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"When this reporter visited Rosaline's home, she was instructing five maids on methods of cooking. Employers send their maids here because they hope to eventually savour traditional Nonya dishes. When Rosaline conducts her classes, the mood is like chatting with friends in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere and the class is filled with laughter…The maids said their employers were always full of praise after trying out their newly-acquired culinary skills..."
- Translated from Lifestyle Magazine (Chinese)
"Dear Rosaline,
Just wanted to say a big thank you for a fun series of Cooking classes. It was a delight attending every session, and the recipes were very useful. They were easy to follow and best of all, even my helper could cook after attending your classes. It was a challenge trying to find a good cooking class that taught food that could be cooked for a typical Singaporean Family dinner - so I am really glad to have found your site. The "Kong Bah Bao" and "Rendang dishes" were a big hit with the rest of the family members. Look forward to attending more of your classes in the future.
Cheers...Sher-li"
(Email received from Mrs Sher-li Torrey on 13th April 2012 after her 5th and last class) |
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Classes for 2012 Cook the best Peranakan meals at home.
Dear Friends,
With the school holidays round the corner, many will be taking off for a well-deserved break. I'm no exception! hence I've not posted any classes for June yet, as I'll be away in Perth from 6-17 June.
For those of you who wish to help your domestic helpers cook you delicious and appetising meals, please let me know and I can tailor the classes to your wishes. I've just finished a couple of courses for domestic helpers and will embark on another 5-day course on Saturday April 21st at 2.00pm. For those who are interested in these 5 classes please check the details on my website. If you wish to join this group, please sms me at 96757611 or send me an email. Beginners learning to cook peranakan food or those wishing to expand their recipe repertoire, can also join these classes. I have enough to keep me busy till after my holidays, after which I should be arranging some classes for Maids! I have a couple of requests and hope to get more for June.
Other classes will be as listed on my website and will be conducted when I have 3-4 to start. This list can be adjusted along the way!
I also welcome corporate team-bonding classes, where participants end up with a meal of the dishes chosen and cooked. Two classes conducted recently for a team from Cisco Systems and another from Hewlett Packard, were very well-received.
For those celebrating a birthday or other happy occasions or just a get-together with friends, you can arrange for your own favourite dishes, cook them and enjoy them immediately.
Oh yes, I also have my own Facebook page - grandmothers recipes, where I post some pictures of dishes taught at my classes.
Please note that I need a deposit of $20/ for classes and any last minute cancellation will result in forfeit of deposit.
All ingredients are provided and you only need to bring your own containers to pack back the food cooked if not eaten after the class.
Please check details of dishes for the classes below.
If you are interested, please sms me at 96757611 or email me at ros@grandmothersrecipes.com.sg or rosalinesh.soon@yahoo.co.uk or call 64597549/96757611 to book.
| April 2012 |
| 19th Thursday at 10.30am/2.30pm/7.30pm |
HongKong Rose Flavored Chicken
Jui Her Eng Chye
Lek Tau Suan |
| 21st Saturday at 2.00pm (Confirmed) |
First Maids' Class
Chicken Chops
Fried Towgey
Tanghoon in Claypot
Pork Ribs with Wintermelon Soup |
| 28th Saturday at 2.00pm (Confirmed) |
Maids Class 2
Char Siu Pork (Barbeque Pork)
Pomfret Fish in Black Bean Sauce
Chicken Soup with Fresh Corn
Spinach stir fried with garlic |
| 30th Monday at 10.30am (Confirmed) |
Or Nee (Teochew Yam Paste Dessert)
Sarawak Chocolate/Horlicks steamed Brownies
Kwey Dadar |
| May |
| 2nd Wednesday at 10.30am (Confirmed) |
Nonya Laksa
Curry Chicken
Ngoh Hiang
Kwey Pi Ti (Bonus) |
| 2nd Wednesday at 7.30 (Confirmed) |
Hainanese Pork Chop
Coffee Pork Ribs
Hae Bee Hiam |
| 3rd Thursday at 10.30am or 2.30pm |
Olive Rice
Yellow Ginger Roast Chicken
Kwey Salat |
| 4th Friday at 3.00pm (Confirmed) |
Private Class |
