Lunch Recipes

  • Weekend Cooking: Eman’s Oven-baked Chicken and Rice

    Weekend Cooking: Eman’s Oven-baked Chicken and Rice

    It was another one of those weekends when the freezer was full of stuff and Kak’mbang sent out her SOS.  I needed to help her clear at least one whole chicken, so I decided to try this recipe by Saudi Food Eman.  I found it interesting how good she claims the dish to be…

  • Weekend Cooking: Eman’s Lamb Bukhari with Rice

    Weekend Cooking: Eman’s Lamb Bukhari with Rice

    Last weekend I picked up some decent-looking lamb cubes from Tesco, and decided to use it immediately for dinner that night.  I didn’t want to make something too complicated, because I was just so exhausted by the many things that were going on both at home and at work.  Since Saudi Food Eman is…

  • Weekend Cooking: Saleeg

    Weekend Cooking: Saleeg

    I’ve been looking through the Saudi Food Eman YouTube channel, and seriously this lady is pretty talented.  I’ve tried a few of her recipes already, and have quite a long list of others in my weekend cooking queue.  This particular dish, saleeg, was something different from the recent rice dishes I’ve been making. Looking at how…

  • Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Haneeth Roasted Chicken with Cajun Spiced Vegetables

    Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Haneeth Roasted Chicken with Cajun Spiced Vegetables

    We got Monday off to celebrate our victory at the SEA Games, so Rudy and I decided to have the family over for dinner.  The fridge was overflowing with chicken and lamb and all sorts of stuff, so I joined the effort to clean it out.  I needed to feed about 9 adults, so…

  • Weekend Cooking: Pressure Cooker Chicken with Chickpeas, Tomatoes, and Sausage

    Weekend Cooking: Pressure Cooker Chicken with Chickpeas, Tomatoes, and Sausage

    After having my morning coffee and having finished this week’s copy of The Edge, I wandered into the kitchen and saw Kak’mbang staring at the chicken she just cut up.  I asked her what was on her mind, and she said she had trouble figuring out what to do with it for lunch today.…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Lamb Makhtoom

    Ramadan Cooking: Lamb Makhtoom

    It’s almost the end of Ramadan, and I was hoping to cook a few more dishes before I’m no longer allowed to leave work an hour earlier.  I found a YouTube channel called Saudi Food Eman, and I really liked her videos.  This lamb makhtoom looked simple enough to make, and I happened to…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Peri-peri Cornflakes Chicken

    Ramadan Cooking: Peri-peri Cornflakes Chicken

    It was the last few days of Ramadan, and things were reaaaally slowing down at work.  As I was staring at my laptop screen wondering what work I should do for the day, an email came in from Nando’s with the subject line, “Take PERi-PERi sauce balik kampung this Hari Raya okay!” I clicked…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Chicken Kabsah with Rice

    Ramadan Cooking: Chicken Kabsah with Rice

    Usually during Ramadan I try to cook more often for my family.  Sometimes I make snacks and appetizers, and sometimes I try to make one-pot meals.  This year’s Ramadan, one of the first buka puasa dishes I made was this chicken kabsah.  My family loves Middle Eastern cuisine, but our favourite nasi Arab restaurant, Half Moon, is just…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Mandy Rice with Lamb Shank

    Ramadan Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Mandy Rice with Lamb Shank

    Bought a few really nice lamb shanks (and a bunch of other things) from B.I.G. last Friday! They cost a lot more than from the TTDI wet market, but the quality looks top notch.  This weekend was quite busy for me to cook everything I bought, but at least I managed to make this…

  • Weekend Cooking: Shrimp Scampi Pasta

    Weekend Cooking: Shrimp Scampi Pasta

    Many of my favorite pasta dishes are oil-based, one of them being the Shrimp Scampi pasta at Tony Roma’s.  I used to order it very often whenever I’m there, but during my last few trips I felt rather disappointed by the dish.  Theoretically the dish doesn’t seem too difficult to make, so I decided to…