Bite On It!

I do not know about raw shan yào or huái shan until my mom showed it to me one day last year. In fact I’ve never even heard that there are raw ones being sold here. According to my mom, shan yao is quite popular among the Japanese.
We normally use the dried ones [...]

Sometimes it is a hassle to prepare ingredients just to cook a small dish. When I need to grind or ground chillies or other condiments, I prefer to do a huge batch and keep them in the freezer for future use so I don’t have to wash my blender every time I want to cook [...]

I used to use a lot of capsicums or bell peppers in my cooking before I was married as they can be eaten fresh or cooked. However, the price of capsicums had increased so much over the years (especially the red ones) so I don’t buy them as often now.
Capsicum is quite a flexible ingredient, [...]

These days I have been experimenting various ingredients to prepare some nice meals for Darrius. I think he is quite bored with his usual porridge (though my mom insisted that he should have porridge for most meals) meals so I tried to come out with something that he might enjoy eating.
I have started feeding Darrius [...]

With Darrius having his molars appearing now, I will be dishing out more kids friendly dishes in the coming days. In fact, I’ve purchased a few books on kids’ menus which are really interesting! Will try them out and share with all of you who has small kids at home.
My little boy loves pasta in [...]