I haven’t made ice cream for a really long time. I have an amazing Cuisinart ice cream maker that has been a workhorse for many years. I think the problem was that I got quite busy and it was so much easier to grab a tub of Enlightened or Zilch at the supermarket. But lately, … More Pear Caramel Ice Cream
This week was rough. I was felled by a horrendous bout of food poisoning and the suspect food was homemade kimchi. This was a cautionary tale about doing home fermentation – obviously we grew E. coli rather than benign bacterial species. So anyway the tummy has been rather tender over the past week and no … More Teochew Scallop Porridge
So recently someone asked me for a brownie recipe and that made me pause…and scratch my head. I realised that I hadn’t made brownies in years! And it surprised me because brownies are actually one of the easiest things to make. In fact I think it was one of the first things I ever baked … More Low Carb Skillet Brownie
There’s been a hilarious train of failed bakes. In an attempt to stop kid#2 become a complete slug in the lockdown period, I tasked her to make some mug cakes and they came out…um…weird. Luckily the kids were hungry enough to finish them off. Then I got helper D to try out some keto hot … More Green Tea Cheesecake Bites
So Singapore announced a partial lockdown for Tuesday. What completely confused me was the number of people who went out and congregated in advance of the lockdown! I saw people posting their “last” favorite meals, and inexplicably there was a snaking queue outside IKEA. What furniture you need for a lockdown I have seriously no … More Homemade Bento Bowl
So it’s happening soon. The dreaded lockdown. Although it’s not called a lockdown here, it’s a circuit breaker. A (hopefully) limited shutdown or reset of the system. So schools and non-essential businesses will be closed till the end of April. Of course working in healthcare means that I don’t get to work from home, but … More Fish Zoodle Soup
Social distancing measures have been up scaled in Singapore. Thanks to a large number of Singaporeans returning from US, UK and Europe, Singapore is now facing the second wave of Covid19 cases. Which is hard because we were cruising at 10-20 new cases a day for a month and this has jumped to 50-70 new … More Goat Cheese and Zucchini Frittata
I think we are due a mini-celebration. It’s just past a month since Singapore went DORSCON (Disease Outbreak Response System Condition) Orange. Today our Covid19 positive number is 178, and no deaths yet. It is no mean feat given the amount of contact tracing (yes, the police were involved in this and obviously were better … More Spicy Salami Chips
I have a problem with watching Korean movies. Most of the time I end up with a deep craving for some kind of ramen or jigae after watching the actors slurping down the food. I recently watched Parasite, Bong Joon Ho’s 4 Oscar winning movie. Most of the time, truth to tell, I catch up … More Low Carb “Ramdon”
I’m not used to being at a loose end. With Singapore at Dorscon Orange because of Covid19, my leave has been cancelled, travel curtailed and a whole swath of events wiped off my calendar. And though we still run clinics, numbers are down as patients stay away from the hospitals. This is the first time … More Low Carb Matcha Financiers
Still Feeling Peckish 