Peanut butter cake

This is a peanut butter cake I made by frosting a yellow cake with peanut butter cream cheese. I've written about the yellow cake, adapted from a wonderful recipe I found in Dr William Davis's 'Wheat Belly Cookbook'. 

Peanut butter cake

Cinnamon rolls

This is a recipe adapted from the Wheat Free Market. 

Cinnamon roll with cream cheese frosting

Matcha pistachio cupcakes

I attended a chanoyu (茶の湯 or Japanese tea ceremony) a couple of weeks ago at House of Tea. While not a lover of ceremonial preparations and presentations per se, I have been interested in matcha and its culinary application for some time now. 

Last November, I made a loaf of matcha pistachio bread (recipe and pictures to follow). It was quite a success. This time, adapting a recipe from Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook, I made a batch of matcha pistachio cupcakes complete with frosting, which Husband helped to pipe! 

Matcha pistachio cupakes

Blueberry cheesecake

It's been over a year since I last made a cheesecake, so a month ago, I made a raspberry cheesecake with a chocolate glaze from Dr William Davis's Wheat Belly Cookbook. It was beautiful and tasted divine, but all the photos of this cake mysteriously disappeared from my mobile before I had a chance to upload them. 

So a couple of weeks later, I tweaked the original recipe slightly and made another cheesecake, this time with blueberries and leaving out the chocolate glaze. The result was still satisfying. 

Blueberry cheesecake

Pan seared duck with cranberry sauce

Duck is quite possibly my favourite meat (so much so that I put it on my wedding menu as a main course). I made a beautiful dinner tonight with duck breast fillets from Silver Hill.

Pan seared duck with cranberry orange coconut sauce, served with trio of pepper torta and sautéed  broccolini

Trio of pepper torta

Wanting something vegetarian for dinner tonight and to use up the bell peppers that had been sitting in the fridge for a few days, I made a trio of pepper torta (like the Spanish tortilla but sans the patatas).

Slice of trio of pepper torta

Good Friday dinner: grilled salmon with cream cheese sauce

I got some gorgeous fresh organic salmon fillets and grilled one fillet on Thursday. Husband was working late and had to skip dinner that night. But it actually worked out as the next day was Good Friday and being a (semi-practising) Catholic, he had to eat fish.

Grilling salmon is nothing new to me and I am pretty confident that I can get crispy skin each time. But I wanted to try something new with it so I opted to make a cream cheese sauce to accompany the fillets. I also roasted some baby potatoes in duck fat and blanched a handful of runner beans.

Grilled salmon with cream cheese sauce, roasted baby potatoes, blanched runner beans