Halal-ified Recipes

  • Weekend Cooking: Sausage Meatballs with Red Gravy

    Weekend Cooking: Sausage Meatballs with Red Gravy

    This was a recipe I made a long, long time ago for Hari Raya celebrations, and at the point of time I haven’t started blogging my culinary exploits just yet. The recipe is from Emeril’s Potluck, and as you probably can imagine, this makes a potluck-sized batch.

  • Steak and Mushroom Pie

    Steak and Mushroom Pie

    When I first started cooking I basically had one go-to chef for most recipes I wanted to try – Emeril Lagasse. In the beginning I focused more on so-called Western dishes – pies, pasta, and casseroles – and one of my earliest attempts on pies was this steak and mushroom pie. Last time I…

  • Braised Lamb Shoulder Chops Using Pressure Cooker

    Braised Lamb Shoulder Chops Using Pressure Cooker

    Kak’mbang has been yelling at me for leaving the lamb shoulder chops I bought some time ago to just sit in the freezer for ages.  With my crazy work schedule, I honestly have no energy to make anything involving too much work.  I found this braised recipe lamb shoulder chops recipe on allrecipes.com which got pretty…

  • Korean Dumplings (Mandu) In Soup

    Korean Dumplings (Mandu) In Soup

    Kak’mbang really loves her Korean TV shows, just like a large population of the world today.  Every now and then she sees people on TV eating dumplings in broth, and the dish does look really yummy.  So, recently she asked me to make our own pork-free version, and I based it on a great recipe by Maangchi.  Trust…

  • Special Occasion: Manly Man Lasagna

    Special Occasion: Manly Man Lasagna

    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…