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Hi hi, Many apologies for disappearing from the radar for so long, I have been too busy and have been neglecting this blog for the past 2 months. Hopefully I would be able to spare more time in the 2nd half of the year when everything has settled down... This coming Monday 23rd Jan is the 1st day of Chinese New Year (Year of the Dragon), I would like to wish everybody a very Happy Chinese New

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I still have half a kilo of butter sitting in my fridge which is expiring in 2 weeks' time, so the thought of making a butter cake or a marble cake immediately sprang to my mind. Making a marble cake was probably the fastest way (not necessarily the best way though, in terms of healthiness) to get rid of at least 250g of butter, I thought.  So here is a simple but delicious marble cake recipe

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I just came back a week ago from a 2-week home trip back to Singapore, that explains my absence for the past few weeks. Managed to squeeze in some time to meet up with a few friends and ex-colleagues and did some shopping for baking stuff from Phoon Huat. I tried to explore the new Circle Line but only went as far as Holland V.  I was pleasantly surprised to find a Phoon Huat branch outlet so

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Teochew Png Kueh 潮州饭桃 (peach shaped rice dumpling) is one of my favourite chinese kuehs. It usually comes in either pink or white and is always shaped as a peach. Do you know why? Legend has it that the Monkey God Sun Wu Kong (Journey to the West) stole and ate the peaches of immortality during the royal banquet held by the Jade Emperor in heaven. And he attained immortality after eating them.

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Orh Ni Gu, Kok Ka Nah. Chup Jee Hueh,  Cho Ah Mah. Ah Mah Terng, Ah Mah Teh, Ah Mah Tao Jiak Ang Ku Kueh. Ang Ku Kueh Sio Sio, Jiak Liao Tio Beh Pio. Tio Jip Bah, Hor Lang Pah. Tio Jip Cheng, Hor Lang Jeng. Ah Mah Kah Chng Ang Ang... Have you ever heard of this hokkien childhood rhyme about Ang Ku Kueh? I certainly wish that after eating my own ang ku kueh, I can also strike lottery just

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这是我的处女作，还不错吧? 猜猜看有几层? :p This cake or kueh/kuih has so many names, that I can't really decide what to put as the title of this post. This is officially a cake, because it has to be baked in the oven just like western cakes, but it also qualifies as a kueh/kuih, and its origins can be traced to colonial times in the Dutch East Indies. It is a special layered cake often baked during Hari Raya or

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I made Kuih Talam yesterday. Again, it was my first time making this kuih, although previously I had a little success making Kuih Seri Muka which is similar in nature. According to wikipedia, Kuih Talam (tray cake) is a kuih/kueh consisting of two layers. The top white layer is made from rice flour and coconut milk, while the bottom green layer is made from green pea flour and extract of

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Chinese New Year is still a long way to go, but don't you think these look like mandarin oranges? :) I still had 1 small piece of frozen pumpkin left after making my pumpkin huat kuehs 2 days ago. I saw this interesting recipe on another blog and decided to try it, since the ingredients looked simple and didn't require too much sugar. I have been trying to cut down the amount of sugar intake

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This is a very belated post about Dag van de Landbouw (Day of the Farmer) which took place in our village during the weekend of 24-25 Sep 2011, that was nearly 3 weeks ago. This event was held by the association of farmers in our village, and not just our village but many other villages in Belgium also held their own farmers' day during the 3rd week of September to showcase and exhibit the

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In a bid to clear off the pumpkins in my freezer (I regret not buying a bigger fridge earlier), I decided to make some pumpkin huat kueh today. Huat kueh (otherwise also known as huat kuih, fatt koh, fa gao or 发糕 in chinese) actually means prosperity cake or leavened cake since the word "fa" (发) means either to prosper or to raise/leaven. It is a steamed cake often offered to the gods (and also

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I thought of steaming a cake this afternoon, I have a whole stack of at least 20 cake recipes sitting in my laptop which I have bookmarked for trying. This is one of them. The result is very good, it is soft, fluffy and spongy, a little bit crumbly, just like how a steamed cake would taste like. Anybody who is well-acquainted with chinese steamed sponge cakes would know what I mean. :) Btw, I

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When I told my hubby that I was going to make a giraffe swiss roll, the first thing he asked was "Do you have live giraffe extract?" Huh? What do you mean? "Then you need to go to the zoo to collect urine and faeces..." Oh come on, use your imagination! Hubby was only convinced that I wasn't joking when I proudly showed him my completed masterpiece - my very first swiss roll and very first

