Schlagwort: posts in English

One of the many baking ideas I have discovered on Pinterest is a Lemon Pull-apart Bread – love at first sight! If you search Pinterest for pull-apart bread, you’ll find a gazillion of different bread photos and recipes – basically, it is a sweet yeasted quickbread, with several layers of flavored dough (although there are…

One of the places in Hong Kong we visited more than once was this indeed tiny restaurant at the North Point Road end of the Chun Yeung Street Market – not only because it was in a comfortable walking distance from our hotel, the ibis North Point, but it served decent Shanghai cuisine for reasonable…

It would have never occured to me to actually use watermelon rinds, until I read about it in US American books. Funny enough, many recipes date back to the Amish which, in turn, are kind of descendants of German/Swiss immigrants. I guess, the basic idea of using watermelon rinds (which are, after all, relatives to…

When I first saw the Japanese Cheesecake on Little Teochew, I knew I had to try it. But I would use glutinous rice flour (mochiko) instead of flour and cornstarch, to make it gluten-free. It did work, somehow, but I wasn’t overly impressed with the result. Still, the recipe had something… I decided that I…