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 [...]