http://www.simcooks.com Cooking Made Easy Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:53:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dried Sole Dried Sole - The meat portion One of my new readers asked what is dried sole, and since I have a couple of pictures on hand, I thought I'd post them. Actually, I didn't know what's the name of this ingredient in English until I read it in Rasa Malaysia's ... http://www.simcooks.com/500/ingredient-dried-sole/ Fried potatoes with beef cubes - how difficult can it be to make this dish right? This recipe which requires approximately 45 minutes of preparation and cooking time took me overnight!! :D How can this be? Well, I can only cook when the baby is sleeping, else I feel guilty ... http://www.simcooks.com/491/fried-potatoes-with-beef/ I don't know what's the big deal about breastfeeding. There is so much hype here in the US about breastfeeding and its benefits that I feel soooo guilty everytime I give my baby formula. I struggled for the last eight weeks - with breastfeeding and with the guilt that I ... http://www.simcooks.com/489/papaya-fish-soup/ I wanted to post this before I gave birth, but I went into labor a week before my estimated due date and the freaking labor started at 2am 6th June and lasted 32 hours until I delivered on 7th June, 7:50am to a healthy baby boy: J Junior. After that, ... http://www.simcooks.com/478/stir-fried-pork-with-button-mushrooms/ Bánh Khot - Crisp rice flour cupcakes with shrimp and scallions, served with lettuce, mint and basil. If not for Wandering Chopstick's recommendation, I would never have ordered this dish. In fact, I may not even step into Vung Tau Restaurant in San Jose because: 1) I don't know how to pronounce ... http://www.simcooks.com/485/vung-tau-restaurant-banh-khot/ I have this block of silken tofu sitting in my fridge for almost 2 weeks already. I bought it because J was supposed to be away on a short business trip and I thought I would make a tofu dish for myself. The trip was canceled and so the silken ... http://www.simcooks.com/482/minced-pork-with-tofu-and-mushrooms/ Mom prefers Chinese food to anything else, so last weekend, J and I brought her to Mayflower Seafood Restaurant in San Francisco to eat dim sum. This branch is much smaller in size compared to the one in Milpitas, CA. The restaurant opens at 10am, but there were already a ... http://www.simcooks.com/472/mayflower-seafood-restaurant-san-francisco/ Mom's in town and I haven't been cooking. I thought she would whip up some kick-ass dishes for me and J but I was dead wrong. She hasn't been cooking either. Coming from Singapore, a place where cheap and delicious food is readily available and people's favorite past-time is eating, she ... http://www.simcooks.com/469/moms-in-town/ Angela gave me a recipe for making Peng Kuih (translated to English, it means "Rice Cake"). Peng Kuih has a glutinous rice filling that is fairly easy to make. The recipe for making the dough also looked relatively simple. However, I had a hard time making the dough because the ... http://www.simcooks.com/461/peng-kuih/ What's Beethoven's favorite fruit or should I call it an herb? He even wrote a piece of music for it. Take a listen below. (Download may be a bit slow.) Beethovan's Symphony No 5. - I seriously think that Beethovan loved bananas :) don't you? Do you know that a banana plant ... http://www.simcooks.com/459/banana-muffins/