A couple of my friends know that I’ve been trying to live a smidge healthier of late – a little exercise, aiming for my 8 glasses of water per day, and adding some vegetables into the dietary mix. Nothing too drastic – I’m not giving up meat or fat or beer, and I think I [...]
I’ve been in a little bit of a cooking-rut. I’m not entirely sure how it started or when exactly this happened, but for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been starting to feel like I lost my kitchen-mojo. The first instance I remember was when I left a rib of beef in the SVS for [...]
As much as I love roast beef (and roast beef dinners), I find that what I look forward to more than the actual dinner is the leftovers. Wafer thin slices of cold roast beef, rewarmed in a little gravy, piled atop lightly buttered bread with various accoutrements like caramelised onions, blistered cheese, mustard, and – [...]
This Christmas was quiet for us – a couple of small dinners with close friends but no huge parties, mostly due to the majority of our friends being back (or permanently) in Singapore, so it was a pretty tame affair. The weather’s also been pretty erratic, with Christmas Day itself being rather chilly, which – [...]
I don’t really do Christmas presents. I mean, I love buying gifts for friends and loved ones when I’m out and chance upon something that I just know they’d love, but I never end up being able to wait until the next upcoming occasion to give it to them. And when a season like Christmas [...]
