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Pumpkin Soup
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Mummy has her “seasons” of favorite foods. Currently she’s into pumpkins, and every week we’d pick one up from the grocery store. Kak’mbang has tried making all sorts of stuff with it, from sayur labu to pengat to bingka, and most recently delicious pumpkin pudding. Mummy requested sayur labu every day, then got sick of it and moved on to pengat, and got sick…
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Weekend Cooking: Paella
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Tesco had some good shrimp and mussels in stock, and I really wanted to take my lovely Le Creuset casserole (thanks Tiff!) for a spin, so I decided to try making and perfecting a paella recipe. I’ve made this twice now, but am still not fully satisfied with the results. The first time I…
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Weekend Cooking: Sausage and Chicken Jambalaya
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After cycling through quite a few Middle Eastern dishes of late, I decided to revisit some of the old recipes I made but never got around to properly document. This jambalaya recipe based on the one by Emeril Lagasse was particularly nostalgic for me, because this was one of the first dishes I made…
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Make Your Own: Caramelized Biscuit Sauce
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Have you guys ever tried Llaollao frozen yoghurt? It’s absolutely divine when you have it topped with their signature Lotus caramelized biscuit sauce. Must. Try. Aizat gave me the brilliant idea of stuffing plain roti paung with Lotus Biscoff Spread, which is pretty much the same thing used in Llaollao’s biscuit sauce. The reason…
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Smoked Duck and Sausage Gumbo
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I’m really trying hard to clear out stuff from my freezer. It doesn’t help that I keep buying new ingredients, I know, but I still try. I had a few smoked duck breasts sitting at the bottom of my freezer for ages, and I knew I had to make something that would do them…
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GobbleFest 2017 Leftovers: Turkey Avgolemono Soup
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I shredded the last bits of my leftover GobbleFest turkey meat and stored them in the freezer, along with the turkey carcass. This weekend I just wanted to finish them all off and finally close the 2017 chapter of GobbleFest. What better way to do that than to try a new recipe? I made…
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GobbleFest 2017 Leftovers: Turkey Waldorf Salad
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Happy New Year, everyone! It’s a lazy New Year’s Day, and I wanted to put together a light snack. The first few times I made this was way back in 2012, when I was still actively involved in the Repertory Theater Club (RTC). I made this for a post-rehearsal gathering with the RTC gang,…
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For Your Spice Rack: Eman’s Saudi Spice Mix
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I’ve been meaning to try out Eman’s kabuli rice recipe for a while now, but that dish requires Saudi spice or baharat, which I didn’t have on hand nor can easily get at stores. Finally got around to making it over the New Year’s Day long weekend. I only toasted the spices for about 5…
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GobbleFest 2017 Leftovers: Turkey Noodle Casserole
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When there’s a turkey dinner there’s inevitably leftovers, which opens up opportunities for more culinary adventures. I saved the carcass to make turkey stock later, and while some of the meat I planned to make yummy turkey waldorf salad with, for the family coming over for dinner tonight I decided to try this simple…
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GobbleFest 2017: Twice Baked Potato Casserole
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I actually made this for our first ever GobbleFest back in 2012. At the time we bought our roast turkey from Turkey Point Cafe, and I only made the sides. Back then I wasn’t wise enough to know to make a few dishes in advance, but this time, especially now that I roast my…