One Year On – Giving Thanks and Pecan Pie

I can’t believe it’s been a year since starting this blog. My blog is still small, and still only read by (mostly) friends and family, but that doesn’t lessen the reason behind this blog. While I’ve expanded beyond just making recipes from my mum’s magazine clippings, the joy I get from making something that I…

M&M Cookies

It’s always good to have an arsenal of recipes up your sleeve for days when you just need to do some baking (or cooking), because there’s a typhoon outside, or the weather is horrible, or you just need a stress release. Cookies are super quick to make, the batter takes minutes, and then they only…

Brown Sugar & Date Bundt Cake

I went into a kitchen shop the other day, one I’ve walked past hundreds of times and never realised was a kitchen shop. It’s a typical Hong Kong-looking “everything” shop. Plastic storage boxes stacked up outside, mops and feather dusters. It looked like a household shop. But, I had time to kill and decided to…

Gluten Free Chocolate Birthday Cake

Today is my birthday. I didn’t plan anything for it, other than to do my usual Tuesday evening activity of aerobics and dinner with everyone afterwards. I did a lot of celebrating last year, so this year I was happy to keep it low key. The only thing I wanted was to make a birthday…