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Weekend of eating

We have been eating the entire weekend.  Corrine gave me some siew paus, curry puffs, doggie buns, and char siew paus on Thursday and Friday.  Those are DB and my favorites.  And what I did on Saturday since I didn’t have to work, I made that lemon sour cream cake again.  The result, still not [...]

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At last, good weather

It’s Christmas eve, the weather: clear blue sky, little wind but it can be deceiving; it’s actually 5F degrees out and the windchill is -10F degrees.  No more snow.  The snow storm we had yesterday has nove moved to Michigan, they can have it, too, so they could enjoy a white Christmas.
I wanted to go window [...]

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Char Siew

OK, Db cooked the first batch of char siew couple of weeks ago.   Between the both of us, we finished it on yesterday.  He told me to marinate the other tenderloin on Saturday.  So I did but he didn’t get to cook it on Sunday.  I baked it last evening in the oven, and broiled [...]

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Tonight’s dinner with sambal belachan (Chilie shrimp paste)

I asked DB what he wanted to have for dinner, instead he answered me with a question, “What do you feel like having?”  Arghhhh!!!
Since he didn’t give me any suggestions, I opened the pantry and saw the bag of noodles.  Thawed out some chicken, soaked the beehoon (rice vermicelli) noodles and dry shroomies.  Prepping an [...]

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Weekend’s breakfast/lunch

I was cooking this bowl of noodles this morning at 9:30 for my breakfast.  Usually when I cook this big bowl of noodles, it will be lunch, too.  Db shouted from his office, “What smells so good from the kitchen?”  “Tom yum noodles, you want some?” He came out from his office and saw this [...]

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Yau Mei Fan - Savoury Rice

Tonight I made this one-pot-cook all rice, Yau Mei Fan.  I think translated to English is Savoury Rice.  I saw my sister and Pearly cooked it for her family, I thought I will make it, too.  I added Chinese sausages, Thai chilies, garlic, chicken breast, and dried shrimp.  Obviously, when I was cooking it, DB said [...]

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Kerabu Timun(Spicy Cucumber and Dried Prawn Salad

I made this dish after reading my sister’s cooking/food blog.   I think folks who read my blog now knows who my sister is :)  Yeah, she is super nice, put up all these simple dishes on her blog to make me cook!  It worked, so her hard work paid off.
Below is my version of the Kerabu [...]

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What a surprise!

The boys scared the crap outta me yesterday afternoon.  They saw the mailman parked his truck across the street.  I was making coffee for the next day and I literary jumped when they barked at the mailman.  When I turned around, I saw the hair on their backs all standing up and so was their [...]

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