Make Your Own Ingredients

  • Make Your Own: Caramelized Biscuit Sauce

    Make Your Own: Caramelized Biscuit Sauce

    Have you guys ever tried Llaollao frozen yoghurt?  It’s absolutely divine when you have it topped with their signature Lotus caramelized biscuit sauce. Must. Try. Aizat gave me the brilliant idea of stuffing plain roti paung with Lotus Biscoff Spread, which is pretty much the same thing used in Llaollao’s biscuit sauce.  The reason…

  • For Your Spice Rack: Eman’s Saudi Spice Mix

    For Your Spice Rack: Eman’s Saudi Spice Mix

    I’ve been meaning to try out Eman’s kabuli rice recipe for a while now, but that dish requires Saudi spice or baharat, which I didn’t have on hand nor can easily get at stores.  Finally got around to making it over the New Year’s Day long weekend. I only toasted the spices for about 5…

  • For Your Spice Rack: Meghazlia Spice Mix

    For Your Spice Rack: Meghazlia Spice Mix

    It took me a while to finally make Eman’s Lamb Meghazlia, mainly because I needed to mix the meghazlia spice mix myself.  Since I have some lamb in the freezer I really needed to get rid of, I set aside some time today to make this spice mix. What took me a while to…

  • For Your Spice Rack: Dried Bisbas Spice Mix

    For Your Spice Rack: Dried Bisbas Spice Mix

    I made this spice mix thinking that this was the besbasa Eman was referring to for her meghazlia spice mix recipe.  It turned out that this actually wasn’t what she meant, but in any case I’ll try to figure out what other things I can use this for. Based on the recipe by Sheba Yemeni Food.

  • Make Your Own: Basic Pan Pizza Base

    Make Your Own: Basic Pan Pizza Base

    When making my Pull-apart Stuffing Rolls, I originally just wanted to use ready-made pizza dough, and bought some from the store.  I thought nothing of it, but when I finally took the dough out from the fridge, to my horror the stuff I bought turned out to be pre-baked pizza crust, and was therefore…

  • For Your Spice Rack: Taco Seasoning

    I mixed this a while back, so I don’t have pictures, but this is the taco seasoning I used in the Taco Salad I made recently.  You can always find the ready-made ones in grocers, but if you have the ingredients on hand, why not $ave$ome$ and make your own 🙂 To make enough just for…

  • For your spice rack: Mandy spice mix

    For your spice rack: Mandy spice mix

    Am trying out Chef Ammar’s Lamb Mandy with Rice tonight, but I didn’t buy his Mandy Spice Mix when I got his Bukhari and Kabsah spice mixes the other day, so I had to make my own.  I found a few seemingly highly rated recipes online, and scaled it up to make 1 cup,…

  • For Your Spice Rack: Baby Bam

    For Your Spice Rack: Baby Bam

    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…

  • For Your Spice Rack: Hawa’ij Spice Mix

    For Your Spice Rack: Hawa’ij Spice Mix

    Used in the Chicken Mandy With Rice recipe I tried recently, this spice mix can be easily made at home, using common spices which can be found in our hypermarkets in Malaysia.  I usually store my spices in the freezer to keep dry; you know how our humid weather can be. Recipe by the…

  • Make Your Own: Ricotta Cheese

    Make Your Own: Ricotta Cheese

    A good lasagne recipe usually calls for ricotta cheese.  The Manly Man Lasagne recipe I made needed almost 4 cups, and let’s face it – even if you can get it from the upmarket grocers in Kuala Lumpur, a 200-250 gm tub (about 1 cup) would cost at least RM 20, and I’ll need…