Recipes

  • Weekend Cooking: New York-Style Bagels

    Weekend Cooking: New York-Style Bagels

    It’s so hard to find good bagels in KL. I can name a couple of bakeries selling it, but can’t say they are particularly spectacular. One day I had a major craving for bagels, so I looked up a few recipes and picked up the one by Sophisticated Gourmet, which didn’t seem too complicated…

  • Weekend Cooking: Sausage Meatballs with Red Gravy

    Weekend Cooking: Sausage Meatballs with Red Gravy

    This was a recipe I made a long, long time ago for Hari Raya celebrations, and at the point of time I haven’t started blogging my culinary exploits just yet. The recipe is from Emeril’s Potluck, and as you probably can imagine, this makes a potluck-sized batch.

  • Make Your Own: Italian Seasoning

    Make Your Own: Italian Seasoning

    We sometimes need Italian Seasoning for our pastas and such, so if you don’t happen to have any on hand, you can always make a batch of your own using herbs and spices you might already have in your pantry. This recipe is based on Emeril’s Italian Essence recipe, and used when making Sausage…

  • Steak and Mushroom Pie

    Steak and Mushroom Pie

    When I first started cooking I basically had one go-to chef for most recipes I wanted to try – Emeril Lagasse. In the beginning I focused more on so-called Western dishes – pies, pasta, and casseroles – and one of my earliest attempts on pies was this steak and mushroom pie. Last time I…

  • Pastry top

    Pastry top

    I use this buttery crust for my Steak and Mushroom Pie. One recipe is enough to top one 9-inch round pie. Be patient when rolling it out; at about 1/8-inch thickness there is definitely enough dough for your pie. I recommend rolling the dough out onto a very well dusted, thin, flexible cutting board.…

  • Prejean’s Potato Salad

    Prejean’s Potato Salad

    I’m on a short break before starting a new job next month, and Kak’mbang has gone back to Terengganu and will only be back at the end of the week.  We’ve been eating leftovers and takeout for the past few days, so today I made Smoked Duck and Sausage Gumbo for dinner, for a…

  • Moroccan Chickpea Soup

    Moroccan Chickpea Soup

    Made a few more soups for Mummy to try.  A few ingredients I recently tried were tomato, which was yummy but too light, and corn which was too heavy.  Since Mummy liked the lentil soup I made I figured other types of beans would also make decent soups with the right amount of heartiness,…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Eman’s Chicken Mandy

    Ramadan Cooking: Eman’s Chicken Mandy

    It’s the last weekend of Ramadan. Gosh, time really flies.  I wanted to make Chef Wan’s briyani gam with chicken kuzi, but I was missing a few ingredients and I’ll only be going to the market tomorrow.  Since I’ll also be eating out tomorrow, if I wanted to make something, tonight was my only window of…

  • Karnataka-style Chicken Briyani

    Karnataka-style Chicken Briyani

    Last Ramadan I was binging on Middle Eastern recipes, but this year I stumbled upon this YouTube channel called Get Curried and was intrigued by their selection of Indian recipes.  At first I wanted to try their butter chicken, but it’s the weekend and I should do something fancier and Mom also suggested I…

  • Shorba (Meat and Oat Soup)

    Shorba (Meat and Oat Soup)

    Mummy has been losing weight of late, and I’ve been trying out different soup recipes for her to have some variety in her diet.  I wanted to keep things interesting enough for her to want to eat. At the same time I wanted to provide her with all the necessary nutrition to stay healthy.…