October 2014

  • For Your Spice Rack: Baby Bam

    For Your Spice Rack: Baby Bam

    I’m trying out Emeril’s Perfect Roast Chicken today, which requires this Baby Bam spice mix.  Looks like this spice mix is used in quite a few more tasty looking recipes I wanted to try, so I decided it was worth the trouble to make a batch.  The only spice I didn’t have on hand was the…

  • Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies

    So recently I received a lot of Nutella.  Like, a lot.  Even worse, add it to the whole lot of Nutella I already have at home, and I have even more Nutella.  Of course, this is by no means a tragic thing.  The question is, what do I do with it? I recently also started…

  • Project RayaFest 2014: Sambal Arab

    Project RayaFest 2014: Sambal Arab

    A Middle Eastern rice dish will not be complete without some type of Arabic salsa as an accompaniment, so for the Beef Kabsah I made during Hari Raya AidilAdha, I tried out Chef Ammar’s Sambal Arab.  Hot and tangy, it was perfect to counter the greasy fattiness of the beef.  Definitely a must, if…

  • Beef Kabsah With Basmathi Rice

    Beef Kabsah With Basmathi Rice

    I’ve been waiting for Chef Ammar’s spices and recipe book to go mainstream for a very long time, but somehow it never did.  His books are not sold in any major bookstore, and his bottled spices are not sold in any major grocer or supermarket.  His stuff is only sold online by seemingly home-based…

  • Weekend Cooking: Perfect Roast Chicken

    Weekend Cooking: Perfect Roast Chicken

    Nowadays, whenever I went to the supermarket, while I would usually have my fresh chickens cut into x number of pieces, I would usually leave one bird whole.  This is so that I have more flexibility in deciding what new dish to try out, and I can cut it according to what is required by…