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Ramadan Cooking: Shuraba (Meat and Oat Soup)
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Mummy has been losing weight of late, and I’ve been trying out various soup recipes for her to have some variety in her diet. I wanted to keep things interesting enough for her to want to eat, while at the same time provide her with all the necessary nutrition to stay healthy. Since it’s…
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Ramadan Cooking: Shrimp Scampi Pasta
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I found some really nice (albeit expensive) shrimp at B.I.G. recently, and at the same time was having such a craving for pasta. I’ve mentioned previously that I really love the shrimp scampi at Tony Roma’s, although over the years they seemed to have modified the recipe or something and even that has lost…
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Ramadan Cooking: Moroccan Lamb Soup
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I bought some lamb cubes some time back and never got around to cooking them. Since it’s Ramadan and the evenings have been so rainy of late, I wanted to make something comforting and soupy. Besides, Mummy is watching her health more carefully and no longer eats any red meat, so even though she’ll…
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Ramadan Cooking: Peri-peri Sausage Rolls
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Ramadan mubarak, everyone! I can’t believe a year went by so fast. Since I get off work an hour early, again I try to make small dishes like appetisers and snacks for breaking fast. I still have a few bottles of Nando’s PERi-PERi sauce in the larder, so I looked through their website for…
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Pumpkin Soup
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Mummy has her “seasons” of favorite foods. Currently she’s into pumpkins, and every week we’d pick one up from the grocery store. Kak’mbang has tried making all sorts of stuff with it, from sayur labu to pengat to bingka, and most recently delicious pumpkin pudding. Mummy requested sayur labu every day, then got sick of it and moved on to pengat, and got sick…
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Weekend Cooking: Paella
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Tesco had some good shrimp and mussels in stock, and I really wanted to take my lovely Le Creuset casserole (thanks Tiff!) for a spin, so I decided to try making and perfecting a paella recipe. I’ve made this twice now, but am still not fully satisfied with the results. The first time I…
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Weekend Cooking: Sausage and Chicken Jambalaya
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After cycling through quite a few Middle Eastern dishes of late, I decided to revisit some of the old recipes I made but never got around to properly document. This jambalaya recipe based on the one by Emeril Lagasse was particularly nostalgic for me, because this was one of the first dishes I made…
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Air-Fried Caramel Banana & Coconut Spring Roll
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Kak’mbang and I were just chilling out one day talking about food (because why not), and she mentioned this yummy looking recipe she found on a random can of F&N sweetened condensed creamer. Only the ingredients list was on the can, but spring rolls stuffed with bananas and grated coconut and drizzled with sweetened…
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Make Your Own: Caramelized Biscuit Sauce
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Have you guys ever tried Llaollao frozen yoghurt? It’s absolutely divine when you have it topped with their signature Lotus caramelized biscuit sauce. Must. Try. Aizat gave me the brilliant idea of stuffing plain roti paung with Lotus Biscoff Spread, which is pretty much the same thing used in Llaollao’s biscuit sauce. The reason…
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Smoked Duck and Sausage Gumbo
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I’m really trying hard to clear out stuff from my freezer. It doesn’t help that I keep buying new ingredients, I know, but I still try. I had a few smoked duck breasts sitting at the bottom of my freezer for ages, and I knew I had to make something that would do them…