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Weekend Cooking: Pressure Cooker Chicken & Chickpea Masala
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I’m really liking the Philips electric pressure cooker I bought recently, and I’d really like for it to not be a white elephant, like what almost happened to my air fryer (glad it didn’t, though!). So I looked around for easy pressure cooker recipes that don’t involve unusual/expensive ingredients or require too much work. This recipe…
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RayaFest 2016: Kerepek Bijan Nenek (Grandma’s Sesame Crackers)
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Ramadan is almost over and Kak’mbang and I were busy with our preparations for Hari Raya tomorrow. When I was growing up, the usual routine in the days leading up to Hari Raya would be to bake cookies, but in this day and age, everybody just buys their Raya cookies, so we no longer bother.…
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Weekend Cooking: Kak’mbang’s Chicken Rice
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Others may have their own personal preferences, but Rudy and I both agree that Kak’mbang’s chicken rice is really, really good. This was another recipe that simply must be preserved for generations to come, but again I’ve always had trouble catching her in action (she’s such a ninja in the kitchen; dishes just magically appear and you…
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Potluck: Tuna Tetrazzini
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This dish was one of the earliest recipes I’ve tried making, when I first starting cooking for fun. I basically stuck to one chef on Food Network – Emeril Lagasse – and generally his dishes turn out great. I started bringing his dishes to office potlucks, and they never disappoint. This tuna tetrazzini is super comforting…
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Weekend Cooking: Roasted Turkey Legs
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So a few frozen turkey legs mysteriously ended up in my shopping cart at Tesco, so I decided to make something a little different for dinner tonight. The drumsticks were a rather big, so they took a bit longer to cook than I had originally planned. All in all they turned out quite tasty;…
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Potluck: Stovetop Mac and Cheese
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Over the weekend Rudy had a few friends over for a potluck hi-tea of sorts, and given that it was Sunday afternoon I wanted to make something really simple and quick. Mac and cheese came to mind, and up until then I never could find any recipe that I would make again. This one…
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Weekend Cooking: Roasted Herb Butter Parmesan Shrimp
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One of Rudy’s colleagues went back to Kota Kinabalu over Christmas break, and she was very kind to help us get some amazing seafood her hometown is famed for. We received 2 kilos of the biggest shrimp I’ve ever seen (10 to 12 a kilogram, aptly described as “extra colossal”), and I really wanted…
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GobbleFest 2015: Roast Turkey
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I’ve been meaning to try roasting my own turkey for a while now. At our last GobbleFest I only made the sides and we bought our turkey from Turkey Point Cafe, which has since closed shop. The years after that there were issues getting halal turkey, and there was one year when all the…
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GobbleFest 2015: Classic Sausage Stuffing
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Since turkey is conventionally served with stuffing… well, here we are. I don’t really know what “good” stuffing is supposed to taste like, or what the texture is supposed to be, but I’m told it is supposed to have a pudding-like texture. This recipe definitely had a soft texture, very much like a savoury…
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GobbleFest 2015: Mashed Potatoes
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We need our filler for Gobblefest, and I can’t make everything in the oven because the turkey’s gonna be roasting there, so I decided on this super simple, super basic mashed potatoes recipe. Guests totally kicked it up by adding bacon bits, spring onions, the turkey gravy, even the cauliflower soup. Based on the…