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[Recipe] Halloween Monster Finger Cookies

Posted in Baked Goods, Holiday, Home Cooking, Joyce, Parties, Recipe, Snacks, tagged Almond Cookies, Cake Flour, cookies, Family Cooking, Halloween, Halloween Cookies, Home Baking, Low Gluten, Monster Finger, Pumpkin Ale, recipe, shortbread on October 26, 2020| 5 Comments »

We are only a few days away from Halloween, and this Halloween isn’t going to be the same. We are all trying to be more creative and have fun, all the while being safe. Baking at home is definitely fit for this occasion. We made some monster fingers by adapting from a recipe on beanpanda.com. This is super easy to make and there are ways to involve your kids (or the kids in you)!

Ingredients

50g Butter (Room Temperature)
2 tablespoons Granulated Sugar
10g Whisked Egg (or Liquid Eggs)
90g Cake Flour
20g Almond Powder
16 Raw Almond (approximate)

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[Recipe] One Bite Nougat Puff – Chewy Confection with a Crunch 牛軋酥食譜

Posted in Home Cooking, Joyce, Parties, Recipe, Snacks, Sweets, tagged Candy, Confections, No Bake, Nougat, Nougat Puff, recipe, Sweet Treats on March 24, 2020| 6 Comments »

Last month, Mama Lam made some nougats. It’s good but it’s a bit boring, so she found a recipe to take it up a notch. It’s called Nougat Puff. It’s essentially nougat with the addition of crunchy crackers. We’ve made a few batches now and each time it has turned out well.

Ingredients

200g Ritz biscuit
200g marshmallow
80g melted butter
50g milk powder
100g dried cranberries

Instructions

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Hounds Vodka – a Haunted Twist to a Classic Screwdriver, a Halloween Cocktail

Posted in Beverage, Drinks, Holiday, Joyce, Parties, Recipe, tagged Cocktail, Halloween, Hounds Vodka, Party Idea, recipe, Screwdriver, Vodka on October 28, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Halloween is just around the corner. Are you hosting a party, having friends over? Are you looking for cool yet easy entertaining ideas? How about a 2-ingredient cocktail?

Recently, I was sent some samples of Hounds Vodka. What’s special about Hounds is that the vodka is black in colour and naturally, I thought of using it for Halloween. What’s an easy cocktail recipe for this mysterious looking vodka? The classic Screwdriver came to mind.

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Thanksgiving Dinner with Echelon Foods Turducken Roast

Posted in Dinner, Home Cooking, Joyce, Meat, Parties, Product Reviews, Special Occasion, tagged Bacon Wrapped Turducken Premium Roast, Echelon Foods, Gravy, Roast, Thanksgiving, Turducken on October 28, 2015| 2 Comments »

Traditionally it’s not in our culture to celebrate Thanksgiving. Instead, we celebrate Moon Festival (aka Mid Autumn Festival). But this year, as newlyweds, we did something different and invited 4 friends over for a Thanksgiving dinner.

Courtesy of Echelon Foods, we received one of their Bacon Wrapped Turducken Premium Roasts and that was the star of our Thanksgiving dinner. Yes, it’s a turducken roast with Italian sausage stuffing and wrapped with bacon. A 3kg meaty goodness. It’s going to be an epic dinner!

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Inside #HarvestHaus 2014 – Celebrating Oktoberfest in Vancouver

Posted in Beer, Culinary Events, Drinks, German, Joyce, Meat, Parties, Pop-up, Vancouver, tagged beer, festival, Gulden, Harvest Haus, Oktoberfest, pork hock, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Stein on October 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday marked the opening of Harvest Haus, the first major Oktoberfest-themed festival in Vancouver. We were invited to check out the opening night and it was just so festive under the big tents at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza. There was German style food, beer, live music and entertainers. Grab yourself a stein and some gulden, and enjoy a couple beer and a few tasty bites.

This kicked off the four-day celebration of the German festival filled with great food and of course, beer. Event details and ticket information can be found at www.harvest-haus.com.

Here are some photos of the opening night: