Olivia's Kitchen

This one cookies isn’t on the healthy list . I supposed you can make it as healthy as you can since it is homemade . I think anything that you make yourself , and you know what ingredients you put in to your cooked / baked goods , should be considered healthy ,right ? view full post »

My sister made bao buns not too long ago , i saw her on instagram post . We don’t live near from each other , she lives on the other side of the world , but we usually keep in touch through social media . So i saw her bao buns , and i mentioned she should teach me how to make it . In return she said ” you’re kidding right ? ” LOL .. She’s a pastry chef but bread dough isn’t really her forte , and i am on the other hand , love making bread stuff . She probably thought i wasn’t serious when i asked…

At the end of last winter , i made this croissant muffins . I guess it’s a trend in every bakery in the city . Although i have never heard about this before . I was obviously very bored and was looking for new things to try . So i arrived at Cruffins . I like croissant , who doesn’t ? And i don’t mind muffins either .. LOL . So it only makes a perfect sense that i gave this a try ! view full post »

Today is friday and usually i get to choose to make something fun . Fun in this case is like comfort fun , fun to make and fun to eat it too . I get to cook and eat pretty healthy throughout the week , so usually the at end of the week , i get to make something , sort of like comfort food . And my pick today fell into peach crisps . view full post »

It was one of the weekend where it’s hot but i was thinking to make soup . Yes , crazy , but this morning i wanted to make Pho Noodles , it’s been months since i had pho noodles . Before lockdown was the last time we had pho noodles at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant . So i mentioned to my husband i wanted to get beef bones after the gym to make this soup . The soup would take about 5 hours to simmer , to develop its flavor , but he thought it’d be too long to cook in case we wanted to go out some place .…

If you’re just looking at this picture at a glance you wouldn’t think of it as a different kind pizza . It looks exactly the same of any of those thin crust pizza out there . The truth is ,the crust what makes this different . No , it doesn’t use cauliflower rice ( I’ve done it before ) It’s better than cauliflower since it uses meat as the crust ! view full post »

On a hot summer day , the least you want to do is to be busy in the kitchen , turning on the stove or oven , and makes your house warm . Today , over here , is a hot day and it will be pretty hot throughout this week . So , i try to make something where it doesn’t require stove top or oven . So , slow cooker day it is ! view full post »

We love tacos , my son loves tacos , i think he can eat tacos almost everyday , it’s his favorite food . No wonder when i was pregnant i actually ate mexican food almost everyday LOL. I remember my mother in law and i used to go out lunch every two days for mexican food , we loved the local taco shop back in Indiana , i am not sure if they still exists though . view full post »

This one is an easy peasy dessert or just afternoon snack with tea or coffee . Gluten free and it’s keto friendly , no flour required except you’re using Almond meal / flour . There are only 4 ingredients in this recipe , it’s all about technique , nothing else . Not overly sweet , you can even replace the sugar with Swerve . view full post »

There are so many versions of curry , so i felt like i should add the ” indonesian ” word in it . LOL .. My mom used to make this dish quite often , she would call it ” Kare Ayam ” Kare = curry and Ayam = chicken . It is one of her favorite dish . I wasn’t really much into Curry back then . Although it was delicious , she would use whole chicken that she cut up herself and make a whole pot that would last us probably 3 days because there was only 2 of us . view full post »