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It was my first time making traditional malay/nonya kuih so I was pretty excited about it. I made this kuih 1 week ago, before my not-so-successful attempt at making onde onde. I love eating kuihs, there are so many different kinds, you have chinese kuihs, malay kuihs, peranakan or nonya kuihs. I tried to explain the meaning of kuihs to my belgian friends but it is really difficult to explain

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This is one of my favourite malay / nonya kuihs, it is called Onde Onde or Ondeh Ondeh. It is made of glutinous rice flour coated with shredded coconut and the filling is made of gula melaka or palm sugar. Today was my first time making onde onde (pronounced as on-nay on-nay) and honestly speaking, it was much more difficult than I thought. There were some hiccups along the way and I only

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Char Siew, Char Siu, Cha Shao, 叉烧, chinese barbeque meat or chinese roast pork - whatever you call it, it's still the same thing. The last time I attempted this was nearly a year ago in Sep 2010. I made the laughable mistake of buying the wrong cut of meat and my char siew turned out to look like THIS. Dun laugh, the taste was very good to say the least, if you disregard how it looked

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The weather in Belgium has been surprisingly good this week. It feels like summer again, warm and sunny, and you can hear birds chirping away. Though the days are getting shorter, still it is a good reprieve from the terribly wet and cold belgian summer that we have had this year. I thought I would make use of this last stretch of warm weather to make some bread. It is much easier and faster to

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I believe everyone of us has an innate ability to be a foodie, a food critic, or a gourmet /connoisseur, but not everybody can be a teacher who knows how to correct the frequently made mistakes of amateur home cooks.  SOS Piet is one of them, he is a very famous chef cum TV host who has his own cook show on belgian (flemish) television called SOS Piet, his real name being a bit tricky for my

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I cooked this Hokkien Pumpkin Rice on the same day that I made the Pumpkin Kaya Jam, but I only have the time to upload the fotos today. This is what I believe to be a very traditional hokkien household recipe just like cabbage rice. You will never see it served in any restaurants in Singapore or elsewhere, it is only served at home. Hokkien cuisine hails from the chinese province of Hokkien

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Yesterday I was struggling with the huge pumpkin the whole afternoon, and later busy whipping up fried pumpkin rice and at the same time cooking and stirring my pumpkin kaya jam, that I didn't have much time to snap some pictures of the pumpkin kaya jam. But here it is. I love it much more than the not-so-successful kaya jam which I made for my Old-school Kaya Buns. This is creamier, smells

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It's Autumn. 1st thing you notice is that the weather is turning colder, days are getting shorter, and leaves are either turning yellow or dropping like crazy. Last year, we enjoyed a modest harvest from our backyard, a total of 3 big pumpkins and 2 courgettes, not a bad start for a beginner. We didn't plant anything this year, except for beans, so nothing to show off. Thank god we didn't

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I am still in a reminiscent mood. After baking some Old-school Coconut Buns last week, I decided to make some kaya buns following a different recipe for the bread dough. And I call them Old-school Kaya Buns bcos you can only find them in old-fashioned bakeries in Singapore. I made the kaya (coconut egg jam) myself, using a fast-track play-cheat method via microwave. Most home-made kaya jams

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Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, also called Mooncake Festival or Lantern Festival, a festival traditionally celebrated by chinese people. I don't particularly love eating mooncakes, so I don't have any home-made mooncakes to show off (it's too much work anyway) but I loved carrying lanterns when I was young. I was hoping to buy some paper lanterns or some plastic battery-operated lanterns in

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Bloemencorso Loenhout 2011, a set on Flickr. We went to the Bloemencorso yesterday, the annual flower parade held in Loenhout every second sunday of September. Unfortunately the weather was not as good as Saturday where the temperature soared to 25 degrees celsius or higher. When I look at my photos taken for last year's bloemencorso, the weather seemed to be much better, at least you can

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Yesterday I cooked Vlaamse Stoverij again. It's been quite some time since I last cooked this dish, as our little boy has been eating dinner together with us since he started on solid foods and I have to be careful with cooking dishes that contain spices or alcohol, just in case he has any allergies that we are not aware of. I remembered the last time I cooked this beef stew, I used Maredsous

