February 24, 2016 In All recipes, Bakery/Pastry, Dairy, Sweets

ZERO-FOLDING PASTEL DE NATA, A HYBRID

[ezcol_1half] Ever since I came back from Lisbon, the question haunts me. What is a perfect pastel de nata? Well for me, now more than ever, that depends on who you're asking. If you were from the Asian parts of the world as I am, growing up, this wildly popular pastry since the 90's actually came from, and have always been, more as a Macao thing.  Sure it's known as the Portuguese-style egg tarts from Macao, the former Portugal colony famed for its many Portugal-influenced hybrid foods, but notice that it is NOT called pastel de nada, not even Portuguese egg tart, but ambiguously, "Portugese-STYLE" egg tart.  Style?  The name itself oozes deniability, suggesting that on one level or another, these tarts can't be expected as a 100% identical replica of the originals, but a mere adaptation of some sort.  Therefore with time, as the popularity of these tarts swept through every bakeries in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even KFC (yes, they sell these at KFC here

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May 5, 2013 In All recipes, Bakery/Pastry, Sweets

almond byproduct tart

If you hoard much.  You know, unable to let go trunks of junks that's jamming your life, and aren't quite sure what the normal reaction is when you look down on a shampoo bottle where the shampoo is long gone (hi Jen) , or that your loved ones take great pleasure to be on a reality show as the world watches you being eaten away by your own shame.  Yeah, hoarders.  You keep everything.  It's a disease and I'm your new BFF.  Because I let go of possessions beautifully.  I trash donate things with a clean swift cut-throat almost artful peeerfection (someone needs this cheetah-print denim more than I do).  And I extend my virtue to touch those in need around me - may or may not be with consent - by trashing donating their shit for them, too.  They're welcome. So naturally as a non-keeper I was hoping I could avoid this question.  It emerged out of nowhere tickling my conscience after my very first batch of almond milk but I was too excited to respond to guilt.  Then it came the second time (how coincidentally) after the second batch of almond milk as the phrase "world hunger" briefly wobbled across my

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