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Thrifty Tip: Make Your Own Breadcrumbs 28 Feb 2013 | 06:26 pm
When I bake banana bread, I’m so eager to slice the end off and chomp down that barely five minutes passes from oven to mouth. And I have my red, sore fingers to prove it. Sweet and chewy on one side,...
Black Sesame Ice Cream and a Cookbook Giveaway 23 Feb 2013 | 12:19 am
Have you ever been struck by an incessant food craving that just won’t go away? (No, this has nothing to do with pregnancy.) It’s kinda like an earworm (click here for more info about this wonderful n...
Egg Rolls and Gold Bars 15 Feb 2013 | 12:37 am
The Lunar New Year celebration lasts 15 days so there’s still plenty of time to eat your fill of lucky and auspicious foods for a prosperous year ahead. Egg rolls (also called fried spring rolls) are ...
Indonesian-Style Pineapple Tarts for Chinese New Year! 7 Feb 2013 | 05:35 am
The snake may not be my favorite animal but I just learned a very interesting factoid about the Year of the Snake which starts this Sunday, February 10, 2013. Just as a snake sheds its skin, this is a...
Teach Your Kids to Love Whole Grains With Jabgok-Bap (Korean Mixed Grain Rice) 16 Jan 2013 | 11:09 pm
“At least half the grains you eat should come from whole grain sources.” I’ve heard this mantra so many times it’s beginning to play in my head like a broken record. I find it hard enough to abide by ...
Choose Love … and a How-To for Vietnamese Fresh Spring Rolls 11 Jan 2013 | 11:11 pm
Choose love. These two simple words have been on my mind since they popped out at me from a friend’s Facebook post a few weeks ago. She was recapping her past year and she ended her reflection with ...
Ann Mah’s “Kitchen Chinese,” a Q+A, and Salt and Pepper Shrimp 20 Dec 2012 | 05:18 am
Ann Mah’s debut novel, Kitchen Chinese: A Novel About Food, Family and Finding Yourself, has all the ingredients for a successful chick lit novel. It’s an easy, breezy read. It has a lovable heroine–I...
A Multi-Culti Christmas and New Year To You! 15 Dec 2012 | 01:21 am
When I was growing up, fragrant yellow coconut rice was right at home sitting next to the roast beef and/or honey-baked ham during Christmas dinner. Every year, my mum would make nasi tumpeng, yellow ...
My New Kitchen Toys 12 Dec 2012 | 08:36 pm
One of the greatest joys of traveling is bringing home loot, whether for yourself or for friends and family. Some travelers purchase objets d’art, others, clothes and accessories. Me? I almost always ...
Last Chance Tomatoes in a Burmese-Style Salad 24 Sep 2012 | 11:50 pm
Supposedly, summer bade us farewell several days ago. The signs are all there: the sun dips lower in the sky, shadows lengthen, and the occasional nip in the air gently reminds me that summer is windi...
