I’d like to offer all of you a big thank you for voting for me during Project Food Blog‘s first challenge.  Thanks to your support, I am one of the 400 food bloggers to advance to the next round!  For this next challenge, I’ve been tasked with “tackling a classic dish from another culture” that is outside my comfort zone.

I knew immediately which dish I wanted to tackle.

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I’d like to think that I jumped on the salted caramel train before it became wildly popular (Even Starbucks now has a salted caramel hot chocolate).  Whether this is the case or not, I’m not actually sure.  However, when offered the opportunity to create a recipe using Nature’s Pride bread through the Foodbuzz Tastemaker Program, I immediately knew I wanted to incorporate salted caramel.  The top 6 tastemakers get to demonstrate their recipes at this year’s Foodbuzz Festival – how sweet is that?? (Har har).

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I know I had said that Hainanese Chicken would be the next stop on my Scrumptious Singapore journey, but I forgot that today is the Moon Festival!  What day would be more fitting to share the popularity of mooncakes with you?

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I admit, when an eating buddy suggested a vegan, non-dairy dessert place, I cringed a bit.  I consider myself pretty adventurous when it comes to food, but ice cream is supposed to be full of dairy fat, eggs, and other decidedly non-vegan elements.  Still, I was intrigued, so I gave Lula’s Sweet Apothecary a try.

The first thing I noticed was the myriad of options, both in terms of flavors:

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Since most of you expressed interest in the yummy chili crab pictured in my teaser post, I’m starting our food journey through Singapore here!   While the chili crab is by far the most renowned of the Singapore crab dishes, I had the opportunity to sample some other varieties.  Dare I say – my favorite crab dish in Singapore was not of the chili variety??

Before I get into the different types of crab dishes, let’s talk about the crab.

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Hi Everyone! I’m back and finally have beaten my jetlag (those 7-10pm naps I’ve been taking the past few days haven’t been helping, I’m sure).  I’m so excited to share some of the best food I’ve had in Singapore – unfortunately, my laptop is on its last legs, so my picture uploading is limited.  When my new laptop arrives in a few days, I’ll be back full force – but for now, would you like to see some teasers? I thought so!

In addition to the Prawn Laksa pictured above, here are just a few things I sampled in Singapore:

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The third stop on my mission to try all the cupcakes in NYC was Kumquat Cupcakery, which has a table at the Brooklyn Flea.  Featuring bite-sized cupcakes in both traditional and novel flavors, Kumquat offers a rotating flavor selection.  I tried the maple bacon cupcake a few months ago, and it was deeee-lish!  Hmm, what would I try this time?

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Mangez Avec Moi Express is a small, carry-out establishment neighboring it’s main sit-down restaurant.  Specializing in Vietnamese bahn mi, I recently grabbed a sandwich for dinner on the way home from work.   How did it turn out?

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Posting will be light next week, as I won’t have my laptop with me (how will I survive??).  But continuing this week’s spotlight on South-East Asian cuisine, earlier in the summer I visited Kuta – a “fancy” Indonesian restaurant on the Lower East Side.  While Indonesian food is distinct in its own right, there is some overlap with Singaporean/Malaysian cuisine.  I had a Singaporean with me that night, and he was prepared for the real deal.  How did Kuta live up?

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Earlier this week, I had the super cool opportunity to meet Ted Allen of Chopped, Food Detectives, Queer Eye (my personal fave) and numerous other food shows!

Ted has paired up with Cascade to spotlight the “Best Food Merger Hall of Fame” – a collection of yummy but hard to clean food pairings.  In the running are fried chicken, mac & cheese, and spaghetti & meatballs.  While I think mac & cheese is the clear winner (there’s nothing harder to clean than crusted on cheese, and that includes my trying to bite the hardened cheese off the serving plate.  Come on, you know you’ve thought about it ) -  the results remain to be seen.

In an intimate group of 7 bloggers and Ted, we discussed his motivation for partnering with Cascade, entertaining tips, favorite foods, and his show – Chopped.

Want to know some tidbits about Ted? Keep reading…
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