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We always make a point to celebrate Valentine's Day. This year is a little awkward because it falls on Chinese New Year and Carneval weekend - which is celebrated in a big way in our part of the world. So sometime last month, T cleared his calender on a Friday, made a reservation in our favourite hotel in our favourite part of Paris, arranged for his mom to take care of the children for the

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a favourite way to break fast. Sweet and light enough to ease intake into an empty stomach and yet filling enough to hold the body for an hour to complete the rest of the Ramadhan rituals before taking the main course. Figs has always been a favourite. Late summer treat that filled the house with honey like fragrance, red and luscious and perfect accompaniment to the locally produced goat cheese

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Although Ramadhan is generally a month where most tend to indulge in the dishes and delicacies one don't usually make, on this year, it is remarkably hot and humid. So hot in fact most of the time, I tend to make simple dishes that should take care of itself and deliver a fabulous result with minimum fuss. This ayam panggang is one of them. All you have to do really is make the rempah to

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My entry for BabeKL's Merdeka event this year, My Sweet Malaysia is a kuih raya. I thought the timing can't be better because we're entering the second week of Ramadhan when the bakers in us start making cookies for the big day.Kuih Makmur is a must have in East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak) households during the festivities. Makmur means prosperity in Malay and the cookies are named so because in

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The day was perfect - it was one of those rare days where not only the temperature was well over 30C, the sky was sooo blue with very few clouds hanging about and despite being stuck in a traffic jam just outside Utrecth, our reservation held and thus making the perfect start to our summer vacation.It is perhaps because the history of De Kas is nothing short of a fairy tale. Gert Jan Hageman

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I may not be able to provide a recipe, but what I can offer is a food related how-to that I learned from a container gardening workshop at my local farm, the Red Hook Community Farm.A few blocks away from where I live is an urban farm. It was once a playground that fell into disuse but the folks at Added Value, a non-profit organization, saw potential in the dilapidated space and converted it

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It delights me to guest blog on Lekker, Lekker, Lekkerste while Lisa is away and, frankly, I’m still a little puzzled to have been bestowed this honor. I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a cook nor do I have an especially discerning palate. I simply find pleasure in eating well and am generally curious about food, cooking and, well, most everything. Realizing I face an audience that

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It is summer vacation here and we've been spending a lot of time away. I feel slightly guilty about not updating but I am leaving the blog in the good hands of Fiona, Lekker Lekker Lekkerste's first contributor and guest writer. Fiona is a Malaysian who lives in New York loves to eat and likes to experiment with baking and cooking. She has been using a few recipes from this blog - some with

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Every year, I look forward to this event. I am usually all excited by June and shoot Babe a mail or a message on messenger. I love each and every theme of the events that she has organised. She picks great theme and is very good at rounding everything up. The best bit about the event, besides the host is that you get a variety of recipes in one post and meet fellow Malaysian foodies, especially

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MY earliest memory of eating crab is chasing after flower crabs on white sandy beach and having them barbecued... my mom peeling the flesh and feeding them to me. It is still the one thing I schedule into my every home trip. Chasing trip. BBQ. Eating crabs on the beach. In fact I don't consider it going home until I have my feet dip into the blue blue south china sea. Perhaps because I was so

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I received a box of Baked Brownies for my 40th birthday, all the way from New York from my best friend, G. I was too huge and in too much pain to bake some for myself and was moaning to him. Baked doesn't ship internationally but G got it fresh for me and did one of those guaranteed city to city 24 hour delivery courier thing. It was soo good, I wish I didn't have to share. That was almost two

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I make this dish so often and have been mailed about it so often, I actually didn't realise until Sharon pointed it out last week (or was it 2 weeks ago?) that I didn't post the recipe on the blog! The post was done in November 2004, one of the first food postings I actually did. I was new and since it was initially a post done for my now defunct private blog; it didn't occur to me to post a real

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I have been having a lot of problems with Blogger lately. Can't seem to stay long enough to even write or cut and paste a para! It keep shutting down on me saying saving/publishing may fail! Will be back soon with a kick ass recipe!

