I feel like pumpkin today
Whenever I browse at the fresh produce section of local supermarkets, I often wonder “What dish uses this vegetable?” or “What an unusual root (or fruit)! How does one cook it?”. I grew up eating hardly any pumpkin at all.
Category: At Home
Walk, walk, walk, walk in delight…
Dearest recently suggested that a brisk walk to Compass Point or Hougang Mall for a meal would be good exercise rather than driving. I was excited. This is definitely healthy living. In addition, the impact on the knees caused by
“Oi dearest; out of tune lah! (II)”
Seeing that Ling’s shared about her experience of learning music, I figured I should put my take on it too. Perfect pitch, or absolute pitch, basically refers to the ability to tell a note without a reference note first. So
“Oi dearest; out of tune lah!”
I’ll just keep on humming. With his rare gift of perfect pitch, Yang would often just snort “out of tune” from under his breath. I have long come to accept the truth about my musical nature; me = nothing very
A Good Buy
As much as he tried to play it down, I know that darling was very happy with our latest acquisition. A colleague saw our new car and told me that she, too, had placed an order for Nissan Latio just
Chilli Burns
It is no joke to be burned by a tiny, red fruit – the chilli padi. It happened to me on one of those days when all the hard work poured into cooking turned out disastrous. Yeah. I was into
What to do with excess, over-ripen bananas?
Yang can attest that when it comes to buying groceries, I tend to over-estimate or ‘over-buy’. Of course, my rationale is “What if the thing I need turns out to be insufficient, dear?”. Then we would fuss over the item
Cotton Soft Japanese Cheese Cake
I have been trying out cheese cake recipes lately. I prefer those lighter versions while Yang likes the heavier, creamier types. I found a very good recipe for the cotton soft Japanese cheese cake from this website. I followed the
Laaaatiooooo…..Ooo, hot hot…
Yang’s side of the family has been commenting that it is about time we change to a new car before our current Honda Civic depreciates drastically, especially after 5 years. So I have been bugging darling dearest on the subject
A Fruitful Friday
As the day after National Day (9th Aug, Thur) was a school holiday, all primary, secondary and junior college students and teachers in Singapore enjoyed a long weekend. I had spent my Friday well as many items on my ‘to
Porridge 101
Sweet potato porridge @ Home Well, this entry should be flagged “by demand”.:) Seriously, as what Ling told me the other day, sweet potato porridge is known here in Singapore as a “poor man’s food”, largely because of the very
I'm into baking, yep
I’ve been into baking muffins and butter cake over the past month I didn’t know that baking muffins can be so easy until my colleague who’s expert at baking share her recipe with me. My first attempt at blueberry muffins
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