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I have been feeling very nostalgic nowadays, a feeling of nostalgia has suddenly crept over me without any forewarning. Anything that is old-school, anything that hails from my childhood days, anything that is from Singapore. And those sudden food-cravings, oh gosh, they drive me crazy.....cravings at 12 midnight of char kway teow, hainanese chicken rice, nasi lemak, coconut buns, char siew buns,

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I realize I have stopped my beer-spotting weekends for almost a year. So today I am gonna restart my engine. :) I am gonna talk, not about beer, but about a herbal liquor that I have been drinking for quite some time. I am not sure if anybody outside Belgium has ever heard of this liquor called Elixir d'Anvers? If you haven't, then let me tell you that this is one of my favourite drinks, really.

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I was looking high and low on the internet for a good recipe for making my own tau sar (豆沙) or red bean paste. Thought of doing a couple of things with tau sar, such as tau sar bao, mochi with red bean fillings and rice dumplings (tangyuan). Nowadays, even for simple things such as red bean paste, kaya, or char siew, I have to roll up my sleeves and make my own. It is kind of tedious to have

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I have been craving for red bean buns or tau sar pau recently so I decided to make some on Sunday. This time round, I ran out of bao flour, and had to make do with plain flour. The recipe didn't really indicate that I have to use bao flour, all it said is just flour, so I presume plain flour should be ok. But in the end, my buns turned out to be a bit yellow on the outside and more wrinkly (just

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I baked these mini apple pies on Sunday. This is my first time trying out this recipe and I really like it bcos it is quick and easy, and it contains only a bit of sugar and butter, the rest are all apples. Very healthy and completely guilt-free. :) Out of convenience for this recipe, I used a ready-made puff pastry bought from the supermart, but if you choose to make your own pie crust, you

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Recently I have been trying to make Tijgerbrood or Tigerbread, a type of bread very popular in Belgium and Netherlands, characterised by a layer of crunchy crust that looks like tiger strips. The secret behind the popularity of the tijgerbrood is in the crust. The crust is achieved by smearing a layer of rice-paste (we call it rijstpap in dutch) on top of the bread dough during the 2nd

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21 August 2011, is 'officially' the Cook-and-Share-a-Pot-of-Curry-Day in Singapore! For those who are wondering what the hell that is, this is actually a Facebook event initiated by a few fellow Singaporeans, who in their own words, wanted to "promote the message of Curry Cooking and let all natives and newly arrived immigrants understand the message of tolerance and appreciation of our

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Acar is quite a well-known condiment/appetizer with malay origins commonly found in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. When I was still living in Singapore, acar was one of my favourite malay dishes. I remembered my mum buying acar from a malay stall in the pasat or wet market, and it would never last long in the fridge cos it would be gobbled up in no time by all the kids. We would eat it with 

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I finally did it!!! Last night was my umpteenth attempt at making the famous Pandan Chiffon Cake. Being an overseas Singaporean, I have a constant craving for any food which is typically Singaporean or Malaysian. I had tried at least 3 times with different recipes in the past few years, and every time it was a flop. Ended up my 2 chickens had a great feast with what my hubby called the

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My hubby has been complaining that I have been making too many cookies of late and that his waistline is ballooning at a horrendous speed bcos of this. I chided him for eating too many potato chips and drinking too much belgian beer. But today I decided to listen to his complaints for once, and make something healthier. Nutty Fruity Muesli Bar, how about that? This is a pretty easy and

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I have a bottle of belgian chocolate droplets which is expiring and I decided to make some chocolate cookies after poring through one of the baking books which my sis bought for me from Taiwan. The book is called 孟老师的一百道手工饼干 (100 Handmade Cookies by Meng Laoshi)，it is a taiwanese chinese baking book which contains some very pretty illustrations of 100 cookies, with step by step detailed

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It's been a long while since I last posted something, was too busy and lazy lately. But I have not stopped trying out new recipes. Recently I tried making some steamed meat buns. I had a craving for buns or baos, especially char siew baos, but since I didnt have ready made char siew pork with me, I had to make do with making meat buns or meat baos instead. It was my first time making any kind of

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In a bid to finish off some of my Lipton Forest Fruit teabags (no, they are not expired yet), I decided to give this recipe a try. I personally prefer the previous Coconut Peach Muffin to this Milk Tea Muffin, but still it is a refreshing taste if you are a tea-drinker like me. Try it with earl grey teabags, I think it is worth a good try.   Recipe adapted from taiwanese recipe book 《孟老师的100

