09 Sunday Oct 2011
After our scrumptious Chicken Fajitas with Guacamole and Salsa dip, we had Lemon Cheesecake for dessert.
I suggested to Royal Chef that we use graham crackers as the crust; surprise, he has never heard of what graham crackers are! What they usually use, he said, is digestive biscuit.
Originally, we wanted to make cookies or maybe cupcakes, but unfortunately we needed a proper mixer for the ingredients or else mixing by hand won’t be as smooth.
02 Tuesday Aug 2011
Tags
apricot, apricot jam, bread and butter, food, fruit jam, jam, recipe
Apricots are abundant these days and it’s quite cheap. Royal Chef wanted to make jam and so I watched and took photos thinking… So that’s how much sugar is going in the jam.
Royal Chef bought 1.4 kg ripe apricots worth RMB 11 or USD 1.10 and then 1 kilo sugar that cost RMB 15 or USD 2.33. Cheapo!
At first, he was quite disappointed with the results, saying it wasn’t the jam consistency that he wanted, so he rated it 6.5/10. But this morning, he happily informed me that the jam was delicious and he said he’s raising his ratings to 7! :) I say it’s a 7.5 – 8!
It smells delicious! Though I was expecting it to smell like the St. Ives Apricot Scrub, but to my surprise, it doesn’t smell like facial scrub! By the way, I highly recommend St. Ives Apricot Scrub, it’s heavily loaded with beads (walnut shell powder) that exfoliates and invigorates your skin! And it also reminds me of my grandma, because she likes to use it <3.
Ok, moving on…
14 Thursday Jul 2011
Posted in Sweets
Tags
corn, corn with ice, food, ice, mais con yelo, milk, recipe, sugar
I remember letting Royal Chef and his friend, Boris, try mais con yelo last year. After just trying out one spoonful, they were weirded out and said they don’t like it. It’s strange, they said, as corn in milk and sugar topped with ice is an unlikely combination.
But back in the Philippines, this is a popular snack especially in the peak summer months. It’s another variety of halo-halo, which I still have yet to scout the ingredients in Beijing and let Royal Chef try some.
