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Baking | Giveaway| Book Review … Fred Harveys French Apple Pie with Nutmeg Sauce … & a Shabby Apron Giveaway!
A chic Shabby Apple apron giveaway and a recipe for comfort food redefined. Takes you back to the good old days … a simple, comforting apple pie served with an even simpler nutmeg sauce. This classic eating house comfort food dish was tarted up by the head Fred Harvey baker at the Los Angeles Union Station way back in the 1920′s!
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Blueberry Lime Buttermilk Pound Cake
Blueberries & lime - a combination made in heaven, makes for beautiful pairing. The buttermilk in the pound cake gives it a beautiful, light crumb. It's very nice warm, and good even the next day. The blueberries rehydrate with the lime and buttermilk and add glory to the cake. This is one basic cake I make ALL the time, the recipe lives in my head, and takes any number of flavour combinations willingly.
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{Baking/Savoury} ADOBO BUTTERMILK CHICKEN, OLIVE OIL SCHIACCIATA {Bread} … & a Giveaway!
“A man who loves good food has a way of making it gravitate toward his kitchen.” Angelo Pellegrini Finally glad to be back doing what I like best. Sometimes it takes an innocuous looking bug to mess up your life. Something that sounds as assuring as ‘Security Tool’, a rogue anti-spyware program downloaded via some stupid site, which messes up your computer. The past 2 days have been horrid and frustrating, battling this virtual virus, but am glad to say that the the back breaking time has been worthwhile. I busted the virus step by step, following a list of 24 odd instructions, most gobblygook, but managed to get my…
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{Book Review & Giveaway} GARLIC-PEPPER CHICKEN with CASHEW RED CHILI RICE … The Mainland China Cookbook & a giveaway
‘Everyone eats and drinks, but few can appreciate taste’ Confucius I tend to shy away from cooking Chinese food at home even though Mr PAB and PAB junior love a good one. I consider myself challenged in so far as cooking an authentic one as we have long been influenced by an Indian/Chinese hand in Chinese food. Going back to the days when we were kids, we would love that greasy bag full of noodles stamped Chinese, noodles almost being synonymous with the cuisine. The most popular from my kid vocabulary were haka noodles, sweet corn chicken soup and American Chop Suey! Limited knowledge and ignorant taste-buds continued until much…
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Deluxe Triple Vanilla Chocolate Cupcakes…
“The 12-step chocoholics program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!” Terry Moore I had these little beauties tucked away in my drafts folder for a bit. They are a variation on the regular vanilla cupcakes I often make, but this time I decided to give them a vanilla overdose! Three types of vanilla in there, and they sang the vanilla anthem! Always fun to try a twist on a recipe which is a keeper and works well with variations. A short post today as the kitchen is under renovation and not much baking is happening. When we built our house almost 12 years ago, modular kitchens were…
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Baking | STONE FRUIT & CHOCOLATE CLAFOUTIS … with flaxseed!
“A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld As usual, my fridge is stuffed to the gills with an assortment of stone fruit. The weather is wonderful with the monsoons {rainy season in India} showing up, and a gentle breeze blowing through the house on most days. Two days ago, I was dog tired as the school vacations were still on, the kids had friends from Ukraine over for the day, but the weather was perfect for baking! So what did I have in the fridge? A bag of peaches,…
