What is DAPUR BERSASAP?

An introduction:

I am an avid cook. I consider cooking a form of skillful craft. I just LOVE it!

The whole idea of me getting a blog is to be able to share thoughts and recipes through the web, as done so by maybe millions of people already! I admit, I am slow...but I've got to start somehow!

In my blog, I will try and post useful links to other bloggers and maybe start my own recipe archive or something. Maybe add pictures, in the process of learning still though...

'DAPUR BERASAP'

In my language of Bahasa Melayu, 'DAPUR BERASAP' literally means 'Smoking Kitchen'. What the old village people would say to young girls who are still asleep way past 8am is ' Dapur dah berasap pun tidur lagi?!' meaning the kitchen is already smoking (someone has been cooking and preparing food) and you are still asleep?

So of course in my culture, girls are usually supposed to be kitchen friendly, and help prepare the meal with our mothers and elders, which unfortunately not the case in our household, as my sister and I are not allowed to 'disturb' our mom while she cooks, and we are oly allowed to help during prep, the tedious jobs of skinning shallots, derooting bean sprouts, deveining french beans, spinach ,and etc you get the picture....

So here goes, my blog starts...