Easy Congee Recipe Using Leftovers, Chinese Savory Rice Porridge
Unfortunately my daughter has a stomach bug. (We’ve been dealing with so many sick days this past winter, first one kid then another, so many fevers, but this seems to be the first stomach bug.) I wanted to make some food to help my daughter feel better, something that would be soothing on the stomach, […]
A Very Easy Enjoyable Frugal Birthday Party for My Daughter
Ok, so all of you who have been reading my blog regularly know that I’m a single mom. And all those who’ve been around for a while know that I generally make a birthday party for my kids, and try to go all out with a theme, while still keeping the budget pretty low. However, […]
Easy Dairy Free Vanilla Cake Recipe, With No Expensive Ingredients or Equipment
Today I made a birthday party for my daughter, more on that in another post, and for the party cake I wanted something quick and easy. Though I have a terrific gluten free vanilla cake recipe that I’ve made in the past, this time I wanted to try a cake with gluten, because I wasn’t […]
Gluten Free Vegan Char Chai Tow Kway, Singaporean and Malaysian Stir Fried Carrot Cake Recipe with Daikon Radish, and Homemade Chye Poh, Chinese Dried Daikon Radish
First time I heard about Cantonese turnip cakes, lo bak go, made with daikon radish, I was a little hesitant, because it sounded strange, but it is such a popular dish that I said I’d give it a go, and I was very pleasantly surprised, to put it mildly. They were such delightful little dim […]
How to Make Yee Sang Recipe, Chinese New Year Prosperity Tossed Salad, Lo Hei, Gluten Free and Vegan Option
When I finally figured out how to make my own homemade gluten free vegan hoisin sauce, my friend Juli of Pandemonium Noshery suggested that I use it to make Yee Sang, a Cantonese salad, sometimes pronounced yusheng, also known as Lo Hei, served as part of the Chinese New Year celebrations, because each of the […]
Ginataang Tilapia Recipe, Filipino Fish with Coconut Milk and Greens, Paleo, Delicious, and Easy
I love recipes from around the world, but haven’t had the fortune to taste too many different Filipino recipes. One of them, pancit bihon, is a stir fry that my friend Juli taught me, but beyond that, I wasn’t really familiar with their dishes. However, on a quest to learn more about dishes from around […]
Homemade Gluten Free Vegan Soft Pretzels Recipe
I’ve been off gluten for about 9 years at this point. And by this point, I’ve managed to find gluten free replacements for all the gluten things I loved, either store bought or homemade, but the two things I had yet to have and still missed were soft pretzels and licorice. Well, I can knock […]
Dim Sum Cantonese Turnip Cakes Recipe, Lo Bak Go, Gluten Free, Vegan, Frugal
The other day, when I was given a bunch of free broccoli, I was also given a bunch of free daikon radishes. There were so many being given, but people didn’t want them, because they thought it was just this strange radish, so I told them that it was a special Asian radish, and it […]
Stir Fried Broccoli with Hoisin Sauce Recipe- Gluten Free, Vegan, Easy
Once upon a time all my kids liked broccoli, calling them little trees. But as they got older, they got pickier, and now, on a good day, I’m lucky if I get one kid eating broccoli if I make it. But I got a bunch of broccoli free the other day, because it was a […]
Copycat Easy Cheesy Corn Recipe
There’s this fast food place near me that is nearly entirely gluten free, that I ate out at recently. Its name is officially “Corn” and it has two main types of things. Cheesy corn, as well as a baked potato bar. Watching them make my corn, it was so easy and simple, and yet when […]