Salmon cakes - Feature recipe for My Cooking Hut

Ever since I was a child, I perceive and express better through pictures instead of words. In scientific term, I am a right brain person. (No wonder I did badly in written essay in my school years. ) Now, whenever I search for recipes online, I am easily sold by impressive-looking photos. They motivate me to try the recipes out as soon as I can lay my hands on the ingredients. If you love to see beautiful photos as much as I do, then you should take a peep at the photo gallery of My Cooking Hut. It is one of those fabulous food blogs I am really hooked on. Every shot taken by Lee Mei, who is a freelance photographer, is awesome and of professional-quality. With excellent food styling skills and perfect propping, she set the right mood and theme for her readers. Every time I visit her blog, I love to admire her photo shots, more as a piece of fine art than just a normal food photo. It gives me lots of inspiration, tips and ideas in food photography. Apart from photography, she is also a very talented cook. You can find a variety of Eastern and Western cuisines featured in her blog that ranges from Asian stir-frying dishes to French delicate dessert. Her blog is my main reference for simple yet delicious recipes.

When Lee Mei wrote to me to ask if I am interested to be her guest writer, I was awe and surprised . I started scratching my head as what to feature on her beautiful blog. After some discussions, we decided on salmon cakes with an Asian twist. Today, I feel so honoured to be the guest writer for My Cooking Hut. Without further delay, let me bring you over to visit Lee Mei’s nicely decorated “hut” and savour my salmon cakes virtually with just a click here.

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Sui kow (水饺) - Featured recipe for Rasa Malaysia

Two year ago, when I was just starting to cook for my family, a friend of mine made a strong recommendation that I visit Rasa Malaysia's food blog for its recipes and cooking ideas. When I browsed thru her blog, I was very amazed by her stunning shots and high level of professionalism in food presentation, not to mention her cooking and baking skills. Since then, I had been following her blog closely and even referred it as my “online cookbook”.

I have to say that her featured recipes are getting more and more interesting and impressive now. There are many cooking tips and methods I learnt thru reading her posting. Each time I visited her blog, I will be drooling and leaving with a hungry stomach. Her Penang-style cooking also makes me very homesick and I just feel like flying home the next day to satisfy my cravings.

Today, I like to thank Bee of Rasa Malaysia for featuring me as her guest writer. I had chosen sui kow (水饺) as my featured recipe because she loves dumplings. Co-incidentally, it is also my childhood favourite. I had never got bored eating it even until now. Hopefully by sharing my hubby's “self-proclaimed” authentic sui kow recipe, you will love sui kow as much as we do. You can find my write-up and more photos of sui kow at Rasa Malaysia's blog now. So hop over and see you there!

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One-dish meal - Featured recipe in Delicious Asian Food (Hochiak)

I was pleasantly delighted when I received the invitation to be the guest chef for one of my favourite "online cookbooks" – Delicious Asian Food (also known as Hochiak) authored by PabloPabla. Thanks to Pablo! I am certainly honoured.

It is the first Asian food blog which was strongly recommended by my good friend when I first started cooking for the family. DAF featured a collection of delicious home-cooked Chinese-style recipes and occasional food reviews. The recipes in this site are suitable for those who are starting out learning how to cook (just like me) or are keen to get some ideas on how to deal with the simplest ingredients that you find in the market.

Hop over to find my featured recipe of one-dish meal and also delight yourself with all the "hochiak" (means delicious in Hokkien dialect) recipes, food reviews and some video clips. See you there!

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Baked eggplants with cheese

This is a VERY VERY simple dish and it is my first attempt for finger food (“tapas”).

Ingredients:
Eggplants
Grated cheese (I used mozellara)

Method:
1) Sliced eggplants thinly. Soak them into the salted water to get rid of the bitterness.
2) Pat dry the eggplants with kitchen towels.
3) Cover the baking tray with aluminium foil.
4) Arrange the eggplants on the tray and sprinkle with grated cheese.
5) Bake for 8 mins (I used toaster oven) or until the cheese turns golden brown.
6) Remove from the tray and arrange nicely on a plate. Serve with bolognese sauce (refer to my recipe in this posting).

Recently the weather is so unpredictable. The sky can turn dark in a second. It made my shooting (which relied solely on natural sunlight) even more challenging. Most of the time, I had to play "hide n seek" games with the sun. In the end, I am the looser! But today, I managed to catch some nice shots (I think so....hehehe!) and would like to share with you:





This recipe is featured at Key Ingredients.

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