Star fruit jelly/40 recipes

Perfect for a crowd, this refreshing dessert can be made up to 2 days ahead.

Favourite Oatmeal Fig Muffins recipe

Ginger and pineapple are a great pair, ginger really enhances the flavor of pineapple, also gives a bit zing.

Try these fruit cake bars instead of fruit bread, they are very handy and delicious, also they are great gifts at Thanksgiving or Christmas!

Nothing is more fascinating and delicious than eating at the open- air street hawker centers in Asia, particularly in Singapore. Each stall serves a specialty, typically an honest, unpretentious, home-style dish for $1 to $3 a plate. This rice noodle dish is hawker food at its best. If done right, its fragrance will tell you how good it's going to be as soon as it arrives at your table.

This is an easy appetizer to make and can be frozen. From one of my best friends Barbara Smith

Green Tomato Mincemeat recipe

Here, beef brisket takes on an Asian flare. Slices of meat are braised in an aromatic stock seasoned with star anise, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, red pepper and dark molasses. As a final step, pureed eggplant is stirred in, for flavor and thickening.