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Some cakes are dreamy. They transport you elsewhere just by breathing in the fragrance when they are baking. This one takes you to a balmy evening, in a large tent, in the middle of the desert, by a large fire. The scent reminds you of bavlava - nutty, intensify by the toasting of the almond, and enriched with the teasing of rose attar, achieved by rose extract or a very good rosewater. But

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Before I saw how it was done on BBC's Gardener's World, I never thought planting and harvesting your own potato is sooooo easy. I thought it would be like farming rice, you need at least an acre. But Monty Don who used to head the show a few seasons back actually showed you can even grow good potatoes in a pot using the ones you got from the supermarket!WE usually end up recycling our old

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because you want something tasty, refreshing and cooling for summer! Or like me, you just love PINK!Raspberry LassiIngredients:100ml fresh raspberry200ml fresh milk2 TBSP Greek yoghurt1 TBSP honeypinch of saltMethodCombine all the ingredients in a blender - or use your immersion blender - and whiz everything. Pour into a glass and enjoy! Note:If you like it to be sweeter, adjust the honey or use

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A friend of mine told me she usually order this dish when she goes for takeaway because no matter where she is, they are always the same - a plate of rice vermicelli fried in curry. You may get different type of bami (stir fried noodle) but the Mihun Singapore is always the same according to her. Funnily enough when she went to Singapore a few years back for holiday, she can't get the dish in

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The Baked Lemon Thyme Chicken Wings is arguably the most popular post in this blog. It is also the one that I got most email for. The questions rising from the post were mostly if it can be fried and also if I could do a Malaysian/Asian version which can also be baked or fried. I thought I'd share my crispy fried chicken which which is first fried then finish in the oven and remain crispy and

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There were times when I am dreading dinner. Like these past few days when half of my face is swollen from the root canal I had on Friday. T has been a true champion - making dinners since Wednesday for everyone and congee for me, cleaning up, doing laundry and taking care of the children. I do wish dinner can just magically appear on the table - something soft that I don't really have to chew

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this is probably not the most good looking karipap you've ever seen. It is perhaps the most delicious. The pastry delicate, buttery, rich and crumbly and melt in your mouth mingling with the most fragrant of beef, potatoes, carrot and peas filling.It's the karipap that would immediately transport me to my childhood afternoon teas. No, it's not the fried version made with swirly pastry you find

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Every year we wait for the raspberry to ripen and fill the garden with heavenly ambrosia. Sometimes I think we bought the house because of the raspberry bush. It's been so generous to us for the past 3 years - rewarding us with more fruits than we can eat, freeze and jam. The children around the neighbourhood like to come over to pick some too.This year we successfully grow some Mache or lamb's

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Q is often jealous to see us eating ice cream. It's been so hot till the last few days, it is hard not to want to eat ice cream all the time. I am reluctant to give him store bought ice cream because he is only 18 months old. Homemade ice cream is easy to make and hard to compete with and you can really play around with flavour and adjust the sugar content. My ice cream maker is dead and since I

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The effervescent Crash Test Mom tagged me on 6 little things that makes me happy. Here they are in very random order ;-) 1. My Javanese Massage - I found my fabulous therapist who does authentic Javanese Urut (massage) through my facialist. I love her touch and the fact that I get to have a chinwag in Malay/Indonesian for solid 2 hours. My last pregnancy was a lot easier because she was taking

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This is a simple cake to make, using fruits that happen to be in season. I use rhubarb which is wonderfully sweet and tart at the same time. It sets of the tender, homely and sweet cake so well. And the red colour always perks up my spirit. I only use the red part as I use the green part in something else (to be blogged later). I cooked the rhubarb for less than 5 minutes with sugar. The

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Yes, you read right. There is Vanilla in this lentil soup. In fact it is a whole vanilla pod thrown in for good measure. I learnt to make this soup, as most of my Moroccan recipes on the schoolyard, from my friend Samira.I remember the first time I had lentil soup in Marrakesh. The cumin and coriander were easily identified but there is a somewhat mysterious scent and flavour which I didn't

