donut / doughnut day 甜甜圈

Today is doughnut day for us. I prepare it for our brunch and we have a lot of fun to decorate it.

bran wholemeal loaf 麸皮全麦面包

I really love this kind of crusty loaf, it is like a European bread. Crunchy at the outside and so soft inside of the loaf. I even had a hard time to cut the loaf.

nutella caterpillar buns 毛毛虫面包

Cutie buns for kids! My son love this cute caterpillar buns! Soft buns with nutella filling, I also make some other shapes of buns by using the same bread recipe.

eggplant with juicy minced pork 魚香茄子

Tasty dish, we all love eggplant, including my son. He start eating eggplant since 2-3 years old. Every time I cook this dish, he really can finish his bowl of rice. I think he just like mommy, we like the taste of eggplant, with a mild sweet after cook and its texture is so soft and tender.

our birthday cake... banana cake with white chocolate buttercream 我们的生日蛋糕-香蕉白巧克力奶油蛋糕

It was our birthday again, had to make a cake to celebrate also my son requested to have a cake for our birthday. Because he want to blow the candles! haha

tall and fluffy buttermilk pancake 超松软酪乳煎饼

This is the most fluffiest pancake that I ever make, it was so spongy and fluffy and soft. Definitely will make this again! My son is a pancake lover, he just like to eat plain without any jam or honey.

Roasted Pork Fried Mee - Sabah style 烧肉炒面-沙巴风格

Visited Sabah, a very good & interesting place for vacation. Had try this delicious fried noodle at Sabah, so come back and try to cook.

a simple cake for my mom.. peach & grapes vanilla cake 给妈妈的生日蛋糕，桃子和葡萄香草蛋糕

It was mom birthday, my mom don't want us to buy any cakes for her but request us (me & my younger sister) make a birthday cake for her. This picture was taken last year, I really forgot to post up. Try to make another cake this year, hope will be successful this time.

white radish pork bone soup 白萝卜猪骨汤

My husband is a soup lover. He can drink a big bowl of soup (only if I cook his favorites soup). This is one of his favorites soup, white radish pork bone soup. Now the whole family like drink soup because of his influence.

potato & onion frittata 马铃薯洋葱煎蛋饼

This is our most common home make breakfast. Easy find ingredients to cook your breakfast and can really fill up your hungry stomach.

mantis hatching 小螳螂孵化出来了

Miracle things happened again! Both my son and I saw this ootheca (I google how it called) laid on the wall of our main door entrance with a medium size green mantis stand beside it. We do not remove it away because I suspect it has eggs inside it. Haha.. I was right! finally it hatched out from the ootheca. Didn't count how many days but was more than a week to had it hatched.

grilled chicken chop & pasta 美味鸡扒意粉

Cooking western food sometimes is very tiring but if you prepare the side dish earlier then it would be much more easier and faster. I wonder how if I going to cook for 10 people? Must be very very tiring! So early preparation is very important! haha..

DIY caramel coated cereal 焦糖谷物

Find my cereal sitting in the container for some time and started to become soft and not crunchy. Throw away? Nope! That's too wasting! I found a way to make it tasty and make you eat it non-stop.

colourful rainbow fried rice 颜色鲜艳的彩虹炒饭

Colourful rainbow fried rice? Yes! My son love it so much, he was able to eat one full bowl of fried rice today!

an epi loaf (epi 面包)

An epi is usually a loaf of French bread which is cut and shaped to resemble an ear of wheat. This bread is beautiful to look at and is pulled apart, rather than sliced, which makes it a great party bread.

giant black ant 特大的黑蚂蚁

Giant black ant, alone walking at my porch. Almost bigger than a 20 cents coin. Incredible!

soft primer pizza 软软的比萨饼皮

I want to make a pizza, found this very easy (original adapted from The Fresh Loaf) and simple recipe as soft primer pizza. No need to buy a frozen pizza dough in the store anymore, you can make it easily at home.

fried grey oyster mushroom 炸灰色蚝蘑

Delicious snack or a simple dish for lunch or dinner... fried grey oyster mushroom! Crunchy when you bite on it and best with the homemade Thai sweet chili sauce.

homemade thai sweet chili sauce 自制泰式甜辣酱

I love this Thai sweet chili sauce for fried oyster mushroom. Super easy!

mangoes tree 芒果树

Move in to this house include a mango tree with some sweet mangoes! Hurray! My son was very happy to cut the mangoes which start turning yellow. He was super excited and keep asking me when he can eat the mangoes! LOL

chinese herbal soup - dark chicken with herbal 乌鸡药材汤

Simple soup and good for health. Dark chicken also known as silkie is very common use in making herbal soup. It is rich in protein & melanin pigment.

moth 飞蛾

Found this huge and beautiful moth in mom house. Steady resting on a branch even few of us went to see her and talking about her.

salted fish fried rice 咸鱼炒饭

Had a busy day, what to cook? First thing in my mind is  - fried rice! My favorites cook dish, one pot, easy and fast! Hahaha... 

aloha chicken pizza 夏威夷鸡肉比萨

Making this normal pan crust aloha chicken pizza for dinner. Very simple ingredients needed. Pineapple, chicken cubes and mozzarella cheese. The edge of the crust was filled with mozzarella cheese.

