Holiday Baking: Black [Forest] Bun

It’s a rare person who will tell you that they actually look forward to having fruitcake whenever the Yuletide Season comes looming near.  Well, at least in this part of the world.  I read somewhere that the British are mad for fruitcake, plum pudding, and black bun which is a cross between the two whenever [...]

A Syrup-drenched Apple Cake

Think cake; think syrup-sodden, nut-studded, caramel apple-d cake. This was what I was thinking a while back when there was a glut of apples in the family fridge and everyone was getting sick of munching on them fresh, dipping slices in honey, and dicing them for salads.

I thought about turning them into caramel apples, [...]

Holiday Baking: A Swedish Treat with an Asian Accent

To me, nothing says “The Holidays are coming” more overtly than the smell of good things baking in one’s kitchen. Long-time readers of this blog know that I always try new recipes whenever Christmas starts peeking ’round the corner and I’ve done it again this year.

I was inspired by A Sweet Tradition, an article [...]

Portable Breakfast: Banana-cino Bars

Today’s blog post is actually the end result of a request from my brother for something along the lines of a quick-fix breakfast that’s delicious, healthy, and portable – all at the same time. (And no: I was not to even think about fixing him a smoothie.)
Well, I pretty much left that particular notion [...]

DIY: Oat Flour

Nutritionists insist that, with all the fat-laced foods served to us these days, we need to throw in more oats into our diets.
Well, that part’s easy enough. Oatmeal porridge is a common enough breakfast food; both granola and Bircher muesli have also been making themselves known on local tables. There are oatmeal cookies, [...]