Fry Foods

I fry foods once or twice a week, as the kids love their bite-size breaded chicken wings to go with steamed rice and some mild veggie or boiled-egg curry.
Traditionally, in my mother’s household, we fry foods in a thick black wok, but you need a specific stove ring to hold up the wok firmly from [...]

Buying an Espresso Machine

As a gift for someone else, is not an easy task, especially when I am not exactly a coffee drinker.
I mean, whenever I visit friends and family, if offered coffee, I would take it, no problems.

Image by blmurch via Flickr

But at home, it is not automatic for me to have coffee in any drinking liquid [...]

Getting an Electric Rice Cooker

I thought I had finalized my decision to just get a simple rice cooker when I gave away my old simple, yet still functioning rice cooker to my daily helper. I offered to get her a brand new one, but she would have none of it. However, she insisted I get a better one, [...]