Archive for March, 2009

Barbee Burger – Minced pork burger

It started as a kitchen experiment by my eldest son and soon, it becomes a favourite amongst my kids. They have wondered what pork burger tastes like because we do not get them at McDonald’s Malaysia. I heard they serve pork in McDonald’s Thailand? I know Singapore and Hongkong also do not serve pork at [...]

Posted by lilian on March 25th, 2009 under Pork, Recipe | 14 Comments »

New mom’s first meal – steamed pork with sesame oil and ginger

I just dug out some old photos and remembered the time when my eldest sister’s eldest daughter had a baby. My sis asked me to help her to prepare the meal for her daughter when she was in the hospital. As with my mother’s tradition, the first thing she fed my two older sisters and [...]

Posted by lilian on March 20th, 2009 under General | Comment now »

Siew Mai – How do they make the skin moist?

I have a failed siew mai making project recently. The taste of the minced pork with prawns is good. However, the skin remains dry and unimpressive even after I have steamed the siew mai for a long time. This is the siew mai before steaming. I put a tiny piece of salted duck eggs on [...]

Posted by lilian on March 19th, 2009 under Recipe | 18 Comments »

Home brew coffee

I have plenty of time nowadays to waste. In the mornings, I sometime wander around aimlessly after I dropped my little boy at the kindie. By then, it is too hot for any walk in the park so exercise is out of the question. The only thing left to do is to visit the wet [...]

Posted by lilian on March 13th, 2009 under General | Comment now »

Of pork, soy products and nutrasilver

I have been on vegetarian meals for over two weeks now and experienced some weird body changes. One of them is the longer period. Chinese will say eating vegetables only is ‘cooling’ to the body and hence, bleeding takes longer to heal. That’s why new mothers are not allowed to take vegetables during their post-partum [...]

Posted by lilian on March 12th, 2009 under General | Comment now »

Whoa….I have been too busy

I just notice that I have not log on to this blog for a long time already. In fact, there are so many questions left in the comment box and I don’t have time to go through every single questions. Life has been really hectic just before Chinese New Year and then, it drags on [...]

Posted by lilian on March 6th, 2009 under General | Comment now »

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