About Mama Loo's Kitchen

Why start now one might ask.  After having worked in a corporation for a number of years, I suddenly found myself with time on my hands after participating (ok...getting selected) in a restructure.  This was one of the best things that could happen to me as it gave me the opportunity to finally relax, travel around the world and start doing the things I love.  Don't get me wrong.  I enjoyed my job, my colleagues at work, and the challenges the team and I got through and resolved every day.  Raising a family, the corporate job (working 60+ hours per week and sometimes nights and weekends), left me with little time to pursue my other passion of eating and learning to cook dishes, cakes and pastries that I enjoy.

Mama Loo's Kitchen is a mixture of cakes, pastries and dishes from around the world.  Especially recipes coming from Southeast Asia.  The desserts have been adapted to an asian palate so that they are "not too sweet".  I'm a fan of pre-mixes, packaged or frozen, that are available on the market today in most asian grocery stores.  With limited cabinet space, why buy separate containers of spices needed for some of the dishes when a pre-mix package has all the spices in one package?

Family, friends and neighbours are my guinea pigs.  If I make something that is a favourite of mine or was enjoyed by the majority (since everyone's taste is different), it will be posted and shared.

There is something special about family and friends getting together around food.  I had a typical childhood raised by immigrant parents who owned a shop.  At an early age, I knew I was loved and that my parents were working hard, for me and my siblings, in order that we could have an easier future.  Shop hours were long without a lot of time for conversation around the kitchen table. My siblings and I did not eat around the kitchen table.  We had a baby sitter that didn't nag us, punish us, nor force us to do our chores.  The only problem is that she talked non stop, wouldn't listen to us, nor answer our questions.  Yup...Our babysitter was the television.  We filled our plates with the dishes we wanted and sat around our babysitter to listen and watch her stories.  I'm sure many of you can relate to this.  Today I see phones on the dining tables in restaurants keeping us all company.  Put them away and engage with the people around you!  It was my husband that brought back the tradition of family, sitting together, and eating together, without a television, ipad, or phone around.  Enjoy the company.  Enjoy the conversation.  Enjoy the food.  Enjoy life.

Happy eating!!!