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Quick and Easy Sushi Bake: Affordable Japanese Fusion Food Your Kids Will Ask for Again

Easy Baked Sushi Recipe for Busy Parents Dear sweet moms and parents! April here helping you relax into motherhood from my tropical island home. Today I’m sharing a simple yet crave-worthy pandemic classic – the humble sushi bake, also known as “Casserole sushi”. This Japanese fusion dish layers sushi rice and an assortment of fillings …

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IKEA Meatballs: Cook Sweden’s Favorite Comfort Food at Home

Dear sweet moms and parents! April here helping you relax into motherhood from my tropical island home at Marinduque! Today we’re tracing the unlikely rise to fame of an everyday dish – Swedish  Ikea meatballs. But first, a more likely story, I was craving again for something that I cannot eat on the islands so …

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How to Make Deliciously Fragrant Nasi Lemak in your Rice Cooker

#CookingUpIslandBliss: Making Nasi Lemak in your Rice Cooker As relaxing Sundays go on this tropical island, preparing nasi lemak in your trusty rice cooker has to be one of the simplest ways to start off the week with style. The fragrant aroma of pandan-scented rice, tantalizing chili paste, and freshly cooked ikan bilis will have …

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Marinated Pork Ribs BBQ in Mama Sita’s BBQ Marinade Sauce – An Easy Oven Baking Hack for Tired Moms

Easy BBQ Pork Ribs BBQ That’ll Satisfy the Whole Fam After a long day running kid taxi, the last thing moms want to do is spend hours marinating and slaving over ribs in the kitchen. But BBQ pork ribs are the ultimate crowd-pleasing one-dish wonder – especially when you cheat with store-bought marinade! Look, no …

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Kiampong Rice

How To Cook Kiampong Rice -Rice Cooker Recipe

My Happy Birthday Kiampong Rice It’s my birthday and I decided to cook something special! (yes, I have to cook it myself for myself haha). For some reason, I got a sudden craving for Kiampong. Fortunately, I had all of the ingredients in the pantry. Kiampong Rice was originally Fokien’s or Hokien’s “Salty Rice”. Im …

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Claypot Chicken Rice

Quick and Easy Claypot Chicken Rice in the Imarflex Turbo Cooker

Well, I know it’s not cooked in a clay pot, like in those traditional Chinese restaurants. I attempted this Claypot Chicken Rice on an Imarflex Turbo Cooker. The Turbo Cooker is the Filipino version of the American Instant Pot. It’s a multi-cooker which means you can cook assorted types of food on it and can …

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