I’m back from my travels and will be posting at length very soon. In the meantime, I have to clean the house!
19
Oct
I’m back from my travels and will be posting at length very soon. In the meantime, I have to clean the house!
4
Oct
Madam Chow and Master Chow are currently eating their way through the island of Oahu. We will waddle back home in the next week or so. Aloha!
19
Sep
One of my favorite flavors is passion fruit, or lilikoi as it is known in Hawaii. These little fruits can be extremely expensive – I just bought ONE for $2.99. Ouch. The reason I did this was to conduct a little experiment.
Many dessert recipes call for a certain number of passion fruit, which are only available seasonally. Frozen passion fruit pulp, on the other hand, can be found year-round (Goya brand), and is a whole lot more affordable. So, I needed to know how much pulp was in one average fruit, so that I could use frozen pulp. So, how much is in there?
One fruit = approximately 1 Tablespoon, or 1/2 ounce.
30
Aug
No, I haven’t made it. Yet. One never knows what Madam Chow might cook up. Curiously enough, I received this recipe from my mother-in-law, the Dowager Chow. Maybe I’ll make it for her birthday!
CAKE INGREDIENTS
1 box spice or German chocolate cake mix
1 box of white cake mix
1 package white sandwich cookies
1 large package vanilla instant pudding mix
A few drops green food coloring
12 small Tootsie Rolls or equivalent
SERVING “DISHES AND UTENSILS”
1 NEW cat-litter box (please notice that it’s supposed to be NEW!)
1 NEW cat-litter box liner (ditto!)
1 NEW pooper scooper (ditto!)
1) Prepare and bake cake mixes, according to directions, in any size pan. Prepare pudding and chill. Crumble cookies in small batches in blender or food processor. Add a few drops of green food coloring to 1 cup of cookie crumbs. Mix with a fork or shake in a jar. Set aside.
2) When cakes are at room temperature, crumble them into a large bowl. Toss with half of the remaining cookie crumbs and enough pudding to make the mixture moist but not soggy. Place liner in litter box and pour in mixture.
3) Unwrap 3 Tootsie Rolls and heat in a microwave until soft and pliable. Shape the blunt ends into slightly curved points. Repeat with three more rolls. Bury the rolls decoratively (Ed. Decoratively??) in the cake mixture. Sprinkle remaining white cookie crumbs over the mixture, then scatter green crumbs lightly over top.
4) Heat 5 more Tootsie Rolls until almost melted. Scrape them on top of the cake and sprinkle with crumbs from the litter box. Heat the remaining Tootsie Roll until pliable and hang it over the edge of the box. Place box on a sheet of newspaper and serve with scooper.
And here is a photo of the . . . masterpiece:
Photo from KidsKuisine.com
Apparently, this cake appears in the book Gross Out Cakes, along with mouth watering desserts such as the Open Wound Cake and the Toenail Torte. Oh, yum. And be sure to check out the imaginative creations over at Kids Kuisine!
24
Aug
24
Aug
Amazing!
4
Aug
4
Aug
I think I have at least 500 cookbooks. Seriously. I had collected quite a few on my own, but a couple years ago my mother passed away, and I inherited her vast collection. I have given away literally hundreds of cookbooks in the past year, as I try to pare down my horde to a manageable size.
Of course, one of my favorite hobbies is collecting . . . cookbooks. And what did I just do with my birthday money? I ordered this:
I eagerly await its appearance.
4
Aug
I love to cook and bake, but sometimes I just get . . . tired. Burned out. What usually follows these episodes are weeks of furious experimenation. Once again, I find that I love to shop for food, and will venture to our local Asian markets and farm stands to look for interesting things, instead of just our standard fare.
This week, I was happy to discover fresh lychee and rambutan. You may have seen the lychee in cans, but the one in the picture above is a fresh one. Both fruits are similar in taste – sweet and mild (lychee is a bit sweeter), and you eat their white fruit by cracking the outer shell. Yum. You can find more info and pictures here.
22
Jul
Over at Farmgirl Fare. So cute!
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