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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…
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For Your Spice Rack: Seasoned Salt
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Ree’s Chicken Spaghetti called for seasoned salt, which I now know is not the same as regular salt or Ajinomoto. Lol. Seems like in the States one can get these pre-made in a bottle, but I really didn’t feel like going out to some high-end grocer to buy something that may cost me something like…
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For your spice rack: Cajun Spice Mix
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The Red Lobster biscuits copycat recipe called for Cajun seasoning, and after browsing around there seems to be several different variations of it. I finally settled with the recipe from Allrecipes.com, since I had all the required ingredients on hand. Ingredients 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons garlic powder 2 1/2 teaspoons paprika 1 teaspoon ground black…
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Cream of Wild Mushroom Soup
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This creamy soup is filled with generous amounts of mushrooms, and is seriously the best I have ever tasted. I will not make cream of mushroom soup any other way ever again. A portion of this recipe was used for the Emerilized Green Bean Casserole, and the rest was served as a starter. Definitely…
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Weekend Cooking: Classic Chicken Jambalaya
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Tried out this dish over the weekend. All in all am pleased with the results, although I did take note of some improvements to put in if I make this again. Updated 11 Dec 2019: Made this for dinner with some mods. Definitely a good dish when done right. Jambalaya is practically like our…