Dinner Recipes

My search for the true Perfect Roast Chicken continues, and this time I’m trying out the recipe by Emeril Lagasse.  I also surfed article after article trying to solve the dry breast meat problem, and I found an interesting article by Serious Eats which recommends butterflying, or spatchcocking, the chicken.  So I decided to use that method to see…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…