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The Dinner Club: Taco Salad
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For the recent Dinner Club meet, I wanted to balance out all the cheesy goodness with some semblance of a veggie dish. It also has to be something that isn’t so “healthy” it ends up just being ignored the entire night. So I ended up with this taco salad, which turned out to be a hearty,…
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Chicken Enchiladas
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The Dinner Club is back, and this time the theme is… Tex Mex! I decided to bring back some old favourites while trying out new recipes, so the menu was as follows: Taco Salad | Chilli Con Carne and Chilli Con Queso | Chicken Enchiladas The main dish of the night was of course the enchiladas,…
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Chicken Bergedil Recipe
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My big brother once had an Indonesian helper named Jun, and she makes absolutely *amazing* chicken bergedil. Luckily Kak’mbang learned the recipe from her, although when she makes them at home, she makes a (way) healthier version, which are still delicious nonetheless. Here I’m sharing two versions, my own version using an air fryer…
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Weekend Cooking: Lamb Mandy With Rice
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I very rarely cook with lamb. The last time I handled lamb was when I made shepherd’s pie a while back, and that was years ago. Recently I went to the wet market in TTDI, and when passing the lamb stall I saw fresh pieces of lamb shoulder hanging on hooks, so I decided to…
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For your spice rack: Mandy spice mix
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Am trying out Chef Ammar’s Lamb Mandy with Rice tonight, but I didn’t buy his Mandy Spice Mix when I got his Bukhari and Kabsah spice mixes the other day, so I had to make my own. I found a few seemingly highly rated recipes online, and scaled it up to make 1 cup,…
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Weekend Cooking: Perfect Roast Chicken
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My search for the true Perfect Roast Chicken continues, and this time I’m trying out the recipe by Emeril Lagasse. I also surfed article after article trying to solve the dry breast meat problem, and I found an interesting article by Serious Eats which recommends butterflying, or spatchcocking, the chicken. So I decided to use that method to see…
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For Your Spice Rack: Baby Bam
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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…
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Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies
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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…
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Project RayaFest 2014: Sambal Arab
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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…
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Beef Kabsah With Basmathi Rice
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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…