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Pumpkin Talam
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Steamed Minced Pork, Hakka Style
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Chicken Stew with Black Eye Peas
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Pesto Sauce
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Homemade Kaya
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Christmas Dinner
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Fried Brinjals
How do you give a title to a dish which looks like this....It doesn't resemble anything except a brown blob of .... I won't even mention it here. My mom actually used to cook this :) It is brinjal or eggplant.We only find the long variety in China. I...
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Rice Rolls
My first attempt at making rice rolls is a disaster in so many respects. The lighting was terrible for the photo shoot because it is a dark cloudy day, the rice wasn't sticky enough, the seaweed was not crisp and it was a messy oily affair.Oily?Well,...
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Braised Chicken with Mushrooms and Chestnuts
It was a chore peeling the roasted chestnuts for cooking. My fingers were already hurting from peeling and eating them yesterday, and I was rying very hard to resist putting them into my mouth instead.I found a recipe from Let's get Wokking but didn'...
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Preserved Bean Curd Pork with Potatoes
I had pork and I had potatoes and this is what happened. I marinated lean pork slices with preserved bean curd (I used the spicy type because I had no other!), dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, some white pepper, corn flour, Chinese cooking wine and s...
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Pork Ribs with Spicy Black Bean Sauce
I cook to survive. This is something I've come to realize. Fumbling along, I've manage to put something edible on the table for dinner, sometimes, even some tasty stuff!I wanted soup for dinner tonight so when we went grocery shopping yesterday, I bo...
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Preserved Vegetable with Pork Belly
My favorite Hakka dish is braised preserved vegetables with pork belly. Mom used to make a huge pot of it and we could eat it for days. It tastes the best on the last day when the vegetable has soaked up all the flavor of the sauce.Get the recipe fro...
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Steamboat
Mom made an effort to prepare a steamboat dinner yesterday night. She was up as early as 5am, going to the market at 6am to buy fresh fish, and meats plus vegetable. The great thing about having steamboat is that everything is uncooked - we do our ow...
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Creamy Potato Salad
I can't say this is my recipe for I got it from the internet. It was such a long time ago that I've forgotten where or who from so I can't give credit. Somehow I've made this 'my' potato salad.I have been using this recipe for the last 9 years and it...
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Sardines
Here is another of my favorite, simple, healthy and appetizing dish.Sardines!Yes, straight from a tin but with some tweaks making it a delicious dish with rice. Just fry big onions until they turn soft and add sardines from a tin. Serve once it is ni...
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3 Simple Dishes
I have a yearning for Chinese style soup so when David and I went grocery shopping yesterday, I bought some pork bones and white radish, just these 2 ingredients to make a really nice Cantonese soup.I use a slow cooker to boil soup because it is conv...
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Leftovers
I put some leftover sambal sauce to good use tonight. I deep fried pomfret first. Then cooked up more onions and garlic and added the leftover sauce to create a spicy sauce for the fried fish. I must say that deep frying is hard, messy work. I don't ...
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Pictures of Char Siu
I am testing out posting via gmail and trying to upload some photos.These are the pictures of the char siu marinating and after grilling.Definitely doesn't look like char siu nor tastes like it.I heard from a friend that the Lee Kum Kee Char Siu sauc...
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Char Siu
I am attempting to make Char Siu using my AMC pot. It was Mom's suggestion and I had the recipe. This came about because I was singing praises about the AMC cookware to Mom over the phone and Mom says that pot can be used to roast char siu!Mom gave u...
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Mom's Recipe
A simple steamed chicken dish I grew up eating. I love that it has lots of gravy and and the chicken very flavorful.Marinade chicken pieces with sliced ginger (lots of it), oyster sauce and tomato ketchup. You can adjust the measurements depending on...
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Shrimps and Parsley Noodles
See how parsley react to heat - they don't look fresh and green!I made another noodle dish for dinner yesterday. I had some parsley and onions leftover from yesterday and I used them with my noodles.I fried garlic and onions until the onions were sof...
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Noodles or Rice?
Noodles!David is still under the weather so eating at home is best. He wanted something simple and less oily.Going to the market in the evening to get fresh ingredients is becoming the norm for me. I usually decide what I want to cook after browsing...
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Kangkong Belacan
Food can't taste any more Malaysian than this dish - kangkong belacan. I didn't follow the recipe link but since most Malaysians know this dish, it is something most of us would be able to cook without a recipe, I dare say!My version of kangkong bela...
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Asian Porridge
We were in Xian the last few days and I've got a few food posts coming up!After eating out the past few days we were starved for a home cooked meal.The moment we reached home, put the bags down, I had the rice cooker out and ready to make some porrid...
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An Italian Affair
We went shopping at Metro this afternoon for some groceries and items for the house. We find Metro has most of the things we need. It is a hypermarket - most items are sold in bulk so we don't go there every week. For other basic items we just walk n...
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An Uphill Task
Cooking is an uphill task for me. Not only because I only started cooking in my late thirties but also because I don't know half the food items out there. This cooking adventure has taught me so much! And I'd have say that it has been much easier bec...
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Tofu with Minced Beef Sauce
Ok. I am really getting the hang of this cooking thing.You have a set of ingredients, you combined them at various stages while applying heat and voila! Your meal served up.I was really at odds in the kitchen. If I didn't have the recipe and all the...
