From my stock photos, I found these two photos. Lumpia (fried springrolls) which in the beginning I found a bit strange when I first had the chance of eating this kind, few years back. Because the filling was with noodles. I was used to springroll preparation with fish, chicken or  pork - all mixed with […]

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It supposed to be summer around here (Holland) BUT as of this writing, my husband and I are both wearing pullovers because for the past days, it’s been raining and temperature has dropped. Outside, it’s gray as well…really depressing weather. But what else can we do? we can’t fight mother nature, can we?
To console ourselves, […]

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Each Saturday, my husband and I lunch in this very simple Mc Donald type Chinese WOK to go place, just at the next city. Without tasting their wonderful ‘Kikkoman Fish’ which is my all time favorite, my weekend is never complete. I’m serious! ha ha ha! Anyway, I tried to make some at home - […]

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I still have pears from our tree so I’ve decided to do an experiment. This dessert came out quite okay, husband liked it so I was satisfied.
For the pears: 5 pears for poaching, peeled-cut in half- center part removed, 4 cups of water, 1 cup sugar, 2 tbsp lime juice, 1 shot […]

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The mood to experiment struck me when I saw this ad of Cendrillon’s Black Paella
(Cendrillon is located at 45 Mercer St. in the SoHo section of Manhattan,NY) I think the black rice looked nice and something new to try, especially for my husband. I have also been craving for seafoods lately and since I […]

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Early spring time this year, all I could talk about was having barbeque nights in our garden this summer. Unfortunately, we’ve been having a wet, most of the time gloomy and cold summer so far and all I’m left with is dreaming of bbq.
So I had to content myself in using the oven, handy little […]

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One day I got bored with my usual fried lumpia that I decided to do something about it. I took the idea from one of the dutch’s famous snack, the kroket. The croquet or croquette, is a popular snack in the Netherlands. A croquet is a fried snack shaped like a thick sausage that is […]

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