Archive for March 25th, 2024

  • Egg Spaghetti & Pasta

    Curry Flavoured Pasta Salad

    ‘Japanese Macaroni Salad’ is one of my family’s favourite salads. I started using any short Pasta for the salad because I couldn’t find long Macaroni in Melbourne where I live. So I should call it ‘Japanese Pasta Salad’. This salad is basically the same salad, but I added Curry Powder. This curry flavoured version is …

  • Dips & Spreads

    Pumpkin Hummus with Pomegranate Molasses

    If you have some leftover cooked Pumpkin (roasted OR steamed), puree it, and mix it with Hummus. I used store-bought Hummus. Pureed Pumpkin adds the lovely sweetness to Hummus. But the more important addition is Pomegranate Molasses, which I have been struggling to use up. The sweet and sour Pomegranate Molasses transforms the ordinary Hummus …

  • Baked & Fried Sweets

    Brandy Pound Cake

    My ‘Basic Pound Cake’ recipe requires 125g of Butter, Sugar, Eggs and Self-Raising Flour, not 1 pound of each. That’s the best amount for my cake tin. You can alter the recipe as you like. The rule of this type of cake is to maintain the 1:1:1:1 ratio. Based on the basic recipe, you can …