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Seafood Salad

When on vacation it's pretty hard for me and my husband to resist the food temptation. Especially for me. We miss seafood a lot because I don't cook it much here in Holland since not only it's expensive, fresh catch are hard to find around our area -thus we tend to have it every single day while on vacation in Asia, particularly in Thailand. One night we couldn't go to our favorite restaurant by the haven because it was raining, so husband and I decided to just dine at one of the Sofitel Hotel's

October 2, 2008 No Comments Full Story

Noodles in springrolls

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 orĀ  pork - all mixed with vegetables, sauteed. But never with noodles. Until I saw them being served in local Chinese and Indonesian restaurants here. I realized that noodles (I prefer using glass noodles) is a good fil

July 23, 2008 No Comments Full Story

simple tuna steak salad

This I made during an attempt to eat 'healthy' . Like I said on my previous entry, I have been eating loads of junk food lately that I really should focus on preparing food such as this. Once in a while I do get this urge to make something good for the body such as salad. Because my husband hates fresh salad that's why I seldom make it. And when I make it, I have to mix it with something he'll eat..that's why sauce is very important. He'd only eat salad with mayonnaise based sauce . So I made th

March 14, 2008 No Comments Full Story