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Generally, we eat pretty healthily at home and would go for the leaner meats such as chicken breast and pork loin. During Chinese New Year, we would indulge in slightly more indulgent cuts of meat such as pig's trottersand pork belly.We love pork belly braised in soy sauce and served with hard boiled...
We had some leftover tobiko after making our doggy yee sang, so I put it to good use and made one of my favorite fusion pasta dishes.This pasta recipe is even easier than thelastone I posted for spaghetti with soft boiled egg and ebikko; this time I am using angel hair pasta which only requires...
Before Chinese New Year arrived, you may probably have seen cans of razor clams lined up beside the abalone and mushrooms in the supermarkets. We often get some of these to serve during CNY.Here's a simple recipe for Braised mushroom and fish maw with razor clams. A very auspicious dish as mushrooms...
So, we recently harvested not one, but TWO hands of bananas from our garden... which left us with a whole load of bananas ripening at the same time!Since it's the school holidays, I decided to get the kids into the kitchen and make some banana muffins together. This recipe has been adapted from...
Every year without fail, we would toss and eat our homemade yee sang on the 7th day of Chinese New Year. For the Year of the Dog, we made a cute doggy yee sang - for the face, you can use julienned radish and carrots. As it is a must to have fish in a Yee Sang, we used fish roe (tobiko) as well as fish...
This year, we were also gifted two bottles of XO sauce from The Ritz-Carlton KL's Li Yen Restaurant.XO sauce is a spicy sauce originating from Hong Kong, and is usually made from roughly chopped dried seafood such as scallops, fish and shrimp and cooked with chilli, onions and garlic. It is great with...
Hi guys! How's your CNY celebrations going? We have been indulging lots of delicious Chinese food as well as snacks for the past three days. :)During Chinese New Year, it is common to eat food with auspicious sounding names, such as fish, prawns and abalone. Fish symbolises abundance for the New Year, while...
Love salted egg yolk?You're in luck, cos today I'm sharing the recipe for this sinful Salted Egg Yolk Cornflakes. This recipe yields 3 tubs but I can assure you it will disappear very quickly as it's really addictive!To make, you need to first steam the salted egg yolks, mash them finely and then add...
2018 marks the Year of the Dog in the Lunar Calendar. Last year's Rooster German Cookies was a big hit with our kids and their friends, so we decided to make some cute Doggy German Cookies this year for our kids to share with their friends.These were surprisingly quite easy to make, afterall I had two...
Last year, I was invited by Filippo Berio Italy (yup, the olive oil folks) to contribute to their Food Lovers Campaign.I created a dish, the "Hakka Mee Pasta" which brings together flavours of Malaysia and Italy. You may have seen this recipe on my blog last year.Click here to read the feature post on...
For his birthday dinner this year, Hubby requested for roast chicken ... and in our home, ask nicely and you shall receive. :)We bought a LightBox when we were vacationing in Scotland, and it always makes an appearance during special occasions. We were brainstorming with the kids on the way back to school...
BabySumoKids' love for mango sticky rice started one fine evening when we went for a fiery Thai meal. Now, everytime we visit a Thai restaurant, mango sticky rice is a must-order dessert. At first it was one dessert between four, and lately it's been one between two and still, they would want more. Mangoes...
Besides pasta, BabySumoKids love a good risotto too. Comfort food for the soul :)This time, we used small Patagonian scallops and they turned out to be pretty good - lovely and sweet. Baby C actually likes these over the larger ones. They can sauteed together with the asparagus and then added to the risotto...
I'm sure many of you are familiar with this soup. Egg drop soup (aka egg flower soup 蛋花湯) isa Chinese soup made with chicken broth and contains thin, fine egg threads. Comforting and delicious, egg drop soup is something you can whip up in your kitchen in under 10 minutes.The Chinese version is...
Hubby was in charge of making all the beautiful breakfasts that you see on my Instagram while we were in Scotland.One of the things he put together was this glorious Smoked salmon and avocado muffin. Scottish smoked salmon is simply superb and we try to have it as often as we can when we're there. Top it on...
Every year in the run up to Halloween, we would make Halloween crafts and bakes with the kids. This year, we decided to serve up this gruesome Eyeball pasta with Blood Sauce, perfectfor your Halloween dinner.First, you will need to make the bloody brain sauce. I used minced chicken, you can also...
When we're in the Scotland, we eat quite a lot of steak... Aberdeen is afterall the home of the Angus cattle (aka Aberdeen Angus). You can easily pick up a good steak cut from any supermarket (we usually go for rib eye or sirloin) and it makes a really quick dinner.In the summer months, we like pairing our...
Have you heard the news about the latest food trend about to hit UK and US? Yup, apparently pandan is set to overtake avocado and matcha, according to Nigella Lawson.A common ingredient in Malaysia, we use pandan to make all sorts of local desserts aka kuih such as kuih ketayap, kuih seri muka and...
It's been a while since I cooked something Thai in my kitchen, so I flipped through "a little taste of Thailand" cookbook that I have and found this recipe for Beef with Thai basil leaves. Perfect, I thought - I conveniently have a piece of beef in the fridge and plentiful Thai basil leaves growing in the...
BabySumoKids love having congee aka Chinese porridge for dinner. Mummy loves it too because it's an easy, one pot nutritious meal for the family.To make congee, you add your desired ingredients along with rice and water into a pot and cook for about 1 1/2 hours until the congee is smooth and thick. I...
