Ramen Review #1 - Nissin Demae Ramen; Seafood Flavour

Because I love noodles and noodles related food and I refuse to do my homework today *sigh*. I'm gonna review the ramen I just ate :P

Ramen Review #2: Master Kong's Pork Ribs Flavoured Noodles.

Today I want to introduce you all to a brand of noodles that quite recently popped up in the Asian supermarkets here in the Netherlands. The brand is owned by Tingyi (Cayman Island) Holding Corporation and is actually a Taiwanese company with headquarters in Tianjin, China. Usually I'm very cautious when eating foods that hail from China, because food safety isn't much of a priority over there... I mean people smuggle baby formula into the country because the ones produced inside China are potentially harmful... but since these noodles got through EU borders and is sold in the large chains of Asian supermarkets, I decided to give it a chance.

Siu Long Bao - Shanghai dumplings

Life has been really hectic lately, loads of bumps in the road from birth to death and lately (this year) it has been problem on top of problem *sigh* This frog deserves as long rest and preferably a paid holiday...

Back to cooking! I made this photo tutorial for Facebook, but I figured I might as well post it here too.

Castella Cake!

My husband left!! Well... he went to a board game convention and I don't really want to spend my days between sweaty board geeks anyway, so he went with one of his friends. He did miss out on the best castella cake I ever made!

Kybyn from Lithuania

*A sweet reader informed me that the current recipe sadly isn't a traditional recipe! He/she mentioned the dough shouldn't contain any yeast and be more buttery. Also pork fillings are not traditional. New recipe will be needed!*

Lately I've been craving salty baked goods. Maybe it is because I've eaten too many danish while trying to make the perfect danish. So on a boring Sunday I couldn't help myself anymore and looked into the fridge. I didn't have much in there, some spring onions, cabbage.... cabbage. Suddenly I remembered a short informative video I saw several times on Discovery Channel about minority people. It was a video about the Karaim in Lithuania and during the few minutes a girl talks about her people and you see shots of her mother making kybyn.

Green Onion Pancakes

Its a beautiful sunday and I was staring into my half-empty fridge. I have ingredients for tonight's homemade pizza dinner and also the stuff I need for monday's beef stew. And then I found some green onions that have been sitting in my fridge for almost too long... What to do with some green onions? Green onion pancakes!

Visiting Parents - Danish Pastry

Tomorrow I'll be visiting my parents, together with my sisters. My family was big to start with (I have four older sisters) and as we all got older boyfriends/husbands came into the picture. Now I also have a lot of little nephews and one precious little niece! That makes a loud bunch of people and also a lot of mouths to shove my experimental baking into! So I set out to bake Danish pastry today. I've been trying to bake some decent Danish for about a week now. I've tried a few recipes on the internet and watched a few video's on YouTube about the flaky buttery goodness, but I haven't been able to make a really good batch yet.