100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 75

Ate purple yam sweet soup tonight.  It's a Chinese dessert one of my friends made.  My Asian friends like purple yams and they sometimes call purple yams as purple sweet potatoes.  If you want to buy some, you can find purple yams at any Asian supermarkets.

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100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 74

Made some dairy-free chocolate cups.

I made some dried cranberry with brown rice syrup and had 2  tablespoons (30 ml) of cranberry brown rice syrup sauce left over inside the fridge.  So, I added cocoa powder, coconut oil and maple syrup to make chocolate cups with silicone muffin cups.  Dairy-free, soy-free and refined sugar-free, my friends.

Really like the chocolate cups with a tint of red colour from the cranberry brown rice syrup sauce.

Why did I cut it?  I only want to eat 1/4 of the chocolate cup per day.  Too rich and too sweet to eat the whole thing.  Next time I should make chocolate truffles instead.

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100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 73

Making ice cream sandwiches - how-to video and recipe from Sobeys

Hope you’re enjoying your weekend, my friends.  I found another how-to video to make ice cream dessert - ice cream sandwiches.

Ice cream cakes are easy to make, right?  If you watch the how-to videos in my blog post Making ice cream cakes - how-to videos from Loblaws, you will agree with me.

Ice cream sandwiches are even easier to make.  Just put one scoop of ice cream between two soft cookies!  Here is a short how-to video from Sobeys TV.

Making ice cream cakes - how-to videos from Loblaws

Happy Victoria Day, everyone!  How's your long weekend going?  It's time for summer desserts.  I just found two how-to videos from Loblaws' website.  Time to make some ice cream cakes, my friends.

100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 34

Made Chinese Black Sesame Seed Porridge / Sweet Soup for the first time!!!  Well, thank you for one of my Japanese friends taught me how to make brown rice flour.  And, thank you for one of my friends from Hong Kong taught me how to successfully made this Chinese dessert.  My mum and my sis loved it, too.  I'm so proud of myself.  Yes!  Which Asian dessert should I make next time?

This is how my friend says Black Sesame Seed Porridge / Sweet Soup in Cantonese.

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Faloodeh: Persian Rose Water and Rhubarb Ice Milk - A recipe of Chef Louisa Shafia

My friends said I have an obsession with rice noodle and rose water dessert Faloodeh.  Yes, I do.  I can't wait for the morning of the hottest day to make and eat this gluten-free frozen dessert.  Especially, it tastes best within 24 hours of being made, according to chef Louisa Shafia.

Faloodeh (Rice Noodle in Rose Water) - A Persian recipe from Chef Donna Dooher

My friends wants to have Chef Dooher's Faloodeh recipe in Our Recipe Collection.  So, here we are.  Our first Persian recipe.

Happy Persian New Year !

While surfing the web for rose water recipes, I learned that the first day of spring (the spring equinox) marks the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar.  Happy Persian New Year !  At the website of The Social (CTV), I came across a Persian frozen dessert with rose water.  Looks like this is a dessert for Persian New Year.

Chocolate Truffle Tart with Candied Bacon - A recipe from The Globe and Mail Feb 7 2015

Some friends asked me if I have any recipes not from decades ago for Our Recipe Collection.  As a matter of fact, yes, I do.  One of my relatives cut out two recipes from The Globe and Mail and gave them to me last Saturday.

Carrot-Apple Cupcakes - A recipe from a local supermarket 2010

Here is another cupcake recipe for the upcoming Monday Feb 23 the National Cupcake Day.    On Monday, we are going to bake cupcakes, eat cupcakes and fundraise for SPCAs & Humane Societies across Canada.

Kelsey's Favourite Chocolate Cupcakes - A recipe from The Diabetes Research Foundation Dec 1998

Do you know the coming Monday Feb 23 is National Cupcake Day?  This is a day we bake cupcakes, eat cupcakes and fundraise for SPCAs & Humane Societies across Canada.  So, I looked through my pile of recipes I got from everyone to see if I have any good cupcake recipes.

Elvis Presley Cake - A recipe from Synovate Global Opinion Panels winter 2006

The person gave me this recipe is not a fan of Elvis Presley.  She used to do surveys for Synovate Global Opinion Panels.  Well, Elvis is not here anymore, this company is no longer exists and this recipe is dated October 1971!

Skillet Cinnamon Apples - A recipe from Elm Street Oct 1997

This is our first recipe for Our Recipe Collection.  It is from a Canadian magazine called Elm Street.  Since Elm Street was not available on newsstands, you may not heard of it.  Sadly, its publisher shut down the magazine years ago.