Lemon and Summer Berries Mille Feuille

Last year somewhere during the holidays, I bought a packet of frozen puff pastry. It was already pre-rolled and has 7 sheets inside. I know I know, I should have made my own puff pastry because it’s actually pretty easy, but just a little more time consuming blah blah blah… Ummm, I don’t really think [...]

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Oh So Nice! Dark Chocolate Tartlets

Can you believe it? The year 2008 is already drawing to an end. It still surprises me, how as we grow older, the days seem to pass faster and faster. Somehow I came to a realization a few days back that I haven’t done anything significant this year. Or something shocking. Or something surprising. Or [...]

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Almond Tarts – without the Almond Taste

I’m not joking. These are called almond tarts but they seriously do not taste like almond. There’s not a hint of almond at all. I’m not the only one who said that, two other people have justified it before. But that is why I like these tarts. It may be weird, me liking the tart [...]

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Apple Pie

Yes! This is the second pie that I made – Apple Pie! Same as the blueberry pie that I made, I played a little cheat here by using Betty Crocker’s Pie Crust Mix. Though there is a recipe on apple pie on the box itself, I used a recipe from my newly bought Pies & [...]

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Wanting for MORE!

These 3 books are my latest collection into the gigantic family of cookbooks I have at home. The family already consists of 2-ongoing-3-ring-files of printed recipes, 3-ongoing-4-books of hand-copied recipes, 1 cookies recipe book, 1 chocolates recipe book… plus I still have online recipes in my computer.
I seriously wonder when I’ll finish making all these [...]

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