Filming for Mustard Green Pork Rice

 Today, I had several guests over at my place. We did filming for my sharing of the Mustard Green Pork Rice. It's a dish that I love very much as it reminds me of home. I can't wait to share the video with you in time to come! (: 

Kudos to the team that took time off their weekend to film! (: 

Mango Mousse Cake

1) Mangoes were in season. 

2) I love Mango Mousse Cake. 

3) I was stressed from work.

 These 3 factors drove me insane enough to bake last night despite returning home late from work. I started out baking several years back with a Chocolate Banana Cake and I fell in love with baking layered cakes. I've stopped baking them since I moved out of my mum's when I got married. 

Yesterday, I decided to recreate a Mango Mousse Cake that was mango-er... one that would be close to the Bakerzin one that I adore. This is pretty close. in flavour... though the texture is slightly different. The mousse isn't as firm as that of Bakerzin but it's still good. 

This cake takes about 3 - 4 hours to bake and I'd rate it a difficulty level 3 out of 5. 

Matcha Macarons (with Video Tutorial)

If you have noticed, macarons are my latest obsession. I'm pretty sure that stemmed from my sweet success about 2 weeks ago. Earlier this week, I tried making some matcha and chocolate macarons but I made a boo boo and the shells weren't as pretty as I wish they would be. 

Since it was a PH yesterday and that I was gonna meet my mum and siblings for dinner, I decided to bake some macarons for them as they've yet to have any of those I've baked. Also, it also helped that my new tripod arrived on Thursday >.< I did try filming a video tutorial prior to this in my -still quite new- kitchen but truth be told, the angles were HORRIBLE. I decided to invest in a tripod and I'm proud to say that I'm back to doing video tutorials! (: 

So back to the macarons.. as you may already know, they're not the easiest of things to bake but they're such gems. The hubby loves them a lot so it's like a legit reason for me to bake more of them though I don't give him a lot of it to eat. He only gets a few from each batch XD

These Matcha Macarons took me about 1.5 hours to bake and I'd rate it a difficulty level 4 out of 5. There are many factors that may lead to its failure so I'll share how each failure maybe avoided based on the experience I've had.