For those of you who are familiar with Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese practices of recovery for a mother who has just given birth to her baby, eating sesame oil chicken with loads of ginger and rice wine helps to replenish the worn out body with the necessary nutrients after birth; at the same time, it ensures that excess wind gets expelled from the body so that it does not stay within to cause bloatedness.
I’m getting way too outdated already. This was a recipe that I have wanted to try out since the beginning of last year. Look at how long it took me to finally do it. About a year.
It was a good way to make pastries without too much fuss. Just roll out the puff pastry, place all the toppings inside, wrap them all up and then bake them till the cheese melts. In this sense, you do not really need a timer because once the cheese melts, the pastry should be ready too.
It is not easy at all to make fondant cakes.
I’ve seen a lot of pictures of fondant cakes online – they all look so beautiful, in fact too good to be eaten. Hence I thought of doing a simple one for my little one on his birthday too.
Made a piggy fondant cake for the little bub’s first year birthday celebration last week. Am glad it turned out better than I thought, though the whole process was rather messy, given that I didn’t have the right tools to handle the fondant with, including the fondant smoothing plate and the turntable. But I survived; the cake survived the entire one hour journey without melting away as well. Most importantly, the candle was blown and the cake was cut and all went well till the end of the day.
Which finally marks the first milestone of the little bub, with more to come of course.
