FollowRemember I mentioned in my blog post on Monday that my part-time helper gave me a last minute no turn-up notice? Well despite her absence, I went ahead to dish up a simple yet wholesome and delish dinner. I have told her (and other part-time helpers) umpteen times to inform me before 12 noon should…
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Easy Mac And Cheese With Shredded Roast Chicken
Home-cooked Dinner With Love
My lazy cincai dinner for tonight… Meatless fried rice composed of 1 big Bombay onion, 1 large bulb of garlic, Edamame beans, avocado oil, chopped scallions, 4 eggs, few dashes of soy sauce, pepper and a large cup of LOVE. Decor – blanched organic broccoli and organic cherry tomatoes and a few shakes of Japanese…
Purple Sweet Potato Porridge With ‘Tau Kok Lup’
The mil cooked a big pot of ‘tau kok lup’ and purple sweet potato porridge for lunch last week. ‘Tau Kok Lup’ is a healthy sauteed dish composed of long beans, diced carrot, diced preserved veggie (choy po), diced prawns, diced chicken meat or pork and crunchy peanuts. It is normally eaten with porridge. You…
Healthy Homecooked Dinner With Black Rice
Our wholesome, hearty and healthy dinner last night… Black rice (mixed with a handful of low GI Basmati rice), sauteed leek flower with garlic, pan-fried salmon fish and Sanbeiji chicken fillet (3-Cup Chicken) (cooked with ginger, wine, sesame oil, garlic and basil leaves). Check out the beautiful purplish, blackish hue of the black rice –…
What’s For Dinner Tonight?
Guess what we had for dinner tonight? It’s a homey dinner but the price is that of a fine dine dinner at a 5-star restaurant. Yes beef steak… but not the regular beef. Look carefully at the marbled appearance… It’s Kobe beef, all the way from Hong Kong! The MIL hand carried the Kobe beef…
Living Skills Training For Kids
One of the activities for Sherilyn during this school holiday is living skills training 🙂 She may be pretty clumsy, impulsive (she drives me nuts with her impulsiveness) and accident-prone, but when it comes to cooking, I can see that she is trying really hard NOT to be what she is 😀 As she flipped…
Grilled Chicken With Japanese Potato Salad
Remember my post dated 10 May 2015 where I wrote about our Mother’s Day dinner at Kozaku-Ai Modern Teppanyaki Kitchen? I told my girls that I would try to dish out the fried chicken with Japanese potato salad dish for them soon. And I did! It sure was a big hit with the girls! My…
Frying Fish – Successful Attempt!
Who hates frying fish? I.hate.frying.fish! I hate the oil splatters on my skin. You can never miss at least a drop or two of hot oil splatters on your skin when you slide the fish into the wok unless you wear gloves and a full body protective suit. Once, the oil splattered onto my eye lid…
Home-cooked Meals For Recess
This is an almost nightly affair for the drama queen. Before she eats her dinner, she would ask me if there is enough food for her to bring to school for recess the next day. If yes, she would quickly keep some in a stainless steel container with cover. The next morning, I would wake…
Grilled Aromatic Lemon Grass Chicken Thighs
Here’s another sweat-free dinner I whipped up last night — grilled lemon grass chicken and blanched organic siew bok choy. I love my oven, it’s better than an air-fryer (as it’s huge vs the air-fryer) and I can save so much time by replacing deep-frying and pan-frying with grilling in the oven. And my persnickety…
Down With Flu – Super Lutein To The Rescue
I have been down with the sniffles for the past two days (see, month of May is really jinx!), no thanks to the girl who brought back the woeful virus from school and spread it to everyone! Yesterday I felt so bushed and lackluster that I popped 6 caps of Super Lutein (double my usual…
Lunch – 5 May 2015
These days, I am back to preparing home-cooked meals twice a day – for lunch and dinner. Everyday, I waste a little time thinking of what to take-away for lunch. I am sick of eating char siew and roast chicken rice and noodles are crap, I mean carbs. Economy rice dishes (chap fan) are too…
Mushroom Pasta and Grilled Chicken For Lunch
Lunch for Cass on one of the school days last week… Mushroom pasta, grilled turmeric and kafir lime leaves chicken drumstick, hardboiled free-range chicken egg and half a cob of sweet corn. Smoothie of the day and her Izumio hydrogen water. This Martha Stewart mushroom pasta recipe calls for white wine to prepare the mushroom…
Dinner – 24 April 2015
Dinner came very early today as Mandarin tuition class began at 5:45pm at home. At 4:45pm, I started to work in the kitchen. After an hour, this is what I churned out… A big batch of pasta with beef and portobello mushroom bolognese sauce. I used 2 big packs of antibiotic-free Australian minced beef, 2…