When I was in Hong Kong or even Malaysia I already saw this Pork Rib and Lotus Root Soup but never tried it, I was always intrigued on how did the lotus rot tasted primarily because of its eccentric looks. Then few years after I came here in New Zealand...
Nanaimo bars is a no bake dessert bar made out of three layers, first of which is the base made out of biscuit or cookie crumbs. Second layer is a made out of custard vanilla icing while the final layer is made out of melted chocolates. One of my closest...
This baked desert called Food for the Gods is made out of dates and walnuts mixed in a fluffy buttery dough, the texture is simply phenomenal think of it as a cross between a moist butterscotch crossed with crumby cookie. I am not sure about the history of this dish...
White Chocolate and Macadamia Cheesecake with Caramel Sauce is another unique creation here at Ang Sarap. It is basically a cheese cake flavoured with macadamias, white chocolate and caramel. Every Christmas it is a tradition in our household to serve cheesecake during the Noche Buena. It started many years ago...
Gado-gado is an Indonesian salad made out of boiled vegetables served with a peanut sauce dressing. This dish started as a hawker cart offering where fresh and boiled vegetables are served with sauce that are made in individually prepared to the likeness of the one consuming the salad. Gado-gado is...
This salad week won’t be complete without a salad dish common here in New Zealand, the Kumara and Baby Spinach Salad. Sweet Potatoes or Kumara (what we call it here) is very abundant in New Zealand hence this root crop is commonly used in salad, accompaniment to roasts and replacement...
Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies is a type of a brownie where it is flavoured with you know what? You guessed it right, peanut butter. It’s a brownie that gives you the best of both worlds, chocolates and peanut butter. So for those who are peanut butter lovers what are you...
Before we had made some Cinnamon Sugar Pretzels, it was a huge success and did not last a day in our kitchen, today we had those cravings again so we will be making some pretzels but with a slight variation and use Almond toffee as the flavour. This was inspired...
Chicken cashew is made out of deep fried or stir fried chicken mixed together with cashews then served with thick oyster sauce. There are several versions of this dish but I’m pretty sure that most of you didn’t know that this is actually an American dish, Chinese-American to be precise....
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