Category: Vegetable

Homemade Hot and Sour soup

Growing up, hot and sour was my favourite soup. My mom used to buy these hot and sour soup mixes and I would boil hot water, add in powder and a beaten egg. It was a quick and easy soup. This homemade hot and sour soup has all the flavours I love, the…

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 (葱油拌面)

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.

Zucchini Pancakes

Growing up, my mom would cook most veggies as a stir fry because it was the easiest thing to do. However, sometimes she would choose to make pancakes with them. The two most cooked vegetable pancakes my mom cooked were celery leaves pancake and zucchini pancakes. My mom’s recipe for zucchini pancakes were…

Kimbap (Homemade Korean rice roll)

I’m a Korean drama fan, I used to binge watch Korean drama in my high school and university days. I also would study while watching Korean drama. Definitely don’t recommend, but I survived. I was obsessed with Korean food and I also watched a lot of Maangchi videos for Korean food. I loved…

Braised Eggplant with Tomatoes

Braised eggplant with tomatoes is one of my favourite dish that my mom used to make. This dish has a slight tangy taste that is very addicting with rice. My mom actually taught me this recipe when I moved out and it’s one of the dishes that I now cook quite often in…

Pumpkin Pancake (南瓜饼)

Pumpkin pancake is one of my favourite dessert. It can be easily made and stored to be eaten at a later time. While pumpkin is more available in the Autumn, if you are able to buy in year round, you can make this anytime. It has natural sweetness so you don’t need to…

Homemade Red Bean Paste (using a rice cooker)

I had been on vacation in UK the last two weeks. It was a much needed break. Now that I’m back, I want to start off with an easy recipe that is a staple for many East Asian desserts. I like making Asian desserts because it’s less sweet for me and it doesn’t…

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…