My daughter is interested to learning to make another one of her favourite, beancurd prawns rolls. She did learned how to make roast pork her mum’s style last year – Traditional Cantonese Crispy Roast pork belly – Siu Yuk, 脆皮烧肉. – Just Julie (julieolive.co.uk) and I am happy she asked to be taught. Slowly slowly … Continue reading Simple Beancurd prawns rolls 鲜虾腐皮卷
Alright, first question first. Who is old enough to remember this dish? It is normally served during a 10 course wedding or birthday dinner when I was very much younger. Second question is who has recently ate this dish? I, for one have not eaten it for a long, long time nor have I seen … Continue reading Silky Mustard Green with crab meat (滑蛋 Kai Choy)
Every year during hubby’s birthday I will cook a special meal for his departmental colleagues which is usually around 15 to 20 people. That is all I can manage as the entire building will have a couple of hundreds personnel! (pre pandemic) Everyone does the same on their birthdays but mostly the food is shop … Continue reading Mee Siam – special
I was wondering for days what to do with the balance of the eggs I got from Devon. Last week my son came back from a visit to his Nanny and he brought me a dozen eggs from Okehampton town. He asked the vendor if they are fresh and the vendor took him to look … Continue reading Tamarind eggs
Savoury muffins are good lunchbox fillers for children Continue reading Cheese and Bacon Muffins
This is a very rich cake. Read up about it from wiki here -> kek lapis Kek lapis Sarawak or Sarawak Layer Cake is what is known to me when I was growing up in Kuching. It is a cake normally reserved for serving during Chinese New Year for us Chinese. However I remembered being … Continue reading Kek Lapis Legit
A crêpe or crepe is a type of very thin pancake. Crêpes are usually of two types: sweet crêpes and savoury galettes. Crêpes are served with a variety of fillings, from the simplest with only sugar to flambéed crêpes Suzette or elaborate savoury galettes. My hubby actually prefers them with lashing of butter and just … Continue reading Crêpe
With this Covid19 ongoing and the hubby working from home plus having the family here to be fed at least twice a day is mind taxing. I have been cooking only one meal a day for so long and have always taken my sweet time in deciding what to cook until now. I missed my … Continue reading Square Egg
In the UK we too are under quarantine and have since moved to quite stringent quarantine, just short of a total lockdown due to this virus Covid 19. I have not left my house since Friday the 13th. As I am of the high risk group I decided to quarantine myself early on. In the … Continue reading Carbonara
Beehive cookies or Honeycomb cookies or Phang Siew Kueh or Kuih Rose is normally eaten and served to visitors during Chinese New Year. It can be a bit difficult to make until you get the oil at the right temperature, the mould at the right temperature or else you will have trouble. However once you … Continue reading Beehive Cookies
