Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Dec 1, 2009, 12:07 am
  Or, instead, this post should be titled 'I Love Dorie Greenspan'. The more recipes I try from her book Baking: From My Home to Yours, the more I feel like I don’t need any o...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Nov 28, 2009, 1:43 pm
  I made these crazy delicious mushrooms last week. Has a familiar ring to it? Even for my previous post (the marinated eggplants), it took me a whole week to get to posting the recipe. ...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Nov 23, 2009, 12:10 am
Did you miss me? I hope you did. Let me tell you what I was upto – I was writing a chapter for 55 Knives. Erm, what’s that? That is an upcoming e-book that will feature some really, really aw...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Nov 11, 2009, 12:13 pm
  I love broccoli. Do you? What I do not understand is why anyone wouldn’t like it. I mean, what’s not to like? It stumps me when I read stories about parents have a tough time shov...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Nov 5, 2009, 12:25 pm
So I got the most awesome things for my birthday today (I turn 23!). Celebrations got an early start yesterday morning when I got two packages in the mail. One was the Ottolenghi cookbook that Hilda s...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Oct 30, 2009, 2:09 pm
I think an apple pie is one of the first things I baked when I got an oven. I used a pie dough recipe from a nondescript local book and didn’t pay much attention to baking blind (we will get to this...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Oct 26, 2009, 2:32 pm
  Photos courtesy: Kiris'  Here for the Daring Bakers challenge? Sorry, but I didn't quite make it through. This month's challenge was French Macarons - something Iâ€...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Oct 24, 2009, 12:21 am
  Flour, butter, sugar and eggs are the most important ingredients for a baker. And I’ve been having a hard time for the past few days because we have been faced with a short supply of bu...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Oct 18, 2009, 5:02 pm
Doesn’t everyone just love a thick slice of banana bread? And coupled with a glass of cold milk or a dollop of whipped cream, it makes for an offer that is hard to turn down. But what if i...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Oct 13, 2009, 3:28 pm
The Baked brownie recipe + the most delicious cheesecake recipe = outrageous cheesecake swirled brownies. Oh yes, this is for real. The brownie batter (the baked recipe, nothing les...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Oct 10, 2009, 12:51 am
  I despise eating food off the shelf – boxed, canned, frozen, heat-and-eat kind. I always wonder what sorts of preservative must have been used in it to maintain that shelf life. I especi...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Oct 4, 2009, 4:08 am
A few days ago my dad brought the most juicy pears home. They were small and so full of flavour that after downing as many as I could fresh, I decided to make a pear cake I'd been meaning to try e...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Sep 29, 2009, 1:59 pm
I have always wanted to try puff pastry, but never had the courage or motivation to make it. In the heart of hearts, I knew I'd only attempt it in the form of a Daring Bakers Challenge. So when th...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Sep 22, 2009, 2:30 pm
It’s hard to believe that 2 years have gone by since the time I started this blog. Sometimes it feels like I’ve been blogging forever and other times I feel like a newbie. Irrespective, I’ve had...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Sep 20, 2009, 1:24 pm
I love apples. As a kid, apples were my favourite fruit. But, then when I grew up, apples stopped being seasonal. With their all year round availability (and multiple varieties at that), they sud...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Sep 17, 2009, 2:46 pm
Okay, so these really aren’t from Baked, NYC, but from their book, Baked: New Frontiers in Baking. And truth be told – these are the best brownies I've come by in a long, long time; I have fal...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Sep 14, 2009, 1:58 pm
Have you ever candied something? Maybe some orange or lime zests? If you haven’t, I urge you to give it a go. I only realise now what I had been missing out on all this while once I candied some gin...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Sep 5, 2009, 12:27 pm
You: So what is this apple thing that you’ve made today? Me: Umm, apple crumble (or is it crisp?). I think they’re kinda the same thing. You see, the thing is, I’m not sure what the difference...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Sep 1, 2009, 11:50 pm
It’s established. This chocolate chip pound cake is comfort food. You know why? Because I ate this cake for three meals straight. Only this. Just so you know I’m not exaggerating, I will tell you ...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Aug 25, 2009, 2:35 pm
Over the past weekend, while I was catching up on my feeds, my heart skipped a beat when I saw a beautiful photo of stuffed eggplants on La Tartine Gourmande. The stunning visual was enough to convinc...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Aug 23, 2009, 2:34 am
A few weeks ago I discovered a new local restaurant with a wood fired oven. With the quality of ingredients on the pizza and the smoky flavour from the oven, I was sold. Since then, I’ve been having...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Aug 20, 2009, 1:27 pm
You know what’s the best part of being a food blogger? You meet so many like-minded people. It’s only with them that you can whine about not finding cacao nibs where you live, or figure out why yo...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Aug 16, 2009, 3:10 pm
When I was in college, I remember an economics class where one of the basic financial instruments was called a vanilla bond. Having never seen a vanilla bean before, the only thing associated it to th...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Aug 12, 2009, 1:02 pm
Whenever I need to bake something that is a little decadent, I better have a good enough reason for making it because sugar, butter and refined flour aren’t the three best words to use in this house...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Aug 5, 2009, 1:03 pm
There is something about cooked apples that instantly spells comfort food for me. I especially like how tart apples like granny smith hold their own in whatever recipe they’re used. Earlier, when th...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Aug 2, 2009, 2:39 pm
I finally collated the data spanning comments, twitter, stumbleupon, facebook and email subscribers to pick a winner for The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry. I listed all these on excel (too muc...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Jul 27, 2009, 9:35 pm
I do not like marshmallow. There, I finally said it out aloud! But what about s’mores, and rocky road ice cream shakes, and hot chocolate topped with cute little marshmallows? Nope. To most this m...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Jul 23, 2009, 3:21 pm
Just when I was making the garlicky twists, I realised that I didn’t really want to make those twists that end up being just plain dough at the edges. You know how the bread near the corner always t...
Comment - Like

Shaheen (Coco) P. posted an article on Ambrosia - Jul 21, 2009, 12:51 pm
I love using stumble upon to discover new food blogs and recipes, and a few days ago when I was getting my regular dose of stumbling, I came upon a recipe for herb and garlic twisty bread that inst...
Comment - Like