Oopsy Daisy!

I’m so sorry. I know, posts and updates have been rather scarce -- oh, alright, near non-existent -- lately. But I’ve been busy ; crazy busy. Am currently involved in a few recipe and other food projects, and they have required a much greater time commitment than I had originally anticipated, intended or even thought I would have to give. However, they’ve also been such a joy -- almost an all consuming passion. But with these coming on top of my “regular life”, my days are threatening to burst at the seams. So, regretfully, something has to give; and that something has turned out, unintentionally as it may be, to be shiokadelicious.

It’s not that I’ve given up on the blog (as some of you have written to ask), and no, it’s most definitely not that I’m ignoring you. Oh no, of course not. You know I won’t do that, right? And no, most certainly, this blog is not dead!

In fact, there are so many dishes I have been wanting to tell you about. I’ve been on a spicy kick of late -- lots of cooking, lots of spicy cooking! (Yes, there still has been a little bit of baking too, but not much. I think I did at least a few months’ worth in the run-up to Chinese New Year!) Oh, how I want to share the Indian-Malay-Moroccan-inspired spicy chicken I came up with on the spur of the moment (it turned out really well!). Then there are all the kormas and rendangs I have been cooking recently. I’m also going through an agar-agar phase -- an old favorite from my childhood but a food that I haven’t paid much attention to for a long while, and which I have been revisiting a lot lately. It’s amazing the wondrous permutations and creative variations one can do with one single, very simple ingredient! It’s been oh so much fun! Yes, there are lots and lots to tell, but not the time, nor the energy, to do so.

So unfortunately, updates will be sporadic at best. Maybe I will be able to sneak in a few posts here and there (I’ll do my best, as and when my energy permits), but if I don’t manage to, and if I disappear for a while, you know where I’m at. Thank you for your patience!

In the meantime, stay happy and keep smiling!