Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Self raising flour or self rising flour bread Making homemade bread from self raising flour or self rising flour is quite tricky and many bakers will tell you it is impossible. After about one and a half years of experimenting making bread I finally  figured it out. In my last article I showed a new…

Simple bread, plain and simple, a new method I could make beautiful bread by kneading the dough for about 45 minutes and the breads, plain simple bread or wholemeal bread turned out beautiful and tasty. Each time I made bread I wondered “Why, Why Why Oh Dear God do I have to struggle so much…

Buddhist monk from England travels to Malaysia An English Buddhist Monk I never thought in my wildest dreams I would meet an English Buddhist monk, of all places, here in Malaysia. English? Yes, really, really English. I have meet many Buddhist monks over the years and many are short or at least shorter than me.…

Liposomal vitamin C   I have carried out many experiments on ways to make liposomal vitamin c and my findings are as show below. I had an allergic reaction to the lecithin in the liposomal vitamin c and contacted Andrew of the UK (see my previous article on liposomal vitamin c) about it. He informed…

Cheesecake with strawberry and durian is simply gorgeous   How to make durian cheesecake – an introduction I am really, really upset and disappointed. In my last article, 6th September 2012, on durian cheesecake I had explained why the Raja Musang (Musang King) variety was simply delicious. Within a week of that article being published…

French Fries anyone? I have done many experiments on bread, cakes and french fries but never in my wildest dreams did I think I would end up making black french fries … you know those potatoes sliced in a wiggly manner and better know as potato chips. Why do they call them French anyway? They…

Creme caramel with durian is simply gorgeous   How I ended up making durian creme caramel I had not mentioned that I have succeeded in making a durian creme caramel in my last article . I never thought the day would come when I would try to make a creme caramel. I had seen it…

Cheesecake with durian is simply gorgeous   How to make durian cheesecake – an introduction In my last article I had mentioned that I had made a durian cheesecake. Durian fruits fall off trees ready packed in plastic packets, see picture. For those who are not so gullible, you can find more information on durians…

Eggs can look beautiful You know, I have been wanting to write about steamed eggs for a long time, since November 2011 that is. My computer was stolen and I had a whole host of other problems and completely forgot about this egg experiment. If you remember I had written about the ugliest eggs in…

Yakult based plain bread I have been suffering from a writer’s block so even though I have been carrying on with my cooking experiments I just could not switch on my PC and blog about it. Was this a writer’s blog or a writer’s block? I have many exciting experiments to tell you about. I…