Teczcape-An Escape to Food

One of the taboos during Chinese New Year is not to eat  porridge /congee  on the first day of Chinese New Year because porridge (seen as fo...

With spider mites "visiting" every summer and a planter-bed in a part-shade location, we did not have much good success in growing...

At almost the same time August last year, there was a variety of tomato plants and vegetables e.g. kale and Swiss chard growing in our...

For some reason (probably habitual - if you start to eat something less often, you tend to eat them less often), I have used less pork in my...

Remember the post about "watercress" for salads or even garnish? Recently, I came close encounter with Upland Cress (that the st...

This is the first time I am using watercress for stir-fry. Yes, we are too familiar with making soup with watercress . But as the "...

That was the first and last time I had Daikon in my Watercress Soup . Not horribly wrong but I lost the distinct watercress taste that I ...

This soup was somehow created because I was eager to heal myself from a irritable "stubborn phlegm and breathless coughing" sympt...

Mention Chinese watercress - 西洋菜 (pronounced Xi Yang Cai ) and most Chinese will associate it with SOUP. This vegetable turns out almost li...