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粽 making at Aunty’s
Day is 16 June this year, and 粽 (Jon) or glutinous rice parcel, is the food eaten on that day. I had my first lesson this time last year, and I surprise myself that I haven’t forgotten May be even better than last year!
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Hong Kong BBQ
Hong Kong people like BBQ, probably as much as Australians, but what’s cooked on the barbie is quite different!
We were kindly invited to a home BBQ party at a rooftop of a 29th floor apartment. It was a very enjoyable Sunday afternoon/night The BBQ’d food included: cheesy cocktail sausages, capsicums, fish balls, meatballs, [...]
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Malaysian Sponge Recipe
Here’s the recipe for Malaigo
6 eggs
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup corn oil
7oz? evaorated milk
2+3/4 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
2+1/2 tsp baking soda
3 tbsp water
3 tsp treacle
1. Mix baking powder and baking soda in water (should bubble, if not, your powders are duds). Set aside for later use.
2. Beat egg with sugar, add oil & treacle.
3. Stir [...]
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Malaysian Sponge Cake
Making Malaysian Sponge Cake (Malaigo) at Aunty Mary’s. This is the yellow cake you get at yumcha. It’s quite simple, ingredients are; eggs, sugar, oil, treacle, flour, baking powder, water & baking soda. Basically mix everything in that order, except soda powder in water you mix right at the end. Cake mixture is left to [...]
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Sunday’s work at St Joseph’s
Today I helped out Aunty Mary’s Catholic Women’s League in their annual fund raiser (this year for the Philippine’s flood victims). I was so exhausted when I got back home at 4pm & had to have a solid 4h nap! Started the day as early as I can recall in recent memory (other than the time [...]
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Superfood Series: Pumpkins 南瓜・かぼちゃ
I love pumpkins! They’re around all year, but autumn/winter is when I want them most. It’s timely because of Halloween! Roasted, soup, even salad, pasta, stir-fry… (baby food?) They’re super! Always cheap too! When our house was rented over summer, I’ve been told that our veg patch got overtaken by pumpkin! (probably from our compost, [...]
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炊飯器料理 Rice cooker cooking
I don’t know how many people use the rice cooker (that’s an electronic one) only for cooking rice. I used to, but with now limited facilities in our tiny HK kitchen (I only have a sauce pan and a frying pan & 2 heating elements!), I’ve started researching into cooking more things with the rice [...]
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eggplant melanzane
Eggplants are plentiful, fresh & cheap at the moment, and I like pickling them in an Italian way. Melanzane (pronounced melan’zar-nee’) is eggplants pickled in vinegar & olive oil with herbs.
It’s really easy to make, so there’s no point buying expensive imported jars (they’re often too vinegary or oily). This recipe is from a family [...]
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阿蘇’s tofu dish for dinner
After thinking I got everything after buying a tofuhua at the wet market, reviewing A-Soh’s recipe, what do I realise? I’m out of soy sauce!!! What self respecting Asian kitchen is out of soy sauce??? Not even Japanese soy, tamari (for sashimi), Chinese light soy, dark soy… I had Seafood soy, oyster, bean & fish [...]
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Chinese saying
‘Sweets signify sweet life in Chinese’
I just heard that on TV (Dolce Vita on Pearl) – showing some wonderful sweets for the mid autumn festival – not just mooncakes, but this great deep-fried puff pastry made to look like peonies & candied walnuts (yum!)
On the topic of mooncakes, I think mooncakes in this blog below [...]