For her Majesty… thebigfatnoodle’s Diamond Jubilee cake for the Queen
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on June 3, 2012 · 16 Comments
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee As I sit here typing, I’m watching the Queen’s floating pageant take place on our TV. The 1,000 ships that are taking part in the flotilla will actually end up right outside our flat in London at the end of the day. Unfortunately, we no longer live there so we are … Continue reading →
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Filed under Adventures, Baking, blueberries, British, Cakes, Cool stuff, Country life, Dessert, Eggs, English, Features, Flour, Fruit, Fruits, Godalming, Raspberries, Recipes, Singapore, Stories, strawberries, Sweet · Tagged with Cake, Diamond Jubilee, London, Queen, Singapore, Sponge cake, Tasty Kitchen, Union Flag
Fresh fruit needn’t be boring: chocolate apples and oranges
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 10, 2012 · 12 Comments
Have you ever eaten a Terry’s Chocolate Orange? My husband said he and his brother and sister used to get one every Christmas. It was, and remains to this day, a traditional stocking filler in his family. When I was a kid, they used to be sold in Singapore too but I have to be … Continue reading →
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Filed under Adventures, Alcohol, Apples, Butter, chocolate, Cool stuff, Country life, Dessert, Oranges · Tagged with Barcelona, Chocolate, Christmas, Clementine, Food, Fruit, Singapore, Terry's Chocolate Orange
Vegetarian delights: A savoury fried (white) carrot cake from South-east Asia (chai tow kway)
Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 23, 2012 · 12 Comments
South-east Asian street food at its best 🙂 One of my earliest posts for thebigfatnoodle was about how I taught myself to make a local dish from South-east Asia called fried carrot cake. Traditionally, it uses mooli (also called daikon) – a white radish – but I can’t always get hold of this unless I … Continue reading →
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Filed under Adventures, Breakfast, chillies, Chinese, Chives, Country life, Dinner, Eggs, Features, Flour, Garlic, Ginger, Ingredients, Lunch, onion, Recipes, Rice, Rice flour, Singapore, Spicy, Spring onions, Stories, vegetables, Vegetarian · Tagged with Baking and Confections, Cake, Carrot, Carrot cake, Cook, Fruit and Vegetable, Home, savoury, Singapore, South-east asian cuisine
A lime and ponzu dressed salmon carpaccio
Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 13, 2012 · 27 Comments
Valentine’s Day – celebrate it because you want to and not because the calendar tells you to… Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, which I and many others I know cynically call Hallmark Day. I personally don’t believe that we need a special day to celebrate love when we should be celebrating it every moment of every … Continue reading →
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Filed under Adventures, Chives, Country life, Dressing, Fish, Godalming, Japanese, Limes, London, Recipes, salad, salmon, seafood, Stories, watercress, Winter · Tagged with carpaccio, Ceviche, Godalming, Holiday, Japanese, Limes, London, Ponzu, Public relations, salmon, Sesame, Singapore, Valentine, Valentine Day
An oriental twist on streaky slices – sweet, sour, spicy and sticky
Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on January 31, 2012 · 31 Comments
What do you think you smell of? My mum used to say that she could tell where people came from by how they smelt. She’s a bit bonkers is my mum, and I stopped trying to reason with her on matters like this a long time ago. The last time we had this discussion was … Continue reading →
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Squid and tilapia fish balls cooked two ways
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on December 6, 2011 · 11 Comments
Eating humble pie Sigh. There are some times, and at my bloody age, when I really should know better… For a few weeks now, I’ve been obsessing about making fish balls. In Southeast Asia, we have fish balls with noodles, dry or in soup, fish balls fried (on a stick as snack food), basically fish … Continue reading →
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Filed under Calamari, chillies, Chinese, Country life, Dinner, Fish, Lunch, Recipes, scallions, seafood, Singapore, Soup, Spring onions, Squid, Stories · Tagged with Chili pepper, Chinese cuisine, Fish, seafood, Singapore
Friday means… chilli prawns
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on October 21, 2011 · 3 Comments
Finger lickin’ chilli prawns We made this dish specifically so that we could eat man tou, the Chinese steamed white bread that I’ve only just taught myself to make (recipe here). I guess some people might say that we have a slightly twisted way of thinking up recipes because you don’t normally think of the … Continue reading →
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Filed under Adventures, Bread, chillies, Chinese, Country life, Crab, Dinner, Eggs, Features, Fish, Ginger, Ingredients, Lunch, onion, Prawns, Recipes, Rice, seafood, Shellfish, Singapore, Stories · Tagged with Chili pepper, Chilli prawns, Cook, Crab, Mantou, Prawn, Recipe, seafood, Shellfish, Shrimp paste, Singapore, Tablespoon
Man tou (chinese white bread) – steamed or fried – you pick :)
Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on October 16, 2011 · 21 Comments
Man tou buns (chinese steamed white bread) Something you definitely cannot find in the UK, even in some of the best Chinese restaurants, is man tou – a Chinese white bread which is steamed instead of baked. Of course you can find ready made ones in the freezer cabinets in Chinese shops but it’s just … Continue reading →
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You can’t get more autumnal than making French toast for breakfast on a cold, misty morning
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on October 8, 2011 · 3 Comments
Simple is best It’s not even 9am on a Saturday morning today as I sit here typing. I didn’t actually even want to be up before 9am this morning on a Saturday. But I was up, on a Saturday, at 9am (get the message yet? :)) because at 5am, I was woken up by what … Continue reading →
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Filed under Adventures, American, Bacon, Breakfast, Country life, Eggs, French, Ingredients, Recipes, Stories, Sweet, Toast · Tagged with Bread, David Coulthard, Eddie Jordan, Eggs, Eggy bread, French toast, Jake Humphrey, Maple syrup, Singapore, Sweeteners
An American candy store is all I need to release my inner child
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on September 22, 2011 · 6 Comments
40 going on 10 … or maybe even 8… With three older brothers who had to look after me in Singapore, playtime as the youngest and only girl in the family was less Barbie dolls and playhouses and more Action Men and fisticuffs. In fact, the one and only Barbie doll I ever had (a … Continue reading →
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