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Sticky valentines

I had surely made a batch of brownies with a prinkling of candy hearts and sugar crystals but this day of hearts but I'd rather blog about my housemate's homemade tikoy or Nian Gao or Chinese New Year Cake. TIkoy's are traditionally given during the Chinese New Year celebration, packaged in red boxes with gold prints it is prepared by slicing it into bite squares, dipping in beaten egg and fried in butter. As a child it is something I look forward to (my mom is half chinese and we get a number of boxes each year) because it's not everyday that we get to fry these soft, chewy and sticky sweet treats but even then I must say that even few bites of these treats can be overwhelming - I blame it on the excess oil which seem to seep in the tikoy no matter how hard I try to pat off with paper towels. Thus a couple of mouthfuls is all I can muster. This year though I have eaten quite an amount of TIkoy because my roommate's home made version is not dripping in oil but i...

goin' bananas

everyone who visits Tagaytay would surely come home with a number of pineapples, buko (coconut) pies and that big bunches of mini bananas. The morning after my brother went on an impromptu trip to Tagaytay with his friends we woke up to find pineapples and bananas in the kitchen. For a couple of days we enjoyed fresh fruits in the morning and pretty much the whole day. By the end of the week though the bananas we getting a tad to ripe and after a trip to a Chocolate making supplies store I decided to dip the bananas in melted chocolate and freeze it to dress it up for dessert!!! Frozen Chocolate Bananas Ingredients: - bananas - melting chocolate - shortening - sprinkles How to: - melt chocolate as per package directions - dip bananas in melted chocolate - place in wax paper until chocolate firms up - decorate with sprinkles of your choice and freeze fruity chocolate goodness!