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Dinner Club: Couscous Salad with Cucumber, Red Onions and Herbs
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I wanted to serve a mix of cold and warm side dishes with last night’s Roast Lamb Shoulder, and one interesting cold dish I found online was this couscous salad. I loved the contrasting textures of the ingredients, and the feta provided lovely bursts of flavour. A surprise hit, and definitely a keeper. Based on…
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Dinner Club: Parker House Rolls
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For last night’s Dinner Club session, I needed a few good sides to serve with my roast lamb shoulder, and while surfing around the Net I came upon this site which lists out some really good side dish suggestions. Who can resist good dinner rolls, let alone rolls completely coated in butter before baking. I just had…
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Bread Maker Recipe: Banana and Cinnamon Tea Bread
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So we forgot that we had a bunch of delicious pisang emas sitting in the fridge, and when they were finally discovered yesterday they were already beginning to turn black. So, before they became completely inedible, and since I was having the Round Knights over for dinner tonight anyway, I decided to make banana bread. I used my…
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Weekend Cooking: Caprese Salad
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I’m virtually a carnivore, and naturally salads don’t feature often on the menu whenever I decide to make dinner. However I felt that I needed something fresh to accompany my Bayou chicken pasta for dinner tonight, and I decided on this lovely Caprese Salad, using the fresh parsley I happened to have on hand, and…
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Weekend Cooking: Air-fried Peri-peri Wings
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Yeah you read it right: air-fried. The other day I put my Philips HD 9220 airfryer up for sale via the Preloved group on Facebook, since I’ve had it for years and only used it less than 5 times. When one of the potential buyers asked me to test it to see if it still works, I…
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Weekend Cooking: Mac and Cheese
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I wanted something to go with the peri-peri wings I made yesterday, and decided on a comfort food classic – mac and cheese. I’ve tried all sorts of recipes before, and honestly not a single one of them blew my mind, even though they were generally good. This time I based my recipe on the…
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Weekend Cooking: Sautéed Mushrooms
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We had friends over at our place yesterday for brunch and a round of Zombicide, so I threw together the standard stuff one might see on a cafe “breakfast platter” – beef bacon, scrambled eggs, sausages, grilled tomatoes, hash browns, and sautéed mushrooms. Merv brought juices, coffee, and bread with cream cheese. So awesome. These mushrooms…
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Potluck: Smoked Chilli Scalloped Sweet Potatoes
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For the Thanksgiving potluck party with the MSS gang, besides the Cornbread and Sausage Dressing I also made this super simple sweet potato dish, which only uses three (yes, three) ingredients yet is so yummy. The only tricky part is finding the chipotle pepper paste here in KL, and omitting it altogether isn’t exactly a good idea (so…
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Potluck: Cornbread and Sausage Dressing
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So last Thursday the Monday Show Singers gang threw a really fun Thanksgiving party at the studio, which is to also celebrate Ben Lin’s birthday (have a good one Ben!) and Mike Parks’ going away to New York (we’ll miss you!). It was a pot luck party and everybody brought something, and everything was really good. We ate…
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Mary Ryan’s Chicken Pie
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This one has been on the back burner for a while (yes the kitchen expression was deliberate. Haha!), but I finally had all the ingredients and equipment I needed on hand. I totally underestimated how much time it would take to make these, so what was originally supposed to be last night’s dinner ended up being…