I love cooking ……. wait actually I love planning, the stage where I plan what to cook, shop, cut, marinate and get everything ready. I do not like rushing and last minute stuff but I suppose at a push if I need to I can rustle up a simple meal. However I prefer a well … Continue reading Salt & Pepper chicken with cast iron pan
Salted fish fried rice is one of them comfort food dish that if you had grew up eating you will love it. For most it is an acquired taste but my husband loves it from first bite. However one cannot judge whether any typical Englishman or westerner would like salt fish by my husband’s taste … Continue reading Kiam Hue Kay Char Pu’ng – Salted fish chicken fried rice
The hubby is a big fan of anything toufo. It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white! I love to create new toufo dishes for him! Update soon with where to buy the paste, recipe etc. Today just want to post this up. Date 28th April 2023 – I have been wanting to update this … Continue reading Chess board toufo & toufo pop with prawn paste – signatory mine.
Over the last year, after much ‘encouragements’ from friends I researched and finally bought 2 Air-Fryers; fundamentally one for my son who has moved away and one for me to learn so I can teach him easy recipes to feed himself. However I have since fallen in love with it! I use it as a … Continue reading Traditional Cantonese Crispy Roast pork – Siu Yuk, 脆皮烧肉 Air- Fryer version!
My family loves yellow bean sauce and recently I am able to get the brand that my mother has been using since I was a child. I only remember her using this brand and Yeo’s brand and not any other. She also always used the whole beans and she insisted that it is not actually … Continue reading Cod cheeks in yellow beans sauce
I do love a good bowl of prawn noodles. Especially when the weather is 7˚C outside. Inside my house though the heating has not even come on as I live in a new build eco-friendly house. After a bowl of my extra spicy Hae Mee noodles, I do not feel any cold at all. Peeling … Continue reading Prawn Noodles (虾面/Hae Mee) With Pork Ribs
Today is Thursday, the day hubby has to pop into his office. I like to cook him a surprise lunch every Thursday. I sent him to work this morning after giving him eggy bread and started to make my asam curry paste. I planned to finished cooking and showered by the time he comes back … Continue reading Asam Curry Fish (Asam hue) 亚叁咖哩鱼
Last week I bought a packet of yam, yes frozen as I have been bitten many a times before buying fresh yam and when peeled only to find half was bad aka shades of brownish, which I dare not eat. These frozen ones are quite good and most times very floury denoting good yam taste. … Continue reading Fragrant Yam Rice, Taro Rice (芋头饭)
Recently it has been much easier for me to lay my hands on ‘fresh’ lotus roots. The other day when I was at the shop, I saw this fresh stick of lotus root winking at me. So, I bought it for the princely sum of £8 plus! Sacrilege! However, lotus root is good for us … Continue reading Braised pork ribs with lotus roots and nam yue (fermented red beancurd)
Sometimes, actually most times I like to do a one dish. Often, we skipped breakfast, have early lunch and late dinner. Lucky for me hubby is one who do not mind eating the same dish for both meals and if it is Malaysian curry he can eat it for few days – kekekekeke Today I … Continue reading Braised trio of soyabean products – toufo, dried beancurd (fu chok) and fried toufo – Special