| 5th Saturday at 2.00pm (confirmed) |
Third maids' Class
Curry Chicken
Blanched Brinjal with Fried Onion and Sambal
Sweet n Sour Fish
Meat Bal and Vermecelli Soup |
| 8th Tuesday at 10.30am or7.00pm |
Nonya Chang
Crystal Chang |
| 9th Wednesday at 10.30am (Confirmed) |
Penang Prawn Mee Soup
Hainanese Pork Chop
Penang Laksa |
| 9th Wednesday at 7.30pm |
Nonya Chang
Crystal Chang |
| 12th Saturday at 1.30pm (Confirmed) |
Private Class
Nonya Chang
Crystal Chang
Sago/Mango/Pomelo/Strawberry Dessert |
| 14th Monday at 10.30am |
Private Class for Overseas Visitors |
| 15th Tuesday at 7.30pm (Confirmed) |
8 Treasures Duck (Stuffed Teochew Stewed Duck)
Italian Pork Loin in fresh herbs and Milk
Jackfruit Dessert |
| 17th Thursday at 7.30pm |
Hainanese Pork Chop
Baked Fish in wine
Sugee Cake |
| 18th Friday at 10.30am (Confirmed) |
Or Nee (Teochew Yam Dessert)
Kwey Dadar
Steamed Sarawak Brownies |
| 19th Saturday at 10.00am (Confirmed) |
Private Class
Nonya Laksa
Ngoh Hiang
Babi Pongteh
Onde Onde |
| 19th Saturday at 2.00pm (Confirmed) |
Class 4 for Maids
Beef Rendang
Kangkong with Belacan
Egg Omellete
Fish Ball Soup |
Classes are hands-on and will start with a minimum of 5 . All ingredients are provided. The cost is $80/ per class. If you sign up for 8 classes over 2 months, you will receive an additional bonus class. A deposit of 25% or $20 is needed to confirm your place.
Classes will only commence if 5 or more sign up. You are welcome to make up your own group and request for your desired dishes which will be accommodated as much as possible.
Classes are conducted at Grandmothers Recipes Kitchen,
81 Gardenia Road, Singapore 578856
Tel: 64597549/96757611
Email: rosalinesh.soon@yahoo.co.uk or
ros@grandmothersrecipes.com.sg
Website: www.grandmothersrecipes.com.sg
What We Teach
Fees
• Domestic Helpers (Maids) Course - The 5-day course costs $380. All ingredients are provided and the course includes take-home portions of dishes taught for employers’ sampling
• Others - request for any 3 dishes from the list that follows, costs $80 -$100
Timing of Classes
• 10.00am to 12.30pm / 2.00pm to 4.30pm / 7.00pm to 9.30pm
Classes are conducted when there are at least 5 interested.
5-day Course for Domestic Helpers
| Introduction |
1. All about seasoning and spices (we do not use MSG in our dishes)
2. How to pick fresh sea food
3. The different types of vegetables and their names
4. How to prepare sambal belachan
5. How to plan a 4-course meal |
| Day 1 |
• Chicken chops • Towgey fried with tau kua (different ways of cooking towgey) • Tang hoon (vermicelli) in claypot with prawn • Pork ribs with Winter Melon soup (other soups using pork ribs) |
| Day 2 |
• Char Siew Pork • Spinach fried with garlic • Pomfret in black bean sauce • Chicken soup with fresh corn (using chicken bones for various soups) |
| Day 3 |
• Curry chicken • Blanched brinjal topped with fried onions and sambal • Steamed or sweet and sour fish (types of fish to use for steaming) • Tang Hoon (vermicelli) and meat ball soup |
| Day 4 |
• Beef Rendang or Stewed Chicken with button mushroom • Kangkong with belachan and dried prawns • Egg and Onion Omelette (various ways of using eggs for a quick dish) • Fish ball soup |
| Day 5 |
• Chicken Rice • Blanched Chye Sim with oyster sauce • Sambal Udang • Chicken soup with cabbage |
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One-Dish Meals
These recipes which can easily be served as a one-dish meal for lunch or dinner, have all been painstakingly developed over many years and enjoyed by many family members and friends. Using the freshest ingredients and without using MSG, you can learn the secrets of cooking genuine nonya laksa with 13 ingredients, or the unusual Penang Kerabu with its many variations that will stimulate your creativity.
• Nonya Laksa • Penang Laksa • Poh Piah • Penang Prawn Mee Soup • Birthday Lam Mee • Nasi Ulam • Macaroni Soup • Mee Siam • Kerabu Bee Hoon • Fried Kwey Teow • Penang Mee Rebus • Hor Fun • Kong Bak with Buns • Nasi Lemak • Olive Rice • Teochew Fried Mee Teow • Fried Hokkien Prawn Noodle • Hokkien Fried Tang Hoon • Hainanese Pork Chop • Tauhoo Goreng • Lasagne • Pasta
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Salads/Vegetables/Snacks
For interesting salads and great snacks for your kids birthday parties or a side dish to add to your dinner or party needs, learn to make these quick and delicious dishes like boxing chicken, ngoh hiang, etc.
