Recipes by Little Corner of Mine

Steamed Nian Gao by Little Corner of Mine

This is a steamed glutinous rice cake that Chinese eat during the Chinese New Year to bring luck and family togetherness.

Pear Preserves by Little Corner of Mine

I sampled a pear preserves at my friend's house and really liked it. Since Bartlett pear is in season now, I would love to make it myself. I did a search on the web and found some recipes at cooks.com. It gave me a general idea of how it was made. What I liked best about this preserves is no pectin required. For my recipe, I used…

Pandan Oatmeal Waffles by Little Corner of Mine

I wanted to try pandan waffle and yet I wanted it to be healthy for my girls. So, I added instant oatmeal. I added chocolate chips because my girls loved them. As this waffle is a to-go waffle and we eat it as is, I also added some dried cranberries and made it sweeter. The calories for one of this is definitely 2-3 times higher…

Green Tea Pudding by Little Corner of Mine

I called this green tea pudding without eggs because this pudding was not made with eggs and baked in a water bath. I used gelatin to harden it. I got the inspiration from Nasi Lemak Lover's Soymilk Pudding and a commercial I watched on youtube. That commercial featured vanilla pudding, coffee pudding and green tea pudding and it…

Air Fried Cornish Hen by Little Corner of Mine

Chinese Style Green Beans & Happy New Year! by Little Corner of Mine

Chinese Style Green Beans & Happy New Year!This green bean dish can be easily spotted at the Chinese buffet table. In fact, that was how I discovered this cooking method. Below is how I imagine this dish is prepared and I made it for our Thanksgiving dinner. It was very closed to the original except I needed more…

Pandan Sesame Pizzelle Cookies by Little Corner of Mine

Pandan Sesame Pizzelle CookiesThis is a new Chinese New Year cookie recipe I invented for 2010. I didn't know how to name it so I just name it as it because this cookie is baked in a pizzelle maker. It stays crispy after it's cold and it stays that way which I like because I didn't want to bake or toast it again. This was a recipe I…

Spicy Korean Radish by Little Corner of Mine

I saw this dish in a Korean cookbook and immediately felt a urge to make it at home. I combined two recipes together to bring out the best spicy Korean radish dish for myself. I liked this as it was spicy and went well with rice or jajangmyeon.Ingredients:Method:1. Put julienned radishes into a big bowl. Add in 1 tsp. of salt, mix…

Chinese Scallion Ginger Chicken (葱姜油鸡) by Little Corner of Mine

This recipe was inspired by a Chinese cooking show that I watched, called 美女私房菜. Her recipe called for cooking the chicken in a spice soy sauce broth and then deep-fry the chicken until crispy before adding the scallion ginger fragrant sauce on top. I bookmarked it because it seem so interesting. My chance came when I had some…

Korean Spicy Chicken/ Dak-Galbi by Little Corner of Mine

I didn't know what gotten into me, I just felt like having a Korean meal. When I got that planned, I didn't know what I gotten myself into. I made three out of four banchan (side dish) before and everything seem simple on the surface. Only when I started working on it, only did I realize that it was actually quite a lot of work…