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I am currently into baking cookies and muffins and small cakes at the moment. Thanks to my newly acquired treasures, a series of 3 taiwanese baking books which my sister "painstakingly lugged all the way" from Taiwan to Singapore and I also "painstakingly lugged all the way" from Singapore to Belgium. Well the three books must have clocked a lot of mileage then.That is 3000 + 10500, oh my god,

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For the past 2 months, I have not been baking at all and I suddenly have a whole stockpile of baking supplies which have either expired or nearing their expiry dates. Raisins - expired 31 Dec 10. Dessicated coconut - expired 18 Feb 11. Dried apricots - expired 01 Feb 11. I still have flours and dark chocolate which are expiring in April. Gosh, what a waste to throw them all away. I have the bad

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Was on a binging trip to Bali (yes, I meant binge, eat until you drop), I love Indonesian food, kinda regretted not signing up for a balinese culinary course in Ubud. I can't stop raving about Bali and its food, so here I am again posting pictures of Balinese food which we have sampled, to whet everybody's appetite. Hopefully that will inspire me to create the same back home in Belgium :) Banana

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It's been a long hiatus and I haven't been posting anything for 3 months. I brought my laptop along on holiday but I never got around to using it, not for long at least. First it was my laptop keyboard which started popping out some keys so I was left with a few gaping holes in my keyboard, and then it was my adapter which refused to deliver electrical power and I had to wait 2 weeks for a

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Hi everybody, long time no see, I am back with some Chinese New Year goodies! It's indeed a long time since I last posted. This is my first post for the year 2011. CNY is just round the corner, and I finally mustered enough courage to try baking pineapple tarts, this will be the second time since I last attempted it during the last CNY. Here are my pineapple tarts. Literally head too big, body

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Happy New Year to everybody! Apologies for having not updated my blog for ages. Was busy with studies and falling sick and going on vacation and what nots...Here is a little dish to round up the year of 2010. Hope the year of 2011 will be a more fruitful year for myself and my family and for everybody out there :) And if you like the dishes I have so far posted on my blog, do leave me a comment.

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This bread is called American Butter Cheese Bread but I nicknamed it ABC bread, for the fun of it. I dun see anything american with this bread, actually I was very much tempted to call it BBC bread or Belgian Butter Cheese Bread. But since I didn't invent this, so it's better to stick to the shortform of its original name, ABC bread. I baked this bread last week when I was not so sick and I

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I have been sick for the longest time ever in my life. That explains my absence from my blog since I am too sick to even lift a finger to cook an omelette, let alone roll up my sleeves to hand-knead my bread. Since 28 October, I have been unofficially sick for 2 weeks, and officially sick for another 1 week. The 1st 2 weeks was just a slight cold or flu, then it was upgraded to a persistent

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I finally saw a ray of sunlight after a continuous downpour since last Thursday. Last Thursday (11 Nov) was a holiday here in Belgium. It was de Wapenstilstandsdag, which is meant to commemorate the end of the 1st World War. Hubby decided to take Friday off, so it was a long weekend for us, and we were contemplating to go to Bastogne to visit the war museum. Alas, it started to pour like nobody's

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I thought of posting some pictures on how to make lasagne step by step. It has been a regular dish for us during the past 2 years and I had actually posted the recipe when I first started my blog, without any photos of course. Lasagne may appear daunting to someone who has never attempted it before, but actually it is not that difficult provided you have the right ingredients and follow the

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I haven't been updating my blog for the past 1 week. I was busy preparing for my Dutch test held at the university earlier this week and then I caught a cold and just as I thought the first cold or flu was gone, now I am suffering from a second bout of flu. I am sure that they belong to different strains, one more serious than the other, and I am also quite sure that I caught it from my son who

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I baked this cake last sunday as I had a packet of yoghurt which was gonna expire soon and half a dozen of apples still sitting in my fridge. This recipe was courtesy of my cousin HC. Since she marked a star beside this recipe which she had painstakingly written down (together with a few others) in a little notepad for me when I visited her last CNY, I had to try out the recipe no matter what. It

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This week has been a week full of strikes. Not just in France but over here in Belgium as well. The people in France, especially the union folks were protesting over the government's attempt to raise the legal pension age to 62, they have boycotted the gasoline stations such that petrol and diesel have practically run dry all over the country, and French people are flocking to nearby Belgium to

