As the saying goes, “when life hands you lemons, make lemonade”, something I’ve taken to heart literally since I do enjoy making a refreshing pitcher of homemade lemonade when we have lemons. This time though, I decided to try something different. What else could I do with the fresh, yellow …
Ube Cheese Pandesal. If you haven’t heard of it yet, well, last year, Kimmy Bakes Bakeshop in Silang, Cavite, Philippines brought together ube (purple yam) and cheese as filling for good ol’ pandesal. Now they’re known as the home of the Original Ube Cheese Pandesal. Prior to the quarantine, I …
Making Crock Pot Bread was a spur-of-the-moment decision yesterday. After preparing some bread dough, I was all set to work with it, even if I wasn’t sure what to make. Perhaps a simple bread loaf? But my crock pot was calling to me. Bread in a crock pot? That sounds …
Beer Bread. Have you heard of it? It’s bread that’s baked with beer in it. No need to worry. The bread itself won’t make you drunk. Unless, of course, you dunk a slice of it in beer or eat it while drinking beer. And hey, who’s to stop you? Definitely …
One of my favorite books is The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking. This gem of a book allowed me to try bread making fearlessly. I’ve been wanting to try making challah, a pretty little braided bread, because the braiding looked simultaneously interesting …
Happy 2015 to all of you! I hope your holidays were all that you hoped for and more. My holiday hiatus from the blogging front is now officially over. 2014 offered plenty of things to be thankful for. With this blog alone, what started off as a repository of my …
