The hubby is a big fan of anything toufo. It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white! I love to create new toufo dishes for him! Update soon with where to buy the paste, recipe etc. Today just want to post this up. Date 28th April 2023 – I have been wanting to update this … Continue reading Chess board toufo & toufo pop with prawn paste – signatory mine.
Over the last year, after much ‘encouragements’ from friends I researched and finally bought 2 Air-Fryers; fundamentally one for my son who has moved away and one for me to learn so I can teach him easy recipes to feed himself. However I have since fallen in love with it! I use it as a … Continue reading Traditional Cantonese Crispy Roast pork – Siu Yuk, 脆皮烧肉 Air- Fryer version!
My family loves yellow bean sauce and recently I am able to get the brand that my mother has been using since I was a child. I only remember her using this brand and Yeo’s brand and not any other. She also always used the whole beans and she insisted that it is not actually … Continue reading Cod cheeks in yellow beans sauce
Last week I bought a packet of yam, yes frozen as I have been bitten many a times before buying fresh yam and when peeled only to find half was bad aka shades of brownish, which I dare not eat. These frozen ones are quite good and most times very floury denoting good yam taste. … Continue reading Fragrant Yam Rice, Taro Rice (芋头饭)
Recently it has been much easier for me to lay my hands on ‘fresh’ lotus roots. The other day when I was at the shop, I saw this fresh stick of lotus root winking at me. So, I bought it for the princely sum of £8 plus! Sacrilege! However, lotus root is good for us … Continue reading Braised pork ribs with lotus roots and nam yue (fermented red beancurd)
Sometimes, actually most times I like to do a one dish. Often, we skipped breakfast, have early lunch and late dinner. Lucky for me hubby is one who do not mind eating the same dish for both meals and if it is Malaysian curry he can eat it for few days – kekekekeke Today I … Continue reading Braised trio of soyabean products – toufo, dried beancurd (fu chok) and fried toufo – Special
I decided we are having chicken this week but I have no idea what to cook with it. There is no point in asking the hubby as he will always say “curry!” I wanted to do something different and finally decided late last night I am going to cook it stuffed with glutinous rice. Roast … Continue reading Roast chicken stuffed with glutinous rice
My hubby is a big fan of chicken breasts. He was so happy when I told him the Sunday passed we are going to Costco to get some chicken breasts. The typical Englishman that he is, is a huge fan of chicken breasts as they have no bones. However hubby did not know that I … Continue reading Simply Chicken Floss
When I was young, a long, long time ago my mother used to cook this dish for us five siblings. Sometimes she cooks with prawns and sometimes with lobsters which growing up in Kuching, Sarawak used to be very fresh from a friend of my father’s. We all loved this sauce a lot although our … Continue reading Sweet Chilli Crab claws – Special
My hubby has a love affair with black-beans but he only appreciate the whole black-beans that I marinated overnight with rice wine/sherry and fresh chillies, not the commercial packets or jarred mushy ones. He knows how to enjoy his black-beans! He is a connoisseur of black-beans – kekekekeke Today I made his favourite sauce but … Continue reading Braised tofu pop with pork belly in black-beans sauce
