https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBS1VHcbpWY In this episode of "RECIPES FOR MY DAUGHTER", I am making one of my daughter's favourite South East Asian snacks: Steamed Purple Sweet Potato and Layered Cake Recipe, or Kuih Lapis (Malay), or Kue Lapis (Indonesian). This traditional South East Asian snack is versatile and can be made in many different ways. In this episode, I'm making it with purple sweet potatoes, so we[...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohMxM6CmY0E In this episode of "RECIPES FOR MY DAUGHTER", I am making one of my favourites: sweet corn and vegetable soup. This soup is easy, delicious, healthy, gluten free, dairy free, plant based recipe, with oil free and vegan option. It uses fresh and bountiful summer produce and vegetables, and is a really nice way to get a lot of veggies into our diet. The[...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIHUEbet7f0 In this second episode of "RECIPES FOR MY DAUGHTER", I am preparing a herbal decoction that is made from several herbs from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). I use a ceramic pot or cookware to do this, and I'll be showing a step by step process, starting from rinsing the herbs to straining the final product in the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOEk41bUBsQ How to get iodine in our diet? In this second episode of "RECIPES FOR MY DAUGHTER", I share one of the ways we add seaweed as one of the sources of iodine into our diet. To make things easier, I prepare seaweed to be stored away so that it's easy and convenient whenever we need to add it to rice, soups, stews, lunch boxes,[...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WfY99stHc8 In this first episode of "RECIPES FOR MY DAUGHTER", let's start with the very basic of them all: how to make fluffy rice on the stove without a rice cooker! I haven't used or had a rice cooker for years and I so appreciate having one less single-function appliance in my relatively small apartment kitchen. After a bit of practice, making rice on the[...]