Monthly Archives: October 2008
Steak + salt = love (+ rediscovering sweet potato)
I don’t really cook ‘Meat and 3 Veg”, never have. Cost, lack of a dining table and too much washing up all factor as reasons why, but mostly it just seems plain boring to me. To be honest I picture chewy, tasteless, overcooked meat, mushy veg and packaged salad dressing. So I decided to change [...]
Sticky Date Pudding
The wind outside is howling like it is still the depths of winter. It has rained all long weekend so I’m saying goodbye to this lousy Spring and returning to winter and its warm comforting soups and hearty desserts. That’s right – daylight saving just started and I’m making dreamy puddings. And who wouldn’t, right? [...]
Menya Noodle Bar, Chinatown
I’m quite opinionated, when it comes to food. Most of the time I know what I want to eat, and where, so F’s easy goingness is much appreciated. There are moments, however, when I am over-hungry and cannot make a decision. In fact there have been numerous times, mostly when overseas, when I’ve stomped from [...]
Hainanese chicken rice
Do you ever do anything totally delusional? Do you ever get stuck on an idea and feel the intense need to follow it through to completion, even though it’s delusional? I do. I did it when I decided, while sitting with the travel agent, that ‘sure! I could take 6 weeks off, my boss will [...]