It has been a rather harrowing couple of days on service, having to break bad news to several families and not just having to manage the kids’ illnesses but the roller coaster of their parents’ emotions. Days like this I feel like I’ve been through an emotional wringer and it does take time to get … More Ribeye Roast with Chimichurri Sauce
I have shared before that I am not terribly fond of Malay noodles like mee rebus and mee siam. However, I make an exception for dry mee siam, which I believe has Nonya or Peranakan roots. The Peranakans were Chinese immigrants who settled in the Malay archipelago in the 15th – 17th centuries, intermarrying with local Malays, … More Low Carb Dry “Mee Siam” Recipe
I know that this is an Asian food blog but the secret is that I’ve always been much more comfortable cooking Western dishes. Asian cooking for me is like being the one-armed swordsman who had to relearn his whole martial arts fighting style. Or like learning to write with my non-dominant hand. I remember … More Low Carb Chicken Pot Pie
Growing up in Asia I think I didn’t really eat that much cake. Firstly, our typical Chinese home dinners would usually end with fresh cut fruits, and Chinese dinners in the 70s (oops, that dates me) would typically end off with a sweet dessert like almond jelly or at best a kind of Chinese … More Low Carb New York Cheesecake
Why is it so difficult to get kids to eat their greens? For the longest time the only vegetable kid #2 would eat was broccoli. And it’s not like hubs and I don’t set an example of eating our veggies! In fact being on a low carb diet, one tends to take more vegetables as … More Low Carb Creamed Spinach
This is a really quick recipe today. Yesterday when I went to the market the fishmonger looked really surprised that I was only getting 500g of clams, which was actually all I needed for my Low Carb Hokkien Prawn Mee recipe. Sucker that I was I ended up buying 1 kg of clams which left … More Sake Steamed Clams
I grew up with food allergies. I remember distinctly breaking out in hives as a small child after eating prawns. Not unsurprisingly, both my kids developed food allergies as well in infancy. Kid#1 started out with massive hives with a tiny exposure to cow’s milk in a teeny bite of baby biscuit. Later testing … More Low Carb Hokkien Prawn Mee (Noodles)
I actually met my husband over a dead body. To this day my teenage daughter can’t quite believe the story, but the truth is not that surprising given that we were both medical students having to deal with dissection of cadavers for anatomy class. Hubs was a senior, hanging around the year 1 class, probably … More Low Carb Zha Jiang Mian (Chinese Minced Meat Noodles)
Cravings are a hard thing to explain. It is amazing how small stimuli can trigger off memories and a hankering to relive experiences. After going to Osaka last month, I haven’t been able to stop thinking of okonomiyaki, which is a kind of Japanese pancake and common street food. In fact a busy okonomiyaki stall … More Low Carb Okonomiyaki (Japanese Savoury Pancake)
So still on the theme of a soft diet, mainly for the benefit of kid#2 who has difficulties chewing after her braces are tightened. Also FIL often has root canal issues and keeps a stash of baby food in his study! Intrinsic to a soft diet is the impression that a soft diet is bland … More Low Carb Shepherd’s (or Cottage) Pie
Still Feeling Peckish 