I decided to start a cooking series on the blog. Not because I’m a great cook. Quite the opposite. I feel I’m such a terrible cook and I have to try harder than anyone to create meals that are, and here’s my long and almost unattainable list; edible, delicious, healthy and most importantly, easy. There […]
The Best Macaron Recipe, Macaron Art & More
In one of my latest Instagram posts, I asked everybody what type of templates they wanted to see and I promised I would try to make some of them. Well, here is the first template I’m releasing from those requests. It’s everyone’s favorite cat – Hello Kitty. I think I’ve loved Kitty since the early […]
UPDATED on OCT. 4: one bolded section below Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to you all! If you don’t know already, this Chinese celebration is liken to the Western Thanksgiving as its origins were tied to celebrating the end of the harvest season. One of the most important and symbolic customs during this time is the sharing of mooncakes between family and friends. Mooncakes […]
A Pipeable and Fluffy Meringue Based Buttercream Today, I want to share this standard Swiss Meringue Buttercream with all of you since it is one of the best ways to prepare a meringue based frosting which is fluffy, stable, pipeable and most importantly, delicious tasting. As the name suggests, it’s part of the […]
This is the last of 4 sets of pictures from my travels in Lisbon, Portugal which I shared with Deborah Moore this morning on Fairchild Radio. This post highlights our day out in Sintra, a mountainside town filled with royal retreats, estates, castles and other buildings, and it is a roughly 35 minute car ride away from Lisbon. […]