Pandan Chiffon Cake used to be my all-time favorite dessert growing up. I love the fragrant yet oh so subtle pairing of pandan and coconut, and the light-as-air texture with just the right amount of sweetness. Although I’m not as crazy about it as I used to […]

Most years, we’ll try to plant some spring vegetables such as lettuce, radish, and peas to enjoy. None of the vegetables I started out this year however, have survived so far due to various weather-related reasons. The worst was the flash flood we had on […]

I love the Time For Kids website and use it often as one of my homeschooling resources. This worksheet – For the Birds, from which we obtained the steps to make the pinecone bird feeder comes from there. Alex enjoyed this activity tremendously last Spring, […]

Sometime late Spring 2009 (I’m trying to catch up with my old unpublished posts) :), we signed Alex up for a kids’ cooking class at a culinary school nearby. He didn’t enjoy the class as much as we had hoped because there wasn’t too much […]

These past four months have been quite a challenge for me, eating-wise. After a couple of months of stomach discomfort, paired with bouts of diarrhea every two or three days, my doctor is finally convinced that I’m lactose intolerant. I’m still not entirely convinced myself […]

This is the kind of curry my mom made when I was growing up, which is more along the line of Chinese-Malaysian curries as compared to the Malay or Indian version. As with most of my mom’s recipes, the dish comes without any actual measurement […]

Yay!! I finally managed to coincide a post with a celebration before the actual day, not after. 🙂 Something green for St. Patrick’s Day, anyone? This pound cake is flavored with pandan, a flavoring as widely used in Southeast Asia as vanilla extract is used […]

We went hiking at Penitentiary Glen Reservation yesterday after three straight days of heavy snow. The forest and field had been transformed into a winter wonderland – they were simply stunning! [slideshow]

Ahhh…looking at these pictures bring back extremely fond and delicious memories. We welcomed the New Year with homemade pizza. I have to admit that it is time-consuming and tiring to make your own pizza as compared to just having them delivered (ready-to-eat) but it is […]

This is such a belated Christmas post. 🙂 Trying to take it easy over the holidays, Alex and I barely did any baking. However, one of the couple of things we did make that surely deserves an honorable mention was Cranberry-Pistachio Biscotti. We first saw […]