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This is a recipe taken from the other Alex Goh book which I have, called Baking Code. This book focuses more on baking continental cakes, cheese cakes and plain cakes, but there is also a small section each on cookies, pastries and breads. I think "Baking Code" was published in May 2008, just a year before  "Magic Bread" was published in July 2009, hence there was no mentioning of the

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I made these buns yesterday, using Alex Goh's sweet bread dough recipe (see here for step-by-step instructions). Just prepare the sweet bread dough, divide the dough into pieces of about 80g each, mould them round and let them rest for 10 min. After 10 min, flatten each and roll it into swiss roll, and further proof for 45-60 min. Finally apply egg wash and sprinkle with some sesami seeds or

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I have been pretty busy lately with my studies, that explains why I have not been posting so diligently as before. I can only blog either mid-week or during the weekend. But this afternoon, I felt so over the moon after my first successful attempt at making my Sweet Potato Fa Gao (Sweet Potato Huat Kueh 番薯发糕） that I absolutely must blog about it. Chinese New Year is not here yet, but I am

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I have been eyeing this recipe for a long time. I saw this at Jane's blog and also at LCOM's blog. The recipe seems to have been floating around the blogosphere for a long time and has been receiving raving reviews, so I tried it yesterday. It was really good. BUT....my muffins didn't turn green. Well, I used pandan flavour essence instead of pandan paste, and it did not impart the greenish

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Two weeks ago, we invited a group of close friends to our house for dinner and a card game. Since I was supposed to cook for our guests, I quickly flipped through my recipe books and was thinking of cooking a signature chinese dish such as curry chicken or braised pork to impress the guests. However one of our guests has a food allergy. She can only eat fresh food which does not contain any

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I made this today after seeing the ingredients on Plumleaf's blog. She was so kind as to publish the ingredients on her blog even before her baking starts so that both of us can bake in tandem during the weekend. After the successful baking of the plain white loaf and earl grey milk tea loaf last Friday, thanks to Plumleaf, this time she will share her recipe on orange chocolate chip loaf while I

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My Philips cake-mixer broke down this morning in the middle of kneading dough. Luckily it had already kneaded to such a consistency that I could carry on with hand-kneading without the dough sticking all over my fingers. My poor cake-mixer must have worked itself too hard spinning breads since I caught the bread fever recently. I thought so too. It had served me well for the past 2 years since I

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Yesterday morning I woke up and found no bread left for me, all my butter sugar buns from the day before were gone.  Me: "what happened to my buns?" Hubby: "I only ate three." Me: "No, I asked you did you finish them all?" Hubby: "You had a lot yesterday, didn't you?" Me: "I made 13, grandpa and BB had 4 during lunch and you ate 2 before dinner, and there were 3 left for this morning. So I must

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This is my 3rd bread in a week. I just checked my supplies, alas my bread flour is running low. It used to be 5 kilos, now only 200g left. This goes to show that either I am making many breads or I have wasted a lot of flour, LOL. Luckily the sugar and eggs don't get depleted as quickly as the flour, and that is the reason I am so much into this bread-baking than cake-making recently.  Today I

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I made this traditional flemish carrot soup last week but forgot to post it until today. The word Flemish, is related to the the word Flanders. Flemish people are people living in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, whose native language is Dutch. In Wallonia, the southern part of Belgium, live the Walloons who speak only French. The capital Brussels, also the capital of Europe, is

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Yesterday was my first time making mantou (馒头） or chinese buns. I was doubting whether I should post such a ugly picture. Well, the purpose of this blog is not just to showcase how "well" I can cook or bake (note the inverted commas), it serves also to present some of my failures. Failures in baking, cooking or understanding instructions and of course taking pictures with my lousy camera. LOL.

