28th Jan 2021 Update. I have made a video on how to make the pickles to the Yee Sang. Click the link to watch. Yee Sang is a dish that I believe was invented by Overseas Chinese. I had not heard about it when I was a kid. I only learnt about it …
Reunion Dinner and CNY Lunch, Valentine Day.
Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner Well, most of my friends would have posted on their Facebook accounts all that had taken place. As for me, I am so busy with a lot of matters on hand. Our reunion dinner was a simple one. We had Duck!! which is my favourite but not often made. We …
My Almost Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies
My Almost Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies. Well, as promised, this is my chocolate chip cookies. I have tried many times and it turns out great. If you are allergic to nuts, then you can omit them. I used up all my left-over nuts from my various recipes. It turned out just as nice. For your …
Getting Ready For Chinese New Year
Now that the Christmas and the New Year festivities are over, and extra pounds somehow lodge itself to our bodies, it is now time to prepare for another festival. This time it is Chinese New Year. In fact I have started to do my shopping for my cake and cookies ingredients. This year I plan …
More Adventurous Kuih Ee for Winter Solstice
Well, in my previous post, I planned to make kuih Ee or tang yuen with fillings. I tried it and it worked. I filled it with peanut butter, yam and cashew nut butter as I happened to have all of them in my larder and freezer. In fact I just needed to clear my freezer …
Spring Blooms before Christmas
The weather is getting to be a bit weird. Last few weeks there were flooding in a lot of places in England and Scotland. The Midlands where I live did not have it too bad, although Lancashire was hit. It is winter now and the temperature hardly dipped below 1oC! In fact for the past …
Community Cooks Winner – Best Recipe for Left-over Meat
Community Cooks Winner – Best Recipe for Left-over Meat – and Healthy, too! Hi, I have posted this video in Twitter and facebook before but not on Nyonya Recipe. I you have seen this before, may I ask you to bear with me. This is the recipe that was used in the Love Food Hate …
#ChineseNewYearFare Health and Prosperity Prawns
This dish is in response to the Butter Prawns that is so well-loved by all in Malaysia. Butter Prawns is loaded with calories. The prawns are deep-fried first, and the rest of the ingredients are fried in lots of butter and oil. Eggs are used to make the crispy bits and the whole lot is dunked …
#ChineseNewYearFare Peanut Cookies
Peanut Cookies Peanut Cookies are a perennial favourite. Most families would make this for Chinese New Year. It is simple and uses 3 main ingredients – peanuts, sugar and flour. How long it takes you to make depends on the size of your cookies. The smaller the cookies, the longer time you take to roll the balls. The bigger …
#ChineseNewYearFare Fried Nian Gao
This is the classic way of consuming Tnee Kueh or Nian Gao. It is usually made after Chinese New Year when we have a lot of this around due to gift-giving by family members. Gifts are given to the elders- meaning you give to your parents, uncles and aunts and your older siblings. Just to clarify, …
#ChineseNewYearfare Tnee Kueh
Tnee Kueh Tnee Kueh, or Ti Kueh or Nian Gao (Mandarin) is a sweet cake that is made for Chinese New Year. It is also known as ‘Kueh Bakul in the Malay language, or Cake in a Basket. Although it has a Malay name, it is not of Malay origin. The reason for this is …
#Recipeoftheday: Stir Fried Pork with Leeks
Stir fried Pork with Leeks – a traditional stir fry usually cooked for festivities like Chinese New Year.
Wait!! Chinese New Year is not over yet! Braised Turkey/Chicken
Chinese New Year is not officially over yet. We celebrate it for 15 days, until the 15th day of the lunar calender. So I am still entertaining my guests. Not that I have a lot of guests, though. Last week, we invited the neighbours – not many, only a few, over for some dinner …
Chinese New Year Fare: Pineapple Jam Tart
Pineapple Jam Tart is a popular tart enjoyed by all Malaysians. It is made of real pineapple jam, ie, jam that is full of the fruit. The jam, the recipe that was posted earlier, is an authentic jam packed full of only pineapples and nothing else. It is originally a Malay speciality but it is …
Chinese New Year Fare: Kuih Bangkit
Kuih Bankit Kuih Bangkit is a traditional Nyonya biscuit or cookies. It is made from Tapioca flour. Some people use arrow root flour as well. Coming from not so well-to do background, we used only tapioca flour as arrowroot flour is more expensive. Kuih is a collective noun for cakes or puddings or snacks. …
