Coconut Candy – Malaysian Style

  One of my regrets in life is introducing my kids to Malaysian food. I’d be asked to do Otak-otak, Satay, Kaya, Pork Vindaloo or Chicken Rendang. This time it was Coconut candy. The coconut candy is casually referred to as candy in Malaysia. The time and the effort it takes to prepare this recipe
Tagged under: ,

Buttermilk lettuce soup

Ingredients: 1 litre buttermilk 1 Romaine lettuce diced I onion diced 1 carrot diced 1 tbls flour 1 big piece of bacon chopped 1 tbls oil salt and pepper vinegar to serve   Method: Step 1 On medium heat add 1 tbls of oil into a hot pot and fry the bacon. When the bacon
Tagged under:

Works every time!

  Chicken soup that works.   Ingredients: 4 cups chicken stock 1 potato peeled and sliced to 1/8 inch thickness 1 tomato skinned and diced 3 clove garlic 2” ginger sliced 5 cloves 1/2  tbls thyme 10 black peppercorns 3 tsp salt 1 spoon white rice washed   Method: Place all ingredients into a pot
Tagged under:

Midnight Nibblies

Ingredients: 4 cups flour 2 1/2 cups small oatmeal 5 tbls Horlicks 5 tbls Nestum
 cereal 3 tsp baking powder 4 cups demerara sugar
 (don’t go easy on the sugar) 3 cups butter melted
 (measure and pack it down before melting) 4 eggs 1/2 tsp salt 1 1/2 cups chopped nuts – almonds, walnuts, hazelnut
Tagged under: ,

The bloody entity

  Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. So I thought I’d share a spooky story I heard as a child growing up in Malaysia. Horror stories are not my forte but here goes.     Listen carefully. What I am about to tell you really happened to my aunt’s neighbor. My aunt lives in
Tagged under: ,

Lovage and Tarragon

  Lovage The almost forgotten and underused aromatic herbs!   Why wouldn’t an herb enthusiast or a vegetable gardener not grow these herbs in their garden? They are’nt an evasive species. They stay put. And a little is all that is needed to spruce up a soup or a potato dish. Lovage’s only crime is
Tagged under:

Garden Tool Basket

  A garden basket Do you constantly find yourself strolling along your garden admiring all your hard work? Just when you were about to take a mental picture of a bouquet of flowers you notice the bouquet needs deadheading.   If only you’ve had that gardening gloves and pruner handy.   I’m one of those
Tagged under: , , ,

Scribble a silly sentence and watch writer’s block disappear.

                  Ever had writer’s block for the longest time? Started pppppppppresing the letters on the keyboard and deleting them one at a time? “I don’t know what to write. I don’t feel like writing?” Some people have their own remedy for curing writer’s block.   We are

How to save money and avoid landfills?

The Artist’s Paint Cart                         Has your creativity heightened from a necessity or desperation? Imagine if you could take an old item and turn it into a reusable new furniture. It happened to me on Saturday; the result, a paint cart. For the longest

How I made my book trailer for $5.

The first signs of spring     I like to keep up with the times and I’m all for new things and positive changes as such, when I heard of book trailers I  couldn’t wait to do one myself. I have the ability to learn anything and surely I can do it myself.  However, there
Tagged under: