Food Channel

My husband and I have one thing  in common when it comes to tv channel, we enjoyed watching TLC. Most of the time we will be watching food related series such as Jamie Oliver, Andrew Zimmern, Anthony Bourdain and others. My back ground with food is totally local. I'm not those type who really curious with what I eat but my husband is the total opposite of me. Coming from a family brackground of baba nyonya, english, chinese and kadazan (total rojak!) and grew up in Kuala Lumpur, he experienced so much of the west and the east of Malaysian cuisine.

Having the opportunity to be at the northen part of west Malaysia is a wonderful experience. The people, the social enviroment and most of all with the foooood... I was then in my university (University Utara Malaysia) years and staying in the campus. What do you expect if the location of the university is so far away from the hustle and bustle of town and it is actually at the border of Malaysia and Thailand to be exact. So you have no choice but to enjoy campus food. I never fancy hot and spicy food and  was having bad, I mean seriously bad moment with food there for nearly a month untill I managed to adjust myself with it. Fast forward, I actually miss the fusion of Malay and Thai cuisine back then. Its been a decade after I graduated and back in Kota Kinabalu, I sometimes pop by Nok Thai restaurant in Damai where they serve delicious Thai food and their desserts are fabulous just to eased my craving for Thai food and for Malay food, Kak Nong is my choice.

Now, I am in to cooking, not only for the sack of pleasing my appetite but also to make my whole family feel happy with food. People always said the heart of a home is in the kitchen. Thanks to TLC, I learned more than just local cusine and can get most of the recipes on their website. For me, cooking is like solving an algebra where you can either be using +, -, x or / in order to solve the question and at the end of it you will get a negative or positive answer. With cooking, you can use so many ingredients in so many ways of cooking and will get a nice or nasty out come at the end of it.

Since I have my bunddle of joy, I have been trying most of the kids recipe which I found on the internet. As a mother, I believe cooking good food for my kids is very important. I will always make sure that they will have variety of food all the time. My kids usually eat rice with soup. I always rotate between chicken, beef or fish soup and I used a lot of vegetables to compliment the taste. I do give them fried food sometimes and their favourite is fried ikan bilis (anchovy) and oh, fruits is a must with them. To Share some tricks on how to make your child to eat vegetable is I guess by training them or make them familiar with this kind of food at the early age (6 or 7 months old) is critical because if they are not familiar with it, the chances of them eating it is less. What I did with my kids is that I usually boil some vegetable such as carrot, broccoli or other local vege for them as snack. They didn't really care what was that back then. They will just put inside their mouth what ever you give them. I will also blend some of it in to their porridge and thanks God until now they don't have problem eating green. Other trick is for kids at age of  4 years and above. I've seen some friends do this to their kids. They cut the vege finely and mix it with minced meat or even in soup. Its seems woking for them but hey! no harm trying right.

Will share some more write up about food soon but for now I got to go back to my food channel :)