I love soft, flavourful breads. All breads are flavourful, you may argue. Well, most home-made breads are indeed flavourful but I find th...

Still on a Japanese food bend,  I tried to recreate a delicious dip I had in a Japanese fusion restaurant called Shokan in Tokyo. Served w...

Sunday morning breakfasts have always been special. As a kid, Sunday mornings meant going out as a family, first to the market for our weekl...

This month's Don't Call Me Chef challenge put me in a real tizzy: cooking with canned food. I  admit that I always have some canned ...

It's strange. I don't quite like eating bananas but give me banana cake or bread and I'd gladly gobble it up. But, being a fussy...

I learnt my lesson the hard way. About six years ago, I was lunching with  some buds in a deli-styled eatery in KL and I ordered a mushroom ...

Ever wake up and find that you no longer like the things you used to obsess over? Well, it happens to me quite a lot. I used to love mayo, f...

I've been going jam crazy over the last couple of weeks. Mango, apricot, apple, blueberry ... I have more jam in my fridge than I know w...

Textured vegetarian protein or soy meal or soy meat is a forgotten delight. When I first became a vegetarian in 1989, textured soy chunks we...

Originating from India, chutney is truly one of the best condiments there is. No sauce can truly compare. Sweet or spicy, chutney is your fo...

When I told my friend Shirley  I would be making jam, she asked if I'd been watching re-runs of Freinds a lot recently. You remember the...

Man cannot live by bread alone. He must have peanut butter ≈ Bill Cosby I think I discovered peanut butter when I was in my teens. You'r...

I am on the hunt. I want to find the perfect recipe for the perfect dinner roll. I love dinner rolls. Love them. (Gosh, can I gush or can I ...

I don't know about you but when itc omes to bread, the biggest problem or rather, conundrum, I face is not how to bake a good loaf but w...

I am a snacker which is really the biggest challenge to any diet plan I embark on. Rice I can skip. Pasta, who needs you. Pies and tarts, I ...

I bake bread every weekend and each time, I try and vary my breads/buns a little by adding or substituting ingredients: basic wholemeal, mul...

After seeing the creamy nut butters featured in the April-May issue of Flavours (a food magazine) I knew I had to make some for myself. H...

I've been wanting to incorporate Yam (or Taro root) in a vege patty for the longest time. I just never got around to it just like I have...

Most vegetarian burger patties use  potatos for flavour and bulk. But, I don't like taters. They're so filling and ultimately just t...

Last night, I dreamt I was trapped in a loaf of bread and could not get out. Not even Johnny Depp (he was the hero of my dreams) could cut m...