Easter Sunday is about 2 weeks away (8 April 2012). Every year during this period, some local supermarkets will start selling Easter eggs chocolates and candies, tempting me with their cuteness. When I saw Hershey’s mini egg candy, I knew that they are just perfect for making Easter n...
I first seasoned the cut potatoes with salt, pepper and dried parsley (a dash of chilli or curry powder if you want spicy), sandwich a few thin slices of butter among the potatoes, then microwaved them on high for about 8 minutes or more (depends on the heat of your microwave), or unt...
When I am in the mood to treat myself, I will add mentaiko (marinated pollock roe) to my shopping basket. Besides making a quick & super-indulgent mentaiko pasta with it, my other favourite use is to bake half-shelled scallops in mentaiko sauce. If serving scallops in half shells is b...
Caesar salad is an Italian salad of romaine lettuce and croutons dressed with an anchovy-olive oil dressing. One of the main reasons why I prefer home-made Caesar salad is because I always make sure that my salad dressing contains anchovies (nice and savoury), even though the addition...
“This type of noodle is called “gong zai” noodle not because of the cute character on the bag. In fact, there’s another brand of instant noodles in HK that was more popular before Nissin arrived, and that brand is called Doll Brand (Gong Zai Meen in Canto). So that’s why people still ...
This is a homely and humble dish which my mum cooked almost weekly since we were young, and I still love eating it. It is the chicken version of her stir-fry pork with ginger and scallions recipe . If I do not want to think of what to cook, I know I can fall back on timeless everyday ...
and deliciously light-tasting mushroom pasta recipe. My family named this dish as “spectacular spaghetti” – proving that sometimes the simplest recipe can be the most delicious. Since the base ingredients are only garlic and olive oil, this is something similar to a mushroom aglio oli...
With Halloween just around the corner, I’m glad this pumpkin soup (and the adorable pumpkin soup bowl it’s contained in) gets to make its starry (hopefully not scary) appearance on my blog before Halloween, hehe. Roasting the pumpkins before putting them in the soup really draws out t...
Fish Curry is one of my favourite curry for many reasons. Firstly, it is not only hot but also addictively sour as well thanks to the tamarind (or better known locally as assam ). Secondly it is healthy with lots of vegetables (lady’s fingers, tomatoes and eggplants) and lastly, it do...
(can’t resist the pun) fast and simple fried rice to whip up with a minimal of ingredients. I cook this during “fresh food shortages” in my kitchen pantry. All you need is some overnight refrigerated rice, eggs and some very basic pantry ingredients like garlic and shallots and bravo!...
My favourite way of eating chicken wings has got to be these hot and spicy buffalo wings , named so as they were created in Buffalo, New York. They are really easy to pull off at home, thanks to the oven doing the baking. Traditionally, the chicken wings are deep-fried but I simply ca...
Some like it hot, well I like it insanely hot . When I’m clueless about what to cook, I know that I won’t go wrong with spicy. I’ve always love baked potatoes , so I thought why not spice them up with a bit of cayenne pepper? The result is really blissful. I prefer baked potato wedges...
I love XO Sauce and I truly believe that every cook into Chinese cooking should have a bottle in the kitchen. Well at least in my pantry, I am never without it. XO Sauce is a gourmet Cantonese seafood sauce made up of dried scallops & dried shrimps among other ingredients, and it can ...
Apple crumble (or apple crisp in US and Canada) is a dessert dish of baked apples topped with a crisp crust. I learnt to make this dessert during my secondary school home economics class, ages ago. I have forgotten almost everything I studied in school but I still remember this recipe...
Last week, I had the great pleasure of meeting tigerfish from teczcape when she came back to Singapore for a few days. Tigerfish recently published a cookbook, The Everything Rice Cooker Cookbook , and I was really lucky to receive a signed copy from her. Prior to tigerfish’s cookbook...
I cooked a homely ribeye steak dinner with black pepper sauce on Valentine’s Day . Our plate looks quite gourmet, but it only took me under 30 minutes to prepare and cook this meal, and I would say the result is really well worth the time & effort spent. Steak dinners are perfect for ...
It’s less than a month to Christmas and it’s time to share some festive recipes, starting with this sparkling raspberry drink. You can serve this drink anytime of the year, just that the addition of chopped raspberries gives the lemonade such a lovely red hue that it somehow reminds m...
came over my place to teach me how to make tiramisu, a popular Italian dessert. She taught me the layered cake version and I experimented with serving it in a martini glass because I wanted to try something new while using up the odd amount of leftover ingredients after making the tir...
simple strawberry muffin at nibbledish and I know that this is the perfect recipe to use for the strawberries – the recipe looks simple and I just know it will be good. I made minor changes to the recipe, and the end result did not disappoint – the muffins are absolutely delightful. I...
present in the form of an uber cute Hello Kitty Choco Chef . It is a gadget for making home-made chocolate with Hello Kitty moulds, but what really caught my attention was the electric chocolate cooker which screams “chocolate fondue party!” to me. There are two preset temperatures fo...
Ever since I discovered making pizza the cheater’s way a year ago, my family had stopped relying on pizza delivery. My 15 minutes short-cut pizza – using pita bread (instead of making pizza dough from scratch) and readymade sauce (such as pasta sauce) – comes to the rescue whenever I ...
1. De-scale salmon skin and de-bone the fillet. Season with salt and pepper. 2. Partially pre-cook the salmon either by using the microwave (1-2 minutes) or using the stove. The salmon need not be cooked thoroughly because it will be baked in the oven later. If you do want to skip thi...
I had a lazy (but totally enjoyable) Saturday and stayed at home to play Prince of Persia the whole day instead of going out or doing anything useful. Hence no time for fancy meals, but one still got to eat ;) So I made a whole tray of baked rice where B and I had for both lunch and d...
Crème brûlée (French for “burnt cream”) is a popular dessert with a custard base and topped with caramelized sugar. It is considered a gourmet dessert with equally gourmet prices when ordering outside, but it is actually easy, cheap and fast (minus the chilling time) to prepare at hom...
I love soy bean milk, or affectionately known as “tau huey tzui” in Singapore. If I buy them from random stalls, they are usually quite diluted and tastes very syrupy. There are nice ones like the Selegie and Rochor brands but they are not available everywhere. So I thought it will be...
1. In a pot, add danggui slices with water and bring to a boil. Blanch broccoli, mushrooms and carrots in the dangui stock for 5 minutes and arrange on a plate. Reserve the danggui slices for next step. 2. Heat saucepan. Add in pre-prepared sauce, spring onion stalk and the danggui sl...
, I am able to whip up decent, quick and fuss-free meals on busy days. All I need to do is to bake some cooked pasta with bolognese sauce and cheese, and we have a delectable pasta meal with minimum effort. Even though this is not a traditional Italian way of cooking with bolognese sa...
I love bolognese sauce (ragù alla bolognese), a meat-based pasta sauce originating in Bologna, Italy. I love my instant sauces and quick fixes in the kitchen, but when it comes to bolognese sauce, home-made wins hands-down in taste to me. Luckily, making bolognese sauce is not difficu...
or Chinese New Year Cake at home during the lunar new year celebrations for auspiciousness. The Chinese word “nian gao ” 年糕 sounds like “higher year” so it signifies greater success in the coming year. The stickiness also represents family togetherness and closeness. After the celebra...
