Pommes Anna Layered Potatoes with Garlic Herb Butter

Pommes Anna (or Potato Anna) is a classic French dish of buttery sliced potatoes stacked into a cake-like form that is baked until tender on the inside and crisp on the edges. The signature presentation of a Pommes Anna is flipped over onto a serving dish where the golden brown bottom becomes the top. You must have a really good non-stick pan or a really well-seasoned cast iron pan to pull it off. Do practice this dish before serving it to guests at a dinner party. Once you can comfortably pull this off, it is a rather satisfying culinary triumph!

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Brown Butter Apple Streusel Cake

This BROWN BUTTER APPLE STREUSEL CAKE is tender, brown buttery, and apple-forward thanks to the generous chunks of apples in the batter. It is essentially a classic French Apple Cake where melted butter is replaced with nutty brown butter, and topped with a chunky almond streusel topping. Because if there are two truths I believe in, is that brown butter and streusel are always good ideas!

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Tomato Prawn Wafu Pasta (Japanese-style pasta)

This quick-cooking TOMATO PRAWN WAFU PASTA is a Japanese-style pasta recipe that marries a simple Italian fresh tomato sauce and elements of distinctly Japanese flavours in the use of soy sauce, dashi powder (optional but easy to use — read recipe note), fresh shiso leaves and shredded nori for garnish. The best of both worlds!

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Tomato Salad with toasted almonds and dates

I have officially dubbed this TOMATO SALAD WITH TOASTED ALMONDS AND DATES the salad of the summer! My summer, at least. And maybe yours too, once you try it. This salad centers thickly sliced, juicy tomatoes, a big handful of baby arugula and an incredible toasted almonds and dates topping. It’s so good there is always inventory shrinkage before it gets to the salad.

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Homemade Maraschino Cherries

Homemade MARASCHINO CHERRIES are nothing like the florescent-red orbs you think of garnishing Shirley Temples, or the one offensive fruit you have to pick out of canned fruit cocktail. These delicious, syrupy MARASCHINO CHERRIES are the perfect cocktail garnish (obviously) but think beyond cocktails because they are sublime on desserts like cheesecake, panna cotta, Eton mess or on a scoop of vanilla ice cream which I highly, highly recommend.

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20 Minute Scallion Noodle Soup 葱油湯面

This 20 MINUTE ONE-POT SCALLION NOODLE SOUP is an easy noodle meal with a tasty pork topping in a rich, peanut butter scallion soup that will have you slurping away in 20 minutes. It is basically an amalgamation of my dad’s scallion soup noodles and Dan Dan Mein. Or, two of my favourite noodle dishes in one! 

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Green Beans with Miso Butter Onions

This GREEN BEANS WITH MISO BUTTER BRAISED ONIONS is side dish perfection. Onions are cooked until nearly melt-in-your-mouth in a simple but flavourful 3-ingredient braising liquid of butter, miso paste and water. To serve, the tender onions are served over green beans, under a blanket of the umami-rich, unctuous sauce.

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Coffee Agar Jelly

When the humidex is humidex-ing, I’m taking my afternoon coffee in the form of refreshing COFFEE AGAR JELLY! It is served with a chilled sweet milk but a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top is highly encouraged too if you’re an affogato girlie. A là mode or on its own, COFFEE AGAR JELLY with chilled sweet milk is the delicious hot weather coffee reprieve you deserve.

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