A Florentine Midsummer Night’s Beef Stew (Contains Beef | Contains Gluten | Dairy-Free) After the Chinese New Year’s steamboat feasts and traditional snacks, this stew is suitably refreshing yet light on calories! In Italy, especially in Florence, the feast of St. John the Baptist has been celebrated from the medieval times, certainly in the Renaissance. […]

Grilled Corn Chowder Champon Style (Vegetarian |Contains Dairy |  Contains Gluten | Egg-Free) We arrived in Kyushu on a cool rainy day despite it being midsummer and the first meal we had was Nagasaki style Champon ramen. It was especially comforting and reminded me very much of home as it almost felt like a Chinese cuisine. […]

Sumo Nabe Hotpot (Chicken | Dairy-Free | Egg-Free | Gluten-Free)   Hotpot fit for a sumo wrestler! We have cooked this using soy milk, the first for me, and I was pleasantly surprised by the sweet, rounded delicate flavour of this soup. Soymilk is made from soybeans with high volumes of isoflavin, important in prevention […]

A Florentine Midsummer Night’s Beef Stew (Beef | Contains Gluten | Dairy-Free | Egg-Free)   In Italy, especially in Florence, the feast of St. John the Baptist has been celebrated from the medieval times, certainly in the Renaissance. Festivals last for 3 days from the 21st to 24th June, a period marked as midsummer, a […]

Kimchi Dubu Doenjang Jjigae (Meat-Free / Spicy / Contains Anchovies / Contains Gluten) I am a big fan of kimchi! I also happen to love soondubu jjigae (soft beancurd spicy stew) and doengjang jjigae (soybean paste stew). Hence when I sat down to create my perfect vegan Korean stew, it made perfect sense to combine […]

Samgyetang My Version (Dairy-Free/Egg-Free/Gluten-Free)   I love Korean ginseng chicken soup! At home, I make it with the traditional method of using a whole ginseng root and a whole chicken, stuffed with glutinous rice. Our rendition here uses tender marinated chicken pieces cooked with carrots, wolfberries, red dates, gingko nuts, chestnuts, a variety of oriental […]

Bulgogi Style Jungol (Beef/Dairy-Free*/Egg-Free/Contains Gluten) *No longer dairy-free once cheddar cheese is added as condiment. Most of us would have eaten bulgogi (bbq meat) at Korean restaurants or attempted to make it at home for parties. In 2011, a poll by CNN even had bulgogi listed at no. 23 on the “World’s 50 Most Delicious […]