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Recipe: Auntie Shin's remarkable trifle 24 Jul 2013 | 05:57 pm
Our New York eating is by no means over but as C. is tied up with work, I am interrupting the series with a recent recipe. Let's get one thing straight, I don't like trifle. I don't like how they are...
Miscellaneous Food: New York (Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House) 5 Jun 2013 | 12:16 pm
In Law Abiding Citizen, Gerard Butler's character, in an implausible storyline, shows up the criminal justice system while in prison by offering to give police and prosecutors information about a crim...
Review: New York Food 2013 26 May 2013 | 02:57 pm
So, are you tired of New York food reviews? I certainly am. I landed in New York, thinking, ok, I'm still seeing the same restaurants, so I'll just fill in the gaps. There are, as usual, a ton of new ...
Recipe: Soaked Tomatoes, Herbs and Cheese 15 Apr 2013 | 08:10 pm
This is a really nifty gift idea, which can be done with anything that can be pickled- tomatoes, mushrooms or olives. If you have leftover herbs and some good olive oil, this is a also a lovely way of...
Recipe: Duck Breast (Duck L'Orange) with Heston Blumenthal's Perfect Mash and Lentils de Puy 14 Apr 2013 | 11:48 am
This weekend, I decided to take on a Duck L'orange in the Sous Vide. I checked up several recipes, deciding between a charred orange Cointreau recipe here and balsamic honey recipe here. I went to Hub...
Recipe: Fun Times with Sous Vide Cooking 7 Apr 2013 | 09:40 pm
If you've ever wondered about the culinary phenomenon known as Sous Vide cooking, it's like immersing your food in a kettle, that has an intelligent thermal coil. I don't know if you ever did that pri...
Recipe: Matcha Swiss Roll with Salted Caramel Cream and Adzuki Bean 7 Apr 2013 | 08:36 pm
I'm not a huge Swiss Roll fan, in fact, I tend to find them slightly cheap. If you don't believe me on this, you should, for they are simply a commercial leavened sponge cake wrapped around what is us...
Charity Bake Sale: Easter Fruitcakes 3 Apr 2013 | 03:50 pm
It is often the case that the end-of-year comes not in December but actually in some other part of the year. For example, my work year actually finishes in March and so that creates an artificial sens...
Heston Blumenthal at Andre: The Evolution of Taste 2 Apr 2013 | 07:28 pm
I was really blown away by a recent dinner, where I was lucky enough to be an invited guest at a womens' event. The funny thing was, I didn't know if I had been included until the day itself, which me...
Recipe: Chinese New Year Hae Bee Hiam Cookies 8 Feb 2013 | 06:27 am
These cookies are addictive, spicy little packets of goodness and the most important ingredient, is of course, Hae Bee Hiam. I was lucky to be given a bottle of home-made dried prawns, ground and frie...
