Archive | June 2010
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Restaurant Review: Lemongrass (Singapore)
my first memory of eating a bona-fide Thai meal is from about 9 – 10 years ago when i visited Bangkok with my family. the hotel we were staying in had a quaint restaurant and that was where we had our first meal in the country. i tasted tom yam soup for the first time – and [...]
Chocolate Cake with Cherry Filling and Chocolate Frosting
think chocolate cake and cherries – and the first image that probably springs to mind is a black forest cake. and that was what i had actually set out to make. using a time-tested recipe for chocolate cake from The Joy of Vegan Baking (which i had mentioned once before in my Chocolate Cupcakes post) i breezed [...]
Cake Truffles
i have been wanting to make cake truffles (aka cake balls/cake bon bons) for ages now. i saw them for the first time as Christmas Truffles at Exclusively Food and then subsequently as uber-cute cake pops in Bakerella’s website. and boy are they tempting! little (or not so little) bites of cake and frosting that are coated in chocolate [...]
Pancakes
mention the word “pancakes” and the image that comes to my mind is of breakfast on a beautiful weekend morning with hot pancakes and maple syrup, freshly brewed coffee and a leisurely flick through the day’s paper. i think pancakes were invented so that people could have leisurely weekend breakfasts. i haven’t had pancakes in a while, but ever [...]
Spicy Okra
okra, also known as ladies finger/bhendi/vendaikkai, was a popular choice of vegetable in my house. i personally liked it, so i had no problems. but if any of my cousins did raise a protest, they were cajoled into eating it with the argument that it would help sharpen our brains - especially our math abilities. i personally didn’t see any [...]
