tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-311460852024-09-26T20:53:42.774-07:00I've always loved cooking as far as I could remember into my childhood. I'd spent hours in the kitchen,hovering around my mother whilst she washed,cut,chopped,marinated and cooked to perfection. Amidst the tantalizing aroma, mum had talked me through the act. Being the lazy sort that I am, I was never keen on recipes with tedious hours of preparation,but I'd eagerly remember the easy-to-make ones. And these are what I intend to share on this blog-site! Enjoy!Me Naughty Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13732069505940430268noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31146085.post-67186147273773296002009-06-13T20:43:00.000-07:002009-06-13T21:27:49.668-07:00

You know you've been living overseas for too long when you start learning to concoct hawker fare you'd never dream of making when you're in your home country. This was my attempt at making carrot cake, as what us Singaporeans would call it, though the dish has nothing to do with carrots nor cake. It's probably more correct to call it by its hokkien name: Chai Tow Kway.Equipment:A 2-quart saucepan

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This dish might not impress your Chinese mother-in-law, but it's sure to impress your friends. Originally, I was just trying to make pancakes, but I had milk I wanted to use up and not much self-rising flour left. Looking at the batter thicken, I thought, "Oh, might as well pour all the milk in, perhaps they'll make thinner pancakes...or, ooh! Crepes! Maybe that's how they're made -- more milk!"

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So I'm still using up those country-style pork ribs. What a great dish that lasts so well. Here's another version of noodles with the rib meats, but no soup.

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So a week later, I'm still finishing up the country-style, pork ribs I baked previously. Here's what I did. I took a chunk of the already baked meat from the fridge, sliced it up and heated it up in the microwave. It took less than 30 secs to do it. Meanwhile, I had the water boiling in a saucepan and ready to cook up a packet of instant noodles.No sooner than 5 mins more, I had a piping bowl of

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After I made this dish the other day, I've decided it'll be one of my favorites. So simple and sure to impress your mother-in-law!Equipment:Big Bowl or Ziploc Bag for marinating meatsIngredients:Marinade -- a pinch of salt, five spice powder (as much as you want!), black pepper (as much as you want, although if you don't like it too spicy, go slow with it), a bottle of barbeque sauce (I used Tony

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I was first introduced to this dish by my dear American friend, MD. She'd used a packet of onion powder mix and a large can of Campbell mushroom soup. Yesterday, I just tried to repeat this when I didn't have the two ingredients and I found out it worked just as well! The important ingredient is the creamy soup base and any kind will do. And if you can't get hold of a packet of onion powder mix,

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Sometime last year, I started exploring ways of cooking those yummy pancakes with cheese, tuna, green bean or red bean fillings in food stalls usually at the basement of some shopping plaza in Singapore. And I'm so happy I successfully made the recipe up!Here's the full works! Equipment: Big mixing bowl Mixing spoon Wooden spoon or slated spoon for flipping pancakes Non-stick frying pan Soup

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After I'd wrapped and boiled about 400 dumplings since my last blog entry, I decided yesterday to try baking it. It took about 40 minutes at 425 degrees Fahrenheit and the skins didn't crisp very well, so today, I tried them fried with extra virgin olive oil. And what a wonderful outcome I experienced!I had changed the recipe slightly as I ran out of meat and prawns in my refridgerator and

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It all started when I had a sudden craving for dumplings one fine day about two weeks ago, which happened to be sometime over the Chinese New Year 2008. The thought of how a big, juicy dumpling would burst in my mouth and tease my palate made me almost obsessed to re-create these here in Savannah, where good and authentic Chinese cuisine is almost impossible to find. So I think between 7 Feb 08 (

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This is an absolute winner, although I must say this dish takes a lot of preparation work unless you have an electric chopper to cut up all the vegetables in less than 5 minutes and an electric steamer or a really big 3-tier stove steamer to take on the cooking work. Otherwise, it's a lot of repetition work.The outcome is worth the trouble and the wait, for everyone will be so impressed with your

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Okay, remember the claypot chicken rice that was such an easy success? This one is for those of us who prefer to eat our chicken by the whole legs or thighs roasted a nice brown in the oven or under the grill. It might take longer, but the outcome is definitely worth waiting for. Basically, you cook everything the same, fusing all your ingredients together in your rice cooker: the ginger, garlic,

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This is definitely another one of those impress-your-mother-in-law dishes. First of all, it's got all those round, juicy, white scallops that all old folks know just how much you've spent to buy them. That makes them feel worthy of your honouring them with such money, and hence, important. Secondly, it's simply a tradional Chinese delicacy. Afterall, it's eaten at Chinese wedding dinners, Chinese

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I first heard of this recipe from Fang Tai off the television. She did it with oyster sauce and sprinkled it with crispy fried, bits of bacon. But Don and I experimented with this dish for a while and we modified it to our taste. It was one of the life savers that helped us shed more than 15 kg each about 5 years ago! And certainly everyone who had tasted it gave it the thumbs up. All the

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This dish, my father-in-law absolutely adore! When Don and I were just married, and I heard that my father-in-law loved to eat fish, I always made sure there was a fish dish on the table, whenever we had them over for dinner. But this particular recipe was special! When I first presented it on the table, I could see from their scrutinising faces that they didn't believe their daughter-in-law---

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Alright, it can't get any easier with this recipe. I first tried this when I was studying at the University of Manchester. As a student, you try to save as much money as you can, so food was normally rationed among the few of us who shared meals. And the ingredients to this dish is dirt cheap in UK. This dish is so easy to prepare, and so delicious, you'd always be ready to eat this. And it's got

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Personally, I always thought this was one of my best impress-your-mother-in-law recipes, apart from my claypot chicken rice concoction. It is so easy, you'll have it done within 40 minutes (including cleaning up time after cooking!) and everyone will think you're an amazing cook. I got the recipe from one of the mothers in the Manchester Chinese Christian Church when I was studying in Manchester

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