I love birthdays. It made me think of what I really want to do. It has increasingly been good conversation and good food with good people. Every year, my classmates will take me and two other April-born friends out for dinner. This year, I decided to invite the girls I’ve know for seventeen long years …
Oh, what a hectic but enjoyable lunar new year! I took charge of preparing lunch and dinner for my family so I cooked up a storm! We started early with a reunion lunch. Dinner was more opulent: Salted Egg Prawns, Hakka Abacus, Whole Herbal Chicken, Mixed Vegetables and Fish Maw Soup. I folded napkins into fan …
Because I needed to know that I could make a perfect pan-fried salmon every time (crispy outside and moist inside), I’ve been cooking fish almost everyday (?!) I like today’s best because it’s served with boiled organic Brazilian spinach from my indoor garden and topped with homemade black pepper sauce.
Did I tell you I have a mini indoor garden? It’s like a toy to me more than a chore. I call it my Mini Eden. It has inhabitants like piggies and flamingoes, buildings and a flag to mark my territory (?!). The garden is getting more lush by days. My pot of basil has …
Staying ahead of the game: preparing taro beads to make Hakka Abacus this Chinese New Year. This is a very time-consuming dish. So I keep myself entertained by treating the dough like Playdoh and take delight in my Frankenstein-like hands (?!)
Making yummy and nutritious cold-pressed juice in the morning! Ok. I’m not always this happy making juice. I wanted to return to making more nutritious food after a long holiday. But it was a little daunting with a stubborn headache due to the horrid weather. So I woke up today and decided that it will …
Exquisite breakfast this morning at Park Hyatt Vienna: scrambled eggs with truffle cream and spinach. While scrambled eggs and eggs Benedict are common offerings in hotels, this is truly a rarity.
enjoying homecooked dinner; tea and chocolates; and classic movies with an old friend We laughed like crazy over Cary Grant’s “I sprained my pride” and this playful banter between him and Audrey Hepburn: “You’re blocking my view” “Which view do you prefer?” “The one you’re blocking” Haha. And we came to a conclusion that Charade …
Last Chinese New Year, we paid a handsome fee for some not-so-fresh prawns. So we plan that we’ll go get super fresh seafood a few months before the festive season and freeze them. If kept properly, seafood should last for three months. I’ve read somewhere that frozen food can even be kept indefinitely! I remember eating …
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