They also make beautifully crafted mooncakes with puff pastry, and the entire mooncake will melt in your mouth. Recent years, the Snowy mooncake has become really popular. The pastry is made with sticky-rice powder, so have a beautiful half-tone effect. My favorite kind of mooncake looks ...
By now, you will notice that Kuih Bakul, otherwise known as Nian Gao, can be easily found at most supermarkets in Malaysia. That can only mean one thing… Chinese New Year is almost here!! Usually, we get ours at the supermarket and the reason is that we only buy one. The family ...
One of the best meals I’ve had in Thailand was an incredibly spicy buffalo massaman curry which I still dream about to this day! 3. Tom Yum Soup This for me is the soup of all soups! It is the perfect rainy day comfort food and is delicious on every level. ...
2010: Having created the popular week-in-the-life series, I’ve not yet written about a week in my own full-time traveling life. The week profiled here is far from my average week, but was enough of a full-on adventure that I thought you might enjoy it. As a quick introduction,...
Cooking at home is not new for the frugal crew, but cooking at home during a pandemic is a slightly different proposal. Many of us aren’t going to the grocery store as often as we did in the Before Times, some ingredients can’t be found on the shelves, and many folks are looking...
Then add the flour, baking powder and vanilla extract, mix well until combined (you might need to add a bit more flour at this stage, if the dough is too wet, but it should be sticky anyway). In a small pan heat up the vegetable oil until the small bubble start to appear, then ...
Bought a small one for the first time in a Chinese grocery store to try. doing this with different veggies...no cooking needed...suits me fine...my wife must watch her potassium intake so, please, what is the level of potassium?? By...
The recipe went on about cooking the chops on the grill but if you are lucky like I am all you have to do is hand them off to your husband, the Grill Master. Thank you Chris. And that Quinoa Salad is from Food and Wine. Yum! Ingredients- 1/2 pound sugar snap peas 1...
-medicines as well as we don’t read chinese and can’t figure basic ones without a prescription -baking supplies (can’t find them here or they’re super expensive – lye water,baking powder, dutch cocoa) MM, you made me realize i hadn’t had guava jelly in a long time… will have...