"Good manners are not a function of economic status. They are a function of home training, personal insight and consideration for othe...

Something went wrong with my left wrist earlier this week. A little bone seemed to stick out further than the same on the other side, and i...

The day the last child weans is a momentous milestone for every mother who practises Full Term Breastfeeding. After years of offering a bre...

So I've heard (ok, read, really) soooo many people online swearing by cast iron, and I'm honestly getting sick of even the more hea...

今天心血来朝, 为大儿子的两本自习"课本"做了两个covers. 虽然很简单, 却让两本<<武林秘笈>>增添了几分色彩. 希望他看到会更有心情复习.

Eleven years old today! I made him a chocolate sponge with fresh whipped cream. The recipe for the chocolate sponge is from Kitchen...

My sourdough mother, that is. I finally got up the courage to try and make my own starter. After reading several sites on how to do this, i...

Now that I have finally decided to really go ahead with homeschooling my Mouse through Kindergarten, I guess I should really focus on it, a...

This cake caused me a lot of anguish. I started two days earlier before the birthday celebration of a close friend and mentor, with previou...

I have always been attracted by gift hampers, ever since I was a little girl. The food ones on display on supermarket shelves are (usually)...

After the relative failure of the Devil's Food Cake last month, I really wanted to bring my family's opinion of my cake-baking skil...

It's my Dad's birthday, and we are having a family celebration tonight. Technically, it should be the combined celebration that inc...

We have finally moved into our new place, where we hope to "stay long long". After moving house every two to three years in the l...

One of our biggest headaches in this renovation was the approval for hacking down a couple of walls. According to the ID, it had to do with...

This dish has become one of our family's favourite chicken dishes, because it's tasty, healthy and (for me) so easy to cook. Lu...

All thanks to my neighbour who asked me to try again even though I'd failed miserably at it a year ago on my daughter's hair. ...

The PSI (pollution standards index) in Singapore hit an all-time high of 401 today. Anything above 300 is considered hazardous so that'...

So we haven't had conditions this bad since 1997, when the PSI was 226 at its highest. The talk all over Facebook is about the severity...

After a whole lot of homeschooling research this evening, I realise that we really need a proper schoolroom or school area before we can st...

I first fell in love with cheesecake years ago when I tried out (for fun) this recipe on Allrecipes called Chantal's New York Cheesecak...