• Weekend Cooking: Classic Chicken Jambalaya

    Weekend Cooking: Classic Chicken Jambalaya

    Tried out this dish over the weekend.  All in all am pleased with the results, although I did take note of some improvements to put in if I make this again. Updated 11 Dec 2019: Made this for dinner with some mods. Definitely a good dish when done right. Jambalaya is practically like our…

  • Project: Post-RTC Makan with BATS Peeps

    Project: Post-RTC Makan with BATS Peeps

    Date: Saturday, October 6, 2012 Time: 1:30 p.m Number of guests: 12 pax Location: Bandar Utama So Boon and I decided to have a makan2 session with the BATS gang, initially to celebrate surviving our Sophomore Sensations showcase.  Due to scheduling conflicts, added to a bunch of us going to Singapore to watch Avenue…

  • Weekend Cooking: Kicked Up Bacon Cheese Mashed Potatoes

    Together with the Chicken in a Box recipe I made, I also threw in some starch for good measure, and ended up with delicious, decadent mash potatoes by Emeril.

  • Chicken in a Box

    Chicken in a Box

    This event actually started off as a simple gathering among friends to share a whole pile of uneaten chocolates.  At the same time I wanted to try out Emeril’s fried chicken recipe, and needed guinea pi– I mean, food tasters.  Then after some thought I figured I wouldn’t be right serving just fried chicken…

  • Raya 2012 Part Deux: Beef Stroganoff

    Raya 2012 Part Deux: Beef Stroganoff

    Since Abg Fauzi didn’t spend the first few days of Hari Raya with us, we had a 2nd gathering of sorts, which involved a few dishes making a comeback (the meatballs and the tuna tetrazzini) as well as the debut of a very sinful, very yummy dish.  While the total cost of ingredients may…

  • Hari Raya Aidilfitri 2012

    It was gonna be a very quiet Hari Raya this year; Abg Fauzi & Abg. Hadi and their families won’t be in KL to celebrate Raya with us.  Regardless, I was tasked to cook a few dishes, and knowing Mummy, her biggest concern was “tak cukup makanan.”  So with that in mind, I picked…

  • Make Your Own: Essence (Worth the trouble)

    Make Your Own: Essence (Worth the trouble)

    This is the recipe for Emeril’s Essence, a blend of spices used in most of his recipes.  Since most of my recipes in this blog are basically Emeril’s, I figured I’d post the recipe here.  I basically double the recipe and keep the whole thing in an airtight jar stashed in the freezer.  Some…

  • GobbleFest 2012:  Emerilized Green Bean Casserole

    GobbleFest 2012: Emerilized Green Bean Casserole

    [Updated 25 Dec 2016] I wanted to make a veggie dish to go with our turkey, but given that my guests (and myself included) are generally carnivores, the challenge is in finding a dish that won’t end up getting ignored the entire evening.  I finally chose this surprisingly delicious casserole by Emeril Lagasse, and it was…

  • Installing Playstation Media Server (PMS) on a Synology NAS (411j)

    So I’ve recently acquired a Synology DS411j, which I hoped would have flawless built-in DLNA compatibility with my PS3. I should’ve known it was too much to ask for proper transcoding. There’ve been plenty of discussion regarding how to get the PS3 media server, something I’ve been using on my Windows PC, installed on…

  • ABAP: Stay logged into SAPGUI indefinitely

    Sometimes you’re doing something midway on your system, and you’re interrupted for a meeting or lunch or whatever. You come back and you’ve been automatically logged out, losing whatever you were working on earlier. Prior to our upgrade to ECC6, you can simply keep yourself logged in by making timed calls to function module…