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 [...]
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...
A study in contrast
There was a Marie Claire magazine to read and there was a plate of tape uli ketan hitam to savor. Marie Claire guided my eyes toward the girlie things in life; clothes, shoes, accessories, all things that are fluid in life. They keep changing each season. Tape uli ketan hitam moved me in a different...
Monkeying around in the kitchen
Here are some recent explorations from my kitchen (with occasional help from Mom): Chicken Pesto pizza, a relatively simple pizza made from store-bought pesto, grilled chicken, mozzarella and Provolone cheeses. New Haven White Clam pizza, a new favorite of my son and I. I can’t believe how simple it is to make this pizza, much...
Fried Sweet Potato Dumplings
Oh, where has the time gone by? There has been so much going on in my household that I have not updating this blog recently. My parents have finally settled in their house, while the transition has not been as easy and smooth as we have expected it, the life routine has caught up with...
Kue Lopis
Kue Lopis is a traditional Indonesian sweet snack. It is made of sweet glutinous rice wrapped with banana leaves and boiled until it becomes one solid mass. Then it is eaten with palm sugar syrup flavored with pandanus and kaffir lime leaves along with steamed shredded coconut. It sounds complicated huh? But once one learns...
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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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