Recipes by Course

  • Weekend Cooking: Air-fried Peri-peri Wings

    Weekend Cooking: Air-fried Peri-peri Wings

    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…

  • Weekend Cooking: Mac and Cheese

    Weekend Cooking: Mac and Cheese

    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…

  • Weekend Cooking: Sautéed Mushrooms

    Weekend Cooking: Sautéed Mushrooms

    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…

  • Potluck: Smoked Chilli Scalloped Sweet Potatoes

    Potluck: Smoked Chilli Scalloped Sweet Potatoes

    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…

  • Potluck: Cornbread and Sausage Dressing

    Potluck: Cornbread and Sausage Dressing

    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…

  • Mary Ryan’s Chicken Pie

    Mary Ryan’s Chicken Pie

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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 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…