Just made our second CNY treat yesterday – Acar, traditionally (for my family anyway) served with shrimp/prawn crackers. Yum! Click here to get the recipe.

A simple and delicious treat! It’s funny the things you can or cannot remember about your childhood. I can still recall a special outing to the cinema with my cousins and grandfather when I was really young. I don’t remember what we watched but I […]

One of my guilty pleasures is definitely FRIED FOODS! In fact, the only time I’ll eat chicken skin (or tolerate fats of any kind) is when they are fried or roasted until they are crispy. I’ve often wondered how we could eat all those fried foods and […]

I rarely cook with daikon but about a week ago, I had this yen for daikon soup. However, the moment I returned home with my purchase, my craving for the soup was gone (isn’t that just typical?). 🙂 So now, I had to find something else to make with the […]

Seeing that ground beef is on sale this week, I asked hubby what he would like – curry puff (Malaysia’s version of empanada), pasty (the English version of empanada of which the recipe came from hubby’s grandmother), or Louisa’s Spaghetti Sauce (named after one of my closest friends […]

I ate my first spiced nuts a few years back. They tasted mildly salty and a little spicy and I thought they were pretty bland for spiced nuts and did not care much for them. A couple of years later, I sampled a local grocery […]

  I was never really fond of Acar when I was still living back home. It’s amazing what one will crave after years of not having it. This recipe is from one of my mom’s old Female Cookbooks and I have adapted it to my […]

Satay, a dish of grilled slices of meat or chicken on bamboo skewers, is a popular hawker-style snack (or a meal by itself) back home. Satay is traditionally served with a spicy peanut sauce, with accompaniments such as slices of cucumber, shallots, and cubed ketupat. […]

There is only one word to describe this chex mix – addictive! We only just discovered this last winter and have been making it fairly often for snack. Sometimes, I do not even add chex – just Cheez-It, pretzels, and nuts. The mix is actually not […]

Recently, I came across a really ingenious tip – frying anchovies in the microwave. I admit I was a little skeptical of this cooking method at first. I mean I like my anchovies really crispy and I was doubtful that the microwave could turn out […]