Baked Chocolate Mousse

Tried this recipe by Chef James Martin for the first time. Never mind all the hand-drawn hearts around his picture. Couldn't help it...

Right out of the oven. The centre of the cake has not sunk yet. Smells awesome.

The centre has sunk quite a bit.

Served with the candied fennel (from the same recipe) and a dollop of whipped cream.

Omnivore’s Hundred - Meme

Posting something different today...

Here's a list of 100 food items you should eat at least once in your life that I found at one of my favourite websites TasteSpotting.

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1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.


The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush (updated)
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear (updated)
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer (updated)
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (updated)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads (updated)
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini (updated)
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano (updated)
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor (updated)
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

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I've eaten 55 items out of 100... Not bad, eh?

I guess growing up in Japan made it a little easier to "bold" quite a few items here.

I'm not a big fan of alcoholic beverages, spicy food, or so-called exotic delicacies, but I'm definitely willing to try almost everything and anything at least once.

Surprising how many things I've never tried or I had never even heard of. Luckily, living in a multi-cultural city gives me an easy access to a whole variety of food from all over the world. The exciting saga continues...

Yuanyang Cookies

Yuanyang or "Yin Yong" is a mixture of coffee and Hong Kong style milk tea. Should've finely chopped tea leaves.

Strawberry Mousse & Chocolate Cake

Baked for my friend MA and her lovely children. Found the strawberry mousse recipe on JELL-O website. Pureed fresh strawberries made a huge difference in taste!

Parchment paper around the cake got wrinkled, hence those vertical grooves.

Hidden inside is the chocolate chiffon cake. Both the cake part and the mousse part turned out quite nice and soft.

Yogourt Popsicle

Froze one 100g container of Astro BioBest yogourt in a popsicle mold.

Honey n Spice Cake

Lazy frosting job... Oh well...

Nice and moist but quite dense in texture. Packed with cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and ginger. Almost smells/tastes like chai tea.

Sliced banana, "properly" whipped cream and manuka honey inside.

Homemade Butter

Over-whipped cream turned into nice, fresh unsalted butter. It's sweetened, in fact. Yum!

Mocha Chiffon Cake

Baked this for my friend GP's birthday. Put a shot of espresso instead of H2O in the recipe, hence 'Mocha' in the name, but didn't taste it at all :( In a glass is a rum-flavoured peach sauce.

Glad that the cake turned out quite well - nice, light & fluffy.

Vietnamese Coffee Popsicle

Tried this awesome recipe by Chef David Bovitz for the first time and really loved it! Wish I had a blue sky background for this picture...