My brined turkey recipe arrives too late for this year, I know. I’m just quickly filing it away…


Pantry Basics: Red Velvet Roll Cake
This super easy to make, light and tender-crumbed Red Velvet roll cake weds CH’s obsession with Red Velvet…

Family Food: Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies
I am slightly obsessed with cramming as much whole grain as I can into my toddler, T’s diet…

Family Food: Quick Pizza Dough
This is an awesome recipe for a super-quick pizza. I’d go as far as to describe it as…

Toddler Food: Barley Grits Porridge
Like many Chinese children, I grew up eating plenty of porridge (which, in the Chinese context, is savoury…

Family Food: Easy Roasted Vegetable and Quinoa Salad
If you’ve been put off by bland tasting quinoa salads (as I have), this recipe for roasted vegetable…

Pantry Basics: Homemade Vanilla Fridge Wipe
Vanilla fridge wipe is a household cleaning product that I first discovered as an undergraduate in Western Australia….

Pantry Basics: Roll Cake (ロールケーキ)
When my toddler, T, had his first taste of this roll cake his wee face broke into a…

Pantry Basics: Toad-in-the-hole Redux
This is a spectacularly simple dish to prepare. Seriously. I spotted the original recipe,which was inspired by English…