Yummy in my Tummy!: Welcome! My Story

I consider myself a foodie.

According to wikipedia :

n.Slang A person who has an ardent or refined interest in food; a gourmet.

Further, a foodie seeks new food experiences as a hobby rather than simply eating out for convenience or hunger. While gourmet and epicure can be used as synonyms they have fallen out of favor and bring to mind a stodgy or snobbish attitude.

My husband, I think, is an "snobbish" foodie than me, for he will rather be hungry than eat lousy food. So the responsibility sometimes falls on me to suggest places to eat, and if I am cooking, to cook something different each time, and to his liking.

Before i met him, i used to eat for convenience, I could be satisfied with instant noodles (with all my favourite add-on ingredients) or porridge continuously. Not that i don't savor such comfort foods anymore, but my mindset changed since we started dating and dining out more.

We were the sort who can eat and discern a good meal from bad rather easily, thanks to our blessed tastebuds, but we were always too lazy to cook ourselves. That, however, never stopped me from buying cookbooks, saving recipes, get all excited about buying cookware. I think the interest started during my Secondary 1 home economics days.

Recently though, in the past 2 years, things have changed a little. I quit my fast paced, ladder climbing job when my girl was 1.5 years old to be a stay at home mum (SAHM). SAHM, in Singapore's context, seem to be all pretty apt in cooking, either by circumstances (need to cook everyday) or for some, a genuine hobby. I was pretty inspired by the advent of the korean happycalls and ceramic pots in the past 2 years and the numerous blogs and asian home styled recipes, eg Noobcook, Let's get working, Food 4 Tots and Munch Ministry, to name a few.

Still I found it rather hard to cook for my family for a few reasons :
1) my husband does not come back regularly for dinner
2) and if he does, he will only tell me at around 4 or 5pm, if I nudge him repeatedly
3) so having a potential for eating out, I dare not take the risk to cook for my girl and myself and my helper (helper then will cook for my girl everyday, at least she is guaranteed food by 6 or 7pm instead of waiting for us)
4) and even if my hubby decides to come back for dinner, he is not content with the regular 2 dishes + 1 soup menu.

I am still not quite there yet, but I am glad to say that I have been more adventurous in trying out recipes that I have sought out from the internet. Here, I will document my cooking journey (hopefully if I can remember, recipes to go along) and food reviews (oh, i have so so many recommendations but never had the chance to really pen them down).

Thanks for visiting my blog and wish me luck!