Stay At Home Moms

Aapam is a type of Indian rice cake with at least a 2 inch wide lace-like edge and a soft spongy center. Pronounced as “up-poam” (rhyming with ‘foam’), at least according to my family and the food stall vendors I buy it from back home, it’s spelling differs from one shop to the next. It is usually [...]

Ramadan, the fasting month for Muslims will soon be here. In a week’s time, Muslims all over the world will start their fast beginning with the ’sahur’ when we eat a meal before the break of dawn to last us through the day and ending with the ‘iftar’ when we break our fast with dates [...]

We were looking for easy to read books so that my daughter who’s picking up reading can try to read some pages on her own. We came across this book, on the shelf for beginner readers, in the library. I didn’t check the pages because we were running late and just checked the book out. [...]

A few weeks ago, we went to a Indian vegetarian restaurant. I ordered naan and a mixed vegetable dish (which I fell in love with). The tragedy is that I don’t remember what its called. I’m one of those people who hardly read the names of the dish on the menu. I believe that names can be misleading [...]

I didn’t know that there’s so much debate about whether we should eat wild salmon or farmed salmon. Salmon was something I ate only when I went to the buffet dinner at Cafe Vienna @ Royal Plaza on Scotts (Orchard Road) on special occasions - birthdays, anniversaries and occasions which had a  nostalgic feel to them. Now [...]