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  I saw this on one of the chinese recipe magazines that my sister got for free in Singapore. I mean you have to buy it, it cost SGD5 or something but I think she got it for free. I am not sure if anybody has heard of it, it is called “色香味”。Anyway, there was an interesting recipe for "Indian Curry", contributed by a singaporean chinese lady married to a indian husband, and this recipe was from

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After my successful attempts at baking sandwich bread and sausage cheese bread last week, I decided to try a slightly more challenging recipe, more complicated in the sense that I would have to shape the dough in a certain way in order to make the ham and cheese bread. I did this last friday night, but was too busy during the weekend to upload the photos. The photos I took were not sharp as it

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I bought some cheddar cheese, wanting to bake a ham and cheese bun, but ended up doing something else, as usual. Actually I was pondering whether to bake a steamed cake or a cheddar cheese loaf, in the end I opted for the latter as I only had 4 eggs left which were just nice. This cheddar cheese loaf recipe had been sitting in a little notebook for a few months. It was a handwritten recipe

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I saw this recipe on Kellog's recipe website some time ago and I had always wanted to try it out one day. The original recipe was called "Spicy Crumbed Chicken Strips with Zesty Lemon Dip". I used mayonnaise in place of plain yoghurt for the dip, and hence the title "Spicy Crumbed Chicken Strips with Mayonnaise".  The ingredients are quite simple, and it is really easy to make the dish. A

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I hate to say this in case anybody thinks I am singing my own praises, but the sandwich bread I baked last night was really good. Finger-licking-good. Soft on the inside yet crunchy at the crust, and no preservatives, and it still tastes good this morning, as good as freshly baked from the bakery.  In my never-ending-quest for the best sandwich bread, I finally found the ultimate sandwich loaf

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We went to the Bloemencorso flower parade in Loenhout last Sunday (12 Sep). The Bloemencorso or flower parade is an annual event organized by Loenhout (a dutch-speaking village in Belgium which borders Netherlands), and has a long history dating back to the early 1950s. This was my third time attending the parade since 2008 but nevertheless I always look forward to this event and the huge and

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I was running low on my chinese cooking supplies recently. No more rice wine (绍兴酒), no more chinese sausages (腊肠), no more dried shrimps (虾米),  no more dried shiitake mushrooms (香菇). I thought of making fried rice but I had none of the above ingredients in store. In order to replenish those supplies, I would have to make a trip down to Antwerp Chinatown and it is so troublesome to find parking

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Yesterday I decided to bake the sweet bread dough again cos I realised I probably didn't do it entirely right the first time for my sausage cheese bread. The last time I made the sweet bread dough I made it without a full understanding of how it works. So I went back to the Magic Bread book by Alex Goh and read in his preface that his book primarily focussed on "gelatinized dough". According

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I didn't do my beer-spotting last weekend (as usual I was lazy) but I thought I would blog about a piece of interesting news which I heard over the belgian news about a famous belgian beer, Stella Artois. Apparently this news dated 8 Sep 2010, managed to escape the headlines of the major newspapers around the world, but it's still of journalistic value, at least to the beer-drinkers. Wait til you

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Pictures sometimes don't do justice to how good the dish tastes, especially badly taken pictures. I was browsing through my food blog and I saw one picture which was so badly taken that I would be surprised if it would actually tempt any reader to attempt that recipe. Yes, I am refering to the picture for this recipe. It didn't look appetizing, did it? How about these 2 new pictures then? I

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 炸酱面 (Zha Jiang Mian) is a typical northern chinese cuisine which was made popular in Singapore in recent years due to the new influx of Chinese immigrants from mainland China. The "native" Chinese (3rd and 4th generation) living in Singapore are mostly descendents of immigrants from the southern provinces of China, such as Hokkien, Teochew, Hainanese, Cantonese & Hakka people. As such, the

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This was the first time that I made such savoury bread. The result was surprisingly good, thanks to Alex Goh's sweet bread dough recipe. I took a bite of the bread while it was still piping hot from the oven and the verdict was simply delicious : it was soft, with a sweet undertone, plus a savoury taste of sausages and cheese. And the smell of fresh herbs was quite evident too. On hindsight, I

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I haven't baked any bread for nearly 2 months, today is the perfect day to make some sweet bread since we are having a sunny 24 degree weather. No clouds, no wind, this is the best time to let the dough proof outdoors. It may well be the last warm day in September, since tomorrow is forecasted to be stormy weather again, argh! :( Anyway back to my bread-making. I just made a sweet bread dough

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It's been a month since I last updated on the progress on my home-grown veggies. August has been a pretty wet and cold month as compared to July, so our veggies have been well-watered but the growth is a bit stunted due to the lack of sunlight. This is a typical belgian summer, so to speak. Remember the dying courgette plant which I wished R.I.P. ? Strange enough, another courgette has grown from

