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…
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…
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…
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 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…
I spent the entire afternoon today helping Cass revise for her Math test tomorrow. Have you ever tried teaching a language that is so foreign to you to another person who is still very shallow in the language? Like blind leading the blind? Dang it, the feeling is indescribable. Very very frustrating and head-banging-on-the-wall kinda…
This pot of yummy braised chicken drumsticks and eggs in soy sauce, organic blackstrap molasses, garlic and star anise is awaiting the girls when they come back from school today… I dished this up for dinner last night and kept 4 drumsticks for lunch today. I boiled 3 eggs just now and added them…
I survived the first week of school! And so did Cass (who started Primary 1)! After 3 days of waiting in the school to guide Cass and to give her moral support, parents were not allowed in the school anymore yesterday. Yesterday was the first time Cass sat on Aunty J’s van, along with her…
Here’s a simple and wholesome lunch for Alycia, Cass and me today… Grilled crispy sandwich with egg mayo, sweet corn kernel, mashed avocado, butter and cheese. I also lightly toasted some macadamia nuts in the oven (while the sandwich is grilling in the oven. Killing 2 birds with 1 stone!), for us to snack…
Cass is lovesick ever since her 2 sisters and grandma left for Auckland yesterday morning. She was down and broody the whole day and kept asking me whether her che ches have reached NZ. I made her favorite grilled herbs and turmeric drumsticks for dinner but even when she savored the drumstick, she put one…
I have been wanting to try grilling breaded boneless chicken thighs for the longest time and finally tried them last week. I googled around to get an idea of how to prepare this dish and then adapted the recipes that I found online to my kids’ liking and to the availability of my ingredients. For…
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