Chinese Food Culture

Want a moist fruit cake recipe? Check out this moist Christmas fruit cake Recipe as the method calls for boiling the ingredients first before baking. A new method to try that guarantees a flavorful fruit cake that is sure to please. 

Contributor: Ho Siew Loon

It’s the time of year again…Christmas!!!

Christmas has always been my favorite time of the year. It is a season where you can feel so much love in the air and the melodious Christmas tunes never fail to make me happy. It is also a season of eating and drinking!  Besides the Roast Turkey, having a really good fruit cake is also a must on my Christmas menu. This year I have managed to bake the fruit cake earlier then usual as I am preparing to pass them as gifts to my close friends. This is a must-try recipe from Catherine Lau which uses the boiling method. I have used this recipes for wedding cakes and Christmas baking and it has never failed to impress my friends and family. The big grin on their face is the best  Christmas gift for me.

Fruit cake is a traditional British Christmas cake that is full of fruits and nuts and laced with alcohol, usually brandy.  This gives the fruit cake a subtle brandy flavor and a moist texture, plus it also allows the fruit cake to be stored fora long time. I always enjoy eating it with a glass of red wine or even a cup of espresso.

(Click Page 2 for the Fruit Cake Recipe)

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Contributor: Ho Siew Loon

Since young, I have always been a chocolate lover and eating chocolate always make me feel happy. Chocolate Cake is of course one of my favorites but I have been putting off the idea of baking it as it can get quite messy at times. I came across the lovely chocolate cake on Little Teochew and decided to put my hands into baking it.

Chocolate cake is a very rich cake. To get a good chocolate cake you must use very good quality chocolate. I used Valrhona Equatoriale 55% as suggested by Little Teochew and the cake turned out heavenly. The taste is just so perfect, you get the texture of a moist chocolate cake and not too sweet.  Give this chocolate cake recipe a try over the weekend and you will definitely get lots of gleeful smiles from your loved ones.

(Click on Page 2 for the Chocolate Cake Recipe)

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Some cool food images:

Miniature Food Autumn Cake A


Image by PetitPlat – Stephanie Kilgast (in dolly mood)
Polymer clay
1:12

Miniature Food French Breakfast


Image by PetitPlat – Stephanie Kilgast (in dolly mood)
polymer clay
1:12

Some cool food images:

Cross section of the Chocolate Devils Food cake


Image by Sifu Renka
Moist layers of chocolate cake and frosting, infused with alcohol and covered in a rich chocolate ganache.

Daniel et Daniel Catering
248 Carlton Street
Toronto, ON
(416) 968-9275
www.danieletdaniel.ca/

To be featured in commercial software package called "Cook It!"

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Alpha’s Just Fine Burger – Just Fine Food


Image by avlxyz
Alpha’s Just Fine Burger – Just Fine Food AUD13.50

It was just fine and beefy, although a bit dry.
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We had lunch at Just Fine Food, just to try the vanilla slice, which was pretty good, but the vanilla flavour wasn’t as strong as I’d liked and the custard seemed to be too starchy, and less eggy and creamy. Still pretty good though. While we were there, about an hour, we saw 2 and a half trays sold. Each tray had 48 slices! Amazing.

Just Fine Food Delicatessen
23 Ocean Beach Rd Sorrento 3943
(03) 59ȴ 4666
reviews:
- Just Fine Food – Mietta’s
- Just Fine Food / Coasting Along, The Age November 22, 2003

Photos:
- Vanilla Slices and Cakes
- Alpha’s Just Fine Burger
- Lilian and David’s Club Sandwic
- Julia’s Turkey and Cranberry Sandwich
- Raymond’s Vanilla Slice

Miniature Food – Dollhouse Candy Cabinet #8


Image by PetitPlat Food Art – Stephanie Kilgast
Après une semaine à Berlin chez papa-maman me revoilà!
Et voici un cabinet haut en couleurs et en sucre, remplis de divers sucreries, sucettes, bonbons, muffins, donuts et autres friandises.

Le meuble a été acheté sur ebay, puis paint en blanc par moi, vernis et rempli.
Miniature au 1:12 ème pour maison de poupée de collection.

