ETA: A link back to a basic flan recipe was added as it's been years since I posted it and it's SO easy to make.

There are days when I wake up with the energy to do some cooking but no idea WHAT I should cook. It's often hard to choose among several options with the items on hand. Sometimes, it takes googling to find variations of recipes when ( Read more... )

Some time ago I played around with making my own dulce de leche and ended up with a couple of cups of the delicious sweet.

But what to do with it?

I still plan to make alfajores and milhojas one day but in the meantime, I thought I'd make some dulce de leche creme brulee by adapting the recipe I normally use for vanilla creme brulee or flan. ( Read more... )

I've been busy with work for the last 3 weeks so my cooking has been restricted to subsistence levels and I haven't been trying out any new recipes.

Today, I served a cheater's version of butter chicken using Patak's brand Butter Chicken paste, a fast plain basmati rice with peas and as a treat, I had a vanilla flan (aka creme caramel) that I made ( Read more... )