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How do you usually eat your curry? With plain white rice and a veggie dish? With naan, roti canai or roti pratha (Indian bread)? Yeah, I guess that would roughly be what most of us might be used to.

But since I’m not a big fan of rice, I prefer to eat my curry with toast. It’s incredibly yummy and makes a great breakfast too. Not one of those colon cleansing foods but I assure you, once you try it, you’ll swear by it .

Since we try not to patronize Chinese restaurants in the weeks of Chinese New Year, we’ve been having our fill at Western restaurants instead. Recently we were at Tony Roma’s where we were served this yummy Onion Loaf on the house.

We love this tasty appetizer served with a dip that tastes like Thousand Island (or is it?). Getting a freebie like this is as good as picking up a great Cyber Monday deal .

Well, just looking at this Onion Loaf, I’m inclined to think it involves quite an engineering effort to get the onions wrapped around like this. So what do you think? Think this is good enough to eat?

For more than a year now, I’ve been trying to get the family to switch to wholemeal bread. They don’t make white bread like they used to.

Anyhow with the price of white bread gone up, it’s a good excuse to switch to wholemeal. The kids were like ukf8001axx at first , but they’ve since gotten the hang of it and stopped complaining. I’m happy we’ve made the switch to a healthier option with more fiber and goodness.

There are days when our school lunches almost resemble a small emergency evacuation and I’m not kidding. We have to be in and out of the house in a half hour or something crazy like that.

This then is my latest quickie lunch of sliced baguette dipped in herbed olive oil served with a bowl of mushroom and potato soup. Mm, simply delish. The idea came from a pizza dinner we had at Italiannies (our second visit in like ten years!) where they served us focaccia with herbed olive oil dip as a starter.

My kids loved it so much I had to replicate it at home. I used baguette instead of focaccia but I reckon any kind of bread would do. I infused some Italian herbs into a plate of olive oil. And I cheated with an instant soup mix .

For the past few mornings last week, I’ve been having breakfast at this new place I found. Well, I’d read about their $5 breakfasts but not being someone who eats breakfast out very often, I didn’t pay much attention.

But I have a gym partner now who faithfully hangs out with me when I go shopping for groceries and holiday gifts, and one morning, we decided to check out the Otak-Otak Place. It’s a themed restaurant reminiscent of your no-frills school canteen back in the good old 1960’s, complete with old-time songs played on wobbly records.

They have a few breakfast sets to choose from which come with tea or coffee, and my girl friend ordered the one that comes with Chicken Curry and Toast in a basket…

… and English tea with a Jacob cracker on top. So cute!

And I chose to have coffee with Nasi Lemak, or coconut rice with spicy condiments.

I’ve seen Otak-Otak Place franchises located in a few of the major shopping malls around town. Their breakfast is pretty okay for the price and I like that the place is nice and quiet in the mornings.