When I was a child, I used to watch my poh-poh (grandmother) cooking in the kitchen. Normally, we would make typical Asian dishes – stir-fried, stewed or steamed, which were quite easy to prepare and cook. Poh-poh taught me the technique of cooking. We started from the basic things a person would learn from a culinary school. Under her supervision, I learned how to peel, slice and mince gingers, garlics and onions before trying out the more challenging tasks.  My poh-poh was very patient and she gave me so much advice. After preparing the ingredients, I was only allowed to stand beside her and watched her “doing magic” with her favourite iron wok. Sometimes, she would allow me to do a quick stir in the wok or dish up the food to a serving plate.

Poh-poh had never cooked from a recipe. She cooked by heart.  She took pleasure in cooking and felt good when someone gobbled down the food she prepared.

Like my pop-poh, mum is also a great cook and I love her cooking so much. She is also an excellent baker. When it comes to cooking, she is my inspiration. I remember clearly she spent so much time in the kitchen when I was a kid, filling my childhood with love and food. Passion for cooking – I guess that’s what I inherited from both my poh-poh and my mum.

Baking and cooking are my favourite pastimes. If there is one thing that helps to relieve my stress, it must be either cooking or baking. I love to be in the kitchen preparing food. That is my best moment of deliciously destress!

Anytime is cooking time – any day, any place, happy or sad.  Cooking is a continuous learning process. I fine tune my recipes and my cooking skills whenever I find the end results less satisfactory so that I can improve myself. It’s a never-ending process, but it’s fun and fulfilling!

Not long ago, my sister introduced me a multi-purpose cooking pot. The pot is so versatile that you can use it to cook, steam, stir-fry, stew and grill. I bought the pot from an online shopping mall “shopee.my”. Initially I used it to make some soup or steam some leftover and bring to the office as lunch. After a while, it suddenly hit me that if I repeatedly eating leftovers, my health would soon be affected. So I decided to prepare some easy meals in my office for lunch.

Inevitably occasionally it is nice to eat out but making my own food sounds even better to me. I can make whatever I want as long as I have the ingredients, rather than going around trying to find the food I want in a restaurant. Besides, nothing beats home cooked meals.   

I will share more recipes on I how cook using this cute mini pot. The recipes are simple and easy to follow.

Cooking brings joy, that is for sure, whether I do it alone, or with family and friends. Serving them food that I prepared and receiving their compliments always bring me so much joy and satisfaction. I am glad to be obsessed with cooking for it excites me and comforts me.

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Introducing my “cute mini pot”.

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