Mixed Vegetable Fried Rice

I have been occupied for sometime now. It’s not easy to work and study at the same time, we have only 24 hours to begin with, we have to work around it. So we have to negotiate a bit here and there to have the best of both world. Cooking is still considered a large part of my life and I like to document all my recipes here so that I can refer to it from time to them. I will continue doing so even with a more hectic schedule.

Recently, we started our third module in this M.Ed course, now it is half way through, I cooked this as our lunch in the early morning because our course runs from Saturday to Tuesday but there won’t be any food in the middle of Sunday in this Hwa Chong campus. I have had enough of McDonald’s nearby. So I woke up early in the morning to cook this, you can see that its colour is lovely, isn’t it? Morning sun always has the magic to make food looks good and good food looks even better. Hehe…

This is a quick fixed meal,

Pasta with Mussels and Saffron

Watching renown chefs and hosts describing their BEST THING EVER ATE in short videos for US’s most amazing meals and treats is what we are looking out for after every show in the food network Asia. We will normally continue sitting in front of the TV, listening eagerly to what they recommend. Each time, our enjoyment ended with a sigh and a motivated urge to visit US as soon as possible. But the earliest possible date will only be 2012. Can’t it be this year? Nope, we need to study. How about next year? Nope, it’s our final years, plus we need to

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Never had we made any “edible” cookies before this attempt. Back then, we were undergraduates deciding to bake cookies from a 30 cm-toaster oven, without any recipe. Result? The cookies turned out to be rock-hard, or rather they reached the stage of being “weaponised” with sharp edges. A ninja would have used them as substitutes for his shuriken in a kitchen assassination!

The inspiration for cookies returned after watching Bobby Flay’s Throwdown – Chocolate chip cookies. Even though his cookies lost to the gigantic Big-Mac-sized cookies of the opponents, we can see that this is definitely one of the best cookie

Seafood Free-Styled Paella

(Sorry! I left my camera in the office. These pictures were taken using my iPhone. :p)

I never heard of Paella in my whole life, until I started to learn cooking. It is a very simple and dynamic dish that you can eat again and again and again. So all I can say is I love to eat paella.

Paella is regarded as one of the Spanish national dishes. According to Wikipedia, there should be 3 types of paella, one of them is seafood paella and that is an evolution from the Valencian paella, which uses land snails.