For those who are missing out on Malaysian food, check out Bonda Cafe on 190 Sussex Garden (closest tube station: Paddington)
Stumbled across something interesting in which I am attempted to try for fun. One of the interesting websites I keep up to date is lifehacker.com, where it posts mainly articles on tips and tricks for getting anything done such as useful softwares for the computer, nice desktop backgrounds, latest gadgets, even 14 ways of keeping warm without using electricity and it has the odd 'food' section of how to make a quick salad decoration and this.
Taken from this article. I've broken down the steps down further...
There is a debate to the word 'Vegan', so I decided to change the title to the cupcakes. I made them just to practice my double colour icing technique. Most of the amount of ingredients were an estimation as I wanted to know how a vegan cupcake would look and taste like with another egg alternative. There are a few egg alternatives and I've tried it with mayonnaise and baking powder and vinegar so far. Couple of useful websites below about ingredients replacement. Check them out:
911's tips to replacing eggs
Vegan Baking by the Post Punk Kitchen
Will try tofu as an alternative next. My double icing didn't turn out the way I wanted it to be since textures of both icings were different. One was harder, thicker and more dense than the other. But it turned out nice in a different way.
Happy Birthday Kat! Hope you like the Lemon cake and found it not too lemony, hehe. I had a hard time figuring out of how to decorate the cake and I wanted to make it look different to the normal structure.
As well as I bought myself decorations lollies in which I had no choice but to make full use of them. I made the cake with reference to one of my reference aka bible, joyofbaking but instead of using one 9" round baking tray, it was still good enough for two 8"round baking tray.
Princi (Italian)This was done quite a while back when I was just beginning to get the hang of baking. This post is dedicated to a friend who tried it and have been wanting to make one on her own. Hopefully this will guide you ;). And bear in mind that I didn't know anything about baking to start off with, from turning the oven on and using it to making sure the cream sticks to the cake!
I had alot of marshmallow leftovers, so I decided to bake for work (since one of them requested for them too). So this is my version of marshmallow cupcakes. It was difficult to get powdered marshmallows in the UK although abundant in America (Brand called Jet Puff) so I decided to attempt to make the flavouring in my own ways.
Makes 12 cupcakes
I was requested to make a birthday cake for someone's 30th birthday and the first thing that went straight to my head was 'Wow, such a great compliment and it's the big 3-0' ! I was really really honored to do something like this and had to come up of a nice decoration.And Tadaaa...
Yes, I shall attempt to keep this alive. Perhaps it's good to have 2 different blogs after all. Makes me feel organised :)
Anyhoo, I was invited to a Client lunch at this Argentine restaurant somewhere near Liverpool station and it was my first time having Argentinian food.
Apparently they were famous for their steak. I couldn't find the place to begin with, and when I did, it looked more like a pit stop for posh drinks for posh people as I saw people wearing headsets.
To my suprise, we were brought downstairs and found ourselves a proper restaurant, full of people! We had a 'private room' to ourselves.
Dinner was a set 3 course meal with white wine, red wine, sparkling or still water and personal service. Amazing.
We had the signature menu, and I picked the scallops as my starter, which was suprisingly a cold dish and I was abit disappointed with it. It was perhaps one scallop sliced finely and coated with cheese, topped with chopped mango, onions and parsley.
Mains were shared and consisted of very well cooked 3 different pieces of beef with chips, tomato salad and sweet corn wrap in cooked corn leave (my favourite). The beef was so tender that it can be cut with a normal knife. But the best dish for me so far was the ice cream, as it was rich with high class chocolate, vanilla and dulcha de leche. Never had wonderful rich ice cream for some time now.
Overall, I'd give it a 7/10 since I'm not really a steak person, and the dishes got better towards the end =)
To become a food blogger or not? There is this intention to share with the world about the food I make and the food I see, for food I think right now at this very moment of time gathers us, comforts us, pour happiness in us and yet is a necessity as a source of fuel for human beings.
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