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Budding chef
Budding chef
While other teens count chatting online as a favourite pastime, 15-year-old Bhuvaneswaran Surendran prefers being surrounded by different flavours, smells and ingredients as he whips up a variety of mouthwatering meals and delicious cakes for his family and friends.
 
Drunk on grub
Drunk on grub
Use wine or beer to pep up your dishes.
 

Cookbook Library
 
Cooking together
Cooking together
Looking for fun activities to keep your kids busy this school holiday? Why not invest in this delightful kid-approved cookbook!
 
A year of cooking dangerously
A year of cooking dangerously
Julie is a talented writer who has an interesting spin on life and cooking. Julie sets herself a challenge to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 365 days. Borders is offering a 20% discount for this book until March 31, 2010. Get the voucher at the end of the review.
 

My Family Cookbook
 
A papaya pickle pleaser
A papaya pickle pleaser
Tales are aplenty when families come together during festivals and special occasions to share meals. Most times a special dish from the family recipe bears witness to the occasions. In Star Metro’s My Family Cookbook, ANNIE OOI, discovers a unique Nyonya dish that is rarely found at yong tau foo stalls.
 
Weekend ‘chef’ serves up a treat
Weekend ‘chef’ serves up a treat
K.W. MAK enjoys Roy Tan's roasted lamb dish on the weekends.
 

Articles from Flavours
 
Recipe Feature
Keeping Tradition Alive
Keeping Tradition Alive
For those in the public eye, the days are a whirlwind of tasks and functions. Chinese New Year is a festival for getting together with loved ones and enjoying the family’s favourite food bonds everyone in celebration. Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen, Puan Sri Helen Chen and Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun share their family’s festive recipes.
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Entertaining
A Humble Feast
A Humble Feast
Easy does it for former Makan Makan host Chris Ng, who enjoys nothing better on a Sunday, afternoon than good company and a shared meal of simple fare.
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Kitchen
Oven Options
Oven Options
With a good oven, the joys of baking will be revealed to you.
 
Gadget
Instant Soy Milk
Instant Soy Milk
A machine that can reduce the laborious task of making soy milk to touch-button convenience is certainly an attractive proposition. Imagine having fresh soy milk on tap, for that’s what these new gizmos promise: the whole process takes less than half an hour. And in the Asian market where people drink soy milk like they do milk in the west (due to a lactose intolerance), the market potential is huge.
 
Grow Your Own
Chives: A Lowly Herb to Love
Chives: A Lowly Herb to Love
Chives may be cheap and much maligned, but they have many useful properties.
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Travel
Mesmerising Myanmar
Mesmerising Myanmar
Although Myanmar is better known for teak wood, gems and ancient pagodas, cookbook writer CAROL SELVA RAJAH is bowled over by the food and warmth of its people.
 
Feature
Better Burgers
Better Burgers
The five-star burger is probably one of the easiest gourmet meals to replicate at home. And your kids will love you for it.
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Chef's Technique
Carpaccio Capers
Carpaccio Capers
Carpaccio is the paper-thin Western equivalent of sashimi, served with a drizzle of flavoured oil.It adds sophistication to the menu of restaurants, and essential nutrients in their optimal form to the diet. Modern carpaccio lends itself to creative interpretations; you can make a carpaccio of most ingredients once you have mastered the easy technique for its preparation.
 
Ethnic Food Series
The Unique Cina Kampung
The Unique Cina Kampung
Specific to Kelantan, the Cina Kampung community is ethnically Chinese, but has a close affinity to the Malay and Thai cultures.
 
Mini Series
All steamed up
All steamed up
Enjoy the delights of dim sum at home, with the first in a four-part series featuring the steamed classics.
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What's New?
A Winter Olympics Gold Medal Pizza Party
Pears in Season
Here's to a Healthy, Happy, and Romantic Chinese New Year!
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Cooking Tips
Is Bread Mold Harmful?
Fondant
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Food Poll
The school holidays start next week? What would you do?

Have fun with your kids in the kitchen
Don’t want the kids to mess the kitchen
Send them for baking /cooking classes
Don’t bother because they won’t be interested
Never thought about it