Re-entering the Kitchen: Tom Yum Soup with a Twist
It’s the weekend again! That means I have more time to do cooking at home :D I decided to give tom yum soup a shot after getting inspired by another local blogger. So it was to NTUC to shop for
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Re-entering the kitchen: Nikujaga
I felt like Linguini in Ratatouille when trying to cook Hannah’s and our dinner simultaneously tonight. The last thing I wanted was a messy kitchen with injuries and broken porcelain wares. I was browsing through the Internet for easy recipes
Re-entering the kitchen: Watercress Pork Ribs Soup
Hannah has better food while at her nanny’s place. Her nanny is a Cantonese and as many of us know, this dialect group is particular about their soup. Every meal must have a soup dish. I just got a recipe
Salvaging Coins
Lately, our 4 year-old Electrolux washing machine has not been as effective in removing dirt and grime from our clothes as before. So I took to checking the drain pump (that little squarish door at the bottom of the washing
My first home-made video for teaching Biology
Well, it’s official! I have made a biology video clip to demonstrate the action of semi-lunar valves in veins. And it is uploaded on YouTube! The 1.5 minute video clip took less than 30 minutes to prepare and produce. Owing
The sick and flu-lish
It has been two weeks and I’m still not recovered from this flu bug ravaging in me. I believe I got it from Hannah (from finishing the leftovers of her food). Then I passed it on to Yang when we
Mining for Gold in Sewage
Step aside Newater, gold is the in thing now. I was reading this interesting article about many (and wild) possibilities of making sewage useful. The world’s population produces around 1.2 billion tonnes of faeces and 15 hundred billion of urine per year.
Oh no no no no….
Toyota just unveiled their new hybrid luxury sedan called the ‘Sai’. The Hokkien in me bursts into laughter when I read about it on the papers. Would any self-respecting ‘towkay’ (boss in Hokkien) buy this car? ‘Sai’ in Hokkien means
Cooling the clean, convenient and cheapo way
Must be the global warming that’s making the days here in the tropics unbearable. I hope that more folks will do their part in cutting down the carbon emission. As for me, I make an effort to totally switch off
Catch Firefly
Yang and I have been watching every episode of Firefly together for the past few evenings when Hannah was napping. Truth to tell, I didn’t think much of it after watching its first episode. Thought the captain was boring to
Jia Xiang Mee
‘Jia xiang’ (Mandarin) is the equivalent of hometown, and ‘mee’ (Hokkian) means noodle. There you have it, a noodles’ dish from the hometown of Sarawak (Malaysia). Yang and I went down to Compass Point for dinner on Tuesday evening. There
Lentor's Kitchen – Claypot Rice
Claypot rice is one of Yang’s favourite dishes and we had one recently for dinner at his parents’ place (fondly called Lentor home). Traditionally, a claypot is used to cook this dish but Yang’s mom invented her own style to
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