The Cookbook Challenge Week 22: Prawn Ravioli with Sauce Vierge

Cookbook Challenge Theme: Red
I am way behind with the Cookbook Challenge. Each week rolls around too quickly and I have been too busy to give much thought to the Cookbook Challenge. I have half-heartedly attempted to complete week 22 theme of “red” by using a recipe with red tomatoes. I have omitted a couple of [...]

Anzac Biscuits

On Sunday is Anzac Day. To commemorate this important day in Australian history, we baked a batch of these iconic Anzac biscuits.
Anzac Biscuits
Makes about 20
Ingredients
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup plain flour
3/4 cup desiccated coconut
1/2 cup caster sugar
125g butter
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 tablespoon boling water
Method
Preheat oven to 160°C.
In a large bowl, combine [...]

Gỏi Ngó Sen Tôm Thịt – Vietnamese Lotus Stem Salad with Prawns and Pork

Vietnamese salad is healthy, refreshing and has an explosion of flavours. A Vietnamese salad always makes an appearance at every of my family parties.
This delicious lotus stem salad is another version of a Vietnamese salad with prawns and pork I made previously. Using the lotus stem gives this salad an amazing crunch. This refreshing, [...]

The Cookbook Challenge Week 21: Curry Puffs

Theme: Thai
I was very excited about “Thai” being this week’s theme for the Cookbook Challenge, because I absolutely love Thai food. I love the unique sour, sweet and spicy nature of Thai food. I have a couple of Thai cookbooks and flicking through the pages of these books got me very excited and my [...]

Cute Bento # 2

I made my first cute bento a couple of weeks ago and I think I’m becoming obsessed with cute looking food.
Today I use two rice moulds shaped with faces of a girl and boy. On the rice moulds you can see facial features but when the rice comes out it’s just a nicely packed blob [...]

The Cookbook Challenge Week 20: Sticky Orange and Vanilla Upside-down Cake

Theme: Tangy
I love anything citrus. I decided to make the orange upside-down cake for this week’s Cookbook Challenge theme of “tangy”, as I couldn’t resist the look of the caramelised oranges on the cake.

The sweet, tangy, vanilla, citrusy, caramelised oranges is the star of this cake. I thought using two oranges was too much and [...]

Almond Cookies Using Alphabet Cookie Cutters

A couple of months ago I bought a bucket of alphabet cookie cutters hoping to make some cookies with my 3 year old. I thought it would be fun to teach her words using yummy cookies. She has been asking me to make cookies ever since I bought the cookie cutters home but I haven’t [...]