Warm Apple Crumble

Apple chunks tossed with some brown sugar, cinnamon, and flour, baked with a brown sugar crumb topping. Delicious with Haagen Dazs ice cream (the best vanilla ice cream ever!).

Bubur Cha Cha

Bubur Cha Cha is a popular Malaysian dessert soup mostly consisting of sweet potato in a coconut milk base. It's great served hot or cold though I prefer it hot, especially with the kind of weather we're having right now in Vancouver.

This would be my first attempt at a Asian dessert and I was happy having it not be a total failure. I cooked the sweet potato and purple yam in the microwave ( a steamer would be better if you have one), and then boiled the taro root. I got a package of mixed beans and soaked those and cooked them separately as well and cooked some large tapioca pearls. Mixed them together with the coconut milk, syrup, and some coconut cream and it was done. Very happy with the result:)

Macarons....Again

366 macarons baked for a school fundraiser. Dulce de Leche, Raspberry, and Chocolate. These batches came out better than ever in that they had the correct feet and didn't have the hollow shell that sometimes happens. I think I wasn't mixing the batter enough before so the feet weren't as high.

Also, thank god for air conditioning or else I would have spent so much time waiting for the shells to dry.

Mocha Hazelnut

Almond dacquoise sandwiching coffee buttercream and topped off with chocolate sponge, mousse, and hazelnut nougatine. I later dusted the lettering with gold lustre dust to create more of a contrast.

More Macarons

I've been on a bit of a macaron binge lately. Here's pistachio on the left and coffee on the right. I've got a big order coming up too so I'll be up to my ears in macarons!

Crispy Skin Salmon

Salmon cooked with the skin side down till crispy, sitting on brown rice and sauteed spinach, garnished with cooked and raw radishes.