Meet my eager helper. He’s always having fun doing things with me in the kitchen. He loves to eat and he know that helping me would make baking and cooking faster, therefore, he can eat soon too. We made puto…
Archives for June 2011
Perfected Macaron (procedure)
In making macarons, you need to start at least 3 days before…or longer. The eggs should be aged, leaving it in the fridge for at least 24 hours will make it more elastic – less air makes for smoother crust….
Caramel Cheesecake
I’m not supposed to indulge in sweets but it just won’t work. I do have my bit of anything sweet once in a while and I think I’ve tasted all that McCafe has to offer. They have good treats there…
Macaron Perfected!
Finally, I can proudly say that after a lot of trials and using different recipes, we did it! We’ve made macarons and it’s easier than before, they developed lovely feet and were crunchy outside but very soft in the inside….
The car cake!
Remember the car cake? I’ve featured it here before and here it is again…A friend and I were browsing online for auto insurance comparison and I got hungry doing so that I ended up browsing for recipes….what do you know,…
Ebi (Shrimp) Tempura
As promised, here is the shrimp fry/ebi tempura recipe I I said I’ll be posting last weekend. Ingredients: 12 large shrimps, deveined salt and pepper 1 cup of panko (Japanese breadcrumbs) 1/4 cup flour 1 egg, well beaten *oil…
Aka Daifuku
– I think I’m craving for mochi that’s why I brought this aka (red) daifuku last time I was at the Japanese foodshop. Daifuku literally means great luck…but of course I don’t buy this for that. I’m never a believer…
Bentou
We had a special assembly today and yesterday outside of Vienna. The kids and I travelled an hour from the city’s Westbahnhof to St. Pölten to freshen up and be full with spiritual food. The affair starts from 9 in…
Knödel and an Upside Down Kitchen
I was wandering at Lutz, a furniture store near our place the other day and this upside down kitchen display caught my attention. Yep, it gives me a headache when I look at it, but I just have to have…
Tea-licious Bubble Teas
Monday was mom’s busy day. Oh that’s me. I went with my daughter’s class once again to the city center to a somewhat educational field trip. We wandered around the Ringstrasse for the kids to learn about history, architectural buildings,…
Kitchen renovation
A friend had her new kitchen installed last week and I was there to help her tidy up. She actually had the old kitchen thrown away, the floors redone and the walls repainted before the installation. It was not an…
Taho
I’m glad I was somehow able to transfer this blog’s content to my other blog, really thought I’d lose everything. I just decided to keep this blog for recipes. Some of my entries that I transferred included a write up about taho…