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My brother-in-law returned from Sydney last week and brought home with him three large flash-boiled lobsters. Seeing that they were fresh and ready for the grill, my sister-in-laws decided to have a surf and turf dinner last week. They cut up the striploin they had purchased from Euraco into thick slabs of steaks. The marbling effect of those steaks were fantastic, and those steaks were simply mouth-watering delicious. It was tender and soft, with just the right amount of fat. We only barely seasoned the meat with some freshly ground black pepper and kosher salt and yet they tasted unbelievable.
With the steaks grilling, we turned our attention [...]
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I love banana cake. I love the fragrance of the banana, seeping out through moist, loose cake crumbs, and the flavour oozing out with every bite. Unfortunately, most recipes are either too dense, or too dry. That is until I came across a recipe for banana cake on Chubby Hubby’s blog. That recipe has since been the one that I use faithfully. One of the most important ingredients of banana cake is of course, the bananas. Using the right bananas is paramount to success. For me, the riper, the better. My hubby however, loves to throw away over-riped bananas. He claims that they’re rotten and fit for the trash, [...]
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Hubby decided to do us the honours of cooking dinner two days ago. The resolve was to use up some of the food items in the refrigerator. I had a craving for mushroom soup and seeing that we had some sour cream left in the fridge, J proceeded to whip up a delicious Hungarian mushroom soup. The soup is rather thick and creamy, with a tinge of sweetness from the sauteed onions that he had added into the soup. He usually adds a dash of paprika to the soup, but that day, he didn’t.
Seeing that we still had plenty of sausages left, and some Hokkaido frozen scallops, [...]
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I had wanted to try this place out after hearing some raving reviews from one of my colleagues. Since it was mom’s birthday, coupled with the fact that she loves Japanese food, what better place to go?
We went for their Ala Carte Buffet, which comes with free-flow of drinks. The main highlight for us that it was free flow of sashimi as well. Yes… free flow. And the variety was truly worth the value of the buffet. They served up the typical Salmon sashimi, but also served Hamachi (yellow-tail), Tai (Sea bream), Tako (Octopus) and Ama Ebi (sweet prawn). The sashimi was fresh and sweet. It was truly [...]
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I made this for dinner when mom came over on the eve of National Day. It was a recipe adapted from Thomas Keller’s “The French Laundry Cookbook”. Everything turned out really tasty and mom raved about it. Dinner was completed with a serving of homemade passion fruit ice-cream with dark chocolate ganache. The recipe follows:
Pan-seared scallops with Asparagus Puree
10 stalks of asparagus 3/4 cup chicken stock 6-8 brown button mushrooms, chopped into cubes 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 small sprig of thyme 2 cloves of garlic, meshed and finely chopped 1/2 tablespoon chopped shallots 1 tablespoon cubed tomatoes 8 medium sized scallops Canola oil white pepper [...]
Read More Pan-seared scallops with Mushrooms and Asparagus Puree
J and I had purchased some yummylicious foie gras and proscuitto from Italy and France, and needed to finish them up before they start to go bad. Seeing it as a good opportunity to catch up with friends, and to relax over food and wine, we invited a couple from church over for dinner. The dinner menu was as follows: Pesto salad with roasted mini portobellos, proscuitto with rock melon and arugula, and the main course – pan seared foie gras with butter apples and white corn polenta. Delicious! It was a bit of a rush trying to prepare all the food though, as we were out for a [...]
Read More Friends for dinner
The last two months has seen my increased obsession with baking the perfect macarons. Since I tasted the delectable macarons from Pierre Herme and LaDuree in Paris, I realised that the chewy ones we often get here in Singapore are not the real thing. However, with my busy schedules, baking had taken a backseat. It wasn’t until I came across the Pierre Herme book “Macaron” that was sitting forlornly on my shelf that I resolved to start baking macarons again. I had purchased the book on a whim when I saw it at a Pierre Herme boutique in Paris. The only problem? The book was in French.
That started [...]
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