I know I am on a non-sweet-diet, but if one of my friends asks me to make double chocolate muffins I can’t say no, I just can’t!
Merton is a “special colleague”, he is one of that kind of person always ready to help you if you need it and if he asks me to cook [...]
Those of you who live in Shanghai I am sure all know the chef of Boxing Cat Brewery, Mike Solovey…well, he is a friend of mine and yesterday night I invited him over for dinner. I know, that must sound crazy and totally insane…cooking for a chef? But he is such a nice and fun [...]
There are a lot of different recipes for making Nanaimo Bars, this is the one I like the most. These non-baked, 3 layer bars are delicious! So I would recommend that you all go to the kitchen and make them NOW…yes I said NOW! You wont regret it AT ALL!
Let’s get started
Ingredients:
(first layer)
1/2 cup unsalted [...]
Who does not like Brownies? In my entire life I have never met anyone who could resist to some warm, soft brownies.
Yesterday night I was home alone and with not much to do (yeah my bf hasn’t got back yet!), so I decided to try this recipe which has been seated on my table for [...]
I have such a love-hate relationship with cookies. I Love them for the way good cookies melt in your mouth, I Hate them cause when I eat them my butt goes one size up, I Love them because making cookies is such a lovely experience and you can get to pick their shape. I Hate [...]
This is going to be a life saver for a lot of you who are leaving in China. Most Chinese apartments, in fact, don’t have an oven which dramatically reduce the selection of recipes we can prepare.
Moreover, I have found it hart to find a decent patisserie where to get a proper birthday cake without [...]
After the Lemon Pastry Cream, today I’ll show you how to make the chocolate flavor one. I made it to fill in my mom’s bday cake (which recipe I will post soon), but you can use it in a thousand different ways.
Ingredients:
120 g sugar - 120 克白糖
2 egg yolk – 2个蛋黄
2 tbsp flour – 2 [...]
And here we go…it’s Monday again, back to waking up at 7 am, back to commuting for one hour in the crowded train of Shanghai, back to work…:( This morning when the alarm rang I felt like someone was waking me up in the middle of the night…I could have kept sleeping forever. Isn’t that [...]
Last night I was (as always) craving sweets. I had some vanilla ice-cream in the freezer but I was feeling like adding some more flavor to it so I thought that some scoops of chocolate syrup on top of the ice-cream would have been perfect!
Chocolate syrup is easy to find in China, one bottle costs [...]
The chocolate salami is an old recipe my mom used to prepare for me and my sister when we were having house parties with our classmates back in primary and secondary school.
I almost forgot about it until last Sunday when I went out for dinner with a group of friends and a girl asked me [...]
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