Category: 5 or less ingredients
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…
Congee (with preserved duck egg and ground pork)
With the weather turning cold, there is nothing that says comfort food than something warm and soupy. Congee is my ultimate comfort food when I’m feeling sick or when the weather is cold. This is also my go to food when I’m on my period because it’s warm and easy to make. The…
Honey French Toast
There is a famous bakery in London UK called Hachi and they make these really popular honey butter toast. I saw so many variations of the honey butter toast until I saw someone on Chinese social media decided to put a twist on french toast with honey. This honey french toast does not…
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…
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…
4 Ingredients Lemon Caramel Pudding
I wasn’t a fan of sweets when I was growing up. However, as I’ve grown older, I’ve developed a sweet tooth. It’s mainly stems from my love of baking. Although baking is a lot of fun, it can be tedious so I’m always on the lookout for easy desserts. This lemon caramel pudding…
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…
Steamed Egg Custard(鸡蛋羹)
Egg custard is a very common Chinese food. I remember having egg custard lot when I was younger. My mom would make this when I was a toddler because it was easy to digest, relatively easy to make and also great when I was sick. This steamed egg custard is similar to the…
