There are so many ideas and recipes from the cookbooks but I have opted for this simple strawberry granita from River Cafe Cookbook Easy by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers. It was totally inspired by the heatwave that we were experiencing in Melbourne. After making the candy in 43.5C heat, this was the perfect cool down recipe.
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I thought I was prepared this week. I even bookmarked a couple of recipes. But as usual, I always give myself too much to do but this time, I do have a good excuse. It is New Year celebrations and I do have a very good friend in town so cooking has been placed on the back burner. Baking is definitely not one of my fortes. So a little tired from all the New Year celebration, I crazily decided to choose the souffle over the pudding for this week’s challenge. I had most of the ingredients except for the icing sugar required for dusting. Anyway it was a lovely Sunday morning and there was always time for a sweet soufflé before we headed out for lunch. It had been a long time since I made my last soufflé and I was a little apprehensive. This recipe has few ingredients and I did adapt it a little as usual. I found this cookbook, Women’s Weekly – Old Fashioned Favourites, at the back of the book shelf. So many yummy baking delights and I am so glad I found it. I received the cool pack from Ben & Jerry’s and it was quite funny how my colleagues reacted to it. I think I was the most popular person that day. And of course, I had to guard the communal freezer to make sure the ice cream tubs are still sealed and no one had stick their hands into the cookie jar The Ben & Jerry’s “Rolling Cone’ Kombi is currently roaming Melbourne and giving away free ice cream. Follow it on twitter to find out where the next location is. But you have to hurry because they are leaving Melbourne after the 27th of October and heading back to Sydney. Flipping through the Nyonya recipe book, I realised that the Nyonyas & Peranakans have very sweet tooth. The most common ingredients used are sugar, glutinous rice, coconut milk and pandan or banana leaves. This is one of the many dessert recipes that I will try making. It is a simple glutinous rice pudding and I am sure it will satisfy anyone who loves the big sugar hit. You will be able to find the glutinous rice and pandan leaves in almost any Asian grocery shops. Just note that it is hard to find fresh pandan leaves here so they will be stored in the freezer. I made the mistake of not checking when I was in Footscray. Mister drove me all the way to Richmond and then realisation hit me. Duh~~~  |
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