Category: Favourite
Dark Chocolate Brownie bark
With the holidays coming up, there will be a lot of gathering within families and friends. When there is gathering, food will always be involved. Sometimes it’s hard to think about what to bring to the gathering. Recently I’ve scrolling through social media and there was brownie bark that was trending. I decided…
Homemade Rice cake
I’m a lover of rice cake. I think it’s influenced by my grandma. She loved anything chewy and she loved rice cake. While I can find rice cake at my local Asian Grocery store or Korean supermarket, there is something so satisfying making it at home. I feel a sense of accomplishment making…
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…
Wintermelon Pork Meatball Soup (冬瓜肉丸汤)
When I was growing up, my mom would always cook one soup plus a couple of stir fry veggies for dinner. This wintermelon pork meatball soup is often on our dinner table. This soup is incredibly easy to make and I can see why my mom made this growing up. The taste is…
Scallion oil noodles
A Shanghainese noodle noodle dish. It’s simple to make on the weekday and perfect in making larger batches for family. It can be stored up to a week if needed.
Pumpkin Basque cheesecake
I love fall weather. While it was quite warm in September in Ontario, October has been cooling down. This means I can pull out my sweaters for the fall. With fall reaching its peak, I’m reminded of the fall colours and foods associated with fall especially for Thanksgiving. In the past, I’ve always…
Chinese Ice Cream Cheese Pudding (冰酥酪)
Chinese Ice cream cheese pudding is probably something you never heard of. This is also not something you will find in many Asian dessert shops. This particular dessert is found in Chinese Literature and TV shows. It first appeared in Dream of the Red Chamber and also in Story of Minglan (Novel and…
Pan Fried Rice cake with Brown Sugar Syrup
If it is one thing I love then it has to be rice cakes. I love mochi as I love pretty much anything with a chewy texture. The fact that this simple pan fried rice cake recipe has chewy, slightly sweet and only needs 4 ingredients means I can make it all the…
Easy Noodle Soup
The past week or so, my husband and I have been under the weather. We had a couple of weddings back to back and with the temperature dropping suddenly, I wasn’t prepared for it. So I got a cold and subsequently passed it onto my husband. With both of us sick we are…
Modified Hainanese Chicken Rice
Growing up my mom would cook a lot of Chinese food that she grew up eating, which is mostly Northern China food. It wasn’t until I moved away to college that I became exposed to other Asian food from different countries. During my second to fourth year in university, I lived with a…
