Scarpetta’s tomato basil spaghetti, finished off with a garlic basil oil.

Red bean soup with dried longans and mandarin peel – perfect served either hot or cold!

The best chocolate sheet cake? Quite possibly.

Pumpkin and chocolate whoopie pies

Discovering the joys of tea – black, green, white, yellow – whoever knew there were so many varieties?

Fig mochi cupcakes – one is never enough!

Passionfruit yogurt cheesecake tarts

Mixed berry yogurt gelée – a healthy and delicious dessert

Beef and broccoli noodles, a simple yet satisfying meal.

Caramel chicken with peppers and cashews, served on rice.

Raspberry & lemon frangipane tart (with a sweet bread dough base)

Matcha sable cookies

Panna cotta with chocolate sauce (from a lovely ‘osteria’ in Florence, Italy)

Raspberry buttermilk cupcakes, topped with a sugar icing

A perfectly wobbly panna cotta with chocolate sauce – just one of the amazing things I ate in Florence, Italy.

Yam cake (or kuih), a savoury Malaysian snack

Peanut butter cookies

Tang yuan (glutinous rice balls) filled with black sesame paste, and served with a sweet ginger broth

Roti jala (Malaysian net crepes), served with chicken and potato curry

Using up leftover homemade hot cross buns in a bread and butter pudding.

Meatballs in tomato sauce, served with a mixture of brown rice/red camargue/wild rice, and topped with some rocket leaves

A selection of delectable macarons from Pierre Herme