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So, I went for the sale of the long weekend, the Le Creuset family sale. So many people I know went (and so many people they knew went too) and bought lots. So many people, including yours truly, went back at least once and bought some more!

(I went back specifically for the ( Read more... )

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One of J’s favourite dishes from his favourite hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Shanghai is century egg tofu. I tried replicating it a few years ago, but I wasn’t successful at all. Recently, The Sunday Times featured a recipe for the dish and I decided to give it another go. ( Read more... )

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One of the things on our To Do list after baby arrived is to eat homecooked food more often. Specifically, at least four to five dinners a week.

This was fairly easy to keep up when I was on maternity leave but it’s been a tad harder since I returned to work. So far - really only ( Read more... )

Since enjoying homecooked food prepared by the confinement aunty every day during the month she was with us, J and I have decided to try to eat at home more often. We previously ate only about 3 out of 7 dinners at home per week. The point is to eat healthier stuff so I've to remember this when cooking - I don't use a lot of oil or salt in my ( Read more... )

I had some onions, potatoes and carrots that needed to be used soon and simply no time on my hands to do anything about them.

So, I made chicken soup!

Okay, correction, I helped make chicken soup - I went to visit my parents and to "multi-task" so to speak, decided to make the soup there. Brought all my veggies, bought chicken feet and half a ( Read more... )

As you can see, I've been quite caught up in a bit of a cooking bug lately (baking too actually but no oven!).

And along with the cooking, the reading and surfing of cook books, websites, food blogs, and other online domestic resources on the topic have increased. Some recipes are extremely tiring even to read, and others are just too haphazardly ( Read more... )