This no added sugar agar agar jelly recipe is literally the world’s easiest and healthiest dessert recipe: simply replace water with coconut water when making agar agar and, voila, you have a refreshing dessert/ snack that is full of fibre and perfect for a hot day! Coconut water is naturally sweet so you can get…
Kaffir lime is grown primarily for its leaves, but its fruit can be used too! (Be warned, they are very, very sour.) In fact, if you want to cook with the kaffir lime fruit, it’s worth growing the plant at home, as the fruits are not readily available in the supermarkets. They don’t have much…
On busy days, I like to make roast chicken- it’s an easy 1-pot meal as I just chop root vegetables and pop them into the oven at the same time as the chicken. (Usually I put the veggies under the chicken so that they get the benefit of the delicious chicken juices.) Actually, it’s a…
Noodles are ubiquitous in Singapore- we have economic noodles for breakfast (dry fried thin rice vermicelli), stir-fried white bihun (also known as mee hoon or bee hoon) with a little gravy, mee goreng, bi hun soup (this coconut chicken broth makes a great bihun soup base) and many others. One of my favourites to cook…
What is tamarind? Growing up in Singapore, tamarind, or assam jawa as we call it locally, was used in many dishes so I was rather surprised to learn that this fruit actually originates from Africa! Unfortunately, none of my fellow bloggers contributed an African tamarind recipe, but if you know ways to cook tamarind African-style,…
In my non-food blog life, I’m a big vintage fan- in fact, I used to sell vintage on Etsy before the fees got so expensive! I particularly enjoy reading vintage cookbooks and seeing how cooking has changed over the years- I grew up being told msg is bad for one’s health (80s and 90s) and…
The key to making really, really good traditional Singaporean street food is to use homemade pork lard- it gives the dishes an incredible flavour that oil just can’t replicate! Although you can buy ready made pork lard in some supermarkets, I prefer to use homemade pork lard and lardons in my cooking and baking because…
