celebrate national hotdog day with a chicago dog with the works

a chicago dog with the works Much as I love and am curious about history, it seems that as far as family history goes that for the first tw...

socca (chickpea flour pancakes)

socca (chickpea flour pancakes) I've been " socca'ing " a lot recently. But before you roll your eyes and wince at the ide...

celebrate chinese new year with dragon cookies (loong peng)

dragon cookies (loong peng) When Malaysian Chinese people found out that I was born in the Year of the Dragon , they cooed and petted me. ...

chorizo, nutella, sour cheese and pickled apple crostini

chorizo and nutella crostini with pickled apples and labneh A few years ago I started to make a party canape that was essentially a crostin...

a story of a Goth, a grandmother and baklava, with a sting in the tale!

honey nut baklava I am thinking about Christmas baking and alternatives to the usual spiced cakes. I want to make some baklava , filo pastry...

boozy rum babas with lemongrass and lime syrup

boozy rum babas drenched in l emongrass and lime syrup Have you ever looked through the cookbooks of the 1950's, 60's and 70's ?...

deep- fried breaded camembert with spicy plum sauce

deep-fried camembert with spicy plum sauce As a truculent teen-aged vegetarian, I wasn't expecting much (well too many veggie options) f...

a zesty plum and allspice crumble (puts a spring in my step!)

zesty plum and allspice nut crumble So I am bouncing energetically around the kitchen singing " There is nothing like a plum " to ...

and now for something completely different: Malaysian steamed layer cake - kuih lapis

kuih lapis (Malaysian layer cake) Malaysian cakes and desserts are often tooth-achingly sweet, but this one is so pretty that it is hard to...