Cooking

Annie’s learning to cook…

Silent Sunday

Silent Sunday

My Silent Sunday – 21st Aug 2011

Baking with Ashleigh – Lemon cupcakes

Baking with Ashleigh – Lemon cupcakes

Ashleigh’s been helping out in the kitchen for ages now, although his main job is still passing ingredients and stirring, he certainly stepped up and started demanding certain dishes to be cooked. (mostly chocolate cake and pancake…) Today we made some very simple lemon cupcakes.…

Zongzi (Sticky Rice Bamboo Leaf Parcels)

Zongzi (Sticky Rice Bamboo Leaf Parcels)

It’s Dragon Boat Festival! Well it was. I should’ve posted it on Monday but I was too busy chomping on my very own ?? (zongzi), and watching Dragon Boat Race on youtube. Because I used to live quite close to where dragon boat race (one…

Earl Grey Cupcakes, celebration for the twins :)

Earl Grey Cupcakes, celebration for the twins :)

Not passing on any excuses to make cakes, I spotted the perfect chance as tomorrow my project manager will be back from his paternity leave, so to celebrate the twins finally came home, I’ll just have to go all out and prepare some pretty cakes!…

Chinese Braised Beef with Mooli and Beancurd Sheets

Chinese Braised Beef with Mooli and Beancurd Sheets

Lately I’ve been really craving asian food, probably because the weather is not so cold now, and hence the rich butter or pastry based “western food” all seems to be a bit stodgy suddenly. So I’ve decided to devote more of our dinners to oriental…

Low Fat Chocolate Cupcakes

Low Fat Chocolate Cupcakes

A lighter, no butter chocolate cupcake recipe that is moist and scrumptious, perfect for afternoon snack (or even breakfast if you’re a chocoholic!

Museli Yoghurt with Honey

Museli Yoghurt with Honey

Just a very quick post… To call this a recipe is a blatant lie, as what it is really, is a quick healthy snack that you can throw together in last than 2 minutes. All you need is some natural yoghurt as your base, then…

Hot Cross Bun and Butter Pudding

Hot Cross Bun and Butter Pudding

Those hot cross buns I made for Fresh From the Oven were soooo nice and I must’ve been eating two every day. But they don’t seem to be going down and they’re going a bit dry. So I decided to give them a new lease…

Fresh From the Oven April Challenge — Hot Cross Buns

Fresh From the Oven April Challenge — Hot Cross Buns

It was Easter weekend last week, and apart from splashing in the paddling pool, lazing in the garden with J and Ash, I also managed to do this month’s Baking Challenge… I missed last month’s challenge so I really wanted to do this. I have…

Friday Night Fever – No, Burgers!

Friday Night Fever – No, Burgers!

Friday night calls for a quick and yummy dinner, more so than any other days! We both had a busy day at work, Ashleigh is hungry as usual (and he really kicks up fuss when he’s hungry), everyone just yearn for some grub and chill…