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For the life of me, I can't make my Beef Semur photo looks good. I read somewhere that it is difficult to photograph brown food. But I thought it is easy enough to photograph chocolate and chocolate desserts. Why oh why is it so hard to take photos of Beef Semur or beef in soy sauce? So I thought I'll use an old photo - the one I put on for Q's riceball earlier this year. I really want to share

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It usually starts in March. You see them when you're on the road during the short holidays in The Netherlands. Cars pulling caravans. You curse because they usually slow the traffic down and if you're Terry, you'd curse them for carrying their own supply of potatoes and cheese even when they are on holiday in France.We're not the caravan holidaymaker types. Terry is still traumatised of caravan

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Before I met my friend Ali, I had no idea how to use the recipes from my American baking books. We use a weighing scale for baking and cooking in my mom's house. There is also a measuring jug which uses both imperial and metric system. But seriously, I have never knew that you actually measure butter by the Tablespoon or Cup. I will probably never be comfortable baking with cups and tablespoon

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I love baking pizza with Nabila. The first time we baked it together she was so excited that she can actually make pizza in her own kitchen. The idea of the dough doubling in size is enough for any child to believe that they can do anything. It is also a great way to show her that there are different living organisms in this world - the ones that make good food for you. And you can actually *see*

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hope your is filled with love, joy and sunshine!

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I marinated some chicken wings for a barbecue last week. Then it started to rain and the plan to eat al fresco go out the window. So I thought I'll just bake them in the oven and make a little coating with panko (Japanese bread crumbs), lemon and Parmesan. The results was sensational and oh so quick too... Funny that the sun came out just as the chicken wings were ready and I used the streaming

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Dan Lepard, that baker extraordinaire called this "the best chocolate muffin you'll ever eat" and it is not difficult to understand why. The top of this muffin is crusty almost light cookie like and the inside is rich and fragrant with chocolate and vanilla. It is not as rich as a cupcake or a brownie and yet it is impossible to resist another. It is also a doddle to make. You only need a pot

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April must be the month for boys to be born. In the past week, we have had the arrivals of three. My nephew was born last week and two more friends in the neighbourhood received the joy of first borns. And I know at least three more friends expecting the arrival of little men anytime now.While babies are a joy to hold and to play with, motherhood in the first month is really not easy. Trust me,

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I am beginning to believe that 99percent of gardening is weeding. I have been spending the past few weeks weeding and before I can turn my back, I can almost hear another horsetail breaking the earth of my front yard. I don't want to use chemical because ultimately I would like to leave some piece of heaven for my children and their children - and I do believe heaven is right here on earth if

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At 9, they may be too old to sleep on a princess bed but not too old to get crazy over the pink sprinkles called Princess and Fantasy by Dr Oetker. When they get bored with PS2, Wii, Nintendo DS and dressing up dolls online and don't want to mess their hair under the April Shower, they want to bake cookies.So they dig up trusted recipes from old magazines and recipe books, found a fairly reliable

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Egg in the basket, for EasterHappy Easter everyone!

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A few nights ago we had a lovely dinner of Cereal Prawns made with Oatmeal and Tiger Prawns. Sorry I have no photos to show. It was gone before I can take any. But it got me thinking that it might be a great way to wok tempeh up.I usually fry tempeh and it it with sambal kicap, have it as part of a fabulous salad or as Sambal Tempeh with some white baits and peanuts (will blog about this soon). I

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There are dishes that is comforting because they always work. You can work them around with different vegetables, replace the onion with leek or spring onion, spice it up with anise and cinnamon, flirt with chilies and the variations yield something else but equally satisfying. Kip Ananas is like my little Barbie Doll - oh yes she is now 50 eh? - and has been around for probably longer than I

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Sometimes I feel like the noodle monster. I can eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner and also for elevenses and tea in between. I even dream up ways to eat it and how to cook it. This is my absolute favourite way of eating noodle - in noodle soup, especially made with beef soup, or what is known as Soto Daging. There are a lot of ways of making soto. The most ubiquitous is probably soto ayam which

