Merry Christmas dear readers! This is the second Christmas cookie I made with the help of my son. He actually picked it out about a month ago because it looked so cute. Making this type of cookies was like playing with playdough Snowball Trees Makes about 36 cookies 1 cup unsalted butter, softened [...]
I don’t have a bake-a-thon this Christmas but I managed to bake two extra cookies today. The first one is this Cream Cheese Shortbread with Toasted Kenari Nuts. The inspiration was from a book I borrowed from the library, One Girl Cookies by Dawn Casale and David Crofton. Their book has good reviews everywhere and [...]
I’ve always loved Italian plums ever since I ate a handful of them off of someone’s homegrown tree. They were ripe on the tree and that’s when it’s the best time to eat them. I plucked one and bit into it, instantly I love how firm and sweet was the flesh. Since then I’m [...]
I have stock photos of some recipes that I made this summer; one of the is this glutinous rice cake cooked in coconut milk with palm sugar or wajik. This diamond-shaped cake is known as “wajik” in Bahasa Indonesia because it refers to the shape of it, and it’s traditionally made with lots of palm [...]
Christmas Greeting
Merry Christmas dear readers! This is the second Christmas cookie I made with the help of my son. He actually picked it out about a month ago because it looked so cute. Making this type of cookies was like playing with playdough Snowball Trees Makes about 36 cookies 1 cup unsalted butter, softened...
Cream Cheese Shortbread with Toasted Kenari Nuts
I don’t have a bake-a-thon this Christmas but I managed to bake two extra cookies today. The first one is this Cream Cheese Shortbread with Toasted Kenari Nuts. The inspiration was from a book I borrowed from the library, One Girl Cookies by Dawn Casale and David Crofton. Their book has good reviews everywhere and...
Caramelized Plum and Rosemary Polenta Pound Cake
I’ve always loved Italian plums ever since I ate a handful of them off of someone’s homegrown tree. They were ripe on the tree and that’s when it’s the best time to eat them. I plucked one and bit into it, instantly I love how firm and sweet was the flesh. Since then I’m...
Wajik
I have stock photos of some recipes that I made this summer; one of the is this glutinous rice cake cooked in coconut milk with palm sugar or wajik. This diamond-shaped cake is known as “wajik” in Bahasa Indonesia because it refers to the shape of it, and it’s traditionally made with lots of palm...
Summer Ice Pops: Strawberry Mint
So here’s the recipe for the strawberry pops. Made with mint simple syrup and fresh Oregon strawberries, the pops look so bloody red! They taste amazing though, the mint is very subtle, the strawberries really shine. To mix two different flavors, freeze half of the first mixture about 1 hour, then add the second mixture....
Summer Ice Pops: Pineapple Ginger Coconut
Okay, so when a grocery store had a sale on pineapples, what do you do? If you’re like me, you’d run to the store and bought more than one pineapple for sure. Fred Meyer had $1/pineapple this week so I had to have it; in my household, pineapple is a favorite fruit. I bought...
Start of the Summer
All Posts Where has the sun gone today? It was drizzling, the sky turned grey, and it was cold this morning that it dampened our spirits a bit. My son and I were to go on a bike ride right after breakfast but since it was drizzling, we decided that we would bake cookies first....
Piña Colada Cake
There are days that I will definitely bake a cake, and those are birthdays and wedding anniversary. Last week we celebrated our anniversary and my hubby’s birthday’s on dates that were only a day apart. When I asked what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday, he asked for a cake with pineapple. Pineapple...
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This sanctuary is a means for me to express my creativity through food and photography. I am delighted in simple things in life so you will not see any pretentious in everything I write here.
My passion is in baking, whether it is Western-or Asian-style baking, I love them all. While baking doesn't always happen all the time, cooking is a must for me so what I cook is occasionally posted here too. I'm completely self-taught in both baking and cooking, everything you see here is all homemade.
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