“Why can’t you help out more with the housework?” I screamed at my husband early on Saturday. I must have shocked him at six in the morning but I was tired and grumpy and the dogs were whimpering for a walk and I wanted him, for once, to take care of it. “Where is this [...]
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Onion, Feta and Ricotta Spanakopita (How to get your husband to do housework)
Posted in Bake, Cook, tagged braised onion, feta, food, greek food, greek pie, leeks, onion pie, recipe, recipes, ricotta, shallots, spanakopita, tart on March 6, 2011 | 34 Comments »
How to Cure a Dumpling Addiction: Crystal Prawn Dumplings (Har-Gow) with XO Sauce
Posted in Cook, tagged asian, chinese, chinese cuisine, crystal steamed, dimsum, dumplings, food, gar gau, har gow, prawns, recipe, steamed dumpling, yum cha on February 27, 2011 | 45 Comments »
A year ago I attempted to make har gow and failed miserably. It might have been because I used wheat flour instead of wheat starch and the resulting dough was so sticky that I had to throw the “ball of glue” away. The experience was enough to turn me away from trying to make them [...]
Pancit Palabok (Philippine Style Noodles in a Prawn Gravy)
Posted in Cook, tagged bihon, chicharon, filipino food, food, noodles, pancit, pancit luglug, pancit palabok, philippine cuisine, prawns, recipes, shrimp gravy on February 22, 2011 | 43 Comments »
Sometimes desperation drives us to do things we normally wouldn’t do in the right frame of mind. A few months ago our bedroom door got stuck shut and I couldn’t enter the room. I asked my husband to try and open the door but he couldn’t. “What about using a screwdriver?” I asked him. After [...]
Vegetable Cake… Would Julia Like It?
Posted in Bake, tagged broccoli, cake, carrots, custard, easy recipes, eggs, food, Julia Child, mushrooms, recipes, salad, vegetable cake, Vegetable Gateau, vegetarian on February 13, 2011 | 35 Comments »
Dinner parties hosted by my family are a curious thing. I grew up with a Mom who prepared for them with the same enthusiasm that sportsmen would train for the Olympics. She would spend weeks planning and revising elaborate menus with no less than six or seven courses to be served. Because we had a [...]
Guest Post: Orange Passionfruit Curd Mini Tarts from 6Bittersweets
Posted in Bake, tagged 6bittersweets blog, dessert, food, mini tarts, orange, passionfruit, recipes, sweets on February 3, 2011 | 29 Comments »
You would agree with me when I say that you can tell a lot about a person just by looking at the food they post on their blog. Right? Well, today I’m going to introduce you to Xiaolu from 6 Bittersweets blog. First she’s extremely talented. I can’t even begin to tell you about how [...]
Homemade Prawn Balls
Posted in Cook, tagged asian food, food, prawn balls, prawns, recipe, seafood, shrimp balls on January 30, 2011 | 32 Comments »
I think that at some point in time, most of us have openly defied our parents. When I was growing up I had friends who would skip school, or go out with boys their parents banned them from seeing. Some of them take up drinking and go out past their curfews. Me? My form of [...]
Chinese Style (Fragrant Braised) Peanuts For Chinese New Year
Posted in Cook, tagged braised peanuts, chinese food, chinese new year, food, fragrant braised, nuts, peanuts, recipes, red braised, snacks, soy on January 27, 2011 | 27 Comments »
Is January really almost gone? I really thought that things would slow down after the Christmas holidays but oh how wrong I was! With the new job, days have gone by in a blur. Most of the time I’m meeting new people, learning new systems, products and before I know it, it’s past seven or [...]
Cocido Madrileño for Kulinarya Cooking Club
Posted in Cook, El Comedor, tagged cocido, cocido madrileno, food, la bola, main, meats, recipes, soup, spanish food, vegetables on January 23, 2011 | 34 Comments »
I’ll be honest, it was a bit of a struggle to come up with a “dish that I would most like to have for my birthday” for this month’s Kulinarya Cooking Club challenge. I have been so busy with the new job and getting everything ready for the sale of our old house, I hardly [...]
Quail Scotch Eggs
Posted in Cook, tagged appetizer, food, party food, quail eggs, recipes, sausage, scotch eggs on January 19, 2011 | 32 Comments »
I was introduced to Scotch Eggs by Rie, a dear family friend. I met her through my older sister who was in the same mother’s group and over the years we’ve come to think of her as a sister too. She took the scotch eggs to a dinner hosted by my sister one night [...]
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