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Chicken Enchiladas
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The Dinner Club is back, and this time the theme is… Tex Mex! I decided to bring back some old favourites while trying out new recipes, so the menu was as follows: Taco Salad | Chilli Con Carne and Chilli Con Queso | Chicken Enchiladas The main dish of the night was of course the enchiladas,…
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For your spice rack: Mandy spice mix
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Am trying out Chef Ammar’s Lamb Mandy with Rice tonight, but I didn’t buy his Mandy Spice Mix when I got his Bukhari and Kabsah spice mixes the other day, so I had to make my own. I found a few seemingly highly rated recipes online, and scaled it up to make 1 cup,…
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For Your Spice Rack: Baby Bam
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I’m trying out Emeril’s Perfect Roast Chicken today, which requires this Baby Bam spice mix. Looks like this spice mix is used in quite a few more tasty looking recipes I wanted to try, so I decided it was worth the trouble to make a batch. The only spice I didn’t have on hand was the…
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Beef Kabsah With Basmathi Rice
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I’ve been waiting for Chef Ammar’s spices and recipe book to go mainstream for a very long time, but somehow it never did. His books are not sold in any major bookstore, and his bottled spices are not sold in any major grocer or supermarket. His stuff is only sold online by seemingly home-based…
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The Dinner Club: Turkey Ham Breadsticks
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This wasn’t originally on the menu for our first Dinner Club meet scheduled for tomorrow. But I was digging through my freezer and found some turkey ham and, since breadsticks usually get included in pizza meal sets, I decided to make these as well. They keep well for a couple of days, so I…
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Project: RayaFest 2014 – French Onion Soup
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So I finally had the time to browse through the book, “Bill’s Basics” by Bill Granger (thanks Cornelius!), and boy, so many recipes I can’t wait to try out! Most of the recipes looked fairly simple, and I finally landed on this delicious looking French Onion Soup recipe. I made this for a group…
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For Your Spice Rack: Hawa’ij Spice Mix
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Used in the Chicken Mandy With Rice recipe I tried recently, this spice mix can be easily made at home, using common spices which can be found in our hypermarkets in Malaysia. I usually store my spices in the freezer to keep dry; you know how our humid weather can be. Recipe by the…
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Make Your Own: Ricotta Cheese
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A good lasagne recipe usually calls for ricotta cheese. The Manly Man Lasagne recipe I made needed almost 4 cups, and let’s face it – even if you can get it from the upmarket grocers in Kuala Lumpur, a 200-250 gm tub (about 1 cup) would cost at least RM 20, and I’ll need…
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Special Occasion: Manly Man Lasagna
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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…
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Weekend Cooking: Chicken Spaghetti
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Been out of the home-cooking scene for quite a while now. Recently, out of sheer boredom I started browsing through the Food Network website and finally discovered Ree Drummond. Her recipes look simple, inexpensive and quite comfort food-ish; totally my kind of food. So over the weekend I decided to try out one of…