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Malaysian Pineapple Tarts

Malaysian Pineapple Tarts

Posted on 25. Nov, 2011 by .

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Pineapple tarts are little short crust pastry tarts with home made pineapple jam. In Malaysia, these are made for special ocassions like Chinese New Year, Deepavali and Hari Raya (Eid). Families used to make it but in this age of “I don’t know how she does it”, we tend to buy them from the many [...]

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Brazilian Chocolate Brigadeiros

Brazilian Chocolate Brigadeiros

Posted on 25. Nov, 2011 by .

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I found this recipe on another food blog and they looked so lovely that I had it on my list to try. Then came along the Let’s Make Christmas event, so I made it for my swap contribution. See below for my adapted recipe. They are really easy to make and the recipe makes about [...]

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Coffee Tasting And Coffee Matching Masterclass

Coffee Tasting And Coffee Matching Masterclass

Posted on 04. Nov, 2011 by .

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Slurping your food and drink loudly is seen as rude in some cultures but in tasting beverages like wine, tea and coffee, it’s quite essential as the oxygenation releases the flavours and aromas. Up to this point, I have never had much of an occassion to taste more than one coffee at a time and [...]

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Strawberry Yoghurt Ice Cream with Cuisinart Ice Cream Deluxe

Strawberry Yoghurt Ice Cream with Cuisinart Ice Cream Deluxe

Posted on 23. Sep, 2011 by .

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My new new thing all this summer was making ice cream, with lots of summer fruits and experimenting with other strange flavours. One of the favourite recipes was making Strawberry Ice Cream. The first time I made it was such a lovely surprise as it produces a delightful pink coloured concoction and it was really [...]

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Spicy Nduja Palmier Bites – My recipe

Spicy Nduja Palmier Bites – My recipe

Posted on 16. Aug, 2011 by .

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Do you know the feeling like you have won the lottery when you discover an amazing new ingredient? There is this unrational thrill that a  foodie gets when finding and loving a fab tasting new ingredient and my newest one is nduja, which I tasted here. An email popped into my inbox inviting me to [...]

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Chocolate dipped orange shortbread biscuits

Chocolate dipped orange shortbread biscuits

Posted on 07. Aug, 2011 by .

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PrintChocolate dipped orange shortbread biscuits Ingredients100g (3 ½ oz) Kerrygold butter, softened and diced, plus extra for greasing 150g (5oz) plain flour, plus extra for dusting 50g (2oz) caster sugar 75g (2½ oz) dark chocolate, broken in to pieces The grated zest of one orangeInstructionsMakes 15–20 biscuits Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°f/Gas mark 4. Grease [...]

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Grilled spring lamb cutlets with anchovy, olive and caper butter served with buttered courgettes

Grilled spring lamb cutlets with anchovy, olive and caper butter served with buttered courgettes

Posted on 07. Aug, 2011 by .

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PrintGrilled spring lamb cutlets with anchovy, olive and caper butter served with buttered courgettes Ingredients2 tbsp olive oil 12 lamb cutlets Salt and pepper For the flavoured butter: 125g (4 ½ oz) Kerrygold butter, softened 1 tbsp parsley, chopped 2 anchovies, chopped 0 capers, chopped 6 black olives, pitted and chopped A squeeze of lemon [...]

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Mackerel Tartare with Minted Cucumber Soup

Mackerel Tartare with Minted Cucumber Soup

Posted on 01. Aug, 2011 by .

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This is a recipe we cooked at the Atelier Des Chefs, a recipe that was created by Andre Dupin for Total Greek Yoghurt.It is a very fresh dish and will be very easy to make for dinner parties as you can prepare most of it before hand. This serves 6 people. Ingredients 12 Fillets of [...]

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Hot Nicoise Salad

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Hot Nicoise Salad

Posted on 07. Jun, 2011 by .

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I don’t usually like celebrity cook books as they are usually not written by the celebrity and the recipes mostly don’t work. (…Sophie Dahl) After all the publicity around Gwynnie’s new book, Notes from my Kitchen Table, we had to try at least one of them. This is a really easy and quick recipe which [...]

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Ottolenghi Recipes on Masterchef

Posted on 19. Mar, 2011 by .

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If you have been following the new season of Masterchef, Yotam Ottolenghi was featured in a recent episode where the contestants had to cook from his vegetarian recipes. I have listed the recipes below here. Sometimes Ottolenghi recipes are a bit complicated and uses a lot of ingredients, the end results is always superb. These [...]

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