About this place

Tired of recipes that assume you’re cooking for a family of six. Tired of making something delicious and then realising you now have leftovers for the next four days, except you’re barely home because life in Singapore is busy and everyone has work, friends, obligations, events, dinners, plans. And honestly? Sometimes I just want one really good meal.

I love to cook. I love feeding my friends. I also love cooking for myself. Cooking for one is its own particular kind of freedom. Sometimes it means making exactly enough for dinner and one slightly exciting lunch the next day. Sometimes it means spending an entire afternoon making a completely unnecessary feast because, well, sometimes that is the mood.

Over the years, I’ve learnt how to scale recipes down properly. Chicken for one. Soup for one. Kebabs for one. Biryani for one in a rice cooker, which is admittedly a little unhinged because biryani is meant to be shared, but here we are.

I also hate excessive leftovers and unnecessary clean-up. So a lot of the recipes here are designed around real life. Small kitchens. Stocked pantries. Minimal washing up unless I’ve decided to disappear into a full cooking spiral for the afternoon.

I grew up eating Indian food at home and my mother is an exceptional cook. But I also live in Singapore, which means eating across cultures constantly. You can’t really live here and not end up cooking that way too. So the recipes here wander everywhere. Indian. Middle Eastern. Southeast Asian. European. Sometimes all at once.

Some recipes are adapted from cooks I admire like Yotam Ottolenghi and Nigella Lawson. Some came from holidays where I got obsessed with remembering a particular taste. Some exist because I had random things in the fridge that needed clearing before they died quietly in the vegetable drawer. And many of them started with me having lengthy, slightly chaotic discussions with ChatGPT trying to reverse engineer a craving or flavour profile in my head.

The recipes here are not meant to be perfect. They’re meant to be cooked, adjusted, improvised, scribbled on, and adapted depending on what you already have at home. Most importantly, they’re meant to work for actual life.

And if you make something from here and it goes gloriously right, slightly wrong, or completely off the rails, I’d genuinely love to hear about it.