As I am in Sydney celebrating Xmas with my siblings, I didn’t bring any of my cookbooks with me so I went to Coles to get their Christmas Magazine. This recipe is a blend of 2 recipes – Spiced Christmas Cookies and Gingerbread Men. Everyone in the house had a go at decorating the cookies, the outcome shows that we havent got much talent in decorating ha ha (most of the adults, we blame it on the cookies being too small to decorate, but we all know the real reason dont we? hahaha). The recipe use golden syrup but we havent got any at home so we replace it with Korean honey ginger tea which turn out surprisingly good.
Cookbook Challenge 5.0 – Watermelon and Feta Salad December 20, 2009
I was quite worry about this week cookbook challenge theme “Greek” as I don’t own any greek cuisine cookbook. When searching through my bookshelf I come across “Fabulous Salad” book and found “Greek Garden Salad” which consist of tomatoes, cucumber, feta cheese, red onion and olives. then I remember having seen some cooking show where the chef was replacing olives with watermelon. so I prepare this salad for this week cookbook challenge get together at @Rilsta house ( I had so much fun – get together rock! thanks Rilsta for organising).
CookBook Challenge 4.0 – Butter Bean, Red Kidney and Wakame Salad with Lemon Dressing December 13, 2009
When I saw this week cookbook theme “Beans”, my first thought is yes, I’m going to pick something vegetarian.
This recipe is adapted from “The Enlightened Kitchen – Fresh Vegetable Dishes from the Temples of Japan” by Mari Fujii. The recipe called for Cannellini Bean however I use butter bean instead. Mari did noted that you can replace cannellini bean with pea, edamame bean, soybeans or any mixed beans.
“Wakame seaweed and beans are both high in fiber, making this salad both nutritious and tasty”
Cookbook Challenge 2.0 – Pork Vindaloo November 26, 2009
This recipe is adapted from “Asian Flavors of Jean-Georges” by Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
I don’t normally cook Indian curries, most of the time it is either Indo,Thai or Jap curries and it’s also interesting that this curries use vinegar. The recipe called for red wine vinegar however I used plum vinegar instead (dont think this is a right move because it has really high salt content 😦 ). Strange things is my pork vindaloo taste abit like beef rendang ha ha ha
The Cookbook Challenge – 52 weeks, 52 themes and 52 Recipes November 13, 2009
Yes, I am up for a challenge!!
I have been considering on a few challenges recently,
- doing 90 days Bikram Challenge, I have done 30 days previously but 90 days for me is hard work!
- or doing the Yoga Aid Challenge (completing 108 sun salutation for charity) – Melbourne 6 December – still deciding hmmmm
- and then I visited Rilsta @MyFoodTrail and saw The CookBook challenge, instantly without hesitant I knew i found the “Challenge”. In short, I will make use of my cookbooks to cook one dish (committing to only one for now) per week for 52 weeks according to the theme of the week. Please visit Rilsta’s site for more details if you are interested in joining
Wish me luck!!!!