Category: Preserved

Homemade Chili Sauce (Spicy!)

When I was in university, I lived with a Taiwanese lady who married an Indonesian man and subsequently lived in Indonesia for many years. She would make me a lot of delicious and spicy food from Indonesia. She also has this homemade chili sauce that she made by her self. While I forgot…

Vietnamese Salt Preserved Lemons (Chanh Muối)

Recently I’ve discovered a new drink. It was at a Vietnamese restaurant and they had a drink called Salty Lemonades. I ordered it and it was delicious. Lemonades are a quintessential summer drink. I was never a big fan of it until I tried a salty lemonade at a Vietnamese restaurant. I know…

Easy Homemade Peach Jam

Summer is when a lot of fruits come into season. I always associate watermelon with summer but one of the fruits I always forgets are peaches. Peaches are most abundant in the summer. In order to take advantage of the summer, I decided to make some recipes using peaches. This first recipe I…

Easy Watermelon Kimchi

Summer is almost over (sad face). For me, summer is the abundance of watermelon. When I was young I remember having so many watermelon in the summer time that we were eating a watermelon per week. To this day, I love having watermelon in the summer time. The way I eat it is…

Easy Vietnamese pickles (Đồ Chua)

Welcome to my first post on my blog! I thought I should start off with something easy. I’ve recently moved into our new home and I’m excited to start cooking again. For the past 6 months we have been living at our respective parents’ place so we haven’t got the itch to cook…