Recently, I’ve written a blog post about the differences between Singapore-style and German-style breakfast eggs. While I was doing my research on kaya toast and eggs, I was amazed by the heavenly combination of taste when the kaya toast comes together with kaya, butter and eggs. I found the simplicity of ingredients and flavours so beautiful. And because kaya toast is so readily available in Singapore, we as Singaporeans sometimes forget how delicious this Singaporean (or Malaysian) breakfast item could taste. It’s A Heavenly Combo The three main components to this simple yet perfect breakfast set is the kaya toast, half-boiled eggs and coffee (or Kopi, as Singaporeans would lovingly…
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Matcha.Blue and Matcha.Pink : Natural Blue and Pink Food Colourings
While I hadn’t been posting recipes on my blog for a really long time, I still have been working in the kitchen and making smoothie bowls. I get most of my inspirations from Instagram where there’s a growing number of accounts that features mainly vegan food which includes smoothie bowls and nice-creams. Recently, there has been a trend of blue smoothie bowls using blue natural food dyes extracted from Blue Pea Flower (Butterfly Pea Flower) or this blue spirulina called Blue Majik. You could basically get any colour you want from fruits and vegetables but the colour, blue, is really hard to obtain unless you turn to artificial food dyes.…
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Pure Indian Foods: Grassfed Organic Turmeric Superghee (iHerb)
When anyone mentions of ghee, the first word that comes up to my mind is unhealthy. I’ve always associated ghee with unhealthy cooking oils or clarified butter used by Indians in their everyday cooking. Back in the past, the locals here in Singapore also uses ghee in baking and cooking but many have switched to healthier vegetable oils. But recently, I discovered some amazing benefits of ghee. And to my surprise, Ghee actually has healing properties in Ayurvedic medicine. It is used mainly to heal ulcers and constipation. But of course, the ghee I am talking about here is traditional ghee which is made according to the traditional Ayurvedic recipe…
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Love Cake’s Simply Divine Chocolate Cake
Thank goodness for baking mixes available out there which saves us alot of time when we want to bake a cake without having to purchase a tonnes of baking ingredients like flour, baking soda or sugar. As I don’t always bake cakes at home, I prefer using such cake mix which just requires me to add in eggs, milk and water. Stir it, mix it and pop it in the oven. If I were to make a cake from scratch, I would need to buy packets of flour, sugar and self-raising agent which I might not aways use them since I hardly bake. Leaving them in the kitchen for months…
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Acai Berry Cheesecake with Carob Mousse (Dairy-free, Vegan)
I had a request to make a raw vegan cheesecake using acai berries and I thought, why not? The fact that acai berries itself doesn’t have much taste except for its sourness which can be easily overcome by adding some sugar or fruits to sweeten it. But my cheesecake version, I thought it would be nice to marry carob together with the cashew cheese mixture so create a double-layered cheesecake. And here’s my take on it! You can watch the one minute video I’ve created or read the step-by-step instructions to learn more about how I made it. The video link is embedded right below. Acai Berry Cheesecake with Carob…
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Chinese Herbal Tea Recipe: A Women’s Tea
I’ve been visiting Botaniq Haircare or Gui Ren Tang (è´µäººå ‚) for my scalp treatments to treat my oily scalp and hair loss problem. I was introduced to this Chinese medicine-inspire beauty salon through Groupon where I bought the voucher coupon to try out their 8-in-1 Premium Botanical Deep Cleansing and Hair Rejuvenation Therapy. It has been really working really well for me so I’ve bought their packages and I’ve been visiting their outlet at Holland Village quite frequently. Every time I am there for a treatment they would serve this deliciously sweet Chinese herbal tea which I grew to love. I felt really good drinking their tea so I asked…
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Avocado Veggie Sushi Roll (Vegetarian-Friendly)
I’ve always thought that brown rice and white rice are two different types of rice. But they aren’t. White rice was once brown rice. The difference lies in the presence and absence of the bran and hull. Brown rice only has its hull removed while white rice has both its bran and hull removed. Thus brown rice has most of its nutrients still intact. When brown rice becomes white rice, large quantities of vitamin B and other minerals like iron and dietary fibre are gone. That explains why brown rice is more nutritious than white rice. Not that white rice is unhealthy or anything but its just lower in nutritional…
