musings of a traveller and food lover

Baking

Irish Apple Cake

I was reading the Guardian few days ago, before St Patrick’s day and came across with this recipe. To bake or not to bake? Yes why not, not because I want to celebrate St ...

Clan VI’s Drop Cake

To be honest I did not know what to expect from this cake. Stephen was in Italy and was constantly raving about this gooey, so soft a cake their Swiss chef made for the crew. He described to ...

MITseaAH’s Apple Pie

It all started asking Stephen suggestions what to bake. Of all crew mates he is pretty much involved with food ideas what to feed to the crew. Perhaps because he loves food and cooking ...

a birthday celebration… lemon pancake cake

For weeks I racked up ideas what cake it should be… …. he does not like frosting so there goes the wicked chocolate cake I had in mind layered with cream frosting.I even dreaded ...

exquisite pleasures… madeleines

I wanted to do something special to mark this special date…. who would have thought that five years ago just around the holidays I was digging for some recipes that I stumbled to a ...

comforts of home…cassava macapuno cake

Home is where my kitchen is, where I can create what ever I want to try. The kitchen where I would spend hours pouring into cookbooks, or sitting with close friends having a pot of tea and ...

cinnamon & honey frosted banana cupcakes

Few bananas that are sitting inside the fruit bowls are rotting away. I thought of banana bread but I do not want to bore the crew with it. So I thought of muffins and for some reason I ...

blueberry muffins

I came back from Athens just a week ago. The following days was spent cleaning the galley. Scrubbing the walls, fridges and cupboards. One cupboard is full of baking goodies… nuts, ...