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Technique: How To Cut An Artichoke

How to Cut an Artichoke, the Roman way. Early in the morning at Campo de Fiori, aside from arranging the fresh produce, the vendors are busy trimming the seasonal favourite of Italians: the artichoke. While both small and large artichokes are available whole, the trimmed artichokes, ready to cook, are also on offer. This is […]
13 years ago

Pie Dough 101 + Simple Apple Pie

I think an apple pie is one of the first things I baked when I got an oven. I used a pie dough recipe from a nondescript local book and didn’t pay much attention to baking blind (we will get to this shortly). Back then, this was an unnecessary step that the naïve me thought […]
16 years ago

Candied Ginger + Ginger Ale

Have you ever candied something? Maybe some orange or lime zests? If you haven’t, I urge you to give it a go. I only realise now what I had been missing out on all this while once I candied some ginger this morning. What’s more, it put my skepticism about candying at rest – waaay […]
16 years ago

How to Make Brownies

A couple of years ago, I made my first batch of brownies. I was astonished by how easy they were to make and how perfect the gooey inside and the crusty outside turned out to be. Brownies can be made any flavour you like. You could add to the brownie batter caramel, butterscotch, Oreo, chocolate […]
18 years ago

Recipes and Travel Stories

small cakes apple and cinnamon crumble muffin banana cakes with double chocolate chips caramel cakes chocolate chip muffins chocolate hazelnut entremet chocolate valentino cake financiers honey lavender madeleines lemon poppy seed muffins nutella cakes raspberry yoghurt teacake red velvet cupcakes triple chocolate cake with hazelnuts vanilla, brown butter madeleines white chocolate oreo cupcakes big cakes […]
18 years ago