Teczcape-An Escape to Food

Whenever whole grains such as quinoa or other multigrains are planned in our family meals, extras of chicken and seafood such as shrimps, ca...

By this time, most of you in the social media food-groups must have come across the Internet one-pot tomato-rice sensation. Beside one-pot p...

Pepper up your turmeric-based curries ! If you have heard, the alkaloid in black pepper - piperine, significantly enhances turmeric's cu...

What is becoming of me...?!? I am back to the "old" days, heavily depending on batch cooking a.k.a dump-everything-into-the-pot-...

Consider it lucky for being successful in my first attempt cooking Nasi Lemak rice using Tatung indirect-heat rice cooker - 大同电锅 . In cas...

How does this bowl of rice look? Basic? Simple? Strange? Unfamiliar? Well... Fragrant, delicious, homey, easy to prepare and cook.  LOV...

Of all the fall/winter bounty of pumpkin , butternut squash , acorn squash etc. - I can handle none at this moment due to my injury! Thankfu...

With roast chicken recipes out there that call for 40 cloves of garlic, I don't see why you can't do it with rice. I mean, not 40 cl...

Alas . Desserts. Finally. Cakes. I seldom (never) bake. So my bad, for not paying attention to details. I can only focus on making the c...

Healthy Dim Sum for you and me! How about some Glutinous Rice in "Lotus Leaf" (糯米鸡 Nuo Mi Ji in Mandarin; also named Loh Mai Ka...

In the past, I have used a Basic (Cook/Warm) rice cooker. The recipes in the The Everything Rice Cooker Cookbook (Everything Series) are mo...

This can be cooked over the stove-top. But how can I forget, "promoting" the use of a rice-cooker to cook this...^o^ In my cook...

Cooking "stir-fry" cabbage in a rice cooker is technically not a stir-fry if you define stir-fry as brisk-frying with some defin...

There are some popular Chinese sayings: 秋天 萝卜是人参,十月萝卜小人参 - meaning the Radish (Daikon) harvest during Autumn/Fall season is equivalent to ...

My book has only been in stores since August 2010 and what else could make me happier when I heard from the publisher that sales has been p...

Working on a cookbook is no easy feat, especially when you basically do everything from the proposal, to the cooking/experimenting; to writ...

My rice cooker cookbook at Amazon actually has one customer review? Oh wow. Good or bad, feedback is always good as a working cycle. To con...

You must be super darn lucky if you order a clam dish, then each and every clam has its flesh still intact to the opened shell. Clams so...

It was less than five years ago when I found that root vegetables: celery, carrots and onions are common in soup-stocks (chicken-stock, and/...

Thank you Bee Yinn, for the shout out to my cookbook at Rasa Malaysia . ^o^ Recently, some recipes do not appear in my postings because I...