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The inaugural #CookForFamily Bloggers’ Initiative took place on 6th August 2012, with a total of 111 bloggers who took part and cooked for their family! When I first started this #CookForFamily initiative back in July, some had told me 20 was enough, and if I could get 80 I would very lucky. I am very [...]

Every day a week, I will set aside at least one meal to cook for my mum. Not that I am a very good cook, but this is perhaps my little way to show that I care for her, and I love her. When I was younger, I liked to eat her bee hoon and [...]

Never too busy to cook! So last week, Miss Tam Chiak and I conducted a cooking demonstration organised by omy.sg and Pansonic at the Singapore Food Trail, Singapore Flyer. We were pleasantly surprised because registration closed fast after 4 days due to over, over, overwhelming response. The organisers expected 35 pax, but more than 200 [...]

Wow, wow, wow! Last week I blogged about The #CookForFamily Initiative, and there are now 83 bloggers who have joined the initiative, 17 bloggers away from a 100! The #CookForFamily is a bloggers-for-bloggers initiative, created with a simple objective of getting more bloggers, and hopefully their fans and followers, to start cooking and bonding with [...]

Talk about IKEA’s Swedish food, the traditional dish of meatballs with cream sauce and lingonberries, Najad salmon and Saithe Herb Crusted Fish comes to mind. Want to learn how to prepare some of this Nordic delights? I was invited for a Swedcook session by IKEA at Cookyn Inc, and Chef Mervyn and Rayner (from HisFoodBlog) [...]

Singaporeans should be familiar with this story – The Kay Lee Roast Meat Joint is selling their business for $3.5 million – the amount includes $2 million for the recipe and $1.5 million for the shop space at Paya Lebar. Owners Betty Kong and husband have received bids of up to $3 million, but they [...]

Crabs seem to be the hardest thing to cook, and definitely not a common thing to cook at home on an everyday basis. You can try this recipe of “Ketam Masak Lemak” – a famous Malaysian Nyonya dish where crabs in cooked with thick, spicy coconut gravy. The strong flavours of the spices and lemongrass, [...]

When faced with a tub of leftover pineapple tarts from the Chinese New Year, I decided to make them into pineapple tart ice cream. Crazy idea for my day off, and I thought it should go well with honey. So after an ice cream making course at Tom’s Palette and a $108 investment in an [...]

The thing about me is that I can eat, but I may not be able to cook. Therefore, part of pastime is to sign up for a cooking lesson or experiment with ‘convenience cooking’ at home. I was highly recommended by a girl friend to join ‘Cookyn with Mervyn’ because he was patient and personable [...]

I would have loved to bake if I had a proper kitchen and time. Opening up a cake shop has always been a dream (Partners anyone?). Anyway, the following recipe was from a demo class from SoEZ – Thank you Chef June for teaching patiently. Dough 1. Butter – 100g 2. Sugar – 80g 3. [...]