Spaghetti and Mussels

Serves 2 The weather is getting hotter and I bet you feeling like eating food that can have a cool and soothing effect with your taste buds. One of Japan’s favorite summer menus is Spaghetti with mussels and fresh tomatoes with parsley. If you have those plants in the garden you can make it fresh…

Cajun White Fish

Serves 3 I am mad about Cajun cooking. I had a bag of white fish fillet and craved for cajun cooking. Luckily all the ingredients were available in the refrigerator. Look at all those beautiful colors, white, red, orange and yellow in a bowl. I had it for lunch with my daughters and they loved…

Chinese Restaurant Curry

Serves 3 The first time I ate curry was the one available from the local Chinese restaurant. It was my neighbor from Colombo who treated us with this meal. Her family was the famous musician and all her siblings could play the piano well. Her favorite song to play was “La Paloma”. Anyway, I went…

Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup

Serves 2 I use to eat at hawker stall and order flat rice noodles with thick beef stock heavily spiced then topped with fresh beansprout. As side, they provide some chili sauce and little lime to enhance the taste. I never knew the name of the dish and never tried to find out also. Every…

Sauteed Oyster and Pokcoy in Oyster Sauce

When my family partied at the oyster festival in Matsushima. I observed that one of the most favorite stall was sauteed oyster and pokcoy in oyster sauce. I craved to make them at home and the great part is that oysters are in season. This dish is easy to make and tasted so good that…

Potato Gratin

Serves 3 My husband just returned from Greece and got me heaps of stuff that is olive based. The green olive, the black one, the pickled, the pate and more until I ran out of ideas of how to get rid of them soon. Today I did not feel like eating rice, I wanted to…

Banh Lot Xao

Serves 4 Vietnamese cuisine has a vast varieties of rice based noodles. Today, I feel like cooking Banh Lot Xao, stif fry rice vermicelli the Vietnamese style.I added some shrimps to enhance the flavor. It was a great menu as all the family enjoyed it. This menu is also great for children Bento. The point…

Fried Crab Leg (Yeung Hai Kim)

Makes 14 pieces When I was a little girl, my mom would take us to the market every week and we will buy a box of big fat fried crab leg. One box has 50 pieces of them. It was just all crab meat and nothing else, so can you imagine how extremely delicious it…

Grilled Squid

Serves 2 Another Indonesian all time favorite seafood stall menu is grilled squid. This is a perfect menu for the Novice Gardener Friday Fiesta . The one thing that I just knew is that the method they prepared it was inspired from Japanese cooking with additional Indonesian favorite ingredients such as lime, kecap and honey. This is…