FollowToday is the first day of the UPSR examination for Primary 6 students. Sherilyn did not have to go to school today while Alycia needed to. Tomorrow it will be Alycia’s turn to enjoy a day off school. Instead of going to the enrichment centre in the morning, Sherilyn decided to follow me to the…
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Wednesday Grilled Dinner
I love dishing out grilled fish, meat and veggies. I call them my ‘healthy homecooked fast-food’. And they taste really good too. Most importantly, grilling food in the oven is sweat-free and oil splatter-free too! Funnily, for someone who gets ‘heaty’ very easily, grilled food somehow does not make me feel heaty or sick, unlike…
Random Thoughts
Whenever the MIL goes abroad to stay with her daughters, I tend to find it hard to get the momentum to take over the cook’s job after having enjoyed the luxury of staying away from the hot kitchen for a period of time. For the first few days after she leaves, I will normally cook…
See No Touch
Inspired by my friend’s posting of the picture of her mum’s homecooked black sweet vinegar pig’s trotters in Facebook and also aroused by the killer aroma of this dish from the unit above ours (a lady just gave birth and dang it, her Confinement Lady is drowning me with the aroma of her confinement dishes…
Organic Yee Mein
Mushroom, Sweet Corn & Chicken Pasta
This was our dinner last night… Fresh portobello mushroom pasta with chicken fillet, fresh sweet corn kernels, garlic and whipping cream topped with cheddar cheese. I used a mixture of ribbon and spiral pasta to make the dish look more interesting. After all, it was a kiddo dish. Shapes, sweet corn, cream and cheese, these…
Yummy Rice Cooker Chicken Rice
Meal In A Jiffy – Braised Chicken Thigh
Bak Kut Teh For Dinner
Bak Kut Teh is one of the easiest and fastest one-pot meal to dish up for your family. When I am feeling a tad lazy to cook dinner, I will prepare Bak Kut Teh. I will throw in some hard boiled eggs, fresh Enoki mushrooms, dried Shitake mushrooms, garlic, fried soy bean sheet (foo choke)…
Oven Grilled Pork Chop
Here is another sweat-free and oil splatter-free delish meat dish that I prepared for dinner yesterday. I never knew that my oven can do so much to help me with cooking so many mess-free delish meals for my kids. My oven-grilled pork chop tasted very much like ‘char siew’ as I added agave nectar which…
Chicken Adobo And Homemade Mashed Potato
I made Chicken Adobo and mashed potatoes (at the request of the girls) for dinner tonight. It was my first time cooking Chicken Adobo, which is a Filipino dish. I saw this recipe in Nami’s Just One Cookbook the other night and since I had all the ingredients plus it was super easy to cook…
Grilled Agave Nectar Soy Sauce Chicken Drummets
This is another super easy to whip up dish that is really lip-smacking, which I’ll bet kids and adults will love – grilled honey soy sauce chicken drummets. In my case, I replaced honey with agave nectar. Agave nectar is a healthier alternative to sugar and honey. It has lower calories, lower GI and has…
Homemade Japanese Potato Salad
The girls had been bugging me to make Japanese potato salad since months ago. I had been putting it off until their exams were over. Actually it ain’t very difficult or very messy to make potato salad. It is just time consuming since there are lots of peeling, cutting, boiling, mashing and mixing involved. Thankfully…
Oven-Grilled Onion Chicken Chop
Here’s another oven-grilled meat dish that I whipped up for the girls. My most critical and persnickety daughter said “mummy, I’ll give you an A+++ for this dish!” That sure was a very motivational remark to make me dish up more delish oven-grilled meat dish for them 😀 Picture below shows the chicken before the…
Herbs And Garlic Grilled Black Pomfret Fish
Pineapple Grilled Fish
This is what we had for dinner last night…. Grilled wild salmon fish and threadfin fish with herbs, EVOO and fresh pineapple. It was my first time grilling fish with pineapple and I was amazed with the strong aromatic and fruity flavor the pineapple effused into the fish meat. When the fish was grilling in…