The Meal Planner that Brings Me Joy
The Reluctant Housewife Blogs (Post #1) – Meal planning, the weekly chore that I dislike oh so much! Meal planning is an agony for me! I live to eat, but my family members eat to live. They claim they aren’t […]
Tuscany Has My Heart
Cold, wintry weather has me dreaming of my summer days in Tuscany. It has always been a dream of mine to spend some time in Tuscany, Italy, and 2023 was the year we finally made it. The rolling hills, gorgeous […]
Top Three Coffee Spots of the Week (Round 4)
Our recent move to the west of Singapore was met with a bit of dismay from my east coast coffee buddies. I’ll have to admit a bit of trepidation on my part because I had so many firm favourites in the east. Now, having […]
A Novice’s Guide: Making Your Own Sourdough Bread at Home
So sick of sweet, processed supermarket bread, we brought sourdough starter to Singapore with the hopes of baking perfect loaves of rustic sourdough bread. The starter was given to us by my husband’s brothers. They have a part-time business in […]
Top Three Coffee Spots of the Week (Round 3)
So many cafés, so little time! I love when I find a new place and these three, I have never been to before. I went to one for a meeting, the next was to catch up with a friend and the last […]
Neal’s Yard Remedies and Deliciously Ella Collaborate
With a fan base of close to a million, Ella Mills (Deliciously Ella) has inspired a generation of followers to choose a clean and healthy lifestyle through the food they eat. Suffering from a major illness (Postural Tachycardia Syndrome), she turned towards […]
A Helping Hand – the Cookbook in English & Tagalog
As an avid recipe and cookbook collector, I was intrigued when Frog Michaels approached me at the school café with her hot-off-the-press cookbook, A Helping Hand: Delicious Recipes in English & Tagalog. I had briefly met Frog at an event so […]
Dapper Coffee
It was over a year and a half ago and perhaps it was all the wood panelling and old lanterns but I’m pretty sure that crusty old sailors never got coffee this good! One could turn their nose up at […]
Chye Seng Huat Hardware
Today I revisited Chye Seng Huat Hardware. It was 2013 when I last was there. Back then it was all the rage, with every other person who was talking about coffee also talking about CSHH. But who could blame them. Home to Papa […]
Discovering Small Boutique Wines at Merchants Wine Store (CLOSED)
Ainslie and David never thought they would end up running a co-operative model wine store in Singapore when they started their jobs in the corporate world years ago. After almost 20 years in corporate, they decided to try their hand at […]