Fad About Food

Since I started blogging, I've been wanting to share some recipes that I have in a little handwritten book. These are the recipes that have been collected over the many years too. They once belonged to my parents and has recipes written by my Dad, Mom, Sis and myself. Along the years, we have used some of these recipes as a guide, then tweaked them to our own personal tastes and likes. Yet these original recipes are still very precious because when we find something that goes wrong somewhere along the line, we always get back to the basic old fashioned recipes.

Many recipes in the olden days do not use metric system.

Measurements those days include 'chupak' which meant 1 imperial quart. These were terms commonly used in the 19th towards the 20th Century but not being used now.

If only I had known about this blogging thingy years back, I'd definitely have my recipes all placed on a blog and that would have been for more than two decades of recipes. The recipes were collected from the time I have picked up cooking from mom when I was young. Not that I liked it then. Oil splats and all that cutting weren't glamorous. I tried to stay away from the kitchen but my mom always made sure that my sister and I help out in some little way, no mater what. Even if it was just a few minutes of mincing the garlic, pounding on that pestle or even picking at beansprouts. It was good practise of a little bit of here and there. When she stir fried vege, she'd always ask us to stand in for a good few minutes while she goes to the sink to pick up the next ingredient.

This acts as my very own online recipe book and these recipes do not come with pictures as back then I do not own a digital camera. But as I go along, and cook them again, I will remind myself to take the pictures and put them into the existing recipe.

Some of these recipes have been tweaked while some are exactly as those I have taken off the recipe books that I have borrowed over my many trips to the library. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.