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  I still have 2 cucumbers given by Aunty Gaby last Saturday. Not knowing what to do with them, I flipped through some of my recipes and I chanced upon a simple acar recipe. Hmmn, looks easy enough to be whipped up in a couple of minutes.  Acar (or achar) is a salad dish typically found in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, especially among the Malay/Indonesian community. Being an ethnic Chinese

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My beer-spotting weekend post was put on a hiatus for the past few months, (after my first 2 posts on Postel and Westmalle Tripel),  largely due to plain laziness. In case anybody thinks my beer-spotting "adventures'' are just a flash in the pan, well here's some photos of what me and my hubby usually order in a cafe.  I always invariably order a Rodenbach. Women are boring and they don't change

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My hubby went to his aunty's place and came back with a big bag of tomatoes freshly plucked from her greenhouse. That's the problem with planting tomatoes, they all get harvested at the same time, and you end up with loads and loads of tomatoes, which is why she had to give some away. I felt the tomatoes one by one, and came to the conclusion that they are far too soft to be used for making

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I made this chilli prawn dish （辣椒虾）today, added some "ABC" extra-hot chilli sauce. It was so spicy that my hubby said he can literally spew fire. So we had a fire-spewing dragon at home! Guess it was too spicy for him, I personally felt that it was spicy too. But I only have 1 type of chilli sauce at home, and it happened to be "extra-hot", guess I should have reduced the chilli sauce and upped

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I just came back from a hectic 5-day trip to the city of lights, Paris. That explains my absence for a week. My ex-colleague, the "Ambitious Cloud" who came to visit us in Belgium and who accompanied us on the trip to Paris, reminded me that I have not posted my secret recipe for the claypot chicken rice which I cooked for her last Sunday. She wants to try the claypot rice when she returns to

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(This is a continuation from Part 1) I never realised that milk chocolate is so "unhealthy", or dark chocolate is so "healthy" until I went to the chocolate museum in Brugge. Well, everything is relative, isn't it? What is healthy to one, may be unhealthy to another and vice versa. But it is always useful to find out what you are actually eating. And after finding out, you will probably think

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We brought a friend to visit Brugge today. The past few days have been horribly wet and windy, a typical belgium summer, so to speak. So today's weather is a good change, sunny and albeit windy, but otherwise very good weather for a day trip. I have been to Brugge a few times, and this is at least the third time that I visit Brugge. For those who have not heard of or been to Brugge, Brugge is a

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Mothers' Day is traditionally celebrated on the 2nd Sunday of May, but here in Antwerp (only in Antwerp, not in other parts of Belgium), they celebrate Mothers' Day on 15 August.  Why? Because 15 August is the Day of the Assumption, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a day celebrating Mother Mary's being taken bodily to heaven at her death. It is a public holiday here in Belgium. Since

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I was wondering what I should do with the fresh rosemary in my garden, until I came across this recipe on rosemary drink. How interesting! Rosemary with lemon, honey and whisky in ice water plus lots of ice cubes....Very refreshing on a hot sunny day.... I got the recipe from here, it was written in Chinese, so here is the English translation. Enjoy :) 1 stalk of fresh rosemary1 tsp of lemon

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俗话说得好，还是自家种的菜好吃。As the saying goes, vegetables from your own garden taste the best. See the celeries on the left and the leeks on the right? This is our 1st year eating vegetables from our own backyard. Needless to say, I try to make sure that we make use of our home-grown vegetables as much as possible, in every single dish. So much so that my hubby assumes that whatever veggies that are served

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9 August is Singapore's National Day. Here is wishing Singapore a very Happy Birthday!!!  Let's celebrate Singapore's National Day with some freshly made strawberry mousse....yummy yummy. :) Recipe adapted from "Everybody Eats Well in Belgium" by Ruth Van Waerebeek INGREDIENTS (4 servings) 500g strawberries, hulled & sliced 2 tbsp granulated sugar 1 tbsp kirsch or Grand Marnier* 50g

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Yesterday I was forced to do something about the frozen rabbit in my freezer. I just bought 2 big packs of frozen chicken from ALDI and there was simply not enough space left in my fridge. Since the rabbit meat took up so much space, it had to make way for the chicken. So my rabbit chased away my chicken. And I reluctantly made a rabbit stew with my favourite Rodenbach beer and cherries (or

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I don't know what I am gonna call the dish that I just made. According to the recipe, it is called beef brisket. But honestly I have no idea what beef brisket is, let alone seen one. The meat that I am using is what I call stew meat. It may well be beef brisket, I don't know. Due to my bad command of Dutch, I generally leave the the grocery and marketing to experts and I just use whatever meat I

