Featured Recipe
Crispy Apple Cider Pork Belly Salad
Tuesday, April 14, 2026| |
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A delicious flavour packed salad recipe combines crispy, succulent pork belly, bitter, palate-cleansing salad mix, juicy, sweet orange and a tangy dressing for a refreshing and flavourful meal. Add pepitas for extra crunch and fragrance. You can swap salad mix for chicory or romaine lettuce if that is what you have.
Raspberry Curd Cookies
Saturday, April 11, 2026| |
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These delightful zesty thumprints have a tender, melt-in-your-mouth butter cookie filled with tangy homemade raspberry curd and then drizzled with white chocolate and crumbled freeze dried raspberries! They're super easy to make and have just the right balance of sweet and sour! White chocolate drizzle and freeze-dried raspberries are completely optional.
Raspberry Pudding Tart
Monday, April 06, 2026| |
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This absolutely delicious raspberry pudding tart isn’t just beautiful to look at – it tastes delicious too. The creamy fruity raspberry pudding gives the tart a heavenly flavour, and the lime zest and raspberries the perfect finishing touch. Fresh homemade raspberry syrup is great pouring over pancakes, cheesecakes or adding to sparkling water.
Persimmon and Frisée Salad with Goat Cheese
Saturday, April 04, 2026Are you looking for a quick salad that is fresh, delicious and full of flavour? Then this frisée salad with persimmon and goat cheese is just right for you. This salad not only tastes great, it also looks pretty. Frisée lettuce can be stacked attractively on a plate thanks to its curly, frizzy texture. The tangy, earthy flavour of goat cheese provides a delightful contrast to the sweet and crunchy texture of ripe persimmons while the apple cider vinegar dressing emphasises the fruity sweetness. I prefer the goat cheese as it is, but you can try brushing the goat cheese rounds with 1-2 teaspoons of honey and roast at 200C/400F for 8-10 minutes.
Spelt Bread with Walnuts and Raisins
Friday, March 20, 2026| |
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Crispy and fresh from the oven – that's how we like our bread best. This delicious homemade spelt bread with walnuts and raisins relies on long, slow fermentation with just a little yeast to develop gluten and flavour, rather than manual kneading. A 24-hour fermentation help develop a deeper, more complex, sourdough-like flavour and makes the bread more digestible. If you bake this bread in summer or your kitchen is very warm, or simply because you want to delay baking even longer, you can leave the dough rise in the refrigerator. I left mine in the refrigerator for the last 4 hours and the sticky dough was actually much easier to work with when it’s cold.
Rosinenstuten – German Raisin Bread
Friday, March 06, 2026| |
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Moist, soft and wonderfully aromatic – this Rosinenstuten tastes just like the one from the bakery and is perfect for Sunday breakfast! A sweet white chocolate glaze drizzled over the top makes it even more tempting, but entirely optional.
A Rosinenstuten is a sweet, fluffy yeast bread filled with raisins (or currants/sultanas) and is particularly popular in northern Germany and Nordrhein-Westfalen. It is often enjoyed for breakfast or with afternoon tea with butter and jam, honey or simply on its own, but can also be eaten savoury with cheese and sausage. Often, more butter and sugar are used in Stuten than in regular raisin bread, which makes the Stuten particularly soft and slightly sweet.
The name Rosinenstuten comes from the German words Rosinen (raisins) and Stuten, which is derived from the North German word Steiß, which refers to the thick part of the thigh, thus referring to the characteristic shape of the bread.
Belgian Endive and Pomegranate Salad
Tuesday, March 03, 2026| |
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Looking for a healthy recipe idea with lots of bitter compounds? This Belgian endive and pomegranate salad is a true celebration of flavours and textures. The bitterness of the Belgian endive is perfectly balanced by the sweet and sour pomegranate seeds, and crispy bacon adds a great texture and depth of flavour, making this dish an elegant and refreshing experience.
Belgian endive, aka witloof (meaning ‘white leaf'), sometimes referred to as ‘white gold', leads a shadowy existence, in the truest sense of the word. On the one hand, Belgian endive grows in the dark to control its colour and to achieve the desirable flavour, and on the other hand, it is often overlooked in the vegetable section. Yet it is a wonderful winter vegetable that can be prepared in many different ways and is very healthy. Endive is nutritious and rich in fiber. It is a good source of potassium and calcium and vitamins A, B, C and E, and very low in calories.
Chocolate and Cherry Soda Bread
Sunday, March 01, 2026| |
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Leavened with baking soda paired with buttermilk, this bread is easy and quick. This version, packed with dark hocolate and cherries, is an ideal treat for weekend brunch with a little butter or nutella and a cup of freshly brewed tea or coffee. Since we used baking soda as the primary leavener in this recipe, you are going to use natural cocoa powder rather than Dutch-processed which is treated with an alkali. Therefore it lacks the acid needed to activate the baking soda, which can lead to a poorly risen bread. But if you don’t have it, it’s not the end of the world either as the recipe also calls for lots of acidic buttermilk.
Raspberry Curd
Saturday, February 28, 2026| |
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Made from scratch, this raspberry curd is pleasantly tangy, sweet and fruity and can be used on scones, crepes, or as a filling for layered cakes, éclairs or tartlets or just eat it with a spoon, straight from the jar. I have added a few tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice to the recipe as you need enough acid to react with the proteins in the egg yolks, to ensure a nice, thick curd. Without that, the curd will be runny. Leftover raspberry curd stays fresh in the refrigerator, covered tightly, up to 2 weeks.
Chunky Pumpkin Salsa
Tuesday, February 24, 2026| |
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A seasonal and delicious twist on classic tomato salsa, this chunky pumpkin salsa makes a tasty appetizer with cheese or a condiment for tortilla chips or simply serves over some roasted chicken. If desired, you can also add some diced avocado and tomatoes to the mix. Instead of roasting, you can also blanch the pumpkins in boiling water for 10 minutes or until just tender. Drain well before using.
Nyonya Pineapple Tarts
Monday, February 16, 2026| |
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Buttery, melt-in-mouth pineapple tarts with a sweet and tangy pineapple filling are paticularly popular in Southeast Asia, esp. Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia , during the Chinese New Year. They can be open cookies or made enclosed in round, square or rectangular shapes. It’s quite a tedious task to cook down pineapple to a thick paste, which might take 2-3 hours to prepare just 400-500 grams of pineapple filling. If you can find some ready made, use it, I won’t judge.
These tarts gained significance during Chinese New Year because in Hokkien and Cantonese, the word for pineapple, "ong lai," is a homophone for "fortune come," making the tarts a potent symbol of good luck, wealth, and prosperity.
The pineapple tart originated back in the 16th century from the Peranakans, descendants of the Chinese immigrants who went to the Malay Peninsula, particularly Malacca, and married the locals. Their culinary approach was greatly influenced not only by the local Malay cuisines but also by the Portuguese when they conquered Malacca in the 16th century.
Frisée Salad with Chestnuts and Bacon
Monday, February 02, 2026| |
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Fresh, crisp, and bursting with flavour, this refreshing winter salad is a vibrant mix of colours, tastes and textures for a unique salad experience. The salad is delicious, easy and very adaptable. You can swap endive or escarole for the frisée lettuce, blue cheese or feta for Parmesan, pancetta for bacon, and candied walnuts or hazelnuts for chestnuts.


