach my girls how to cook it. 

Sunday, 22 June 2014

Vanilla Butter Cookies



Since I was unable to bake her a Pooh bear cake, I went on to make her Pooh bear and his best friend, Tigger, shaped cookies. ;) 

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Strawberry Shortcake


My daughter wanted a strawberry cake (she actually wanted a Pooh bear cake - difficulty 100* ) for her 10th birthday and this was what I made. 

Happy birthday, Eunice!! Be happy and most importantly, know God. 

Sunday, 15 June 2014

Fresh Popiah (not the fried version)


As it is the school holidays, I cooked more than I baked. So today I am going to share a dish rather than a bake. This is one dish that I love a lot and can have it as a meal on its own. I have not tried making it at home, thinking that it is very difficult, until today. It was not difficult at all. I think the difficulties are the many components that one have to prepare before assembling the final product. 

Sunday, 8 June 2014

Homemade Pure Vanilla Extract




A few years ago, I bought a batch of vanilla beans from this Australian website. While writing this page, I went back to look at the website and was shocked that prices of vanilla pods had rose tremendously.


Monday, 2 June 2014

Blueberry Muffins


 



Blueberries are on sale in the supermarket recently. I picked up a few boxes to have with my breakfast cereal and used one box to bake this blueberries muffins. Blueberries is one of the super fruit with very high antioxidants and lots of vitamins. 

Sunday, 25 May 2014

Chocolate Tartlets



Recently, I got myself some small tart molds, planning to make some tarts. There are so many kinds of tarts to make, such as egg tarts, fruit tarts, jam tarts and many more. So I searched on the internet and decided to make this chocolate tart. It was a very good choice. My photography skill did not do the tart justice. The pictures taken by the original blog will make you drool.

Monday, 12 May 2014

Stamped Cookies


I liked to look at calligraphy. I am always captivated by how simple phrases can be transformed into artworks by just creatively changing the font of the phrase.

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Homemade Kueh Bangkit


My family love this cookies. During our stay overseas, my in-laws would mail us a box during the Lunar New Year, so that we could have our kueh bangkit fix. These cookies are kind of fragile and are not good to send by mail. We were left with mostly cookies in crumbs when we got them.