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Armed with the knowledge of how to make the perfect sup bunjut, let's make sup tulang. Sup tulang, literally Bone Soup in Malay usually refers to beef soups which are made with beef that is still attached to bones. so it can be made from the neck, the legs or ribs. This one is made with beef ribs. It makes good sense to keep the bones because it creates instant stock, and sometimes when you're

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It is very easy to pick up a spice mix called Sup Bunjut anywhere in Malaysia. the most ubiquitous is probably Adabi Soup Mixes - soul in a plastic packet. Inside you'd find a cinnamon stick, one or two star anise, green cardamom and clove with one cute little muslin parcel filled more aromatic seeds. In the little parcel, you'd find a mixture of peppercorn, cumin, coriander, some mustard seeds,

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This week, I plan to share with you a recipe of Soto Daging - a noodle soup which is made with a Sup Tulang (literally Bone soup, in Malay) - beef rib soup. The post is quite lengthy because I want to share on how to make your own Malaysian spice mix for beef soup as well. So am going to break it into 3 posts, dotted throughout this week.Last week we were all down with flu and this weekend past

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away recovering...with some homemade remedyhoney+cinnamon+lemon+hot water = soothing tonicand lots and lots of chicken soup.

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There are recipes and there are recipes. There are recipes that when you read, you'd immediately know it will be yummy. And with David Lebovitz, each of his recipe that I have tried has been more than yummy, they are sublime. And except for one, they work the first time. With him, you sort of know he has done all the work to make your life yummy.Although I have tried a lot of his recipes before,

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This is hands down, Q's favourite dish. He would share one whole curry salmon steak with me and still asks for more. And he eats it without drinking water, milk or lassi. I think if he can speak, he would ask for it everyday. So we're quite happy to wait for him to string a sentence for a few weeks more so we can probably enjoy salmon cooked in another way or Lamb and Beef Curry ;-)Like Q, fish

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Some places take your breath away even when you only saw black and white print on a magazine. You just know it is the kind of place you have to go to, for the food, the ambiance, the charm... the magic! I saw the pictures on Elle Eten and decided the next time we find ourselves in Den Haag, we should try Bisto Mer for dinner. And we did just that last week. We made a reservation for early dinner

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There is a wide variety of things you can eat for breakfast in Malaysia. There is even a variety of noodles served. At my parent's we usually have a choice of hot or cold breakfast. the hot breakfast was usually mee goreng (fried noodles), mihun goreng (fried rice noodles), nasi lemak, pancake or french toast. The noodles served for breakfast were usually more modest than the ones served for

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I know I am rather smug when it comes to how great my children are with food. I just love the fact that they not only eat fish, they love them. And the fact that Nabila thinks Captain Igloo is yucky. It's easy to be a smug mom when you see how they eat fish - done in any way... and this in Quinten's second favourite fish dish - fried salmon. It is so simple; it is laughable to give a recipe. But

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off to the farmer's market tomorrow. Looking forward to fresh spring offering and some seeds and plants for the garden.The roses were from the market last week. I call it my credit crunch bouquet since all the foliage were from the bouquet I got from my in laws the week before (it was mom's birthday but I got flowers! I love my in laws). The pasta was dinner last Saturday - fresh parpadelle with

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I have seen and made a few variations of this the Mille Crepe since I saw it at The New York Times. But this one is my favourite because it incorporate all the flavours I love with crepe. Flambeed banana, sticky salty toffee and Chocolate wrapped and more to casually poured over each piece. I always serve it with Gordon Ramsay's Bananas in Caramel Rum Syrup. Decadent I know but the kind of thing

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One of my earliest food memories is my mom shredding chicken on the kitchen table to make this soup. That was how I learnt to make this soup - by shredding chicken meat. We're a soup family. We have soup for dinner everyday.This is a very quick soup to make and there is no chopping as long as you have the chicken stock ready. All you need is a can opener. It summer, make it with fresh sweet corn.

