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  • Weekend Cooking: Fennel Cheese Rolls

    Weekend Cooking: Fennel Cheese Rolls

    I wanted to make a proper dinner tonight, but didn’t have quite a few of the required ingredients on hand.  I still wanted to make something, though, and being a bread lover, I decided to make some for breakfast over the coming weekend.  I decided on these rolls by Chef Wan from his book, Langkah Demi Langkah…

  • Weekend Cooking: Kak’mbang’s Cek Mek Molek

    Weekend Cooking: Kak’mbang’s Cek Mek Molek

    I bought some large sweet potatoes recently to make something else, but days turned to weeks and they were still sitting in the basket, sprouting whiskers.  Kak’mbang asked when exactly am I planning to do anything with them, and being super lazy I decided to ask her to make one of my favourite traditional Malay…

  • The Dinner Club: Chilli Con Carne and Chili Con Queso

    The Dinner Club: Chilli Con Carne and Chili Con Queso

    The last time I did a Tex Mex dinner party I made a Chilli Con Carne and Chilli Con Queso combination, and it was indeed a very good dish to have.  I wasn’t blown away by the Carne, but the Queso was delish.  This time, I decided to bring back the Queso, while putting…

  • For Your Spice Rack: Taco Seasoning

    I mixed this a while back, so I don’t have pictures, but this is the taco seasoning I used in the Taco Salad I made recently.  You can always find the ready-made ones in grocers, but if you have the ingredients on hand, why not $ave$ome$ and make your own 🙂 To make enough just for…

  • The Dinner Club: Taco Salad

    The Dinner Club: Taco Salad

    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,…

  • Chicken Enchiladas

    Chicken Enchiladas

    The Dinner Club is back, and on this particular night the theme was… Tex Mex!  I decided to bring back some old favourites while trying out new recipes, so on the menu was Taco Salad, Chilli Con Carne and Chilli Con Queso, and chicken enchiladas. The main dish of the night was of course the chicken…

  • Chicken Bergedil Recipe

    Chicken Bergedil Recipe

    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…

  • Weekend Cooking: Lamb Mandy With Rice

    Weekend Cooking: Lamb Mandy With Rice

    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…

  • For your spice rack: Mandy spice mix

    For your spice rack: Mandy spice mix

    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,…

  • Weekend Cooking: Perfect Roast Chicken

    Weekend Cooking: Perfect Roast Chicken

    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…