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Weekend Cooking: Breakfast Biscuits
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For the Breakfast Mac and Cheese I needed a quick and simple breakfast biscuit recipe, because I just wasn’t willing to fork out 20-plus ringgit to buy the frozen ones from some upmarket grocer. There are probably other better recipes out there, but this one gets the job done. I find rolling out the…
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Weekend Cooking: Gambas al Ajillo
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During one of our trips to Bali, one of the restaurants at the place we stayed in served very nice tapas. That was the first time we tried Gambas al Ajillo, large succulent shrimp cooked with oil, garlic, and chili flakes. The oil was so well infused with flavor that we soaked it all up…
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Weekend Cooking: Grilled Citrus and Herb Shrimp
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Recently Rudy got more giant shrimp from Daphne, and I wanted to prepare it in a way that will do justice to this rare (and rather pricey) ingredient. I took this lovely recipe by Emeril and modified it using herbs from Mummy’s garden. Try it out yourself with your own mix of herbs, but this…
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Weekend Cooking: Mak Long’s Baked Macaroni (Makaroni Bakar)
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I usually make my casseroles truly “Western-style” – full of ground meats, dried herbs like oregano, thyme and parsley, and a lot of cheese. A while back Kak’mbang asked me to try making baked macaroni casserole “Malay-style,” which uses common local spices and eggs as the primary binding agent. Every now and then I’d surf…
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Weekend Cooking: Shrimp Scampi Pasta
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Many of my favorite pasta dishes are oil-based, one of them being the Shrimp Scampi pasta at Tony Roma’s. I used to order it very often whenever I’m there, but during my last few trips I felt rather disappointed by the dish. Theoretically the dish doesn’t seem too difficult to make, so I decided to…
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Weekend Cooking: Garlic & Olive Oil Pizza
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I usually make my own pizza dough, but I happened to have quite a lot of store-bought pizza crust in the fridge, so I decided to throw together something simple using stuff I had on hand. Despite minimal ingredients, this pizza made a pretty decent snack, and Rudy surprisingly loved them. A great alternative to…
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Make Your Own: Basic Pan Pizza Base
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When making my Pull-apart Stuffing Rolls, I originally just wanted to use ready-made pizza dough, and bought some from the store. I thought nothing of it, but when I finally took the dough out from the fridge, to my horror the stuff I bought turned out to be pre-baked pizza crust, and was therefore…
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Weekend Cooking: Extra-Buttery Dinner Rolls
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Lately I’ve been trying to make my own roti paung, and I searched through the net for different ideas to experiment with. I still haven’t found the right recipe so far, but during one of my experiments I accidentally created these buttery dinner rolls which, I daresay, tasted better than the Parker House Rolls I…
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GobbleFest 2016: Pull-apart Stuffing Rolls
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When having roast turkey, one usually would have it with stuffing. Even though I butterfly my turkey and therefore there’s nothing I can stuff my stuffing into, I usually would still make stuffing on the side. So far I haven’t found any stuffing recipe that Rudy actually liked, and dinner wouldn’t be complete without dinner…
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GobbleFest 2016: Mashed Sweet Potatoes
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December 24th, 7 p.m. Malaysian time. I can’t believe a year went by so fast. Once again it’s GobbleFest, and Rudy and I decided to have the Round Knights over for dinner. We bought our turkey early this year, and managed to get a 6-kilogram turkey for RM29.99/kg from Cold Storage. Yay! Then we…