All posts by wena

One fine day in 2003, I decided to start a food blog to tease my sister and my mother who were both living in the USA. Somehow, along the way, I ended up feeding a lot of people just via the food pictures that I put up everyday. In 2005, I decided to take a break from blogging and just take it easy. So there were sporadic posts from my travels in the US as well as Germany and England. Now in 2009, I'm trying to pick it up again and start chronicaling my journey towards a better lifestyle that is more healthy than what it currently is right now.

: : Homemade Gluhwein : :

Updated with pictures :

The frog is thirsty and the wine is heated up with some herbs and lemon rings. 🙂 Yummy! Needed some sugar added in as well. 🙂

My friendly German colleague invited me to dinner at her house after taking me to a trip to a famous castle in Thueringia called Wartburg Castle. Her husband and only son join us. It was a nice trip and very breathtaking. Like the olden days, we climb up a hill to get there.

After the trip, we headed to her home and she made some Gluhwein for me. Yum! It’s basically heated red wine with some lemon juice and spices in it. Very nice after a cold day.

Trying to get the pictures up on a slow line is a pain. Will get it up later. Time for bed! Jetlag, urgh.

: : News for 2008 : :

Grats to Sam for winning the White Pepper Draw (Menu for Hope 4). Prize will be heading to you in the mail.

On the other hand, since I’m playing World of Warcraft for the last 1.5 years, I’ve started a forum for Malaysian WoW Players called “Jom Wow!” Was kinda tired of how the newcomers were being treatead in some of the forums as well as getting irritated with the moderators in others. Minimalist site because it’s free and hopefully will answer questions to WoW. Postings and community chats are slow but hopefully traffic will pick up.

: : Menu for Hope 4 ~ AP09 500g of homegrown white pepper : :

It’s now round 4 for the next Menu for Hope. I help out in the first round and it was a fun time giving stuff away for a good cause. For more information about the raffle, more details are listed here. And as always, Chez Pim is ever the gracious host.

So, my raffle prize is 500g of Granny’s homegrown white pepper. It’ll be mailed anywhere in the world. The pepper is definitely more mellow than the white pepper found commercially because it is grown organically and Granny, of course, took much care growing it. And as she claims, it is not soaked with dried chilli in water. The taste is different and the peppery taste comes slowly after a few seconds of tasting it.

Prize code is AP09 so donate USD10 now for a ticket to win it. Don’t forget to put down the prize code (which is the raffle ticket number for the draw, in the Special Message column. When entering your details, please make sure it’s (number of tickets) x (ticket code). And it’s USd10 per ticket!

Here’s a list of what’s available in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific, hosted by Helen from Grab Your Fork. It’s a lot of stuff. But the worldwide list is even bigger.

It’s pretty easy to win it and this year there’s a lot of prizes to be won. I’m going to try and see if I can win AP14 Demonstration of Chef baking beautiful cakes. So it’s basically just 2 prizes from Malaysia this year.

Postnote to Australians : You might want to select another prize. The Australian Quarantine Laws in Australia looks to be pretty tight so most likely, the above item will be consficated. Since the pepper is considered dried herbs, it will be picked up by the sniffer dogs. Sorry about this.