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
What do you do when your teenager has just had her braces tightened and chewing is a pain? Once a month I have to deal with this issue and it doesn’t help that kid #2 is not fond of rice porridge (which was how I survived as a metal-mouthed teenager). Most people from the West … More Mentaiko Tofu Gratin
I never used to like Korean food. Growing up in Singapore we used to have Seoul Gardens which was a rather tacky all-you-can-eat BBQ which was not that appealing. Then when I did my post-doc fellowship in Columbia U, I stayed in Fort Lee, which is pretty much a little New Jersey suburb full of … More Low Carb Korean Army Stew (Budae Jigae)
The quintessential Singapore breakfast “Economic Fried Beehoon with egg, sausage and luncheon meat”. Image credit: peepor.net I woke up this morning feeling hungry. Saturdays used to be my marketing/hawker food breakfast day but that hasn’t happened for a really long time. A typical cheap and quick breakfast would be the “Economic Fried Beehoon/noodles” that usually … More Low Carb Economic Breakfast Noodles
It’s really strange how some meals build from the bottom up. I’d got 2 MEGA bunches of enoki mushrooms (on offer) from NTUC Finest and for some reason, a garlicky enoki mushroom topping for a couple of rib-eye steaks somehow seemed to make a lot of sense. This would probably be a slightly Asian twist … More Rib-eye Steak and Enoki mushroom topping
I am a banana. I freely admit it. A “banana” in Singapore is a person who grew up speaking English in the home and probably struggles with compulsory Chinese language examinations in school. I am not only a banana, I have banana children (which makes us a bunch of suckers for paying through the nose … More Low Carb Ngoh Hiang (Chinese Meat Roll)
All right I give in. After I had posted about the bergedil recipe and had a couple of friends raving about Soto Ayam (apparently Bergedil should be eaten with Soto Ayam) I kept thinking about it and finally decided to make it! So my deep dark confession is that I am not that fond of … More Indonesian Soto Ayam
Still Feeling Peckish 