It was pretty hot and sunny this Friday afternoon and I wanted something cooling and refreshing for lunch. So I made this salad and the grapes gave it all I needed. The creamy goat cheese made it just filly enough and the walnuts added a nice bitterly crunch. And the spinach just made it green [...]
My sister is a chocolate cake monster. I make a chocolate cake ever so often and every time I make it, she refuses to share. She finishes the entire cake herself in less than a day. And it pains to think about how ridiculously unhealthy it must be for her gut. So this time, for [...]
I love vanilla cake over any other type of cake. Love it to the extent that I once asked my sister to get me three loaves of plain vanilla pound cake as my birthday present. A perfect vanilla cake is one that is slightly dense in texture, buttery in taste and has an evenly browned [...]
Call it comfort food, call it a t.v. dinner, call it lazy day dinner or call it rainy day dinner -- it's absolutely amazing, either way. Doesn't require more than 10 minutes of your time to make this noodle curry in a hurry. I used panang curry paste, but you can use red curry paste, green [...]
We love Mexican food. And the salsa that goes with it must be homemade. My mum always has a couple jars full of salsa stocked up in the fridge. Every time she makes salsa during the months of mango season, she must make some mango salsa as well. And every time we make Mexican food [...]
Wintry Baltimore is finally starting to get warm and this weekend my mum and I are going to New Jersey to visit friends from Abu Dhabi. I love to bake, they love to eat and we love how perfectly this always works out! :) As per usual, I was having trouble figuring out what to make. [...]
My cousin recently got engaged and we are visiting her in-laws (to-be) in North Carolina this weekend. The last time she visited, her mom-in-law gifted her a cookie press and asked her to make some cookies using it and send her pictures. Well, that never happened, and being the biggest baking freak, I couldn't resist [...]
1 - baguette, sliced 2 - tomatoes, finely chopped 2 cloves - garlic 8 leaves - fresh basil 2 tbsp - olive oil plus extra for drizzling 6 tbsp - pesto Fresh parmesan, grated salt, pepper & lemon to taste 1) Combine the tomatoes, garlic, basil, olive oil, salt, pepper and lemon juice. Let it sit [...]
My sister once found this mushroom soup recipe that has now become our all-time favorite. It's so simple and uses very few ingredients to make a pretty excellent soup. Everytime we get a box of mushrooms, we always end up having a decent amount of remainder. And all of those get used up in making [...]
What makes this classic basil pesto a winner recipe is the key addition of white vinegar which preserves the pesto for a longer time. Now I do know that oil itself is a great preservative, but somehow vinegar also helps keep the pesto looking green and fresh for much longer. If you're using sliced jalapeños [...]