My son is not yet 2, but not long ago I entertained the idea of doing a cooking project with him, for no reason other than that it would be fun. Of course, I had misgivings about this idea, wondering if it would be a recipe for disaster instead of a fun-in-the-kitchen activity, and whether or not a 21 month-old toddler is a little too young to be ( Read more... )

These are mostly for my reference so I don't have to do the research every year just because I was too busy to write down what I used/did. Rob said the roast turkey lunch I cooked for Christmas '09 was my best yet, and I suppose that is a pretty good reason to take some time to make note of my recipes.

Fruit Mince Pies (Cooking Project #6)


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Last weekend, we had the honour of spending time with a gorgeous Japanese family at their beautiful home. We met this lovely family almost two years ago on our trip to Hakone, and we kept in touch and have met up a couple of times. It's great having these cultural encounters as we can exchange and share more about each others' culture and language ( Read more... )

We're not doing a bad job at keeping this cooking project alive, are we? Last weekend, Rob and I once again joined forces in the kitchen to make this Olive and Rosemary Focaccia at home. I had a look at a few focaccia recipes, but this time I decided to make things easier for me and just stick to one recipe rather than adapting my own one from ( Read more... )

So far I've avoided making dumplings (of the stuffed variety such as wonton, jiaozi and ravioli) because of they seem like so much effort to do, even with the widely available ready-made wrappers. I love eating dumplings, yet I always avoid buying the prepared ones in the supermarket because I don't know what kind of processed crap has gone into ( Read more... )

I guess we didn't have to wait long after our first cooking project before I posted up the recipe of our second project. On our recent visit to K-town, we bought a packet of garaeddeok (cylinder-shaped rice cake) to make ddeokbokki. At first we were going to buy a 1-serving pack of ready-made ddeokbokki sauce to make the dish, but I also intended ( Read more... )

Rob and I recently decided to start doing cooking projects together on a regular basis on weekends as a couple thing, and our first project was this unbelievably delicious Chicken, Spinach & Ricotta Cannelloni. I'm not being biased here just because we cooked it - this was the best stuffed pasta I have ever eaten, better even than the ones I've ( Read more... )