I will tell you the story of my experience in the kitchen. I have been cooking daily, since the beginning of 2013. So enthusiastic I was about home cooking and food, I even started a group on Facebook where my friends and I were actively exchanging recipes on food or cooking tips. However, after a while, I started thinking..it’s all the same, isn’t it? There’s a recipe, you follow it, and voila, you have a dish but…how can I do this better? Still mulling over this,and while I was surfing the internet, I stumbled upon a website Keeper of the Home where one of its writers mentioned that everyone has a ‘cooking style’ – which would “determine one’s choice of recipes, your outlook on food and the kind of food you would cook and serve your family and friends”. So I pondered,” What’s ‘my cooking style’?” I reflected…over the course of two months in which I had cooked almost daily, largely due to the motivation and inspirations gained from my cooking group, I tended to cook d...
A personal archive of housekeeping, parenting, and family life by a Singapore mother — now growing into grandparenting, aging, and creativity in later life.