Need a quick and easy meal using store cupboard and freezer food? Here is one suggestion. Delicious, juicy and tangy BBQ chicken.
Rejuvenating our Life-Force over the weekend
Last week, we had our annual Midland Area Summer Course. I always look forward to this course. I missed last year’s course as I was away on a very long holiday. So this year, I made sure that I attend the course. We always have the course in the Hinckley Island Hotel in Hinckley, now …
Dinner @ The Royal Arms
We recently had a dinner here. This was to celebrate a birthday. This restaurant is our favourite. We have been patronising this restaurant on a regular basis for many years. We used to dine here about once every fortnight or monthly. However, as we have discovered many more restaurants around where we live, we …
SGI-UK EAST-MIDLANDS INSPIRATION DAY
We had our East Midlands HQ Inspiration Day on 30th April in Kinoulton Village Hall. The theme was UNITY-ENCOURAGE, EMPOWER AND ENJOY. It was a day of stress and enjoyment. What I mean is that there were some stress trying to get everything ready and perfect. That was MY stress, anyway. I was asked …
Vegetarian Yee Sang and Steam Boat
28th Jan 2021 Update. I have made a video on how to make the pickles to the Yee Sang. Click the link to watch. Yee Sang is a dish that I believe was invented by Overseas Chinese. I had not heard about it when I was a kid. I only learnt about it …
Reunion Dinner and CNY Lunch, Valentine Day.
Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner Well, most of my friends would have posted on their Facebook accounts all that had taken place. As for me, I am so busy with a lot of matters on hand. Our reunion dinner was a simple one. We had Duck!! which is my favourite but not often made. We …
My Almost Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies
My Almost Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies. Well, as promised, this is my chocolate chip cookies. I have tried many times and it turns out great. If you are allergic to nuts, then you can omit them. I used up all my left-over nuts from my various recipes. It turned out just as nice. For your …
Getting Ready For Chinese New Year
Now that the Christmas and the New Year festivities are over, and extra pounds somehow lodge itself to our bodies, it is now time to prepare for another festival. This time it is Chinese New Year. In fact I have started to do my shopping for my cake and cookies ingredients. This year I plan …
More Adventurous Kuih Ee for Winter Solstice
Well, in my previous post, I planned to make kuih Ee or tang yuen with fillings. I tried it and it worked. I filled it with peanut butter, yam and cashew nut butter as I happened to have all of them in my larder and freezer. In fact I just needed to clear my freezer …
Spring Blooms before Christmas
The weather is getting to be a bit weird. Last few weeks there were flooding in a lot of places in England and Scotland. The Midlands where I live did not have it too bad, although Lancashire was hit. It is winter now and the temperature hardly dipped below 1oC! In fact for the past …
The Leicestershire Carers’ Choir Christmas Concert 2015
This is the 2nd year we that we are performing the Christmas concert. It was held at the Lutterworth Youth Theater. This time my No. 2 daughter went with me. Many family members of our choir attended. There were at least 70 people there. We sang 14 songs and lots of Christmas carols at the …
Penang by night
Penang has undergone a lot of changes since my younger days. When I go home for a visit, I noticed that I do not visit the old places any more. Shopping is more in the modern shopping complexes. The city of George Town has also undergone a lot of changes. In the olden days, rent in …
The Shard, Jackson and Rye, London
The Shard After Borough Market, we walked towards the embankment and we went to The Shard, one of the newer iconic buildings of London. However, it began to drizzle. We went for the tour anyway as we will not be coming this way until many months later. The ticket costs £30.95 each ( adult). …
Borough Market, London
Over the weekend, we went to London. We went on Friday afternoon and returned home on Sunday afternoon, so there was not much time. We planned to visit a university open day. On Saturday, we went to Borough Market to look around. I had been there before and it was the first time for my …
FullHouse Signature Restaurant
While holidaying in Malaysia, I decided to go window shopping in Sunway Pyramid. As explained in my previous post, this is a shopping complex and the Aeroline Coach stop/ office is near here. The FullHouse Signature restaurant has been in Sunway Pyramid for many years now. I have passed by many times and I have not …
