musings of a traveller and food lover

Heavenly Desserts

Crispy Brownies & Pineapple Upside Down Cake

New Year’s Eve Indulgence…what shall I bake? I know the party am attending to will have kids around. I wanted to do something different. Am sure after a week of indulging ...

Marbled Chocolate Meringues

When I thought of the meringues when I woke up this morning, I felt like there are some Ompah Loompahs doing all the magical works in my kitchen.

Upside-down Pear Cake

It was the photo that attracted me before I read the recipe. Last summer when I was in Cannes, the boat has this wonderful magazine Vogue Entertaining + Travel. It was the first time I have ...

Overview of Maja Blanca

I took some of the maja blanca to some Swiss friends and as usual they were curious. I was asked what it is and the nearest equivalent I could find is BLANCMANGE. I did explain that instead ...

Maja Blanca -BLANCMANGE OF CORN AND COCONUT CREAM

Stel of Baby Rambutan her post dated 14th of July, wrote about kakainin and she mentioned maja blanca (BLACMANGE OF CORN AND COCONUT CREAM) maja blanca is a popular afternoon snack lumped in ...

Palitaw

After a very Filipino lunch with mung beans my sister went craving for a Filipino sweet or dessert. My sister makes the wonderful leche flan, but she said too much calories but she even ...

Pancakes

Last weekend my sister, Tara and her husband Nick, were busy fixing things around their garden They were fixing their shed and painting few bits and bobs when I asked to my brother in law, ...

“Tantalizing Titillating Tempting Tarts!”

This is our (I say our because it’s a team workbetween my husband and myself) first time to join the events of IS MY BLOG BURNING the event of IMBB is being hosted by Life in Flow. At the ...

Torta Caprese

Isola di Capri Last week my husband was in his day dreaming mode of Italy and not just Italy but Capri.Well he started saying, you know Sha that restaurant in Capri and they serve a great ...

Apple Turon

When we first move to Greece in 1984, there were hardly any Asian shops. There is a supermarket in Psyhico where most of the diplomats live and there AB supermarket has a small selection of ...

CRISP BROWNIES

About 20 brownies, you can double the recipe 20 pieces is not enough! But don’t cut them into cubes so you can keep the moisture.125g flour1/2tsp baking powder60g semi sweet chocolate75g ...