My kid brother is a maniac. He’s an in-training bodybuilder who has shoulders broad enough to carry a house and seems to subsist with low-carb, low-fat, high protein meals nearly all the time (usually containing tuna or chicken). Now me, I can’t understand this obsession and I certainly …
This post was going to contain some silly comments about the variety of cheesecakes around as well as the qualities of baked goods from certain areas of the world – for example, Asian bakeries and their overwhelming amount of different kinds of soft milky breads (I think I’ve …
Whilst I bake cakes fairly often (there is a new cake on the kitchen bench on average once a fortnight), I generally go for plain cakes that don’t require any fancing piping or icing – not as a personal choice, but because my family tend to prefer simple …
With China, Japan and Korea being in such close proximity to each other, it means that many dishes cross the short distances to each country, either in its existing form or being recreated into a new variation (such as Korea’s kimbap – a take on the Japanese sushi, …
So what do you get when you take a sponge cake, chop it into squares, smother them in thick glossy chocolate icing then give them a good dredging in dessicated coconut? Why, a wonderful treat known as the lamington cake, of course! Much like the humble pavlova, the …
