blitz blitz chocolate mousse
Imagine a chocolate dessert you can whip up in 10 minutes. Imagine that it is also a guilt-free chocolate dessert. No? YES! The first time I made this dessert for…
rice cooker claypot rice
There is nothing wrong with cheating in the kitchen. In fact, I cheat a lot in the kitchen. I substitute whenever I can, and I try to find the easiest way to…
cranberry almond meringues
When life gives you eggs, bake a cake. When life gives you egg whites, make meringues! I had some egg whites left over from making dumplings and they needed to be…
the easiest spaghetti and meatballs
As a working mom, time is something I need to balance on a daily basis. I wish I have tons of time everyday so I can spend hours cooking something…
the best ayam goreng… ever!
I remember years ago, when I was studying in the old NIE (the one at Bukit Timah), there was this Malay stall that sold the yummiest fried chicken I have…
fried rice with luncheon meat, char siu and egg
One of the first things I cooked for the LAM when we first started dating was fried rice. In fact, the first thing I learnt to cook when I was…
ham and cheese mini-pies – an impossibly easy mini-pie recipe
I love baking. I love looking at pretty pictures of food and browsing through recipes. I love cook books – I have shelves full of them. Most times, I bookmark…
the picky eater
Aden has been going to play school since he was 20 months old. While we still have to drag him out of bed on some mornings, he is generally very…
be a parent, for better or for worse
“A parent (from Latin: parēns = parent) is a caretaker of the offspring in their own species. In all human societies, the biological mother and father are both responsible for…
london cheesecake
It has been a while!!! Yes, yes, you have heard it all before – I have been busy, blah, blah, blah.. In this instance, it happens to be true –…
