The Journey Begins

Sunsets on Bruny Island: Just like our home cooking  

My dad worked in the travel industry till retirement and as a little girl, I’d watch his planes take off from the former Paya Lebar airport’s viewing gallery with wide-eyed wonder, mesmerized by what out-there holds: this was one “silver-finned fish” drawn by the enchanting lure of a global adventure that entices all the senses.

So it is indeed my good fortune that my hubby shares my passion enough to travel during his vacations after winging afar extensively for business, as it is his palate is as internationally appreciative as mine. And this is translated into a mutual expectation of similar experiences at home - at our dining table and occasionally what gets packed into the lunch box to take to work.

This, in turn, has fuelled my love for lugging home cook books from across the globe, cooking, experimenting and personalizing. Flames to this fire have been fanned by complements I’ve received from dinner guests, friends who come for lunch and hubby’s colleagues over the years too, some with an interest in my recipes and cooking tips or to watch me apply them over the stove or in the oven. In fact, a few are keen enough to sign up for whatever cookery classes I wish to start.

So if you have a zeal for great food from across the different continents, you can do more than zip around the world for its gastronomical secrets and delights: Revealing them to you is my ultimate pleasure. You are warmly invited to relish the thoughts I pen here and embark on a culinary journey of shared recipes, exchanged by email.