Dinner Recipes

  • Weekend Cooking: Perfect Roast Chicken

    Weekend Cooking: Perfect Roast Chicken

    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…

  • Weekend Cooking: Shrimp Etouffee

    Weekend Cooking: Shrimp Etouffee

    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…

  • Weekend Cooking: Honey-Butter Baked Chicken with Mashed Sweet Potatoes

    Weekend Cooking: Honey-Butter Baked Chicken with Mashed Sweet Potatoes

    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…

  • Weekend Cooking: Golden Shrimp Stew

    Weekend Cooking: Golden Shrimp Stew

    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…

  • Weekend Cooking: Cajun Chicken Jambalaya

    Weekend Cooking: Cajun Chicken Jambalaya

    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…

  • Project: RayaFest 2014 – Pot Roast

    Project: RayaFest 2014 – Pot Roast

    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…

  • 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…

  • Weekend Cooking: Chicken Spaghetti

    Weekend Cooking: Chicken Spaghetti

    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…

  • Weekend Cooking: Popcorn Chicken

    Weekend Cooking: Popcorn Chicken

    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…

  • Weekend Cooking: Kentang Bol (Potato Balls)

    Weekend Cooking: Kentang Bol (Potato Balls)

    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…