I made a special birthday cake for Captain Tom. Now he is Colonel Tom, thanks to the Queen for conferring the honourary title. The nation wishes him a very special 100th Birthday, and may he live a long, healthy and happy life. I have been toying about making this agar cake for quite a few …
LOCK-DOWN OVERNIGHT WHOLEMEAL BREAD
LOCK-DOWN OVERNIGHT WHOLEMEAL BREAD Having a lock-down and short of stuff? Today is the 2nd week of the lock-down. 29.03.2020. Although we have lots of cupboard stuff like pasta and tinned food, we are getting low on fresh meat and vegetables, and bread, normally wholemeal. I have told my other half that I can always …
How To Make Your Food Go Further In This Challenging Time – Easy Vegetable Curry
Easy Vegetable Curry Well, we are now doing social distancing. I am on voluntary self-isolation as I did not feel good a few days ago. I thought I was coming down with something and felt like I had slight fever and a sore throat. So I self-isolate. There is a family member who is in …
Peculiar Pasties: Vegan Pasties with an Oriental Twist
You might be wondering why I am doing pasties? The Pasties are rather peculiar as it is not your usual pasties. That is why I call it Vegan Pasties with an Oriental twist. Vegan Pasties with an Oriental twist. Well, it all started when a business customer asked me to make vegan chocolate …
Veganuary 2020 and onwards to more events
Veganuary is here. January is a month for a bit of rest for me after a hectic December. I am now testing a new product, a vegan mozzarella. I will call it Mocksarella, since is is not made from milk. So it it a mock cheese. Like the Chinese have mock duck, mock pork and …
Welcome Spanking New Year 2020!
Gift Packs for Chinese New Year or when ever you want it. Hi, Just a last minute post before the year is over. I just want to wish you a very Happy New Year and may you have perfect 2020 vision in all that you do. With the minutes ticking by, I also want …
When Does the Preparation For Chinese New Year Begin?
Good question. I think it varies with different families. Tang Yuan.For our family, it begins after winter solstice. Winter solstice is on 22nd December. It is a very important day in the Chinese lunar calendar. It is the shortest day of the year. After that day, one can notice that the sun rises earlier. This …
Where To Find Festive Events Near Hinckley
Hi, I thought I better list some of the events which I will be in this festive season. I will be there with the delicious Malaysian cakes and bakes. There will be new products as well… My nyonya instinct is to make food with local influence, so come and check it out.
What food can one get @ Prana Cafe?
Well, Prana Cafe is one of the top cafes in Leicester. It used to serve vegetarian and vegan food. Now it is fully vegan. I have the opportunity to discuss with the owners and they have kindly allow me to sell my products in the cafe. Only this weekend, 8th June, Saturday 11 am …
What Happened to May?
Yep! What happened? I have not been posting at all in the month of May. I broke my promise. So this is a round-up for the month of May. The first event I had was the Burbage Farmers Market. Oh, before that I was in the Rugby Vegan Fest on 28th April. Even though it …
Hinckley Sunday Munch Septemer 2018
I was in the September Hinckley Sunday Munch. I missed the Hinckley Feast 2018 as I was too late in booking. This is because I only decided to have a stall to test my products early this year. I finally took the plunge to try it out near where I live, and June was my …
More Chinese New Year Celebration!
We had 2 more Chinese New Year celebrations. Dinner on the 8th Day of the Lunar New Year We had one on Friday night which is Che Peh, or the 8th day of CNY. This is the day the Hokkiens ( a dialect group from the Fukkien area of China) celebrate Chinese New Year. Legend has it …
Vegetarian Fried Noodles/Beehoon
This is an easy recipe that is super delicious. This recipe is based on the vegetarian noodles we had as kids. We use to buy fried beehoon from the local stall. The stall was very popular. We love the crunch of the soy sticks. It is a very simple dish and I have added some more …
Coconut Candy aka Coconut Ice
Published Jan 21, 2018. Coconut Candy is one of the earliest sweets that I made in school. I remember it was one of the first recipes on our domestic science class. I have not made this for many, many years,. Its been more than 30 years! After a few searches over the internet, I came …
Wonton Cups – What You Can Do With Left-overs
I tried this after the Xmas feast, using left overs. In fact I made in on New Year’s eve and had it as snacks to welcome the New Year. I have quite a lot of wonton wrappers in the fridge. I used it to make wonton (what else?). There were a lot of it …