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I made a chicken stew today, a recipe adapted from Leong Yee Soo's "Best of Singapore Cooking" cookbook. It is interesting to note the ingredients and preparation method that she used in her cookbook. The preparation is always quite elaborate, add ingredients A, B, C, D and E...etc, and this level of details and elaborateness are quite typical for peranakan/straits chinese cooking. But the

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Last Thursday we went to Lillo, a tiny medieval village in Antwerp, next to the Schelde River. Lillo is really tiny, so tiny that I think there are more cafes than houses there. Lillo was famous because it used to be a fortress protecting Antwerp and the Schelde River from the Spaniards' invasion during the 1500s. The village was preserved and not torn down during the expansion of the Antwerp

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I first baked these cookies in late January just before Chinese New Year, when I wanted to bring some cookies back for my family in Singapore. So I found this recipe, had a try at it and gave some to my hubby, who in turn shared them with his colleagues at work. Then my hubby came back and told me that these almond cookies are what they called "amandelkoekjes" in Belgium. So it seems some

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It seemed ages since I last updated my blog. I have been MIA for 3 weeks or so, millions of apologies for my absence. I had enrolled myself for the Dutch Level 3 summer course at the university. It was really a super-ultra-intensive-brain-burning-kamikaze language crash course, they called it a "taalbad", meaning a "language bath". Yah, you either swim in it or sink in it. There were 3 weeks of

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We have had dry and hot weather for almost a week, without a single drop of rain until saturday night. This must be one of the best summers in Belgium, with temperatures soaring up to 36 degrees. I dunno whether I should feel happy or not. But we have not been able to sleep at night due to the hot and stifling weather. Turn on the air-con or the fan? No, we have neither. Installing air-con at

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Today, 11 July, is our wedding anniversary. I was having my breakfast alone in peace at 11.30 am (cos His Majesty has been escorted to church for mass) when I heard my doorbell ring. Strange, usually nobody would call us or visit us on a sunday unless it is pre-arranged. I opened the door and someone handed me a rose. A yellow rose. Luckily my dutch is good enough to understand what he said. The

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I made this chicken chop a few days ago, forgot to post it bcos I was too busy with my school work. Now here it is... For 3-4 persons, recipe adapted from Violet Fenying's old blog Ingredients A600g boneless, skinless chicken fillet Ingredients B 1 tsp salt1 tsp ground black pepper1 tsp dried rosemary Ingredients C1 tbsp honey1 tbsp light soya sauce1 tbsp lemon juice2 tbsp water Method1. Wash and

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We caught the Tour de France "live" in action on Sunday in Brasschaat, a belgian village not far from the Belgian-Dutch border. I am not a big fan of cycling and I have always wondered why people in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe are so crazy over wielrennen (speed cycling). All this fanfare and hoohah over the Tour de France was beyond my comprehension until Sunday. Now I can understand why so

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When we arrived back from our holiday in Spain last week, we were pleasantly surprised at the the tremendous progress which our vegetables had made during our absence. We had entrusted an elderly neighbour to look after our vegetable garden, to water the plants indoors and outdoors and to feed the chickens, and obviously she had done a excellent job. Even my 2 orchid plants blossomed under her

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Yesterday (2 July) was the hottest day I ever experienced in Belgium since 2008. The weatherman predicted it to be 36 degrees maximum in the kempen (countryside), but I actually captured 44 degrees on my thermometer at 5pm. It was unbelievable. Well, that was largely due to the fact that the thermometer was on a brick wall and the sun was shining right on it. Btw do you know what I did to reduce

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I am finally back in Belgium, after a super long and fantastic holiday in Spain. That explains why my blog has been quiet for so long. Actually I was back on 26th June (Sat) but after sitting for 14 hours in the car, as much as I missed my blog, email and FB, I was so tired I couldn't do anything else but head straight for the bed. And the next few days was spent unpacking and getting used to

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Updated on 17/09/10 with fotos of Tau You Bah cooked using fatty pork I have been cooking pork for 2 days in a row. This is quite rare, cos I have always preferred cooking chicken to pork. That's because I have more chicken recipes than pork recipes, hahaha. I often have to crack my head on how to cook pork. But I have a good recipe on hand today. Something I wanted to try for some time. Not

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