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Chicken Wings with Butternut Squash and Salad

Chicken Wings with Butternut Squash and Salad

I am not sure what happened to me, but I just found out that I haven’t been writing my blog for few months already! I’ve been so busy with many things for the last few months, and our helper just left us 2 weeks ago, that is definitely not helping! I still keep taking pictures of what I’ve cooked, and posted it on instagram. I just did not manage to write it down here! Tonight I’ve cooked a very…

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Boxing Day dinner - red and green salad & pork and mash gratin

Boxing Day dinner – red and green salad & pork and mash gratin

It was Boxing Day, OMG, so long time ago! I am also forgetting what did I cook or how I made it??? I will try my very best to remember! We were having home party at one of my friend’s home, each of us had to cook or bring one dish. So, I decided to cook a salad and a main course with meat for the two of us to bring over there. I would like to make a salad which is more Christmassy, so I am…

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Wednesday night homemade dinner - red wine braised beef brisket

Wednesday night homemade dinner – red wine braised beef brisket

Looking at all the pending blog posts that I have on my draft folder, I just realised that I haven’t worked on the writing since long time. I have so much to catch up! I will try my best today, and finish as many as I can. Usually I cook every Sunday, but this one that I did was on Wednesday. Instead of cooking beef brisket in Chinese style with turnip, let’s try to do the beef brisket in Western…

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Wednesday homemade dinner - Thai beef green curry with rice

Wednesday homemade dinner – Thai beef green curry with rice

I have this recipe with me for few years already, I kind of figure it out my own way by imagining how this should be. Of course, after learning some Thai recipes, I’ve adjusted it a little bit, but more or less it stays the same. The good thing about curry is you can have it with different kind of meat, seafood or even vegetable. Tonight I am doing this with beef, but as I said, you can do it…

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Sauce An important element for cooking, adding great flavour to the dish. Instead of buying ready made sauce, why don't we make our own one?

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Making use of the leftover pulp from juicing to make some snack

I am always concern about the environment, and lately I am looking into zero-waste cooking. Actually you just need to be creative and always have that idea in your mind, try to really think again before throwing anything away. You might surprise yourself how much you can make use of from the food waste that you created. Today, I am making some snack bars from the leftover pulp that I’ve got from…

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Cooking Wednesday dinner - garlic and lemon prawns with quinoa and baby spinach

Cooking Wednesday dinner – garlic and lemon prawns with quinoa and baby spinach

I’ve cooked this shrimp dish the other night when my friends were over for home party. I am thinking to redo this dish with salad and quinoa, so I recreated it for a weekday dinner. First of all, get some fresh prawns at the wet market, if you are not ready to cook them right away, you can just keep them in the fridge until you are ready to cook. Before cooking the prawns, which is going to take…

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Green Sunday dinner – caprese fussili pasta Let's do green Sunday again!!!! It's really refreshing and it's a good idea to keep doing vegetarian dishes on Sunday, just to clean up the system.

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Vegetarian Sunday Dinner – baked zucchini with ricotta, spinach and tomato sauce I was trying to apply this rule to our diet, mainly vegetarian with only 2 to 3 meaty night in a week.

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Sunday dinner - Danish National dish Stegt flæsk, roasted pork belly with creamy parsley sauce, served with mashed potatoes

Sunday dinner – Danish National dish Stegt flæsk, roasted pork belly with creamy parsley sauce, served with mashed potatoes

Again! One week past and I did not get my last Sunday recipe written and posted, so bad! Was too busy last week, now business networking going on and running around with different events. So, when I have a new post this week, of course I remembered that I better get the one from last week done. So, here I go! The one from last week was a National dish from Denmark, it is a pork belly dish and…

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Sunday healthy dinner - scallop with green salad, asparagus and quinoa

Sunday healthy dinner – scallop with green salad, asparagus and quinoa

I have this outstanding dish from last Sunday that I better get the writing done, as I’ve already got the new Sunday dinner dish that I need to write soon! Last Sunday, I cooked this healthy dish with salad and quinoa based with a touch of scallop as high light. I went out for dinner on Friday with two friends that are both health conscious, we did talk about healthy diet during dinner, so I was…

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Sunday healthy dinner - scallop with green salad, asparagus and quinoa

Sunday healthy dinner – scallop with green salad, asparagus and quinoa

I have this outstanding dish from last Sunday that I better get the writing done, as I’ve already got the new Sunday dinner dish that I need to write soon! Last Sunday, I cooked this healthy dish with salad and quinoa based with a touch of scallop as high light. I went out for dinner on Friday with two friends that are both health conscious, we did talk about healthy diet during dinner, so I was…

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Healthy Vegetarian Dinner - Creamy Tomatoes and Potatoes Soup with Mango and Bell Pepper Wrap

Healthy Vegetarian Dinner – Creamy Tomatoes and Potatoes Soup with Mango and Bell Pepper Wrap

These days, I tried to cook more, cooking almost every night. I cooked something with meat last night, so I decided to go for vegetarian tonight. I cooked that creamy tomatoes soup the other night, and tonight I’m trying to cook that soup by adding potatoes. Same recipe but only adding potatoes, just boil some potatoes in hot water for 20 minutes until they are soft. Peel the skin off and then…

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Hong Kong Style fried beef flat rice noodle

乾炒牛河 is one of the most popular dish in Hong Kong, or any where you go that serves Cantonese cuisine, I guess it’s not difficult to order this in a Cantonese or Chinese restaurant.  The most important ingredient is the flat rice noodle, as it is a bit difficult to buy the fresh one. There are shops selling freshly made noodles, rice noodles and wonton wrap, try to explore that in your…

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Shakshuka - Spicy all day breakfast 

Shakshuka – Spicy all day breakfast 

My husband was having a gig last night, djing at one of the event, and he was out until this morning. Usually, what he loves to eat after a night like this, will be something meaty, but I would like to have something vegetarian. I think maybe it’s good to cook something like a all-day breakfast for him.  This dish is called Shakshuka, it’s a spicy dish with eggs poached in tomato sauce and…

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Homemade Wonton 3 Ways - Deep Fried, Shanghainese spicy version and Cantonese style in noodle soup

Homemade Wonton 3 Ways – Deep Fried, Shanghainese spicy version and Cantonese style in noodle soup

I always want to make dumplings or wonton, but so far I haven’t done that. I finally made up my mind yesterday and thinking to cook wonton for dinner. My husband is not a big fan of wonton, he said he doesn’t like the fishy taste of it. I don’t know if that has to do with the shrimp, or what exactly is he talking about for the fishy part. Anyway, let’s give it a try and see if he is going to love…

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