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Weekend Cooking: Pressure Cooker Chicken & Chickpea Masala
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I’m really liking the Philips electric pressure cooker I bought recently, and I’d really like for it to not be a white elephant, like what almost happened to my air fryer (glad it didn’t, though!). So I looked around for easy pressure cooker recipes that don’t involve unusual/expensive ingredients or require too much work. This recipe…
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Weekend Cooking: Kak’mbang’s Chicken Rice
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Others may have their own personal preferences, but Rudy and I both agree that Kak’mbang’s chicken rice is really, really good. This was another recipe that simply must be preserved for generations to come, but again I’ve always had trouble catching her in action (she’s such a ninja in the kitchen; dishes just magically appear and you…
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Weekend Cooking: Roasted Turkey Legs
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So a few frozen turkey legs mysteriously ended up in my shopping cart at Tesco, so I decided to make something a little different for dinner tonight. The drumsticks were a rather big, so they took a bit longer to cook than I had originally planned. All in all they turned out quite tasty;…
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Weekend Cooking: Roasted Herb Butter Parmesan Shrimp
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One of Rudy’s colleagues went back to Kota Kinabalu over Christmas break, and she was very kind to help us get some amazing seafood her hometown is famed for. We received 2 kilos of the biggest shrimp I’ve ever seen (10 to 12 a kilogram, aptly described as “extra colossal”), and I really wanted…
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GobbleFest 2015: Roast Turkey
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I’ve been meaning to try roasting my own turkey for a while now. At our last GobbleFest I only made the sides and we bought our turkey from Turkey Point Cafe, which has since closed shop. The years after that there were issues getting halal turkey, and there was one year when all the…
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GobbleFest 2015: Classic Sausage Stuffing
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Since turkey is conventionally served with stuffing… well, here we are. I don’t really know what “good” stuffing is supposed to taste like, or what the texture is supposed to be, but I’m told it is supposed to have a pudding-like texture. This recipe definitely had a soft texture, very much like a savoury…
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Weekend Cooking: Kak’mbang’s Nasi Minyak with Chicken Korma
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Those who have had the privilege of tasting Kak’mbang’s cooking know that she’s a really good cook, so I am making it a personal mission to document her amazing recipes and to photograph her in action. This is something that is surprisingly difficult, because she’s always done cooking by the time I get home from…
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Weekend Cooking: Roasted Salmon with Mushrooms and Orange
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Saw a few people selling premium quality salmon at Tesco this morning, so I decided to pick up a few fillets, and then searched on-line for a few recipe ideas. This one looked really promising – all those yummy mushrooms – so I gave this a try, tweaking it here and there based on the…
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Dinner Club: Roast Lamb Shoulder
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Last night Rudy and I had the Round Knights over for a long overdue Dinner Club meet. Merv was very kind to help me get the lovely lamb shoulder we roasted for the main course, and boy it was a great dinner with awesome company. The menu last night: Slow-Roasted Lamb Shoulder with Potato and…
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Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Quail Ozzi with Saffron Boiled Eggs
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Found some quails at Tesco recently, and was really curious about them. I remembered that Chef Ammar had a quail recipe in his book, so I decided to grab a bag of ten birds. Making this dish marked a few firsts for me; first time preparing quails, and first time frying breaded stuff in the…