Every time I go to the granddaddy of all Singapore wet markets, Tekka, I buy a whole fish or two. And the last time, I “splurged” on a decidedly plump and attractive garoupa. Baking a whole fish is one of the easiest and most satisfying ways to cook fish. You could simply dress it with […]
What better cake than a moist, zesty lemon cake for Sunday teatime? Our mouths were itching for something other than our stash of lemon puffs, so…I whipped this up in a jiffy. Lemon cake is fast and super easy! In the interest of sharing the calories, I baked this in 2 mini loaf pans so […]
Raspberries and blackberries are usually rather pricey, so when I see special offers on them, I grab. But often, they start showing signs of spoilage fairly quickly, and I end up having to throw them out (because I’m not really a fruit person so I don’t end up eating them fast enough). But then I […]
Ah..molten chocolate cake. Or chocolate lava cake as it is fondly known as. Remember that scene in the move, Chef, where Jon Favreau screams his head off at a food critic, saying “chocolate lava cake isn’t just undercooked chocolate cake…you take a frozen cylinder of ganache and set it in a ramekin so that as […]
Apparently I am the resident baker of the family. A big hullabaloo ensued when I decided to bring store-bought kueh instead of a homemade cake for Christmas last year. (Btw, my store-bought kueh was from an authentic shophouse kind of kueh shop in Katong, okay? Still, no pardon for me). So this year, for Chinese […]
Say tarte tatin, and you’re likely to get oohs and aahs around the table, but little do your guests know – it’s really very little effort! Now, of course, if you’ve been trawling the net in search of tarte tatin recipes, you might just get a little wary of the methods and equipment needed. That […]