I love oven-roasted tomatoes. They have incredibly intense flavors and when chopped up, they make a great condimento for pasta! Tomatoes somehow get quite intensified after roasting. I just love the intoxicating aroma that lingers around the kitchen while the tomatoes are roasting away with the garlic, herbs and olive oil. Yums! I have tried roasting tomatoes using various…
Is it wrong to share two pancakes post in one week? Would you guys get bored if I keep talking about pancakes? But what if the pancakes are too gorgeous and posting it a month later would mean you would already have eaten 6548 pieces of these pancakes? Relax folks, I am not gonna do it, just saying it.…
Sighs! The blog was down for a good 12 hours. Hostgator said it was "due to an undocumented bug in firmware utilized in our vendor’s hardware." Okkay, whatever that meant. That must have been one hell of a bug because it brought down about 100,000 websites including mine. I was a wreck when that happened. I was moping around,…
Although my work requires me to be in front of the computer most of the time, writing at this hour in the night, is something else. Sipping a cup of Chai latte while writing this post at this wee hour is somehow therapeutic. I am more of a tea person and I guess it is only because I can't stand…
Meatballs reminds me of 2 things, my cousin Riya and Ikea and and that too in the same order. Riya is a huge fan of meatballs and all I have to do is post a picture on instagram to catch her attention. My cousin is a meatballer™. Yes I just trademarked that word as It belongs to me now. Some of you…
Before I start talking about the Aloo Gobhi - Stir Fry Potatoes and Cauliflower that I made over the weekend, let's talk about the past weekend. There are a few people who rolled their eyes at my previous blog post when I said "I think, the person who came up with the idea of a 5 working days and only…
A couple of days back, I made Chinese Wonton Noodles. Wonton/wantan is a delicious Chinese dumpling that is not only famous in Asia but it has also gained popularity in non Asian countries. These little yummy packages are so versatile from the filling to the way you cooked them, you can either cook them in soups or fry them to be…
You know at times, when you have typed out an email or a blog post, despite after checking at least 129 times, you would still end up misspelling certain words even though you know the right spelling? We all make spelling mistakes from time to time, an extra apostrophe or a missing "o" in the word is okay I…
Black glutinous rice pudding with coconut milk or more commonly known as Bubur pulot hitam is a popular dessert in Asia, traditionally made by cooking the black glutinous rice with water. Once cooked, palm sugar (gula melaka) is added to the pudding. It is then topped with coconut milk. Simple to make but crazily delicious. It is one of my…
The weekend literally flew by. Cream cheese still sitting pretty in the fridge. Yup, cheesecake didn't happen. That has to happen soon though. Soon can be tomorrow or next week. Nobody knows, not even yours sincerely. The weather is pretty weird right now. I hope God isn't upset or something because it's the same almost everywhere apparently? My cousin in…