About Me
Welcome to Vivian's Kitchen Adventures!
Hi there! My name is Vivian, I have been a homemaker for almost 25 years since my first daughter, Vittoria was born and my second daughter, Valerie was born four years later. Wife to a wonderful, caring, loving man with infinte patience, Jonathan for almost 26 years. I am currently living in Kuala Lumpur, West Malaysia. My favorite pastime apart from baking and cooking, is tending to my garden, making DIY on crafty project, listening to my favorite classical, jazz and instrumental music and recently, I just fallen in love with food photography. I learned photography from my two wonderful daughters, Vittoria and Valerie who taught me how to take better pictures with iPhone and Nikon DSLR camera, when I started my Facebook, 2014. It was most fun and exciting thing, learning all the basics in terms of how to use the camera by trial-and-error and for this, I am blessed and grateful.
Been a dog lover all my life, love spending time with my five furry friends....yes, five of them!. Our oldest faithful, well-loved furry friend, Max, the golden retriever is almost 17-years-old, is partly blind and deaf due to old age-related, Sophie, the white Schnauzer and Pixie, the miniature Schnauzer, both are 6-years old. Snowy, the Pomerania (aka "cheeky monkey") is about 4 1/2-years-old and the youngest bred, Chester, the Shetland Sheepdog is about 3-years-old. Love and adore them immensely, they brings so much joy to our lives. Well, basically, they're just part of our extended family!. What can I say, all of them are my best taste-testers by fault ...:)
Photographed by Pet Pet Houzz's magazine
Sophie and Pixie, both Schnauzers are playful in its own way and at times, vary tremendously in personality. We called them, My Ladies!
Chester, the super alert watchdog in the family...:)
I have always loved cooking and baking, ever since I was a teenager. My passion for baking started since young, a great inspiration from my mom who taught me how to bake and cook. She would produce amazing cream puffs with custard filling, pineapple tarts, cakes, cookies and other sweet delights. Mom took great pride in her cooking skills and she could cook just about any type of food. I learned these from just watching my mom cook our favorite dish, spicy tamarind fish with pineapple, chicken curry, deep-fried five spiced duck, Shanghainese braised meat 红烧肉 (Hong Shao Rou), beef rendang (just to name a few), it was sweet and most memorable moment of my childhood. The
smell of freshly baked cookies, cakes and the aromatic fried-spices
wafts through the air , does have a way of bringing out nostalgia. She taught me well that everything really does taste better with homemade.
The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind - Thalassa Cruso
What started out as a food diary on my Facebook in early 2014, bloomed and evolved an intense enthusiasm, both in the kitchen and behind the lens. I'm so grateful and blessed to have my loved ones that encourage and support me to blog about my food. Vittoria, my oldest girl has the passion just like me and Valerie, my youngest girl is much into computer which helps me tremendously with my blog. Both of my girls partly handles all the "alien-coding" for HTML, JavaScript and the tech bits of Vivian's Kitchen Adventures, for this and countless other reasons, I'm clueless and loss without them. This blog started not long ago, which I just created in July, 2016 after much persuasion from my family and friends. My love for baking, cooking and creating new recipes in the kitchen led me to creation of this blog, Vivian's Kitchen Adventures.
I really enjoy looking at food magazines, new and old cookbooks (I have approximately 200, and still counting) cooking channels, not forgetting my collection of boxes upon boxes of cut-out recipes from old newspaper and magazines from years past. My neighbor, Mr.James Wan (good friend of mine, I called him the "Food Guru") who happened to be food editor for Famous Cuisine, shared great knowledge and tips about Chinese Cuisine and others food related, gave me recipe for Kueh Bahulu which I've tried and adapted on my blog.
Making DIY, simple glittered pine cones for Christmas.
One thing about sharing recipes with friends and family, it does helped me discover a whole social unit of food-loving people. Was totally inspired when I first started in one of the group, Food Blogger And Foodies United founder by, Mr.Kenneth Goh, from Guai Shu Shu's blog, where we share our bakes and home cooked dishes and ever since then my passion drives me to bakes and cook even more. I hope to inspire others and with this blog, it's also a great way to keep track of all the recipes that I've made and loved. The kitchen, definitely is one of my favorite place where I spend most of my time experimenting new recipes, create and develop to a new recipes.
Thank you for stopping by and taking time to read all about me, I hope I can inspire you to get busy in the kitchen and try out my recipes.
Happy baking!
Happy baking!