Jane's version - spiced cabbage 香料卷心菜

Simple stir-fried cabbage, delicious too especially paired with Spiced Fried Chicken.

butterfly 蝴蝶

I think this beautiful butterfly was from the pupa on my wall. We saw the pupa had hatched and this butterfly was standing on my banana tree just not far from the pupa.

caterpillar 毛虫

mantis 螳螂

Found a baby mantis at our plant in the morning, first time looking at this tiny mantis. Adorable and feel amazing... life is a miracle!

tomato 番茄

Plant a lot of times but never had fruit. Finally we saw many tomatoes! From flower to fruit, harvest by ourself. Love it...

kampung fried rice 乡村炒饭

This is a typical Malay fried rice that you can find in Malaysia - at any Malay food stall. It use water spinach, anchovies, eggs as main ingredients but most importantly is the use of garlic, shallot and anchovies blends that makes this fried rice fragrant and special.

braised chicken with black fungus 黑木耳焖鸡

Black fungus also call cloud ear has a reputation in Chinese herbal medicine for increasing the fluidity of the blood and improving circulation. So most of the chinese people knew about it and like to cook it for new mommy on confinement month. It texture is crunchy and easy to prepare.

our little garden 我们的小小花园 - chili 辣椒

our little garden 我们的小小花园 - pumpkin 南瓜

hubby birthday cake... swiss buttercream pandan cake

super soft milky loaf 牛奶吐司

I love milky loaf! It is soft, milky flavoured, just eat as plain also feel wonderful!

fried meehoon with dried shrimps and veges 米粉炒虾米

Very very simple noodle dish to cook. My Malay friend send this noodles to us days ago and we loves it! Although it was not very presentable but it taste delicious!

sweet and sour pork chop rice 排骨王饭

This is one of my favorites meals... Sweet and Sour Pork Chop 排骨王饭. This dish is cook by my husband and this is one of his famous dish.

raisins dark brown sugar loaf 葡萄干红糖吐司

Very tasty loaf, we just cut the loaf and eat as plain. From young, I only know dark brown sugar is good for our health (normal consumption). Now I know that by using dark brown sugar it will gives the loaf a deeper, rich flavor and also have a higher mineral content than normal brown sugar. What I'm using for this recipe is a very very dark brown sugar, that is why my loaf have a deeper brown colour.

har mee / prawn mee 虾面

Har Mee or Prawn Mee is always seen in hawkers stall in Malaysia especially in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya.

stir-fried asparagus with shrimps 芦笋炒虾仁

This is a simple & easy way to cook asparagus, stir-fried with shrimps.

Lor Mai Kai (Sticky Rice Chicken) 糯米鸡

This is the request from my husband, he want me to make the Lor Mai Kai since I bought a pack of Glutinous rice from the store. Week by week he request me to make him Lor Mai Kai. So tired to hear from him again! LOL!!

black currant banana cake 黑加仑香蕉蛋糕

Long time didn't have the chance to make this banana cake. This is a very soft and moist cake. Maximum can be store at room temperature for 3 days in an air tight container. We can't wait that long, we finish it in 2 days because it is so delicious and soft.

stir-fried capsicum with pork strips 猪肉丝炒灯笼椒

Colourful yet delicious dish! I always wanted to cook something colourful, you can't resist to taste it. My husband is not a capsicum eater but he change his mind after taste it. Even my son also love it!

braised pork 卤味

 Thanks for my mom's recipe. I called her up on the same morning before I cook this dish. This dish is very easy to make, just need time to braise the meat to tender. My husband loves it very much!

passion fruit isotonic drink 百香果果汁

My parents house grows some passion fruit. My mom give me a few to try make juices from it and teach me to add in soda or isotonic drinks. I always not willing to try because it is very sour. But with adding into soda or isotonic drinks is very flavorful and much more easy to drink.

grilled pita bread 口袋面包

We always think of a loaf bread compare to pita bread in our family. I got found a recipe on the internet which can make pita on a stove instead of using oven. So I just try and see how it taste and work.

steamed yam with pork belly 芋头扣肉

This is one of my mom best recipe! Very easy to make with little ingredients. I was lazy to fried the pork belly so I use Roasted Pork Belly instead. Even more delicious if you keep the dish over night. 

double boiled chicken essence with ginseng 泡参炖马来鸡

What is Chicken Essence? Chicken essence is the chicken juice that you will gather from one chicken after double boil it for 4 - 5 hours.