
Creamless Spaghetti Carbonara
This is a dish the kids love to order when we are out. The usual variant outside is creamy because it is usually cooked with thickened cream. I can't eat much of it and none of it when it's cooled. I tried out a carbonara recipe without cream and it works really well. You just got to have your ingredients ready and close because this recipe requires you to work fast or you end up with fried noodles. Ingredients: Back bacon, 200 gram (the fatter the better. But I chicken out a

High Folate, High Iron Beef Meatball Soup
With two active children between 4 and 7, I like to keep my meals high folate to promote growth and high iron to sustain their energy level. Ingredients: Minced beef, 500 g Eggs, 3 Paprika, garlic powder, sea salt, celery powder, black pepper Yellow split peas, 120 g Green split peas, 120 g Hulled barley, 120 g Carrots, 2 medium, diced Russet potato, 2 large, diced Onion, diced Instructions: Mixed ingredients 1-3 together. Boil 3 litre of water with ingredients 4-9. Shape mix

Sprouted Foods
Air-fried Ayam Berempah on a bed of spinach, broccoli sprouts and zucchini flowers, Sprouted beans & egg salad, freshly baked Almond & Banana rye bread Growing up in Asia, I can still remember my grandma throwing away food that had sprouted. My mom and aunts continued with that habit. 'They are cancerous,' I was told. 'But we eat bean sprouts (豆芽),' I protested. I learn from young that when something doesn't make sense, it is important to find out factually why make your own

Fried Red Rice
Fried rice is an easy crowd pleaser. It utilises left-over rice and little bits of everything that what your kids like and what you would like them to eat. Red rice is amazing rice variant I love feeding the family. It's full of antioxidants, phytonutrients, vitamin E, protein and iron. It's a little harder to digest so I start off combining with with white rice, millet or other grains. It's not merely constipation we are worried about, but the stress on a maturing digestive

Sweet Roast Chicken Drumlets
This is a favourite dish of the kids. A chicken drumlet is small and perfect for their little hand. It gives them a sense of independence and promotes self-feeding. But cooking this can be a challenge sometimes. I find the usual recipe too sweet. The chicken burn easily in the oven. I don't relish standing in front of the oven watching the chicken. So I'm happy to tweak to a recipe that works for us. Ingredients: Antibiotics-free chicken drumlets 800g Extra virgin olive oil 1