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note on pix - the one in the blue bowl is plain bubur kacang, the one in green is bubur kacang with durian. Bubur Kacang is my entry for this month's WTSIM hosted by Johanna over at The Passionate Cook. This month's theme is hotpuds. And I thought what a great way to showcase the ubiquitous Bubur Kacang, the most popular of all bubur in Malaysia! Bubur the word for porridge in Malay can be used

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All the Carnavaling (Mardi Gras) left all of us exhausted and nursing sore throats. The party started last Friday and didn't end until Wednesday morning. there were pub crawls, parties at various princes' venues - this is the heart of Carnaval country in NL - and parades.I usually have a pot of soup as standby at home since the only eating outlets open are usually the snack bars, pubs, doner

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In this house, we love our burgers, kebab, meatballs and bergedil. Bergedil is usually made with beef and potatoes and a few other things. It is essentially a beefcake. The usual ratio albeit the homemade one is 50:50 beef to potato but the ubiquitous bergedil usually found in stalls serving nasi campur (Malaysian version of rijsttafel) is usually made with very little beef. Bergedil is also

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I struggle to find the scone recipe that works everytime. Actually the one that works the first time. There is that recipe on Good Food from a few years back which came with a very long story. I've tried it a few times over the years. It didn't work for me. It says to cook in a very high setting oven for only 10 minutes but it didn't rise... and when it did, it didn't deliver the promise. Neither

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hope yours is as lekker as mine ;-)

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I can't really remember the first time I heard the word cha cha marba - I wonder if that is how it should be spelt. Was it in a P Ramlee movie or a friend from the north (of Malaysia)? It's a word which describes something that might started off negative, jumbled off, not thought through or things that are made of unthinkable mixture and all over the place but turned out to be so wonderful. I

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Our paed advised us to incorporate our food and meal time/style into Q's routine as soon as we can. At 8-9 months, he was eating brown bread and buns with a little butter, cheese spread or olive oil. And we're advised to add fat into his mash/pasta/porridge. And since Q likes to be in charge, he wrestled the spoon from us as early as when he learn to use his wrists and hands.he can't help himself

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Making sambal tumis is not easy. At least not for me. The balance of flavour has to be just right. I don't believe there is a recipe for sambal that works every time. Usually when you ask for a recipe from the elders, you are given a list of ingredients - as per usual Asian dishes - but never exact measurement. I used to accuse my Mom and aunts of being stingy with their recipes. But over the

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When we found out Q was expected to arrive in December, we were a little sad for him. You see 6th December is the best day of the year for every child in The Netherlands. It's the birthday of Sinterklaas. Presents arrive in sacks on the eve and there will be a feast of treats and sweets, limericks and sing song with the whole family.So Q will not get the birthday parties he deserves, we thought.

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Sometimes I think I wait the whole year for autumn - my favourite season - just to make autumnal and winter warming food. We love stews, soups and curries in this house. And if we could, we'd have them everyday!This beef stew is a family favourite - sometimes made with dark Belgian beer, red wine or like yesterday, cola. Using the tougher cut of beef, thoroughly season and brown to consolidate

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Part of the plans in Malaysia was to eat as much fish and seafood as possible, since the fresh offerings are of abundance there. We were really indulging ourselves, eating fresh fish and seafood everyday. And a few days before we got back to NL, the fishies turned the table and had us for dinner... or rather our dead skins instead.If like me, you have been watching Ugly Betty, the idea of having

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"Let's just invite the cousins," my brother said when we were planning a joint birthday bash for Danish and Nabila the day before we returned to Europe. It was very quick actually - the menu was simple, my eldest aunt will make my favourite mee putih (white noodles), my pregnant sister in law (the superwoman) will make popiah, fried chicken wings and nasi goreng putih (white fried rice), we will

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balik kampung in Malay means returning to the village/homeland.Which explains the long radio silence.We were back in Malaysia for Eid, hanging out with the clan, frolicking with the fishes, eating our heart out and being spoilt by relatives and friends.I leave you with the pics of the place I go home to - the 3 islands off south china sea... my favourite place to party, frolic and unwind where

