Pommes Anna (or Potato Anna) is a classic French dish of buttery sliced potatoes stacked into a cake-like form that is baked until tender on the inside and crisp on the edges. The signature presentation of a Pommes Anna is flipped over onto a serving dish where the golden brown bottom becomes the top. You must have a really good non-stick pan or a really well-seasoned cast iron pan to pull it off. Do practice this dish before serving it to guests at a dinner party. Once you can comfortably pull this off, it is a rather satisfying culinary triumph!
Read moreBrown Butter Apple Streusel Cake
This BROWN BUTTER APPLE STREUSEL CAKE is tender, brown buttery, and apple-forward thanks to the generous chunks of apples in the batter. It is essentially a classic French Apple Cake where melted butter is replaced with nutty brown butter, and topped with a chunky almond streusel topping. Because if there are two truths I believe in, is that brown butter and streusel are always good ideas!
Read moreCrispy Potato Stacks with Garlic Herb Butter
These Crispy Potato Stacks with Garlic Herb Butter come out of the oven with ruffle-y, crispy edges around a tender and creamy centre. They are the perfect side dish for the holidays or for hosting dinner guests you really want to impress.
Read moreChicken Meatballs with Roasted Tomato and Pepper Orzo
Tis the season for cozy meals! And of course, family-friend and easy to make are always in season. This CHICKEN MEATBALLS WITH ROASTED TOMATO AND PEPPER ORZO checks all of those boxes.
Read moreTomato Prawn Wafu Pasta (Japanese-style pasta)
This quick-cooking TOMATO PRAWN WAFU PASTA is a Japanese-style pasta recipe that marries a simple Italian fresh tomato sauce and elements of distinctly Japanese flavours in the use of soy sauce, dashi powder (optional but easy to use — read recipe note), fresh shiso leaves and shredded nori for garnish. The best of both worlds!
Read moreTomato Salad with toasted almonds and dates
I have officially dubbed this TOMATO SALAD WITH TOASTED ALMONDS AND DATES the salad of the summer! My summer, at least. And maybe yours too, once you try it. This salad centers thickly sliced, juicy tomatoes, a big handful of baby arugula and an incredible toasted almonds and dates topping. It’s so good there is always inventory shrinkage before it gets to the salad.
Read morePeach Pistachio Frangipane Tart
This PEACH PISTACHIO FRANGIPANE TART is a summertime spin-off of another beloved tart on the blog, this Apple and Tahini Frangipane Tart. Stone fruits and pistachio are flavour besties!
Read moreMiso Honey Mustard Chicken Skewers
Chicken is marinaded in a tasty mixture of miso, Dijon mustard, honey, garlic, soy sauce, mirin, paprika and s&p. Although you can stop there — why would you? — when you can brush these MISO HONEY MUSTARD CHICKEN SKEWERS with a mouthwatering sauce of melted buttahhh, mayo mustard and chopped fresh parsley for a very irresistible finishing move.
Read moreEasy Spicy Peanut Sauce for Dumplings (or Noodles)
One day I was craving a peanut butter sauce to eat with my dumplings and this EASY SPICY PEANUT BUTTER SAUCE FOR DUMPLINGS was created and tweaked until it is now my go-to. I love it with noodles as well!
Read moreHomemade Maraschino Cherries
Homemade MARASCHINO CHERRIES are nothing like the florescent-red orbs you think of garnishing Shirley Temples, or the one offensive fruit you have to pick out of canned fruit cocktail. These delicious, syrupy MARASCHINO CHERRIES are the perfect cocktail garnish (obviously) but think beyond cocktails because they are sublime on desserts like cheesecake, panna cotta, Eton mess or on a scoop of vanilla ice cream which I highly, highly recommend.
Read moreTorrijas aka Spanish-Style French Toast
Torrijas is a Spanish-style “French” toast. This version features citrus infused milk soaked bread that is coated in eggs and deep fried, served with a luscious custard and finished with a bruléed sugar top.
Read moreStrawberries and Cream Pavlova
This swoon-worthy STRAWBERRIES & CREAM PAVLOVA is the perfect dessert of the season. Strawberries are lightly macerated with sugar to release its juices, their sweet-tartness forming a sublime trifecta with billowy whipped cream and crisp meringue billowy whipped cream and crisp meringue. Read my 10 tips for pavlova success!
Read moreRosé Tteokbokki
This ROSÉ TTEOKBOKKI features chewy-tender rice cakes smothered in a rosé-coloured gochujang sauce that is the perfect balance of creamy, spicy, sweet and umami. Add bacon bits, melty cheese, soft boiled eggs and scallions. Need I say more?
Read more20 Minute Scallion Noodle Soup 葱油湯面
This 20 MINUTE ONE-POT SCALLION NOODLE SOUP is an easy noodle meal with a tasty pork topping in a rich, peanut butter scallion soup that will have you slurping away in 20 minutes. It is basically an amalgamation of my dad’s scallion soup noodles and Dan Dan Mein. Or, two of my favourite noodle dishes in one!
Read moreGreen Beans with Miso Butter Onions
This GREEN BEANS WITH MISO BUTTER BRAISED ONIONS is side dish perfection. Onions are cooked until nearly melt-in-your-mouth in a simple but flavourful 3-ingredient braising liquid of butter, miso paste and water. To serve, the tender onions are served over green beans, under a blanket of the umami-rich, unctuous sauce.
Read moreFig and Cinnamon Roll Cake
I’m embracing Fall and fresh fig season with this FIG AND CINNAMON ROLL CAKE. Fresh juicy figs and honey mascarpone cream rolled inside a soft, fluffy Japanese-style sponge cake baked with a kiss of cinnamon. Honey-glazed walnuts are baked alongside the cake for an easy, most perfect embellishment.
Read moreCoffee Agar Jelly
When the humidex is humidex-ing, I’m taking my afternoon coffee in the form of refreshing COFFEE AGAR JELLY! It is served with a chilled sweet milk but a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top is highly encouraged too if you’re an affogato girlie. A là mode or on its own, COFFEE AGAR JELLY with chilled sweet milk is the delicious hot weather coffee reprieve you deserve.
Read moreBeef Rolls with Enoki and Veggies
My family loves these Beef Rolls with Enoki and Veggies. Since there is protein, veggies and mushrooms all bundled together, it is the perfect standalone, well-rounded meal which makes me love it even more. They are soo good — with all that sauce — served on rice! Once the bundles are prepared, they cook in a matter of minutes right in the pan along with the sauce. Faster than the time it takes to cook the rice. Dinner is served!
Read moreJapanese Curry Udon (Kare Udon)
This deeply satisfying JAPANESE CURRY UDON (Kare Udon) features a mild, slightly sweet Japanese-style curry sauce that is dialled perfectly — with a viscosity somewhere between sauce and broth — to enrobe each chewy udon strand for the perfectly tasty bite.
Read moreRaspberry Yogurt Clusters
These cool, sweet and tangy RASPBERRY YOGURT CLUSTERS are a spin-off of the viral Blueberry Yogurt Clusters that I shared in my previous post. Those were so good we immediately created a different — dare I say it — even BETTER version with these RASPBERRY YOGURT CLUSTERS!
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