Hello everyone, just wanted to stop by and see how’s your weekend going? Also to post some photos of my little kitchen organization project. I really should have taken the “Before” photo, but it was way too messy, so I decided against embarrassing myself…  The above photo is of the newly labeled cooking ingredient containers,…

I am so grateful to Nami from Just One Cookbook and her mention of my blog on Thursday night. The last couple of days have been so exciting, tons of traffic from fellow Foodies, and some wonderful comments have really motivated me to do better. Just wanted to leave you all a heart felt THANKS…

My Mama is an avid cook and she’s very proud of the fact that I’ve taken an interest in it the last couple of years. We chat on the phone pretty often, most of the time the topic of “what are you making today?” comes up, and we exchange tips of what to do in…

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2010. That’s about…

3 T brown sugar 3 T rice wine 2 T soy sauce 1/2 T oyster sauce 2 Cups water 6 boneless, skinless chicken thighs 1 T cooking oil 1/2 T ginger, minced 1/2 T garlic, minced 20-25 dry chestnuts, soaked in hot water to soften 1 T green onion Stir sugar, wine, soy sauce, oyster…

OK it’s been a LONG time since I’ve posted, been cooking up some familiar dishes for the last 2-3 weeks while trying to come up with a good recipe for my 100th posting. I am not sure whether this is what’s considered “special” enough, but it sure tasted good and was easy to make, hope…

Hubby is the master at fried rice, but since he’s out of town and I wanted to cook something quick for tonight’s dinner, I’ve decided to recreate this dish. Little girl’s hesitant for me to blog about the secret ingredients (sugar and Maggi sauce), but I don’t think hubby would mind for you guys to…

This is a special posting, little girl and I had the privilage to learn how to make 花捲 from my parents today, I don’t have the specific recipe of the dough yet, will post as soon as my Mom sends it to me. The following are the pictorial steps of how they were made.

I bought some organic chicken thighs on sale and thought about cooking the tried and true ginger chicken for tonight’s dinner. But when it came time for cooking, I wanted to try something new instead. Boy am I glad I did! Viet cooking combines more layers of flavor, and this is definitely one that is…

Since the slow cooked pork shoulder turned out well, and there were 2 logo design projects that needed to get finalized, so I decided to find another crock pot recipe. This one was modified since I didn’t have any cabbage around, so Napa cabbage was used instead, which watered down the sauce and made it…

Even though I am a working Mother, but being fortunately enough to run my own design business at the home office, there wasn’t a need to cook using slow cooker. But due to many urgent project deadlines this week, I am exploring this option. Pork shoulder turned out so tender and flavorful, I’ve decided to…