musings of a traveller and food lover

FOOD

….those angelic cakes

Saturday’s culinary adventure left my palate satisfied and my kitchen looking like a war zone. Just when I was about to tackle the mess, I wanted something sweet, lemony perhaps. This ...

Ensaymada

Finally I baked my own ensaymada, the Filipino sweet bread that taste like brioche, that is topped with creamed butter and sugar. When I was growing up in a small town, we did not snack on ...

Nutella Cup Cake Swirls

Sometime a month ago, I visited 80 Breakfasts and saw her truffle cupcakes ( she had truffle left over the Christmas past). She used a recipe she dug from Baking Sheet that has been adapted ...

Loukoumades (lou kou MAH des)

Loukoumades… the Greek pastry sometimes called HONEY PUFFS, HONEY BALLS, FRIED PUFFS. Whatever you call them, its one of my favourite Greek pastry.

Soup, Snow & Nürnberger Lebkuchen

Greece like the rest of Europe is experiencing snow storms and plunging temperature. Athens is eerie quite today but it did not stop me going out. Athenians are not so used to this kind of ...

Fudge Cupcakes

Yesterday, I was looking forward for a quite night. Just when I finished at the gym, my cell has a text : “Remember you promised to meet up today!” I totally have forgotten about ...

Risotto with Calamari

Got some squids and I wanted to do the Chinese Salt & Chili Squid.. deep fried full of flavour with chili dip! Then the other one said “please no fry up today!”

Apple Cake ~ Kanada õunakook

Just before Christmas Baby Rambutan baked an APPLE CAKE. I knew its a matter of time I will test that recipe. Well I have lots of old apples. No one will touch them so I have to ...