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Chinese New Year 2012 – family lunch

30 January 2012
Roasted pork belly, Chinese New Year 2012

Happy New Year! Kong Hei Fatt Choy!
We get together for our family reunion lunch at my parents’ home on Chinese New Year eve.
We begin the meal with yee sang, a raw fish salad (in Chinese, “yee” means fish, “sang” means raw). Yee sang is eaten by many Chinese Malaysian families at new year as ...

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Caleb’s first birthday party

16 January 2012
Caleb, 1 year old

Photos and stories from my nephew’s first birthday party.

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Christmas 2011 – family lunch

26 December 2011
Baked ham, Christmas 2011

My family’s Christmas lunch, featuring garlic prawns, filo cigars, baked ham with pineapple, roast beef, trifle and Elvis Sandwich macarons.

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Mum’s Hokkien mee recipe

24 October 2011
My mum's hokkien mee

Whenever we have a family get-together, I hope my mum will cook up a batch of her hokkien mee. To my delight, more often than not, she walks in with a big pot of noodles.

My mum’s Hokkien mee

I’ve had lots of requests for my mum’s Hokkien mee recipe since my recent post about my ...

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A really good sandwich

28 September 2011
Ham, cheese, tomato and onion sandwich

A simple but really good sandwich Jac enjoyed for lunch recently: leg ham, tomato, white onion, tasty cheese, salt and pepper, on lightly buttered fresh New Norcia sourdough bread.

Ham, cheese, tomato and onion sandwich

Ham, cheese, tomato and onion sandwich

A really good sandwich I enjoyed for breakfast recently: bacon, fried egg and tomato sauce ...

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New York Times spicy, supercrunchy fried chicken

5 September 2011
New York Times fried chicken

Jac made “spicy, supercrunchy fried chicken” for lunch with friends at our house recently. The recipe came from The Essential New York Times Cook Book: Recipes for a New Century (2010).
The recipe begins:
Ready for a tip that will change your life? You don’t need to deep-fry chicken: you can shallow-fry it ...

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Family lunch, Jac’s first roast duck a l’orange

31 August 2011
Duck a l'orange

We hosted a family lunch recently at our home to celebrate Jac’s mum Pattycakes’ birthday. Jac loves to cook for company and had a great time planning and preparing the meal. I helped her with recipe research and the boring stuff like setting the table on the day. :)
Our starter dish was prawns sauteed in ...

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Quiz night food

22 August 2011
Jac's savoury eggs

A couple of weekends ago, Jac and I went to a quiz night with my siblings and their partners. It was a fundraiser for Jac’s hockey club.
We all brought food, of course.
Jac made her savoury eggs (some people call them deviled eggs).
Jac’s never written her recipe down – ...

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Juji and Jay’s engagement party

10 August 2011
Macarons, cupcakes and fruit platter

A family lunch engagement celebration with home cooked pulled pork, macarons, red velvet cupcakes and lots more!

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Game Farm honey mustard quail

8 August 2011
Honey mustard quail

Lunch with friends featuring corn chowder and honey mustard quail using whole quails from Game Farm. Includes link to recipe.

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