Food experiments from my little kitchen

Preparing weekday dinners sometimes can be quite tiring. It is especially for me who is working part time in the afternoon. I have only got a few hours after sending my son to childcare then rushing to market to buy groceries before heading home to prepare dinner. Chicken stew is one of my favourite dish to cook on days that I totally ran out of ideas or having not much time to cook! Because this stew is sweetened with honey, my picky son absolutely loves it. ^^b Chanced upon this wonderful food blogger on YouTube for her Korean chicken stew - Maangchi. *strongly recommended* I love watching her videos to learn cooking. She makes cooking seemed so fun and easy! Video linked here for your reference. :) https://youtu.be/I16AwkdIZOw Adapted from: Maangchi's Korean chicken stew Ingredients Chicken wings / fillet Potatoes Carrot Bunashimeiji mushrooms Korean glass noodles Sesame seeds Spring onions Soy sauce Oyster sauce Honey Garlic Recipe 1. Heat up some oil...

Saturday is usually a no-cooking day for me but sometimes I do prepare porridge for simple lunch. Happened to have some leftover wild yam and carrots so decided to put them into the porridge. Wild yam is also known as 淮山(huai shan) in Chinese. To read up on its medical benefits, you can check out this website. http://chinese.herbs.webs-sg.com/articles_30.html Fresh ones can be found in both supermarket and wet market. The ones sold in supermarket comes from China but I think the ones from the wet market are from Japan. It is recommended to wear gloves when you peel off the skin as it has a slimy mucous film which can cause your hands to itch. I did that initially but as I cook it more often, I chose to process it quickly before washing my hands. This recipe is friendly for toddlers. My poor husband who was suffering from sore throat gave thumbs up for this soothing porridge!  Ingredients Wild yam Carrot Minced meat Spring onions Rice Sesame oil Soya sauce Pepp...

Lotus root is a common ingredient found in the wet market and usually comes covered in mud or pre-cleaned. I would usually choose the cleaned ones as I find it troublesome to wash off the mud. I love to cook it in soup with pork ribs and a handful of peanuts. One day, I saw on the Facebook cooking group with members sharing their different ways of cooking lotus root and got inspired to try out a new way of cooking! Then I got the idea to try stir fry lotus root with what I had in my fridge. Love the crunchiness of lotus root in this dish!  Ingredients Lotus root Egg tofu Dried shitake mushrooms Capsicums (red, yellow and green) Garlic Oyster sauce Soya sauce Sugar Recipe 1. Cut lotus root into thin slices and soak in vinegar solution to prevent it from darkening. Soak the dried mushrooms in water till fully constituted. Cut the capsicums into small cubes and egg tofu into pieces. 2. Pan fry the egg tofu on each side for 2-3 minutes in a saucepan till it is...

I started blogging 11 years ago and stopped after I started working. Looking back, those were the carefree days posting about my boring studying days. Never imagine that I would pick up blogging again after so many years and now I have been promoted to "mummy" status. The idea of starting a blog was actually suggested by my good friends as I have posted many of my cooking experiments on Facebook. Why not, have a place to record down the recipes? It will be great to share with others what I have cooked as I have also benefited from many online cooking blogs. I hope this will be a nice little place full of my kitchen memories when I look back another 10 years later. *Stay tuned* :)