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Thanks to the Foodbuzz community these cookies made the Top 9 on 30th August 2010. Happy Buzz Day. Dreams are strange creatures. You close your eyes again in the hope of dreaming on. Because you want to know how it ends. Like a good movie. But it never does does it? The quest for the complete dream with a beginning, a middle and an end always eludes us. I guess chasing the dream is very much like chasing the 'best ever' cookie recipe. It's endless. So in my quest, this is another new cookie recipe for the festive season. I will still bake the same old good old but there is always room for the new cookie recipe.  This time it is a chocolate cashew sugar cookie. I got the idea from here at Fake Food Free but made them from an adapted sugar cookie recipe. It was chocolaty but I think it needed more cashews.   The recipe ~ 6 oz plain flour 2 oz cocoa powder 1 tsp baking powder 4 0z  butter 6 oz castor sugar About 2-3 oz cashews or however much you like, chopped quite fi...

Hi everyone! Here's a quick post of some breakfast noodles. It is simple and uses dried prawns as the main flavour base with added bean sprouts and chives for added flavour and texture. And crushed bird's eye chillie fo a nice kick. Yum! I made this on the same day that I made the hot sauce . I used skinny noodles from a packet (horrors) but it did have a few NO'S on the packet.....like NO preservatives, NO MSG, No Colouring. I suppose that's as close to homemade as I can get.  I'm out of steam, out of energy and out of time these past few days. I need to get working on those cookies. And I think I'm in  need of a plan just so I can carry out my plans.   The recipe ~ This noodle dish is so simple yet so full of flavour and makes a nice filling breakfast, lunch, snack or even dinner. 2 squares of skinny noodles 6-7 pieces dried prawns, soaked in water for about 10 minutes 2 pips garlic 2 bird's eye chillies or a large chillie pepper a handful of bean sprouts ...

Nothing fancy here. It's just a garlic ginger chillie hot sauce. A chicken rice hot sauce. All you need is a blender and a swoosh and it's done. Ju made this exact sauce a couple of days ago as well. I'm not surprised if we had made and photographed it on the very same day. We share the same vibes. I believe that this is the third time we've made similar food and posted it within a whisker's post of each other's. It's one of those strange but true occurrences.  This hot sauce is great with steam boats, chicken rice, stir fried noodles, rice, soups, as a dipping for fritters. Anything and everything I suppose. Whatever makes you happy and whenever your palate needs a bit of a kick. Its kind of sour and spicy with a very subtle tinge of sweetness to it. Very very very appetizing. The recipe ~ 10 chillies plus some/many bird's eye chillies if you like 6-7 pips garlic, peeled 1 inch ginger, peeled 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar 1 T sugar salt to taste Wash and...

This giveaway is closed today 27th August 2010 .Thank you so much to those who participated. The winner of my Print Giveaway by Brochures Printing Online (by random.org) is........number 18 (I still can't figure out a way to copy and paste the winning number). Chisum's Crew you're the winner :-)!!! If you're running a business I'm sure you would have thought of  brochure printing to promote your products or services. Brochures Printing Online is a company that prints brochures designed to your exact specifications. They help you to create custom brochures and their team of design experts will help check and ensure the quality of your prints before sending them off to their printers.  "We print your brochures using digital or offset process to make sure that you have the best quality at the best price available."  Click on the image below to learn more. And this is the giveaway Brochures Printing Online is offering to one of my lucky readers ~ 100...

If only maids were made in heaven I would have been a rested and happy woman in a newly cleaned and sparkling home. But no. I had to have two of the most incompetent and obnoxious maids delivered to my door yesterday. I was bluffed into believing that they were well trained and experienced. Silly me. At the end of each explicitly explained task they stood and wavered looking extremely disgusted. I don't blame them. That is why I hire maids. Duh. They grumbled and probably swore their way through the housework for almost three hours while I attempted to curb and guide them into some form of what I thought were logical and common sensed tasks. I think my eyes glowed. After three hours when the job was 'done' and the house somewhat less than sparkling one of them just flopped like a sack of rice and spread herself on the floor at the front door while waiting to be picked up by the Big Bluffer. Upset as I was I almost burst out laughing. Out of pity I made conversation with he...

A dear blogger friend Sarah Jane had sent me not one but four silicone WORD moulds all the way from the UK. As if that wasn't enough Sarah had included some sugar nibs and a rolling cookie cutter as well. What can I say? I was excited.... WOW and thank you Sarah Jane. I just can't wait to play with the sugar nibs and cookie cutter as well. Sarah Jane designs moulds for SiliconeMoulds.com, a company that sells all kinds of silicon moulds. Not just for baking but also for chocolate making and soap moulding. If you visit her site you'll see moulds in a variety if shapes and sizes and some of them are really whimsical and fun. My kind of mould shapes. These moulds look fantastic!  If you want to see some great recipes hop over to her lovely blog ~ siliconemoulds.blogspot.com :)) If you read my blog you might remember the Cherry Cupcake Financiers that I made a while back? Well... it was one of Sarah's fantastic recipes.  I have never used or bought silicone moulds ...

Dried shrimps are one of the most flavourful ingredients to have around in the kitchen cupboard. It is pungent and like all pungent ingredients it is packed with umami, like bonito flakes , like fish sauce, like belacan etc. A dish becomes irresistible when pounded dried shrimps are used as a flavour base. The list of dishes for dried shrimps is endless...stir fried veggies, fried rice, fried noodles...as a sambal, as a filling, as a topping... hey-ho. ....everything.  Hub had just come back from a  trip to Kota Kinabalu in Sabah,  also referrred to as 'The Land Below The Wind' by the Suluks , a sea faring people from the Southern Philippines. So named because Sabah is located just below and lies just of reach of the merciless typhoons that hit and devastate parts of the Philippines every year. This name has been popularized by Agnes Keith's book, The Land Below The Wind . Agnes Keith was an American born in Oak Park, Illinois. She married Henry G. Keith an Englis...