I bake a lot more on days I need cheering up. There’s something soothing about being completely engulfed in the process of measuring, mixing, beating, getting my fingers caked in dough and simply holding my favorite spatula and folding ingredients into a bowl. It’s not so much the eating that comes after the baking that [...]

Kuih Harum Manis is a variation of steamed cakes known as “apam”. Like many other traditional Malay savory desserts, this kuih has a name that sounds great in Malay but try translating that to English and it sounds weird. Just to make my point, let me translate Harum Manis into English. Harum means sweet smelling [...]

Winter. I wish I was a bear. I wish I could hibernate and sleep in peace until the sun gets his youth and vitality back to say hello to my face again. But I think if I were a bear, I’d be complaining too. The beehive is too high - I cannot reach. The fish [...]

With both kids off to school, I decided to pamper myself with some black fried carrot cake. Nothing like a hot plate of black fried carrot cake and a cup of teh-si kosong to perk me up. In case you’re wondering what teh-si kosong is, that’s tea with evaporated milk and no sugar. Rewind to [...]

This week has been particularly busy for me. Not that I’ve been visiting friends and relatives because of Eid. That is far from the reality of things. In fact, this is probably the first Eid I have not done as much visiting as I have always had, and should probably have had twice as much [...]