After one week at daddy and mommy in Berlin, I’m back! And here a colorful and cute candy cabinet, filled with various sweets, candies, lollipops, cupcakes, donuts and other treats. The furniture has been bought on ebay, painted and filled by myself.

Miniature for dollhouse collectors in 1:12 scale.

xx
Stéphanie

A few nice food images I found:

Miniature Food Tarts, Cake, Chocolate


Image by PetitPlat Food Art – Stephanie Kilgast
oook! I know I’ve already used that display lol!
But this time it’s for the fruit tarts, see?

1:12
polymer clay
flowers by MinisBySonia on etsy

Check out these food images:

Miniature Food Cake and Pastry in Colors


Image by PetitPlat Food Art – Stephanie Kilgast
Ok, just 2 quick shots of the different cakes I’ve made lastely.
Not sure I’ll show every single one, as I’m quite busy!

Miniature Food Earrings


Image by PetitPlat Food Art – Stephanie Kilgast
all handmade by me
and between 1 and 1,5 cm (0,4 and 0,6 inch) big

Food Not Bombs flyer


Image by Toban Black
Note the heart in the bottom-right of this photo

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Here’s an article I wrote about a Food Not Bombs event in early February, 2006 -
"Food Not Bombs in London, Ontario"

The pain from my recent dental surgery is slowing easing away; I am starting to be able to chew, well, on foods again. Soon after a week of porridge, porridge, and more porridge of different toppings and ingredients, I am sooooo ready to dive back into some thing I totally miss, which is, seafood…

My dentist has warned me not to go overboard yet as my gum tissues are still raw so steaming is the finest cooking style for now. For today’s cooking, I picked scallops as I identified some succulent ones inside marketplace currently. I paired the scallops with fresh enoki mushrooms and heaped in some fermented black beans. After a couple of minutes of steaming, the scallops and enoki mushrooms were bathed in a lightly flavored broth bursting with natural sweetness with the scallops and enoki mushrooms. The fermented black beans have been basically icing on the cake. Yum…

Chewing has in no way been this enjoyable and fun. I am glad to have it back.

Banana cake is usually a fast bread recipe that contains mashed ripe bananas. Banana cake is generally moist, sweet, bread like cake which usually utilizes baking soda as the leavening agent rather then yeast; however, there are a few banana cake recipes that happen to be traditional-style yeast breads.

It’s a good honor to have Madam Kwong of Madam Kwong’s Kitchen guest posting on Nyonya Food these days. Raised in Penang, Madam Kwong can be a retired Nyonya chef currently based in Australia. I have been a secret fan of Madam Kwong��s Kitchen—her gorgeous blog with quite a few authentic and delicious Nyonya/Malaysian recipes. Please welcome Madam Kwong and her daughter Suz (the photographer) to Nyonya Food with her kuih benka or tapioca/cassava cake Recipe. Kuih Bengka is usually a incredibly delicious Nyonya kuih, one of my late grandmother’s specialties and also my personal favorite. Enjoy!

Firstly, I wish to thank Nyonya Food for inviting me to guest post in her amazing blog. I was so excited when she emailed me and am really honored. We share something in common, well, besides cooking, speaking the very same language or the love of food. We are both from our beautiful island of Penang, Malaysia. She wanted me to “cook up” a Nyonya dish. The option of Nyonya cooking is vast and hard but this recipe is very basic. Oh! She did hint she wanted a kuih. So, I whipped up Kuih Bengka. My daughter, the amateur photographer, Suz took the photos and soon enough ate most in the kuihs.

In the past where there was no electricity, Nyonyas utilized charcoal to bake Kuih Bengka (Cassava). The top with the kuih would become dark brown. These days, you can still get the same top crusty effect in a fan forced oven which is caused by the baking procedure. The kuih is light yellow in colour and has a sweetly scented coconut flavor. You are able to even bite into the grated coconut. I used the old fashion wooden coconut grater to grate the coconut in this recipe. Ahhh! Life is tough, knowing that you are able to purchase frozen grated coconut. This is an effortless recipe to make and hope you try it as well…