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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…
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Weekend Cooking: Kak’mbang’s Cek Mek Molek
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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…
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The Dinner Club: Chilli Con Carne and Chili Con Queso
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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…
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The Dinner Club: Taco Salad
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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,…
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Chicken Bergedil Recipe
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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…
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Weekend Cooking: Perfect Roast Chicken
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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…
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For Your Spice Rack: Baby Bam
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I’m trying out Emeril’s Perfect Roast Chicken today, which requires this Baby Bam spice mix. Looks like this spice mix is used in quite a few more tasty looking recipes I wanted to try, so I decided it was worth the trouble to make a batch. The only spice I didn’t have on hand was the…