One Dish

Spaghetti With Creamy Garlic Prawns

March 13, 2012

Pin It This one is for the serious aromatic lovers – garlic, leek and parsley- this recipe has it all in generous portions. I am thankful that I am not allergic to to any of the aromatic vegetables. I have a colleague in Italy who is allergic to garlic and I don’t know how he [...]

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Seafood Rice Congee

January 25, 2012

When I was younger, Chinese New Year holidays was exceptional, quite unlike the other festivals or public holidays that we knew. For one thing, we got to wear new clothes (yes, it was a big deal. We never used to buy new clothes all the time like the way we do now) , feast on [...]

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Vegetarian Curry Laksa – Guest Post @ Notabilia

December 14, 2011

Those who have been reading my blog may be aware that I have a sister who decided to become a vegetarian when she came back from her first trip to India some 10 years ago. The family was initially shocked by her sudden conversion and I admit at one point, I had wondered if she [...]

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Beaufort Mac And Cheese & A Le Creuset Giveaway

December 4, 2011

When the team from the newly branded Wayfair on-line store (previously CSN) offered to do a giveaway collaboration, it was easy for me to decide on the Le Creuset mini cocottes. For those who are not familiar, Wayfair is possibly one of the largest home-stuff on-line store that sells everything from Toy Boxes to furniture to kitchen [...]

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Seafood and Asparagus Risotto

December 1, 2011

I had some vague idea about Risotto. Somewhere in the back of my mind is a dusty impression of some recipe I had read somewhere… an impression that involves the cook standing over the stove stirring non-stop and at some point, adding white wine. Then came Hell’s Kitchen’s superimposing impression of Gordon Ramsay sending back [...]

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XO Sauce Stir Fried Loh Shu Fun / Mee Tai Mak

November 20, 2011

Mee Tai Mak/ Bee Tai Mak is one of the many forms of rice noodles that we eat in Asia. Very much like a shorter and more wriggly cousin of the Japanese Udon, the cantonese name of this noodle (Loh Shu Fun) literally translates to mean Rat’s Noodle. Not too difficult to understand for the [...]

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Radish Cake with Seafood and XO Sauce

June 22, 2011

It took my 2 weeks’ business travel to pry me away from my cookies. Taking a break sometimes, opens up the mind for new stimulation. The stimuli for this post came in the form of an amazing XO Sauce I found in Taiwan. Unlike the supermarket versions that we get here, this is chock full [...]

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Ginger Scallion Beef With Noodles 姜葱牛肉捞面

April 7, 2011

If a woman’s eternal woe is having a closet full of clothes with nothing wear, I think a home cook’s eternal woe is having a fridge full of food and not knowing what to eat….I visit food blogs for many reasons but 2 of the fundamental ones are to search for recipes and for inspiration and [...]

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Su Jae Bee – Korean Style Mee Hoon Kueh

November 1, 2010

I know many envy me when they hear that I get to travel to Korea for business. My response is usually more lukewarm. I am not a star struck fan of Korean Dramas – I have probably only watched one Korean drama over the last 2 years. The smooth faced actors and actresses are all perfectly [...]

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Chestnut Rice – My Version Of The Kurigohan

October 11, 2010

In perennial sunny Singapore,we don’t get to witness the wonders of changing seasons. We miss out the thrills of watching leaves budding from bare branches, the harvesting of raspberries followed by strawberries and blueberries(not sure if I get the sequence right)in spring, the abundance of stone fruits and grapes in summer and the dawning of [...]