Hubs bought a box of Wendy’s fried chicken home on Sunday night. The RM10.99 for 6 pieces fried chicken is an on-going promotion at Wendy’s. But the girls and I had already eaten our dinner. So I refrigerated the fried chicken. The next day, I gave the fried chicken a make-over and dished up a…
Category: Home-cooked food
Crispy Beef Taco
Alycia had been bugging me to get some taco shells ever since she saw a taco recipe at her daddy’s Flavors magazine. Taco shells are not as common as pasta, spaghetti or tortilla chips where you can easily get them from mini marts and supermarkets. They can only be found at places like Jaya Grocer…
Crock Pot Maple Dijon Chicken Drumsticks
I stumbled upon this recipe at skinnytaste.com while searching for some recipes to dish up. Chicken drumsticks cooked with maple syrup and dijon mustard in a crock pot seems pretty easy and delish. Best of all, not many ingredients are needed for this dish. I was excited and very eager to try out this dish,…
Wednesday Night Dinner – Healthy Fried Rice
My part-time maid, M screwed up my day again yesterday. I have always reminded her that should she be unable to come in for work, she has to send me a text message latest by 12 noon so that I can start doing chores myself. But she just can’t seem to take instructions well and only…
Monday Nite Dinner
Dinner whipped up in a jiffy yesterday – fried organic spinach noodles with minced pork, meat balls, garlic, a whole head of Chinese cabbage and 5 eggs (free-range ones). We had dinner at 6pm yesterday, which was earlier than usual as the girls had an extra Mandarin tuition class for the tutor to help…
Salmon & Tuna Fish Macaroni
What do you do with leftover salmon fish for dinner? My kids and I do not like eating overnight fish. When re-fried, re-toasted or steamed, the meat gets too dry. So I normally ‘re-cycle’ the salmon fish and convert it into another appetizing dish. I will add the shredded salmon flesh into fried rice, fried…
Vegatarian Nasi Lemak
Here is yet another post on food and I hope that this post will not get you rolling your eyes 😀 I dished out vegetarian nasi lemak last week, using my favorite Mak Nyonya curry paste. I added cabbage, puffed tofu, brinjal, tomatoes, ladies fingers, potatoes and hard boiled eggs. I used vegetarian mushroom stumps…
Health Freak Mommy’s Homecooked Dinner
I have been really busy the past week. But despite the busyness, I am still not succumbing much to outside food for my girls. Many times when I was drowned in my work, I was really tempted to just tell the girls “mummy ain’t cooking tonight, so let’s go out and eat”. But I know…
Sherilyn’s Homemade Potato Salad
Today 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…
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
My girls are so in love with yee mein. Yee Mein is a kind of noodles made from wheat flour and eggs and deep fried. One of the ingredients in it is ASH. And I have no freaking idea what ash is but it sure does not sound too healthy to be eating ash. Also,…
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
Two days after Maid M resumed working for me, the lump in her neck began to nag her with pain again. Today, she sent me a text message informing me that she has to stop work and that she will only resume work again after her surgery. The last time she took a break from…
Meal In A Jiffy – Braised Chicken Thigh
The first new dish that I cooked for 2014 is my own version of ‘loh kai pei’ (braised chicken thighs). This is SO easy to prepare and the taste was top notch, according to my monsters 🙂 Here’s what I used, based on what I could find in my fridge. The chicken need not be…

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