The sourdough craze is slowly dying down but not completely over. Everyone now has become better bakers and sourdough makers. I used to make more sourdough recipes but found that maintaining a sourdough starter was very time consuming. You also end up with a lot of discard. Luckily this time around I’ve been using the…
Category: baking
My Grandma’s Mantou Recipe
There are a lot of things that you can take for granted especially during these time. I look back to days when I used to bake and cook with my grandma and I would reminesce on some of the food we ate. One particular recipe was chinese steamed buns. We used to make them almost…
Almond Flour Brownies
I have been grateful for all this time that I was given. It has allowed me to experiment with some foods that I thought I would not have time to try. Its also given me an opportunity to use up items in my pantry. A couple months ago, I bought a large bag of almond…
Cinnamon Buns
For the last couple weeks, we have been eating cinnamon buns. Maybe it is the quarantine that is causing us all to do more baking or just our love for cinnamon buns. We have been using this recipe recently: https://www.ambitiouskitchen.com/best-cinnamon-rolls/ They always turn out great! And the recipe explains a lot so I would check…
Flaxseed Meal Bread
This is another recipe that I had to try myself. I found a recipe using flaxseed meal and water to make bread. What you say? I am not sure if this was created for the keto diet? or ? For this recipe, you will need quite a lot of flaxseed meal. You can grind it…
Chickpea Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies – gluten free
This recipe has become a regular go to as it is super easy and healthier than the regular chocolate chip cookies. I have made this recipe a couple times and finally perfected the ratio of chickpea flour and coconut flour so yes this recipe is gluten free as well! Also perfect if you can’t find…
Bread in a Bag
Once again, I am attempting to cook with my toddler. I thought he would have so much fun with this activity but I don’t think he cared for it much. Also our yeast was old and we couldn’t find any yeast in the store so the buns didn’t rise as much as I wanted them…
Venn Piagram – Koolaid Pie
Guess what today is!!! Pi Day! and we can’t celebrate pi day without some pi. This year I decided to make a Venn Piagram. Get it! The assembly of this actually took a while but making a koolaid pie is super easy and requires no baking. You need graham cracker crust, jello (three flavors of…
Three Ingredient Shortbread Cookie
Now that my son is two (almost 2.5), it is time that I introduce him to baking. This has been the part of motherhood I have been waiting for. I really want to spend time in the kitchen with my son. This is the first time for me cooking with him but he did really…
Almond Cookies
Lunar New Year is just around the corner and I wanted to try to make something for it. I decided to try to make some almond cookies. I found this recipe which is super easy to make. For this recipe, you just need a few simple ingredients: flour, almond flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar,…