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Yesterday I made lodeh and sambal kacang for buka puasa (break fast). Lodeh is a Malaysian vegetable stew that is sometimes served for breakfast with lontong or nasi empet and sambal kacang (peanut sauce). I don't usually make nasi empet for dinner so we had ours with white rice and some grilled salmon.The preparation is very easy. You only have to soften the tofu skin and mung bean (cellophane)

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One of my articles is published at Expatica NL today. It is on a subject I truly enjoy - cooking and baking with kids.We live very close to Nabila's school and in a neighbourhood that is filled with young families with school going children. And our house is consistently filled with kids, whether playing in or dropping by for tea or a chat. I love the sense of community in the neighbourhood and

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a short walk from Grand Place to Sablon. When we arrived at Wittamer in Sablon, we stopped taking pictures... oh yes we were at the famous Wittamer Cafe sampling all the lekkerste dingens. And were properly charmed by the real treasure of Wittamer - Joy! And then we stopped by at the Pierre Marcolini across the street...Don't ask me what happened after!

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post grilled - ayam percik twice cooked braised in the pot then grilled. There is a dish originated from Kelantan (or is it Terengganu?) that is available in every Pasar Ramadan in Malaysia every year. It is ayam percik and the smell of the a Ramadan bazaar is incomplete without it. As if by magic , or the drums of your stomach, you would be lured into the stall, buying more than what you'd end

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I love the scents of ripening pears, especially these small ones available between summer and autumn. They fill the house with the promise of sweetness which gets you to be a little dreamy. We got some from a little stall in Germany from a farmer. There are a lot of these stalls if you take the scenic route biking through the boarder towns between Netherlands and Germany and we often get a lot

Valisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07783576488456816627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15088611.post-49780889822131393042008-09-07T22:32:00.007+02:002008-09-09T19:10:19.701+02:00

Every time I make this, Nabila would say she smells Malaysia. It is I believe the sweet scents of coconut milk, corn and pandanus leaves, left to simmer with salt and sugar on the stove for a couple of hours.We would devour it immediately. And later, another bowl each at room temperature. I make this every week IF fresh corn is available at the market. It is my favourite bubur and Nabila's

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T was away on business and I was alone with 2 sick kids for the best part of this week. Nabila and me were eating mee sua for a few days and when she felt better, she was craving roast chicken. A bird is too big for just the two of us. And with a cranky baby in tow, I thought of a very easy roast chicken recipe made with thighs and herbs from the garden, some lemon zest and juice.Oh yes, I am on

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various mee from my pantry and 3 kilos of chillies drying on my patio for my stash of Cili Kering (dried chillies) I used the top right healthy noodles from Yuan Li Food for my laksa. In the pix are 2 different ho fun noodles - one is chinese style and the other creamy, bi hun, su hun and long life noodles.Join me in congratulating my buddy, Babe in The city KL for a great Merdeka Open House

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I am a self confessed noodle fiend. I just love noodles. I can have it for breakfast, coffee break, lunch, tea and dinner and later when I am hungry in the middle of the night - I crave either cold noodles or steaming hot instant noodles. My mom who loved noodles and who was a great cook but was perpetually on diet when she was younger told us noodle is a type of vegetables since it is made of

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My friend Lionel said he is bored with chicken. Bored with a capital B. "I don't know," he said, "but somehow chicken always slips one meal or the other everyday." We both love fish and seafood and lamented on how paramount chicken seems to be in the Asian culture. A pity since fish and seafood are not just abundant but are very fresh too. "Mango, I had the white pepper crab from no signboard

Valisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07783576488456816627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15088611.post-86102922479140582292008-08-17T22:22:00.015+02:002008-09-23T23:45:05.256+02:00

We LOVE picnic in this house! That is perhaps the best reason to join this month's Waiter There is Something in my... PICNIC Basket! organised by Joanna at The Passionate Cook. The other thing is, I am feeling slightly guilty - Joanna has been inviting me to the events she organised since 2006 but I have been so snowed under these past two years, I just haven't been equally gracious. I keep

