Chinese New Year

Sticky Cakes for Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year was always a time to get together and eat delicious foods.  Usually we will have dumplings, Taro cake, and Sticky cake (Nian Gao). My family would always get together to have a big feast. There are many traditions around Chinese New Year and one of them…

Kombucha experiment- Scoby Mama! part 2

  It has been a while since my first post about Kombucha.  My first Scoby Mama was born Jan 12, 2013.  She is a little soft and rubbery but I think she came out beautifully.  I left my Scoby to grow for about 2 weeks.  A Scoby is supposed to be ready when it is…

Eat like a Hobbit

Have you ever wondered…. “If I was a hobbit what would I eat??”  Of course after watching The Hobbit in theatres who wouldn’t.  The table was filled with lots of harvested vegetables, breads, meats and fish.   I decided this was going to be the theme of our next dinner!!  After doing some research online,…

Bear buns… (not bare bums)

I’ve always been fascinated with baking and one of the things I love to bake is bread.  Bread is so versatile.  It can sweet or savoury, filled with stuff or just by itself.     The bread recipe I decided to make was from the Company’s Coming Bread cookbook.  I chose ‘soft buns’ from this…

Kombucha experiment – SCOBY!!! part 1

While I was surfing through the internet I stumbled across Kombucha.  I was really interested in this because I love growing strange things and the Kombucha scoby looked so gross. You will see it later on.  As I researched on how to make Kombucha I found out about how healthy its for you.  I started…