About Daniel&Esther

daniel & esther

Daniel works in the consumer electronics industry but hopes to one day own a cafe. Like most Hainanese men, he can whip up a storm in the kitchen and is constantly invited to other people's house parties... to cook for them.

Esther works for a major airline by day, and bakes incessantly by night. Trained as a chemical engineer, she puts that knowledge to good use - by reading package labels to see if it's good for you.

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Recipe: Apple Crumble Pie

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

This recipe first came about when I ran into difficulties rolling out my dough properly, thanks to Singapore’s humid weather. Not wanting to risk an ugly and patchy top pastry, I decided to try a crumble topping instead. And to my surprise, the topping has turned out to be everyone’s favourite part of the pie!
Apple Crumble Pie [...]

Strange Fruit

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Esther’s colleague passed her one strange fruit to try recently. It’s called the abiu. The yellow, cricket ball-sized fruit originates from the Amazon forest and is not commercially available in Singapore.
Intrigued, we cut it open.

As you can see from the picture, it has long cigar-shaped seeds that are black in colour. Its skin is very [...]