I love to cook and eat delicious food. But I don’t like spending too much effort or time on it. So my motto has always been ‘easy, healthy, tasty’. This clam soup with ginger and cili padi is one dish that satisfies all criteria. Clam Soup with Ginger is absolute favourite dish. Whenever I visit …
The reason why health-conscious people avoid processed food like nuggets and burgers is because they don’t know what’s in it. There’s also concern about reusing cooking oil. To overcome that, make it on your own! This is the simplest nuggets you can make yet no less flavourful. I use chicken breast (just like McD) and …
My family like calls this dish: ‘fake char siu’. It’s our go-to dish when we don’t know what else to cook or short of time. It’s so easy. All you need is a slab of pork belly or pork shoulder. You most probably have the rest of the ingredients: sugar, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, …
Easy Cheat ‘Char Siu’ Pork – 5 Ingredients + 20 minutes Read More »
My ongoing quest to eat healthier means that I try to eat a variety of plants in different colours. On top of a must-have leafy green vegetables on my dinner table, I like to have another plant-base dish like mushrooms, beans, or gourds. One of my go-to plant base dish that I cook to up my …
Pumpkin Stir-fried With Dried Shrimps and Thai Basil – 3 Ingredients Read More »
Slow-cooked soup is a must-have on my family’s dinner table. The golden liquid is placed on a pedestal; it brings not only comfort to our tummy and taste to our palate, but medicinal value to our body. Every soup that my family boils has a good reason to be served, other than being tasty. Watercress …
Chinese Watercress Soup (Sai Yong Choi Tong/ (西洋菜汤) Read More »
There are many different Chinese herbal blends to treat specific health concern. When someone in my family lacks appetite, we’ll make Sei San Tong (Four Spirit Soup 四神湯); when a major exam is near and we need extra brainpower, we’ll make Ming Muk Bou Lou Tong (明目補㺁湯) which translates to Soup for Improving Eyesight and Brain. An …
To make this simplified yet still delicious Thai Fish Cakes, you will need to have fish paste, eggs, and long beans as the main ingredients. It is then flavoured with chili paste and kaffir lime leaves powder. Yes, that’s it! I’ve developed this recipe for my ‘3 Ingredient Recipes’ book. The requirement is that only …
You need to cook dinner for your family but you don’t have much fresh ingredients left in the fridge anymore. I understand. It happens to the best of us. After cooking for a while (and being too busy to take a trip to the supermarket), I have developed a repertoire of ‘last minute dishes’. They …
Aunty Clara cooks but rarely. Like many working mothers, she doesn’t want to toil in the kitchen but still enjoy making a delicious meal for her family. When she does cook, we do get quite fancy Indian meals (to me, least). One of my favourite is her version of prawn paratel (‘paretal’ means dry curry). …
Easy Dry Prawn Curry (Prawn Paretal) – 7 Ingredients Read More »
Sweet and Sour – among other flavours such as salted egg, kam hiong, black pepper, chili, and butter – is a popular flavour for seafood dishes. While I love all of them, sweet and sour style holds a special place in my heart. My parents used to frequent a seafood restaurant in Petaling Jaya which serves …
Do you know that besides the four basic taste (i.e sweet, sour, salty, and bitter), there’s another flavour called umami? A Japanese scientist managed to extract a substance called glutamate from kombu seaweed and discovered that its combination with salt creates a ‘pleasant savoury taste’. That is how MSG was created and slowly permeates supermarkets, restaurants, and …
Dried Shrimp / Udang Kering Powder (‘Homemade MSG’) Read More »
I rely on quick and easy recipes for everday cooking. But when I cook for a party, I put in extra effort to make amazing food that makes people go wow!. Sometimes, good food takes time. This is one of them. You will have to marinade it overnight (at least 12 – 24 hours of …