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Donna Hay’s Strawberry & Macaron Trifle Plus My New Favourite Macaron Book: Secrets of Macarons by Jose Marechal

Posted in Bake, Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 8, 2010| 57 Comments »

If you regularly read my blog (and if you don’t: why not?!?!), you might know that this year I started teaching macaron making at The Essential Ingredient.  It’s been a fantastic and rewarding experience (especially when I get sent pictures of finished macarons from former students) and I look forward to more classes next  year.  […]

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How I taught my Mom to make macarons

Posted in Bake, Learn, tagged , , on September 24, 2010| 52 Comments »

“I can’t watch”  I told my Mom, the Blog Monster. I was teaching her to make macarons as part of my “practice run” before my first class at the Essential Ingredient in Sydney and she was piping a row of macarons. Her piping, to put it nicely, was unique.  I had to stop myself from […]

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All They Want For Christmas Series – Christmas Macarons

Posted in Bake, Holiday, tagged , , on November 16, 2009| 51 Comments »

Surprise!  Happy Holidays!  Do you like it?  The macarons?  The Christmassy look? My husband and I are terrible at doing Christmas decorations.  In our years together we put up the Christmas tree one year and the next day our dogs had decided that it would be fun to eat the Christmas balls hanging from the […]

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Daring Bakers’ October Challenge – Lemon Lime Macarons

Posted in Bake, Dare, tagged , , , on October 26, 2009| 59 Comments »

Introducing:  The Lemon Lime Macaron.  My contribution to the Daring Bakers’ October Challenge… macarons.  I think this was one of the most widely anticipated challenges.  I had a lot of fun trying to come up with my own version.  I also made a Chocolate Mousse Macaron Cake for my husband’s birthday and that can be […]

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Flower Pot Macarons and a Best Wishes from Sydney!

Posted in Bake on September 18, 2009| 13 Comments »

I wanted to send some flowers to someone dear to me in Manila to know that I was thinking of them but maybe a pot of macarons would work as well! To make: You will need 12 Terracotta flower pots (I used 9cm sizes) 1 Batch of Brownies 1 Batch White Chocolate Macarons 1 bag […]

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Mussel Kinilaw with Calamansi

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on August 6, 2013| 6 Comments »

A few years ago I planted a little calamansi fruit tree in our balcony… and then I waited… and waited… and waited some more. My tree never seemed to bear much fruit. If I was lucky, I would get three or four calamansi and I was ready to give up – the tree was taking […]

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Serendipity Chocolate and Pistachio Cookies

Posted in Bake, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 9, 2011| 35 Comments »

This last week has made me reflect on the many happy accidents in my life.  Starting, in fact, nine months before I was born. I always thought it was cool that my sister and I were the same age for a month during the year.  I liked it when I told people we were sisters, […]

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Coconut Custard (Kaya Jam)

Posted in Cook, Thermomix, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 16, 2010| 40 Comments »

“Are you trying to kill me?” My husband asked as I put a plate infront of him. “Ha!  Not yet.” I told him.  “I have get some life insurance on you first!” The reason for his outburst was because infront of him was this toast, slathered with a caramelized coconut custard and a considerable amount […]

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Macaron Pops: Chocolate, Olive Oil and Sea salt PLUS Salted Caramel

Posted in Bake, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 26, 2010| 50 Comments »

I realized that I have been blogging for a year and a half now.  Wow.  That’s lasted longer than most relationships nowadays – I feel like you should know me really well by now, after all, I’ve always considered my life to be an open book blog. But do you really?  I guess, there comes […]

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Savour Chocolate and Patisserie School and My First Giveaway

Posted in Bake, Events, tagged , , , , , , on August 31, 2010| 62 Comments »

A wise woman once said: “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”  I find it inspiring that these words were attributed to someone who learned to cook at the age of 37 and yet managed to change the face of cooking, Julia Child. My passion of course, is food and I’ve […]

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