Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

• Melon Buns (Meron Pan)

  Posted in: Baking,Japanese - Thursday, February 23 2012

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  Hot on the heels of recreating my childhood baked favourite of Castella (Kasutera) this month for the Sweet Adventures Blog Hop (Love At First Bite), I managed to stretch my trip down memory lane further with a batch of Melon Buns (Meron Pan in Japanese). These buns are almost as quintessentially Japanese as Castella (ironically [...]

  
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• Strawberry Castella (Kasutera)

  Posted in: Baking,Japanese,Thermomix - Monday, February 20 2012

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  It’s hard to believe how fast 2012 is moving along already isn’t it? Before you know it we’ll have knocked over one-sixth of the year! One fun way to count down the months has been the Sweet Adventures Blog Hop which has been running now for four months. This month’s hop is hosted by Nic [...]

  
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• Heart Love Cookies

  Posted in: Baking - Tuesday, February 14 2012

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  My little Miss Nearly-4 does an unbearably cute thing to profess her love for her family. She had learnt how to make a diamond shape with her darling little fingers some time ago (courtesy of Twinkle Twinkle’s diamond in the sky) and from there I showed her how to form a heart by dropping and [...]

  
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• Easy Teriyaki Chicken

  Posted in: Japanese - Thursday, February 02 2012

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  It felt a bit odd adding ‘Easy’ to this post’s title as it alludes that teriyaki chicken is somehow complicated to cook. You’d be forgiven for assuming that something which tastes so good must require some secret ingredient or deft kitchen skills but that isn’t the case at all. I guess the aim of this [...]

  
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• Manchego Scones with Cherry Jam

  Posted in: Baking - Saturday, January 28 2012

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  This month’s Daring Bakers’ challenge (hosted by Audax Artifex) was the mighty scone (aka biscuits in North America). I was rather happy with this challenge as I’m fairly comfortable with baking scones and we were well and truly due for a batch in the house. I also had a fun idea I wanted to try [...]

  
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• Overnight Cinnamon Rolls

  Posted in: Baking - Tuesday, January 17 2012

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  Someone mentioned cinnamon rolls in a tweet a few days ago and I embarrassingly found myself salivating. Casual mention of amazing sounding food is nothing unusual in the Twitterverse but nothing seems to elicit instantaneous drooling as efficiently as the thought of warm, sticky cinnamon rolls. I knew I was going to have to bake [...]

  
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