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Easy Chinese ABC Soup

After days of great and happy feasting over the CNY, I guess it’s really good to eat meals with food that goes lighter on your palate!

I remember when I was younger, my nanny who is a Cantonese, loves to boil soup for the family. I super love her watercress soup – the childhood taste that I still recall fondly now. So I grew up loving soups during dinner, and I try to make it a point to boil soup for my family if I have time.

This easy Chinese ABC soup is one of my go-to favourites, since it contains many vegetables, boiled into a nutritious soup base. My kids love the taste of this soup too!

Laksa Cookies 辣沙曲奇

So glad to have made laksa cookies this year!

It’s the same recipe that I have used for the Tom Yum cookies last year, except that I lowered the temperature this time round, so that the cookies don’t brown so much.

They turned out slightly softer. The texture is somewhat between crunchy and melt-in-mouth cookies, and I love that! If you’d prefer crunchy cookies, simply bake them for longer time.

Pandan Coconut Cookies 香酥香兰椰子曲奇

Note: This post may contain affiliate links – I may earn a small commission if you purchase through the links, at no extra cost to you. I only recommend products and brands that I trust and/or use. Thanks for your help in supporting my blog! The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and these pandan coconut cookies are great for last minute bakes! The original recipe is from Jeannie Tay, and I have added some pandan paste and desiccated coconut. While the pandan paste lends the cookies a nice mint green color, the taste was not very strong; but… Read More

Iced Gem Biscuits 花占饼干

Note: This post may contain affiliate links – I may earn a small commission if you purchase through the links, at no extra cost to you. I only recommend products and brands that I trust and/or use. Thanks for your help in supporting my blog! Finally tried out iced gem biscuits last weekend with my elder daughter! It was such a fun learning experience, as it was also the first time for me to make royal icing. Iced gem biscuits are small little biscuits with royal icing, which most of us would have eaten when we were little… Read More

Crunchy Chocolate Chunk Cookies 巧克力豆曲奇

Crunchy chocolate chip chunk cookies!

I can’t say how much I love to try out different cookie recipes, because my husband loves those crunchy Famous Amos cookies!

I kind of like the look of these cookies, and they are slightly sweeter than this recent cookie recipe I have tried. Due to the higher sugar content, these chocolate chunk cookies are also crunchier and sturdier.

Golden Salted Egg Yolk Pineapple Tarts 黄金咸蛋黄黄梨酥

Pineapple tarts have to be one of our favourite pastries for Chinese New Year in Singapore!

I super, super love pineapple tarts. These little tarts are usually made using butter, egg yolk, flour, and occasionally corn starch and milk powder. From its ingredient list, you’ll know that this is a rich, buttery and tender pastry!

This year, I saw this salted egg yolk pineapple tart, shared by Zoe on a Facebook group I am in. It sounds interesting, and since my husband loves salted egg yolk, I thought of trying it out.

I was glad I did!

Easy Bak Kut Teh 肉骨茶

Sometime late last year, we had really cool weather, which was perfect for hot soup, stews and curries!

Bak Kut Teh was one of our favourites! This peppery soup gets its name “meat bone tea” in Hokkien, which is pork ribs simmered in a peppery broth, made with herbs and spices. The word “tea” refers to the Chinese tea usually served together with the soup, as it washes down the oily feeling from this rich soup.

I have tried many ready packs of Bak Kut Teh, but none could satisfy the taste buds of the picky husband.

Until we came to this pack!

Raisin Walnut Loaf Bread (Pre-Ferment Dough) 老面种果干软吐司

Note: This post may contain affiliate links – I may earn a small commission if you purchase through the links, at no extra cost to you. I only recommend products and brands that I trust and/or use. Thanks for your help in supporting my blog! This loaf of raisin walnut bread, made using the pre-ferment dough method (老面种), is so soft and yummy – you wouldn’t believe it’s from your kitchen!

Shredded Chicken Porridge 鸡丝粥

Note: This post may contain affiliate links – I may earn a small commission if you purchase through the links, at no extra cost to you. I only recommend products and brands that I trust and/or use. Thanks for your help in supporting my blog! A simple taste of nostalgic from the olden days. This bowl of piping hot Chinese porridge is the comfort food on cold days, and is easy to prepare too!