• Thai Salad • Pasembor • Kerabu Cucumber • Kerabu Pineapple • Archar • Chap Chye • Ngoh Hiang • Otak Otak • Pomegranate Chicken • Chicken Wings • Boxing Chicken • Sandwiches (tuna, sambal, corned beef, cheese and ham) • Jiu Her Char • Stuffed Tau Pok • Kueh Pie Ti • Fried Bamboo Shoots with Chilli
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Meat Dishes
Truly peranakan buahkeluak is taught from scratch – from where to buy, how to pick, how to clean, and the different styles of cooking these strange-looking but delicious nuts someone described as Asian equivalent of ‘blue cheese’. Many of these meat dishes, when cooked at home, have so much more ‘zing’ to the dish as they are slowly simmered to perfection!
• Ayam/Pork Buah Keluak • Babi Pongteh • Spicy Pork Trotters • Kong Bak • Beef Rendang • Roast Pork • Char Siew • Teochew Braised Duck • Chicken Rendang • Kerabu Chicken/Prawn • Yellow Ginger Chicken • Chicken Chop • HongKong Rose Flavoured Soy Sauce Chicken • Italian Herbal Pork in Milk
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Seafood
Learn a different way of cooking your favourite Pomfret fish! If you have not heard of Gulai Tummis, you don’t know how Penangites love to have their pomfret done this way with the lovely flavour of bunga gantan(ginger bud or torch ginger). Learn also a different and appetising way of cooking Ikan Kurau for the kids. Introduce them to Fish Belanda. Yes, seafood is healthy and can be made interesting!
• Claypot Fish Head • Gulai Tummis, Assam Pedas • Stuffed Sotong Curry • Stewed Sea Cucumber • Sambal Udang • Assam Prawn • Claypot Prawn with vermicelli • Curry Prawn • Flower Crab Curry • Banana Leaf Seafood BBQ • Teochew-style Chinese New Year Raw Fish • Ho See Fatt Choy • Hay Choh Prawn Balls • Crab Meat Fish Maw Potage • Teochew Fish Head Steamboat, Song Her Claypot Fish Head
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Soups
A healthy, home-cooked soup served piping hot on the dinner table has always been a must in my family. Learn to cook basic soups from fresh ingredients and dish up interesting variations with subtle ingredient changes
• Kiam Chye Duck Soup • Her Peoh Soup • Fish Head Soup • Oxtail Soup • Pig’s Stomach Soup • Chicken Sesame Oil Soup • Dumpling Soup • Basic soup stock with winter melon, lotus roots, watercress, corn, Chicken with Hunan Ham and winter cabbage, or Pumpkin soup, Mushroom soup, etc
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Chinese New Year Specialties/Cakes/Desserts
Blest with many family members who are gifted in various culinary skills and interests, Rosaline’s niece, Julia Tan, will teach you all the skills needed to fill your larder with great delicious cookies, cakes and sweet offerings for Christmas, Chinese New Year and any time you fancy!
• Pineapple tarts • Cashew Nuts Cookies • Emping Cookies • Kueh Bangket • Almond Cookies • Almond Pinenut Shortbread Cookies • Pecan Nut Cookies • Mini Hae Bee Hiam Poh Piah • Steam Huat Kwey • Chocolate Fudge • Chocolate Truffle Cream • Baked Chocolate • Steamed Sarawak Brownies • Sugee Cake • Orange Chiffon • Teochew Or Nee • Kueh Ko Swee • Bubur Cha Cha • Sago Gula Melaka • Cheng Tng • Tau Suan • Gingko Nuts with Bean Curd • Sago Melon • Mango Sago Pomelo/Ice Cream • Bubur Hitam • Bubur Terigu, Lek Tau Suan, Kwey Salat, Kwey dadar, 4-coloured onde onde, Mua Chee and many more
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Children's Classes
Kids love making Pasta dough, as it's akin to playing with 'playdough'. Keep them happily occupied during school breaks with a cooking class where they learn sharing, teamwork as they knead dough for pasta, muffin, curry puffs, 4-coloured onde onde which they'll eagerly devour.It's not just keeping them happily active, but learning a skill, teamwork and seeing the fruits of their co-operation.
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Note and Charges
Rather than having fixed menus, Rosaline believes in catering to the needs of the group. She invites you to choose two to three dishes, find your own group of friends, neighbours, relatives, colleagues and start your own class. You will have fun celebrating a birthday, a reunion, a ‘letting your hair down’ session, a bonding session through learning how to cook your favourite dishes and sitting down for a meal you have helped to cook, with your own bottle of wine.
Depending on the dishes chosen, each lesson per head will cost between $80 - $100 and the class size can be from 5 to 12.
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