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Happy Lunar New Year! – Vietnamese sticky rice, coated in mung bean

Vietnamese sticky rice, coated in mung bean
Happy Lunar New Year, everyone! I hope this year will be a joyous one for all.
Today is the second day of Tết (Lunar New Year). If I were in Vietnam, we would spend today at my grandmother’s house. She would cook this sticky rice dish again, and we would happily enjoy it with fried spring rolls (nem), pickles (đồ chua), poached chicken with lime leaves (gà luộc lá chanh) and many more delicacies.… Continue Reading …

White Chocolate and Lemon Curd Truffles

{And the art of balance}

Lemon curd and white chocolate truffles

It is only the start of January, but I have already started to feel the weight of work to be done over the next 12 months. I honestly do not know how to balance the work-life-study-blogging dynamic at this point in time.… Continue Reading …

Happy New Year!

Kid-friendly recipes

The moving process takes a lot longer than I initially thought. Certain things came up here and there. That´s life you see.

Finally we are set to move in early January. We have a chance to admire the Sydney firework on New Years Eve from our city apartment, which overlooks Hyde Park.… Continue Reading …