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Weekend Cooking: Perfect Roast Chicken
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Nowadays, whenever I went to the supermarket, while I would usually have my fresh chickens cut into x number of pieces, I would usually leave one bird whole. This is so that I have more flexibility in deciding what new dish to try out, and I can cut it according to what is required by…
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Weekend Cooking: Shrimp Etouffee
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So I’m still trying to finish up my shrimp stock, and since today I went to the wet market and found some really fresh, succulent shrimp, I decided to make another dish which also utilizes my shrimp stock. The thing is, I bought so much shrimp I ended up with enough heads and shells…
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Weekend Cooking: Honey-Butter Baked Chicken with Mashed Sweet Potatoes
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I always wanted to try making a good baked chicken. I also wanted the dish to not cost a bomb, or use super exotic ingredients which can only be found in upmarket grocers (and cost a bomb). So I ended up with this. Simple and inexpensive, the chicken is served on a bed of sweet…
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Weekend Cooking: Golden Shrimp Stew
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I was trying to clear out my freezer and noticed that I still had some shrimp stock on hand. So I decided to make something simple, something that can be eaten with rice or bread just like our normal (read: non-fancy) dinners. I don’t make seafood dishes usually, but this one required mostly stuff…
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Weekend Cooking: Cajun Chicken Jambalaya
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So Kak’mbang’s away for Raya break, and I needed a break from eating fast food, Maggi kari and the like (as yummy and oh-so-unhealthy these foods may be). I wanted to just throw something together that is simple and doesn’t require too many plates and pots to clean up afterwards. After some searching around…
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Project: RayaFest 2014 – Pot Roast
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Date: Sunday, August 3 , 2014Time: 7:30 p.mNumber of guests: 10 paxLocation: Bandar Utama Over the weekend, this still being the month of Syawal and all, Rudy and I decided to assemble the Round Knights of the Table for a round of food, drink, and merriment. For a group of 10, I made something based…
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Special Occasion: Manly Man Lasagna
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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…
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Weekend Cooking: Chicken Spaghetti
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Been out of the home-cooking scene for quite a while now. Recently, out of sheer boredom I started browsing through the Food Network website and finally discovered Ree Drummond. Her recipes look simple, inexpensive and quite comfort food-ish; totally my kind of food. So over the weekend I decided to try out one of…
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Weekend Cooking: Popcorn Chicken
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In the car on the way to lunch with our mothers to celebrate Mother’s Day, Rudy and I suddenly started talking about a few promising recipes I saw on the Internet, and finally on the spur of the moment we decided to invite our friends over for dinner and board games. After lunch, we…
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Weekend Cooking: Kentang Bol (Potato Balls)
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When I was in Singapore visiting relatives, I got to try out – for the first time ever – Mak Abang’s famous Ramadan dish: Kentang Bol. Literally called “Potato Balls,” it is a super comforting dish, comprised of deep fried potato balls filled with spiced ground beef served in tangy tomato beef broth. Seriously…