About

{lemon raspberry & yoghurt roses cake}

There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Welcome to baking = love! 

Hi, I'm Nessie.  I'm a girl of many cities.  I live and study in Dunedin but was brought up in Auckland and was born in Hong Kong.  Home for me is little old New Zealand, the most beautiful place in the world, Godzone.

{piha, auckland, new zealand}

I'm a lawyer turned medical student who is obsessed with baking, cooking, eating, food blogs and just about all things foodie.  Baking = love is a journal of my baking and cooking adventures and misadventures, travels, thoughts, and random musings.  It's me sharing the love by sharing about the things I love.

{raspberry chocolate truffles}

I haven't always been a foodie.  Being chinese, food has always been a big part of my life and I've always loved eating but I used to be absolutely useless in the kitchen.  No, seriously I was B-A-D.  At one infamous home ec class, I made a salty chocolate log.  Not in the trendy-fleur-de-sel-caramel kinda way but in the I-thought-the-salt-was-sugar kinda way. 

I reckon those genes came from my darling mother who, until recently, could burn water. 
It was my dad who was the head chef in the family and when he was diagnosed with cancer, I made it my mission to learn as many of his signature dishes as I could before he got too sick.  When he passed away in 2005, I took over the position of the family cook and thus began my love-affair with food.

{baking for hospice}

 
Why "baking equals love"?  Well, it's kind of my motto for life.  Baking is my stress relief, it's what I like to give to show someone I appreciate them, or that I'm thinking of them, or sometimes just coz.  A lot of love goes into baking and cooking.  It nourishes the soul and brings a little bit of sweetness to people's lives.   Baking is Love. This is also the philosophy behind a volunteer baking event I started called Baking for Hospice. 

{sweet & salty cupcakes}

I am totally in love with my Canon 450D and my Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 lens and hope to add to my happy camera family with little bundles of lens joy when I win lotto. 

I would love to hear what you think about my posts, my pictures, my recipes...anything, so please don't hesitate to leave a comment. 

Thanks heaps for popping in.  Hope to see you again real soon!


Nessie :)

For me: food equals joy, eating equals bliss, and baking equals love xox