Floral Three Tier Cake – GBBO Showstopper Challenge (Week 6)

Week 6! Botanicals Week? The first ‘botanicals’ week on GBBO saw the bakers making things with floral flavours and just ‘anything that GROWS’, as star baker Tom bluntly put it. The episode started with a citrus meringue pie signature bake, followed by a fougasse (basically a French focaccia), and finally ended with the bakers making a 3 tierContinue reading “Floral Three Tier Cake – GBBO Showstopper Challenge (Week 6)”

PANCAKES!!

This is hands down one of the best days of the year. I mean, an excuse to cook up all the sinfully delicious ingredients in your kitchen… AT ONCE? I’m not complaining. Looking for some inspiration?           Mancakes! – bacon, chocolate chips, peanut butter, whisky-spiked maple syrup, and EVEN MORE BACON. These areContinue reading “PANCAKES!!”

Assado, Waterloo – World Goa Day!

Last Friday night I spent my evening being wined and dined at Assado, the newest restaurant from Chef Cyrus Todiwala, to celebrate World Goa Day 2014. World Goa Day, founded in 2000 by Rene Barreto, is an annual event celebrated by Goans all over the world to commemorate the Indian Parliament’s acceptance of ‘Konkani’ as one ofContinue reading “Assado, Waterloo – World Goa Day!”