The other day I watched a snippet of Oparah while I was knitting. She had Dr.Oz on her show. They were talking about some new show he was in and the kinds of foods that people should try to eat more or less off and a number of tests that were conducted for this show [...]

Fredrik will be going into the studio in about 2 weeks. He’ll be gone for about a month. Fortunately he’ll be home on the weekends. We’re also going to be going to Germany on one of the weekends for the Rock Hard Festival.
Last weekend we cleaned up our flat because we thought we would have [...]

Last week I bought a piece of “picnicbog” also known as “skinkstek” which is known as leg of pork in English. I froze portions of it with various marinades and one of the marinades I used was the Lee Kum Kee char sui sauce.
Today I decided to make char sui fan which is just char [...]

I’ve never actually had Spam. But I did grow up eating luncheon meat. In Hong Kong, luncheon meat is like a breakfast meat. My dad used to make luncheon meat and eggs on Sunday mornings or put a slice of pan fried luncheon meat in our instant noodle.
You can imagine my excitement when I found [...]

Last night I made my first whole roast chicken. I was rather proud of myself and the results. First I stuffed the chicken with a mixture of onion, rosemary, salt and pepper. Then I rubbed the outside of the chicken with a mixture of olive oil, rosemary, herb salt and pepper. There were some leftover [...]

The intent for last night’s dinner was a seafood pasta. But instead I decided to keep the mussels out of the pasta. I cooked the mussels with white wine and lots of garlic. I used pangasius in the pasta and some of the “sauce” from the mussels. I stir fried asparagus and at some of [...]

I wanted to make some sort of dish with coconut milk and shrimp and I ended up with something that is more like Thai coconut soup. It actually turned out much better than I had originally expected.
I started by marinating shelled tiger shrimps with garlic, chilli pepper flakes, a bit of salt, some crushed lemon [...]