easy pikelets

I've started my week on a whim making these fluffy pikelets for lunch! Usually a salad or croissan'wich is in order - but with my babbling bubba on the bench beside me, I felt like I wanted something quick and easy and totally mashable by her teeny tiny little hands and toothless gums (well those …

haloumi hand pies

I'm making party pies to share around - to celebrate moving blogs and re-theming what was once 'fati's recipes' 😉 It's taken a really long time and there are still a few corners to clean up, but why not start celebrating a little early with these delicious haloumi pies? What I love about these is …

makdous recipe

If I was told I had to ditch my uni job and enter full time work immediately, and that I could have any job I wanted, I'd probably choose a food magazine job - like a test kitchen chef or stylist (and I'll attempt to fill in the photographer's job when they're on sick leave, too 😉 …

beehive stuffed bread rolls

[repost with revised recipe] Aahh... the golden beehive in a tray. This heart-warming carby goodness is all the craze in the middle east, especially among my Saudi (and Algerian) friends. Whenever a lady comes to a potluck party with a tray of these, the entire room turns to her and takes a big sniff in... …

peach, raspberry & banana smoothie

The summer's heat is really getting to us and the poor A/C is barely keeping up. We're burning up in the heat, but I think we really need to install some insulation to save burning our pockets on the electricity bill, too! 😉 In light of summer, though, I thought I'd share with you a …

☆ my 2013 resolution | recipe roundup from my blogroll ☆

Since it's year's end and blog posts are trending around the topic, I thought I'd join the party and post: a warm welcome to all my new subscribers - I hope to dish up delicacies that'll tickle your taste buds this coming year; a tribute to my blogging friends... a roundup of some of the …

croissant au beurre || a spiel & recipe

Somewhere between last Saturday and now, I managed to realise I am the most pathetic human being alive. When I say this, I am referring to empathy, i.e. I am empathetic - but empathy has so much sociocultural connotative baggage involved with it, I like to use the concept pathos from Aristotle and mirror it so …

classic baqlawa (misspelled baklava) recipe

Baqlawa. Everyone claims they do it best, but who knows? I've actually had this post done and dusted and sitting in my drafts since September 2012 - a whole entire year ago! Wow 🙂 I thought I'd share it today because I'm head under stacks of study, assignments and midsem exams.... And well, it's a …

i heart cinnamon rolls

I really do heart them. So I made some in mini heart-shaped pans I bought from eBay (I bought six small ones). The story goes: I saw MJs heart shaped chocolate cups she had bought from the shops and wanted to recreate these at home. I did for a chocolate mousse but one use for things …

chilli sweet potato fries

If you're after a party in your mouth, then this is the recipe you're after. It's packed with flavour, fried nutrition (:P), and loaded with texture to kick-start the best flavourful experience you'll ever have. I'll make an outright confession here: these aren't as healthy as Rufus' baked sweet potato fries, but they're fries, so I'll fry …