Archive for December, 2005

Mum’s Greetings from Malaysia – Foodie Excerpts No.2

Mum’s foodie excerpts from Malaysia No.2, Friday, 2nd December. As you can see, the food consumption has truly accelerated! I’m so jealous! Already we have had our typical Malay nasi lemak with beef rendang and sambal sotong, popiah, pork ball soup, goreng pisang, peanut-sugar pancake, fresh coconut water out of the whole fruit, and las…

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Mum’s Greetings from Malaysia – Foodie Excerpts No.1

My parents are currently on holiday in Malaysia, visiting friends, playing tourist and eating lots of delicious food. Mum’s sent us a couple of emails since they arrived at midnight Thursday morning. Not surprisingly, a significant portion of the emails’ content is about the food they are eating over there. I thought my readers would [&…

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Night-time baking

We’ve had these four over-ripe bananas sitting in the bowl, getting blacker and blacker. I decided last night to do some baking with them before they became completely inedible. I baked a batch of banana mini muffins. I threw in half a cup of sultanas in the mix, and made half of them banana, sultana […]

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Stir-fry

Dinner last night was flat rice noodles stir-fried with garlic tofu (that tofu is one of the most delicious things I’ve eaten this year! Must remember to ask Jac where she bought it from), chicken, green beans, carrots, chives, and mung bean sprouts, flavoured with pad thai sauce out of a jar. We topped it […]

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