Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
This Valentine’s Day, we’ve been invited to try out these two boxes of gorgeous Guylian Belgian chocolates: a selection of 22 pieces of Guylian’s classic Sea Shells and a 42g box containing four praline filled hearts. We are no strangers to this well-known market leader in boxed Belgian chocolates. What we love about Guylian is the lovely flavour! They use a unique blend of West-African cocoa beans which forms the basis of its premium chocolate, made with 100% cocoa butter.
ChewyMoon is an affordable subscription for customisable, delicious all-natural snacks, which are created by nutritionists and approved by children. It is perfect for lunch boxes and after school, and comes with an exciting activity pack for the children and nutrition guides for parents.
These churro butter cookies are churro lookalikes as they are made from a butter cookie recipe. The cookies melt in your mouth and smell gorgeous!
Chimasu box is a monthly subscription box which is filled with snacks from across Asia. We are a big fan of Asian snacks and often buy them from shops in Chinatown. I am so thrilled to know that now Chimasu offers this monthly box to try out the wide variety of snacks!
Galleoneers is a monthly recipe subscription of recipe kits for families with children aged between 3 to 12 years old to discover a cuisine from around the world. Through Galleoneers, your child gets to learn about geography and explore new cultures with arts & crafts, fun and educational activities related to the month’s cuisine.
Summer might have left us long ago but with autumn upon us, what better season to relax with a glass of Premier Estates Wines? We were so pleased to enjoy four bottles of bubbles on our quiet evening especially after the school run!
The new Pulsin Kids’ Fruity Oat bars now contain a third less sugar than the average kids’ fruit snack, which makes Pulsin Kid’s Fruity Oat Bars the perfect tasty wholesome low sugar snack option for lunch boxes and after school snacks. They also contain no nasties and are 100% natural made with real fruit and natural ingredients.
Did you celebrate National Lollipop Day last week? It fell on the Thursday 20th July 2017 and to celebrate this day, I decided to make Pandan Lollipop Cookies. I love baking and I love the Pandan aroma. It always takes me back to my childhood. Also it is a unique flavour to Asia. You can get pandan chiffon cake, pandan flavoured rice, pandan glutinous ball and many more. Recently, I also baked lot of yummy pandan pretzels, do check out the recipe!
Anyway, I wanted to make use of the Pandan flavour to make lots of different kinds of recipes. Instead of using making sweet lollipops, for this National Day, I am baking Pandan lollipop cookies instead!
This Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe only requires four ingredients to make. Its tastes very buttery and crumbly and will appeal to both children and adults! Butter Cookies are one of my favourite snacks of all times. It is also one of the easiest things to bake together with my children. Ms C loves chocolate chips hence we added them into this butter cookies recipe.
Everdine is a clean eating meal plan subscription service based in London, but delivers across mainland UK (areas serviced by DPD Next Day – 93% of UK). Their clean gourmet meals are fully prepared and delivered frozen to your home for free. All you need to do is heat it up in your microwave (some meals are suitable in oven) and they are ready to eat in minutes.
Last week was our first time visiting the brand new Prezzo restaurant at Mere Green, Sutton Coldfield. In fact, it was also our first time visiting the Prezzo restaurant chain which has more than 280 restaurants across the UK in all different shapes and sizes ranging from old libraries to harbour side eateries taking in the view.
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Did you know that recently the Singapore pandan cake has made headlines, after being named one of the world’s 17 best cakes by the travel website of US news outlet CNN? They have described the cake as essentially a chiffon cake infused with green-coloured juice from the pandanus palm.
Having this Collective Bias opportunity, I decided to make a Pandan Pretzel to celebrate World Pretzel Day which is today!
This is a Chinese style Red Bean Paste Pancake that normally serves in Chinese Dim Sum restaurants. However, over the years, I have found them harder to find. Most of the ingredients are very easy to get from supermarkets and the ready-made red bean paste can be bought from most Chinese supermarkets. Of course, if you don’t like red bean paste, you could get black sesame paste instead. Or try using Nutella!
Kransekake is a very impressive traditional Norwegian cake that is made of rings stacked in a tower. It only requires three types of ingredients: ground almonds, egg whites and icing sugar. It looks easy to make but it requires plenty of time to do it. The dough needs to rest overnight before rolling out hence it took two days to complete. So if you are looking to make it, leave plenty of time including time for decoration for a lovely finish.
Some of you may know that I love to bake and have tried many different recipes already this year. I have tried numerous cheesecake recipes from baked strawberry cheesecakes to Japanese cotton cheesecakes. I’ve failed numerous times with this last one. Each time, I waste at least six eggs and not to mention plenty of time and effort. Nevertheless, one out of ten bakes, I have made a good Japanese cotton cheesecake. It’s so light and fluffy!