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My Aunt Tom - not the famous Malaysian designer - used to say although this is a very simple recipe, it is not the kind of thing you teach a novice baker. Because it is so easy and so foolproof, it makes you lazy. I disagree, I think this is the recipe you share because it is so easy, it gives anyone the kind of confidence that they can bake anything and make them want to experiment. After all,

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When Nabila comes home from school every day around 3.45pm, I usually have something waiting for her - a sandwich with tea, yoghurt and fruits. When the weather is cold, we have hot chocolate with cookies or some soup with beschuit - crackers. The spread always includes something savoury and something sweet with a hot drink. We always have a proper tea in this house because we usually have dinner

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shhh... let me tell you something I am very skittish about... I am on a diet. There it is out there, in the world for everyone to see. Giving birth at 40 has its rewards and amongst it is a little something something around your waist which just refuse to budge. In any other year, I would just enjoy it and take my time getting rid of it. But not this year. In October, my baby brother is getting

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Babe of babe in the city has been organising a Merdeka Open House event every year for the past 3 years. in 2006, the theme was Long Forgotten Malaysian Recipe and last year, Muhibbah. I promised to participate last year with my salmon masak assam pedas but I was too sick to even cook for us let alone cook assam pedas. But this year I am so going to participate and all of you Malaysian out there

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Q is a hungry little boy! since he was 4 months old, we started him on solids. Initially it was single flavour of fruits or vegetables. He had pureed potato, zucchini, banana, broccoli, carrots, sweet potatoes, carrots, avocado, spinach, apples and pears. A month later when he got hungrier and we're advised it was time to give him 2 meals plus the 1 liter milk (divided into 5 servings) we

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Chancing fresh small mackerels like this in my part of the world is very rare. We usually get lots of fresh sardines in summer but I haven't seen that much int he market or fish shops. So when I saw this 2 weeks ago, I bought 2 kilos because I can't stop myself... and we ate everything in one sitting.I served in with Kobis masak lemak - cabbage in coconut broth and sambal mangga. The kind of food

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ohhh I have noticed a lot of traffic coming from the effervescent Jeska's blog, the enchanting lobster and swan. If you haven't been there, fly over quickly and have an enchanting visit! Jeska has given me the nourishing blog award. Thank you, Jeska. For those of you here for the first time, welcome! When I was pregnant with Q last year and was totally immobile and was in debilitating pain 70

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July is hardly the month to be thinking about Cottage Pie. But the weather is still rather petulant and this morning, I was even tempted to turn the heater on and bring out the winter blankies... Definitely a weather for cottage pie, methinks.So I decided to make it for din dins. This is by no means the traditional Cottage Pie. But it is the way I have been making it and I made it so often, I

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We love love LOVE grilled fish. In summer there are more variety to choose from and the dorade we got last week was just so fresh - smelling of the sea, firm and the eyes were sharp and clearer than the sky in July!The weather really sucks lately and we have put our BBQ back in the garage. So the cravings for grilled fish was soothed with something baked instead. This is a quick, simple route to

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Last Friday, Nabila decided she wants to eat Lamb Kebab. We went to our halal butcher to get some mince lamb and a bag of wraps. Then on to the supermarket to get a bag of baby leaves for salad. It was to be a quick but scrummy meal for 2 girls at home alone. It is actually very quick. All you ahve to do is chop the herbs and onions, mince the garlic and mix everything. And then to assemble the

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What did you have for lunch today? Did you have a warm lunch or a sandwich? Or maybe you just had some salad or soup? Or a bowl of muesli. Or yoghurt. Or half a melon. The choice ie endless.We have been growing tomatos in pots for years even when we lived at the apartment. We usually have lettuce leaves too. And herbs. With the prohibitive increasing food prices, I am thinking of growing more and

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The night before we left for home, Terry took me out on a little date to Le Bon Bassin, the best place to eat fish and seafood in Maastricht. The restaurant belongs to the Timmers family who also owns Les Trois Seaux, with a reputation of serving the freshest fish and seafood.The atmosphere leading to the restaurant is fantastic. You walk down from the staircase to the 't Bassin area which hosts

