Multitasking. It’s something you need to make friends with as the holidays approach and the invitations and social events creep up on you. It’s even more handy when you have a holiday meal to cook and only one small oven. Being the great fan of multitasking that I am, I am pleased to combine the [...]
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International Incident Party: Mexican breakfast
This month’s International Incident Party theme – Mexican Breakfasts – could not have come at a better time… Why? Because I just happen to be in La Paz, Baja California Sur in Mexico, on a sponsored TweetUp for the Mexico Tourism Board organised by the amazing folks at Ogilvy. I know, I know, life’s tough [...]
International Incident Party: Sichuan cuisine
This month’s International Incident Party is not the joyous occasion it generally is. Our lovely hostess, Penny, lost her dad recently and is in Singapore helping out her mum so she won’t be participating this month. The rest of us, however, decided to go ahead and dedicate our dishes, with a “Sichuan” theme to the [...]
International Incident Party: Terrine
The theme of this month’s International Incident Party: Terrines, had me in a bit of a quandary. Typically, when you think terrine, meat comes to mind, but to be honest, I have been so up to my ears in meat (literally!) with last month’s Charcutepalooza sausage stuffing challenge and this month’s emulsified sausage (hot dogs [...]
Daring Cooks: An International gumbo Incident
Our Daring Cooks’ May hostess, Denise, of There’s a Newf in My Soup!, challenged us to make Gumbo! She provided us with all the recipes we’d need, from creole spices, homemade stock, and Louisiana white rice, to Drew’s Chicken & Smoked Sausage Gumbo and Seafood Gumbo from My New Orleans: The Cookbook, by John Besh. [...]
International Incident Party: Cake Pops (and a giveaway!)
I have to admit, when Penny challenged us to make Cake Pops for this month’s International Incident Party, I had never actually eaten a cake pop, let alone made one. In fact, I was so clueless that I thought they were just little round balls of cake on sticks. And I wondered how you got [...]
