Recipe

With the rising price of oil and life that is becoming expensive everyday can I afford to settle for an hamburger (or simply burger) this evenly sandwich that consists of a cooked patty of ground meat and served with various garnish or condiments like ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, onion, relish, pickles and cheese toppings, placed inside a sliced Hamburger bun, often baked specially for this purpose, or pieces of bread or toast?

Bye Bye Burger!

This is a sandwich made of leftovers.
There are so many things we can do with leftovers, rather than let them sit in the fridge nurturing new varieties of mould. Take this lovely sandwich for instance. Leftover chicken kebabs were mashed and mixed with some sliced onions and stuffed between two slices of pita bread. The [...]

Ingredients:

50g rice
10 red dates
dash of salt or rock sugar

Method:

1. Rinse rice and soak in water for about 2 hours. Soak red dates till soft.
2. Cook rice and red dates in half a pot of water.
3. Turn down the heat and cook for 1 hour, season with salt or rock sugar.

Tips and info:

• The red dates must be soaked before cooking as this aids the release of fragrance and nutrition.
• This porridge has moisturizing properties and invigorates the lungs, it is useful for kids with weak stomach and spleen.

Ingredients:

50g coix seed (Barley, yi ren)
30g red beans
30g unpolished rice (brown rice)
dash of salt or rock sugar

Method:

1. Rinse coix seed and red beans. Soak in water for about 2-3 hours.
2. Rinse unpolished rice and soak in water.
3. Cook coix seed, red beans and rice in half a pot of water.
4. Turn down the heat and cook for 2 hours, season with rock sugar or salt.

Tips and info:

• Red beans and coix seed take a long time to cook, thus it is best to soak well before cooking.
• This porridge reduces swelling and promotes urination. It is suitable for kids who have bad appetite or suffer skin allergies.

We had these crunchy, spicy pakodas for lunch yesterday.
While not usually lunch material, they provided a nice change as pakodas are normally snack food in India. One of the most common times they’re made is when it’s raining outside. Most houses will then deep fry this delicious snack and the whole family consumes copious quantities [...]

Having visited quite a few shops and supermarkets here, I find an overwhelming focus on savings. Most if not all stores and most products have deals, super savers and what have you. It???s quite a change from India, where the MRP (Maximum Retail Price) or RRP as it???s called here, is strictly adhered to. Competitive [...]

Ingredients:

30g lily bulb (Bai he)
30g wolfberry fruit (gou qi)
50g rice
10g rock sugar

Method:

1. Rinse all ingredients (except rock sugar) and soak in water.
2. Cook lily bulb and rice in half a pot of water.
3. Turn down the heat and cook for 2 hours, add wolfberry and cook well.
4. Season with rock sugar.

Tips and info:

• Soak dry lily bulb in water before cooking to aid releasing of flavor.
• This porridge relieves cough and promotes urination.

Right, so all I’m writing about is Zainab’s food - I know.
I’ve tried cooking here and nearly always wind up with disastrous results. The problem is that when you’re not in your own kitchen, you almost never have the ‘right’ implements or spices and there are so many stuffed in various nooks and crannies of [...]

Any amount I write on taking care while choosing web hosting, isn’t enough. Even though I’ve spent 15 years in the business, I still encounter times when I simply don’t understand what the programmers were thinking when they designed that horribly complex or under-performing control panel.
Apart from the things I mentioned in my last post [...]