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147 recipes · 14 chapters · every dish rated Super Easy or Easy
Does this sound like you?
You've got a kitchen. You just never learned how to use it.
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You live on the same three sad meals — and open the fridge hoping something has changed.
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Delivery is quietly draining your bank account, and you know it.
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Every recipe you find assumes you already know things nobody actually taught you.
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You've stood over a pan wondering, "…is this chicken actually cooked?"
It's not you. You were just never shown how — until now.
Let's make sure it's right for you
Is this cookbook for you?
Yes, if you…
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Can barely cook (or think you can't)
Are sick of delivery and sad three-meal rotations
Want cheap, everyday ingredients — no gourmet shops
Live in Singapore / Asia and want food that tastes like home
Want to batch-cook and pack proper lunches
Maybe not, if you…
Are already a confident, experienced cook
Want fine-dining, project-cooking or restaurant plating
Prefer long, chatty recipes over baby steps
The good news
Good food isn't complicated.
It's a handful of simple things, done with a little care. That's the whole secret — and it's completely learnable, in baby steps, starting tonight.
"Every recipe is a sure winner — an iconic classic or a genuine viral hit. Never an experiment I'm trying out on you."
Now imagine…
A month from now
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You open the fridge and actually have a plan.
A hot, proper meal on the table in 20 minutes — for less than one delivery fee.
A freezer quietly stocked with dinners future-you will be grateful for.
You cook your hawker favourites — chicken rice, bak kut teh, sambal kangkong — at home.
You never fear undercooked chicken again, because every recipe tells you exactly how to check.
Introducing
Growing Up Is a Trap — The Cookbook
The companion cookbook to the book that sorts your adulting. This one sorts your dinners — 147 recipes built for absolute beginners, mostly Asian favourites with cheap, easy-to-find ingredients.
147
SURE-WINNER RECIPES
14
CHAPTERS
2
WAYS TO COOK EACH
6
BABY STEPS, MAX
Here's what's inside
Everything a nervous beginner needs
01
Kitchen Basics first
Before any recipe: how to cook plain rice, boil an egg, cook noodles, and stir-fry greens. Start from zero.
02
Tonight or Batch it
Two ingredient columns on every card — cook for one now, or scale up and fill the freezer.
03
How-Easy + doneness cues
Every dish rated for effort, with a clear "it's cooked when…" for all meat, fish and seafood.
04
Air-fryer, steamer & lunchbox
Whole chapters for the appliances you own and the food you take to work.
05
Local & loved
Hawker classics, a local-names & pantry guide, halal swaps and chilli guidance.
06
PDF + EPUB, with an A–Z index
A beautiful PDF for the big screen and a reflowable EPUB for your phone at the stove. Both, instantly.
What it does for you
By the last page, you'll be able to…
Feed yourself well for less — a hot meal for the price of one delivery, often faster.
Cook without fear — clear doneness cues and a Cook-It-Safe page end the guessing.
Never waste food again — "Use Me First" prompts turn tired leftovers into dinner.
Eat your favourites at home — from fried rice to rendang to bak kut teh.
Actually enjoy it — because it's genuinely, provably easy.
Why this one, and not the others
Built for real beginners in Asia
Most recipe sites & cookbooks
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Assume you already know the basic
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Gourmet or hard-to-find ingredients
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Vague "cook until done"
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Portions only for four; no batching
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Western measures & names
VS
This book
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Teaches the basics first, in baby steps
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Cheap staples from any supermarket or wet market
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Exact doneness cues & a safety page
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"Tonight" and "Batch it" on every recipe
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Local names, halal swaps, metric + rice-cooker cups
Meet your guide
Your (slightly bossy) older best friend
Hi — I'm Karen Evers-Foo. I learned to cook the old-fashioned way: hovering at my mum's and my aunt's elbows, allowed to watch but not to touch, then finally making the mess myself in Food & Nutrition class through my O and A levels.
I wrote the cookbook I wish someone had handed me when I first had my own kitchen — no cheffy nonsense, no gourmet shopping lists, just proper food you can actually make. Think of me as the older best friend who turns up, opens your fridge, and quietly sorts dinner.
— with love, Karen x
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Your launch offer
Feed yourself for less than one takeaway
40
day love-it promise
Cook from it risk-free
Try it for two weeks. If it doesn't make feeding yourself easier, reply for a full refund — no awkwardness, keep the bonuses.
Add the flagship book & save
Get The Whole Trap Bundle — this cookbook plus Growing Up Is a Trap, the full guide to adulting — for S$27 at launch (usually S$48).
LAUNCH PRICE . FIRST TWO WEEKS
The Cookbook — everything, instantly
The full 147-recipe cookbook (PDF + EPUB)
S$29
Kitchen Basics + Cook-It-Safe + A–Z index
included
Bonus: "Your Kitchen Kit" printable checklist
S$6
Bonus: "Start with 6 sauces" shopping list
S$4
Bonus: 1-week meal-plan & batch template
S$6
Total value
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