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[Recipe] Blush 75 Cocktail Perfect for Valentine’s Day

Posted in Beverage, Cocktails, Drinks, Home Cooking, Joyce, Recipe, Special Occasion, Spirits, tagged Cocktail, Easy Recipe, French 75, Gin, Mocktail, Raincity Distillery, recipe, Saintly Wine, Sparkling Rosé on February 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »

This is the classic French 75 cocktail but I changed it up with a sparkling rosé. I called it Blush 75 (and others may have named it similarly as well) because the sparkling rosé would give it a tint of pink. The colour is also perfect for Valentine’s Day. And I love that I have all the ingredients at home so I don’t have to buy a bunch of cocktail stuff that I don’t use often.

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[Recipe] Taiwanese Chewy Taro and Yam Balls QQ芋圓地瓜圓食譜

Posted in Asian, Dessert, Home Cooking, Joyce, Recipe, Taiwanese, tagged Easy Recipe, 芋圓, recipe, Taro Balls, Yam Balls, 地瓜圓 on May 22, 2020| 7 Comments »

Ever since our Taiwan trip last November, I’ve been thinking about those tasty yam and taro balls from Jiufen. They were bouncy, chewy, and full of yam and taro flavour. You can find them here at Taiwanese restaurants such as Meet Fresh and Sweet Memory, but the texture just wasn’t the same. The ones here tend to be softer and you can’t really taste the root vegetables. Now that we are home all the time, we looked up different recipes to make these taro and yam balls. Turns out it’s not complicated at all and super easy to make. You can adapt it to other root vegetables or even red and mung beans. After a couple of tests and some adjustments, we finally came up with a recipe that worked to our liking.

Here is the recipe to make three flavours of these chewy balls, using purple yam, yam and taro. All three flavours follow the same instructions but the measurement of ingredients varies because of the water content of the root vegetables. In fact, we found that you don’t need to add water to the yam one, but more tapioca flour is needed. You will need to gauge the use of water and tapioca flour as you make the dough.