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Special Occasion: Manly Man Lasagna
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I’ve been wanting to make this dish for years now, but every time I read the recipe, the list of ingredients and the sheer time and effort required to make this seem simply… daunting. But this is the month of June and it is a certain someone’s special day, so I figured that it…
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Weekend Cooking: Chicken Spaghetti
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Been out of the home-cooking scene for quite a while now. Recently, out of sheer boredom I started browsing through the Food Network website and finally discovered Ree Drummond. Her recipes look simple, inexpensive and quite comfort food-ish; totally my kind of food. So over the weekend I decided to try out one of…
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For Your Spice Rack: Seasoned Salt
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Ree’s Chicken Spaghetti called for seasoned salt, which I now know is not the same as regular salt or Ajinomoto. Lol. Seems like in the States one can get these pre-made in a bottle, but I really didn’t feel like going out to some high-end grocer to buy something that may cost me something like…
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For your spice rack: Cajun Spice Mix
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The Red Lobster biscuits copycat recipe called for Cajun seasoning, and after browsing around there seems to be several different variations of it. I finally settled with the recipe from Allrecipes.com, since I had all the required ingredients on hand. Ingredients 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons garlic powder 2 1/2 teaspoons paprika 1 teaspoon ground black…
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Weekend Cooking: Popcorn Chicken
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In the car on the way to lunch with our mothers to celebrate Mother’s Day, Rudy and I suddenly started talking about a few promising recipes I saw on the Internet, and finally on the spur of the moment we decided to invite our friends over for dinner and board games. After lunch, we…
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Weekend Cooking: Cheesy Garlic Biscuits
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When I was younger, the word ‘biscuit’ would bring to mind crunchy, sweet discs, some with nuts and some with chocolate chips, basically what we also call ‘cookies.’ The first time I ate a fluffy, buttery biscuit was when I was in the States, when Jeanny took me to Popeyes for the first time. When…
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PS3 Media Server on Synology 411j revisited
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Previously I wrote about installing this awesome media server onto a Synology NAS here. However this guide referred to another guide on a different site which subsequently went down, and I couldn’t find a copy of it anywhere else. So here’s an attempt to rebuild the guide to include the missing steps. Since I’ll…
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XBMC on the Intel NUC (D54250WYKH)
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I’ve always wanted a proper HTPC, but so far it’s just been off-the-shelf media streamers for me. 1st it was the AC Ryan PlayOn HD, 2nd was the Xtreamer Sidewinder 3, but they were limited with their inability to display Hi10p videos (10bit color-coded videos usually used for anime), and proper SSA subtitles (also…
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Back from the dead (yet again)?
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Hello again after so many years (just one actually). This blog has been here and there, up and down, and generally unreliable due to other priorities having taken up my time. Firstly, a summary of related events: The website server was moved onto spot pricing. Yay cheap, but what I didn’t realise was that…
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Weekend Cooking: Kentang Bol (Potato Balls)
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When I was in Singapore visiting relatives, I got to try out – for the first time ever – Mak Abang’s famous Ramadan dish: Kentang Bol. Literally called “Potato Balls,” it is a super comforting dish, comprised of deep fried potato balls filled with spiced ground beef served in tangy tomato beef broth. Seriously…