Recipes

  • Office Potluck: Lasagne

    Office Potluck: Lasagne

    A few of my colleagues will be moving out from my floor to a different building, so we decided to throw a farewell potluck of sorts (an excuse to eat good food is always welcome), and one of them was craving lasagne.  Since it has been quite a while since I made it, I decided to…

  • Weekend Cooking: Creamy Smoked Chicken Pie

    Weekend Cooking: Creamy Smoked Chicken Pie

    I went grocery shopping today, and was planning to just make some dumpling soup for dinner tonight.  Then I saw that they were clearing out their stock of smoked chicken at half price, so I did a quick search online for recipe ideas, and landed on this one.  I tweaked the recipe with what I had on…

  • Dinner Club: Parker House Rolls

    Dinner Club: Parker House Rolls

    For last night’s Dinner Club session, I needed a few good sides to serve with my roast lamb shoulder, and while surfing around the Net I came upon this site which lists out some really good side dish suggestions.  Who can resist good dinner rolls, let alone rolls completely coated in butter before baking.  I just had…

  • Bread Maker Recipe: Banana and Cinnamon Tea Bread

    Bread Maker Recipe: Banana and Cinnamon Tea Bread

    So we forgot that we had a bunch of delicious pisang emas sitting in the fridge, and when they were finally discovered yesterday they were already beginning to turn black.  So, before they became completely inedible, and since I was having the Round Knights over for dinner tonight anyway, I decided to make banana bread. I used my…

  • Weekend Cooking: Mac and Cheese

    Weekend Cooking: Mac and Cheese

    I wanted something to go with the peri-peri wings I made yesterday, and decided on a comfort food classic – mac and cheese.  I’ve tried all sorts of recipes before, and honestly not a single one of them blew my mind, even though they were generally good.  This time I based my recipe on the…

  • Korean Dumplings (Mandu) In Soup

    Korean Dumplings (Mandu) In Soup

    Kak’mbang really loves her Korean TV shows, just like a large population of the world today.  Every now and then she sees people on TV eating dumplings in broth, and the dish does look really yummy.  So, recently she asked me to make our own pork-free version, and I based it on a great recipe by Maangchi.  Trust…

  • Weekend Cooking: Sweet Honey Cornbread

    Weekend Cooking: Sweet Honey Cornbread

    I was writing a draft of a different recipe I planned on making soon, and when looking for tips for making good cornbread, I stumbled upon this simple but yummy looking recipe on NotJustBaked.com.  I’ve tried several different cornbread recipes before and didn’t find one that I particularly liked, but this one was amazing.  Despite using…

  • Mary Ryan’s Chicken Pie

    Mary Ryan’s Chicken Pie

    This one has been on the back burner for a while (yes the kitchen expression was deliberate. Haha!), but I finally had all the ingredients and equipment I needed on hand.  I totally underestimated how much time it would take to make these, so what was originally supposed to be last night’s dinner ended up being…

  • Weekend Cooking: Fennel Cheese Rolls

    Weekend Cooking: Fennel Cheese Rolls

    I wanted to make a proper dinner tonight, but didn’t have quite a few of the required ingredients on hand.  I still wanted to make something, though, and being a bread lover, I decided to make some for breakfast over the coming weekend.  I decided on these rolls by Chef Wan from his book, Langkah Demi Langkah…

  • For Your Spice Rack: Taco Seasoning

    I mixed this a while back, so I don’t have pictures, but this is the taco seasoning I used in the Taco Salad I made recently.  You can always find the ready-made ones in grocers, but if you have the ingredients on hand, why not $ave$ome$ and make your own 🙂 To make enough just for…