It was another tiring day Saturday for me at work. After having my dinner, just watch tv to relax and pass the time. I was channel surfing and realise that on Saturdays the programmes are duhhh....if you don't already know.
I chance upon okto or was it CNA? but hey they were showing 'Accidental Chef'' and this young chap was going around sampling and learning common foods of the Baba's and the Eurasian community in singapore. The show's concept was simple, these locals show the young chap how the dishes are done and he got to taste and give his honest opinion of it. At the end of it, he in turn made up resipes inspired from the local's ingredient and create his own specialty. Take back from the program, I was so inspired by this simple concept that, to create a great, good food doesn't have to follow standards or the usual ingredients. But you got to know your basics of cooking.
For example, certain items can only be cooked half done, while there are other ingredients that just doesn;t go with a certain item. Vice versa. So, considering that I'm so new to cooking, there's a lot of things for me to learn eh?
And the learning journey continues....
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Welcome
Welcome to my first post for this blog. losemytummychef is my blog about my journey of trying to cook. I've had tried a couple of times and find that it's kinda therapeutic. And what better way then to blog about it.
As my earlier experimental dishes were picked up from a 'lose weight' book, I've been dishing out sort of all the healthy foods such as chicken salad, roast beef with cheddar cheese, salsa chicken wrap etc. etc. So, in this blog, I'm gonna write recipes, cooking tips, exercise regime I'm starting. YES, what better way to keep motivated then writing about it. I can keep track of my progress or lack of it and for all to see. Abit paiseh right?
In the works also, I'm thinking of learning some malay/javanese/thai/boyanese dishes from my mom. Yes, I'm made up of those dialects. Complicated sia. I can tell you the history of my family but it will take a Starbucks latte and muffins to tell the whole story *hint *hint. Anyway, that means I would have to take a trip up north to Malacca and spend a couple of days to get all those recipes and cook under the supervision of my mom. No, we're not from Malacca. I can tell you the whole story of HOW they end up in Malacca but this story would require a Marche dinner. heh...yes it's that complicated.
I vividly remember when she was still staying in Singapore and I was still schooling back then when she would, being a housewife, cook breakfast, lunch, tea-time goodies and dinner for us. There were the jemput-jemput ikan bilis, lauk chelok for dinner, mango sticky rice for tea-time, baked bananas with melted cheese(this one I gotta master it, dont think I've seen this one anywhere and not sure where she learnt it). There were also the boiled tapioca cooked with gula melaka and my favourite dish would be the 'ikan pecel'. It is BBQ pomfret fish cooked in coconut milk and belacan and using a special leaf(daun chekor).
So just a lookout for all this in my blog.
As my earlier experimental dishes were picked up from a 'lose weight' book, I've been dishing out sort of all the healthy foods such as chicken salad, roast beef with cheddar cheese, salsa chicken wrap etc. etc. So, in this blog, I'm gonna write recipes, cooking tips, exercise regime I'm starting. YES, what better way to keep motivated then writing about it. I can keep track of my progress or lack of it and for all to see. Abit paiseh right?
In the works also, I'm thinking of learning some malay/javanese/thai/boyanese dishes from my mom. Yes, I'm made up of those dialects. Complicated sia. I can tell you the history of my family but it will take a Starbucks latte and muffins to tell the whole story *hint *hint. Anyway, that means I would have to take a trip up north to Malacca and spend a couple of days to get all those recipes and cook under the supervision of my mom. No, we're not from Malacca. I can tell you the whole story of HOW they end up in Malacca but this story would require a Marche dinner. heh...yes it's that complicated.
I vividly remember when she was still staying in Singapore and I was still schooling back then when she would, being a housewife, cook breakfast, lunch, tea-time goodies and dinner for us. There were the jemput-jemput ikan bilis, lauk chelok for dinner, mango sticky rice for tea-time, baked bananas with melted cheese(this one I gotta master it, dont think I've seen this one anywhere and not sure where she learnt it). There were also the boiled tapioca cooked with gula melaka and my favourite dish would be the 'ikan pecel'. It is BBQ pomfret fish cooked in coconut milk and belacan and using a special leaf(daun chekor).
So just a lookout for all this in my blog.
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