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We usually go for a little weekendtje (weekend getaway) to a nearby city and we are so lucky to be able to choose between so many cities in NL, Germany and Belgium. Our main category is the city should not be more than 2 hours drive away. We were in Maastricht for the Pinksteren weekend - a long weekend here with Nabila having off from school till Tuesday. Pinksteren coincided with Mother's Day

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Barbara over at Winos and Foodies is one of the treasures I found through blogging. We have just met through this event but she has already touched my life so much. If you haven't read Barbara's blog, you must head over there now - this is someone so generous in spirit, a roaring sense humour and a soul that truly defined LiveStrong.I am so glad I participated in this year's Livestrong with a

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There is no sushi restaurant where I live. Not even a bad one with a all-you-can-eat menu or a conveyor belt. Luckily, I live about 30 minutes drive away from Dusseldorf - the best place to eat sushi in Europe! The Klosterstrasse is lined with authentic intimate sushi restaurants. Of all, this one is our favourite. It is a small Japanese restaurant serving sushi, sashimi and typical Japanese

Valisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07783576488456816627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15088611.post-66574725700353070342008-04-22T14:27:00.004+02:002008-04-22T14:48:43.722+02:00

I always have a box of 2 kg tiger prawns in my freezer. We don't have a big fridge/freezer because I love to go shopping for grocery but it is always there, next to the bottle of Absolut and 3 tubs of ice cream. Why do I always have 2 kgs of prawns? Because it makes me HAPPY. It always have and will always do. My favourite way to eat prawn is on the beach, grilling it over open fire and just

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I am so happy that I manage to join Barbara's LiveSTRONG With A Taste Of Yellow - 2008 this year. I followed the one last year and almost missed the one this year if I didn't read it at the lovely Keiko's blog.Cancer is something close to my heart. My Dad had cancer about 13 years ago and my parents lived with me for the whole one and a half year that he went through the treatment. I used to

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loving this now. be back this weekend.

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When I was in kindergarten, my best friend was a girl called Lulu. We both had straight long black hair - often braided or in pony tails - and we both loved ribbons and we both often brought home made goodies for reccess. Lulu and I were both the only daughter in a family full of boys so our feet had never touched the ground. We both loved each other and used to share everything and went

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This is a very simple beef recipe to make on a rainy day when you crave something spicy and your body is longing to be warmed from the inside. The heat arising from the amalgamation of cumin, fennel, black pepper, coriander and tumeric. My brothers and I used to make this all the time when we were living away from home and sharing a house. All the girls who used to come back to our house for dins

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There is a little cake shop in the chi chi area of Amsterdam right on the Ferdinand Bolstraat which we really love. When you walk down the street from the Rijksmuseum to go to Albert Cuyp market or Duikelman, you will have to stop and notice the pink flamingo on the windowsill and the magnificent array of cakes! And trust me, you will stop, peep inside and see all teh beautiful people inside -

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Vondel Park, Amsterdam on Wednesday afternoon.who is in Krabi for her birthdayPetikkan matahariuntuk kami yangdiselimut kelabu

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Sometime in July last year, I received a mail from Doug Fine asking me permission to reproduce my Kung Pao Chicken recipe in his book. He told me his book is basically based on his blog and the chapter in which the recipe will appear in is actually about driving on carbon neutral fuels.I honestly thought he was joking but I read his blog, laughed so hard on more than one posting and thought, if

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A very simple way to increase breastmilk supply is using fenugreek. Some breastfeeding mothers use the pill form, others drink them as tea. I find drinking them as tea too bitter so I used this modified nasi dagang recipe to incorporate fenugreek seamlessly into my diet. A word of caution - taken too much/often - it tends to make your sweat smell, so just take it moderately and you will be fine.

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When I was pregnant and craving Malaysian food - and unable to cook them as I can't even stand that long to stir anything in the kitchen let alone smell anything for the first 4 months - I was trawling Malay foodblogs to salivate over recipes and the pictures of glorious home cooked food. I made millions mental notes on which recipe to try as soon as I can and my head was swimming of dinner

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