June 2011

Hong Kong Style Egg Tarts – Nostalgic Saint Honore Egg Tarts

June 27, 2011

I didn’t quite expect the kind of positive response for my Danish Butter Cookies when I posted them. Interestingly among the comments for the posts, almost all of them alluded to nostalgia of some form or other… key buzz words included : Nostalgic, Memories, Childhood, Reminisce… Yes, nostalgia is a powerful ingredient as is eloquently [...]

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Radish Cake with Seafood and XO Sauce

June 22, 2011

It took my 2 weeks’ business travel to pry me away from my cookies. Taking a break sometimes, opens up the mind for new stimulation. The stimuli for this post came in the form of an amazing XO Sauce I found in Taiwan. Unlike the supermarket versions that we get here, this is chock full [...]

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Raisin Danish Butter Cookies

June 19, 2011

I had mentioned in my earlier Danish Butter Cookies post that I was just one cookie short to complete the full array in the nostalgic blue tin. Here it is , my last instalment of the Danish Butter Cookie collection. Made during that short interval just after I got back from Korea last weekend and [...]

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Madeleine C’bon – Pierre Herme’s Apricot Caramel Madeleine

June 12, 2011

Yes, I am forging ahead, yet again with Pierre Herme’s recipes. I can’t seem to get enough of it – not so much because he is THE pastry guru but because there are so much to discover in terms of technique and methods in the recipes documented in this particular book, Le Livre des fours [...]

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Pierre Herme’s Sable a L’olive Noir Recipe – Black Olive Cookies Recipe

June 6, 2011

I have often been told that I look young for my age and because of that, I have always celebrated it to almost the extent of flaunting it…on many occasions, telling people that I am almost half a century old – which is really, not too far from the truth. I guess everyone, especially those [...]

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Expanding on Pierre Hermes’ Sable Vennois Recipe – Sugared Danish Butter Cookies

June 2, 2011

As much as I admire gourmet flavours and sophisticated recipes, I know I am not a good cook. I have neither the skills, the experience nor the deftness to create intricate and sophisticated dishes. Unlike full time housewives tasked with enormous responsibilities and with loads of practical experience stashed under their belts, I am at best, only [...]