Dinner parties hosted by my family are a curious thing. I grew up with a Mom who prepared for them with the same enthusiasm that sportsmen would train for the Olympics. She would spend weeks planning and revising elaborate menus with no less than six or seven courses to be served. Because we had a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cake’
Vegetable Cake… Would Julia Like It?
Posted in Bake, tagged broccoli, cake, carrots, custard, easy recipes, eggs, food, Julia Child, mushrooms, recipes, salad, vegetable cake, Vegetable Gateau, vegetarian on February 13, 2011 | 34 Comments »
Frozen Brazo De Mercedes Cake – Guest Post on 6Bittersweets
Posted in Bake, tagged brazo de mercedes, cake, dessert, frozen brazo de mercedes, frozen cake, frozen dessert, guest post, philippine dessert, recipe on February 6, 2011 | 31 Comments »
Being invited to someone’s house for dinner always poses a problem for me. I often wonder, what’s the best thing to bring? Given a choice between bringing the standard wine, flowers or food, I’ll inevitably resort to bringing food. Then there’s the dilemma of what dish to bring. Do I bring an entree or dessert? [...]
Sometimes No Just Means Not Now…Strawberry and Watermelon Cake
Posted in Bake, tagged almond dacquoise, black star pastry, cake, dessert, food, gluten-free, layered cake, recipe, strawberry, watermelon on December 2, 2010 | 66 Comments »
When I was a kid I wanted to be a gymnast. I remember watching a movie on Romanian Nadia Comaneci and how she scored a perfect 10 on the uneven bars in the 1976 Olympics and thought to myself that I was born to be a gymnast. So my best friend and I started teaching [...]
The Cooking Basics: Savoury Cakes (Bacon, Carrot and Cheese Cake)
Posted in Bake, tagged bacon, basic cake, cake, carrot, cheese, food, recipe, savoury on November 30, 2010 | 41 Comments »
On my last trip to New York I stumbled upon a book called Cakes and Loaves by Ilona Chovancova. It’s been seven months since I managed to use a recipe from it! I remembered the other day that the book had a basic savoury cake recipe that I wanted to share for The Cooking Basics [...]