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My mom-in-law gave us two thick stalks of asparagus today. I decided to make use of some of the left over ingredients that we had to make something rather unique.
What’s that you ask? Well, it’s asparagus wrapped with thinly sliced pork and coated with sesame seeds. These are baked for just 5-10 minutes and they’re really very good. One bite into the asparagus and you taste a varety of flavours. The fragrance of the roasted sesame seeds blended with the pork and the juiciness of the asparagus. Yums. I will definitely do this again, maybe with white sesame seeds.
Ingredients: 12 stalks of asparagus (regular sized ones) [...]
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Mid week Wednesday seems to come by so quickly. Instead of the usual eating out on weekdays (since we’re both too tired to cook), I thought that I’d fix something “simple”. Home cooked food is always healthier anyway. We decided on something Japanese, seeing that we had some japanese ingredients that we hadn’t yet used up. Hubby had been craving for cod since last week and so I figured why not? We can simply merge the two ideas together: Japanese and cod. I didn’t have a recipe for this, but I vaguely remember eating something similar at Ichiban Boshi once, and so I decided to experiment. The result?
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This is a really simple peranakan dish, even though it does require the preparation of a rempah. It is simple because, unlike typical rempah dishes, the rempah does not need to be fried before use. It is one of those “combine everything together and cook” dishes. I modified the original recipe, and added galangal and lemon grass to the rempah. I like the fragrance of the galangal, and the slightly citrusy flavour that the lemon grass brings. Since there is no frying involved, the oil from this dish comes from the chicken skin and the coconut milk added. If you are health conscious, the recipe from Mrs Lee’s book [...]
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The 2010 April Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Wolf of Wolf’s Den. She chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make Brunswick Stew. Wolf chose recipes for her challenge from The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt Lee and Ted Lee, and from the Callaway, Virginia Ruritan Club. She offered two recipes – one a longer more tedious one, and one a simpler one.
I decided to adopt the more tedious one, seeing how I already had some homecooked chicken broth in the freezer. I replaced the rabbit’s meat with pork. The stew was one of the most flavourful I’ve ever tasted. Hubby thought that it was simply bursting [...]
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I will confess that I’ve never baked bread before. Yes. Me, an avid baker (well, sort of), not baked bread before? Well, that’s because I’ve always been intimidated by the one million steps required to bake bread. The activating of the yeast, the proofing, the punching, the re-proofing. It all seems to tedious. Nevertheless, I really wanted to do something for Easter and so I decided to take the plunge.
I found a basic recipe online and changed a couple of things. It all turned out rather well I would say. The only silly thing I did was that I killed the yeast on the first try – my [...]
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It has been some time since we had friends over for a nice dinner. After some planning, we finally managed to fix a date where our three lovely couple friends could join us. I spent some time pondering over the dinner menu, and finally came up with the following. It’s a mixture of different kinds of cuisines really. A little bit of spanish, a little western, but mostly french.
For appetiser, we decided to serve up some lovely Jambon Iberico that we had received from a lovely lady we stayed with in France. Jambon iberico comes from the black Iberian Pig. It is very expensive and hence not widely [...]
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Most people enjoy a good Miso Cod despite the fact that it usually carries a fairly hefty price tag. And come on, what’s not to like about it? The moist flavour of the black cod steeped in miso that has just the right blend of sweetness and saltiness. Delicious.
I came across some nice cod (at a very good price) at a hokkaido fair and decided to try the dish out. It’s really simple. The only catch is that you do have to plan ahead as you need to marinate the fish in miso for 2-3 days, for the flavours to penetrate fully. The recipe is courtesy of [...]
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The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca.
I didn’t attempt the gluten free recipe but used wheat flour instead. The graham crackers turned out surprisely nice! Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of them before proceeding to make the bar. The bar was very yummy too. In fact, a colleague who has eaten nanaimo bars from Nanaimo, Canada gives them a 10/10.
It’s been a long while since I updated. I hardly had much time to cook but there was much eating done, and yes, much pics to put up. We went to Japan recently for our year-end holiday and took many photos of the lovely seafood at Hokkaido. I will be updating with the pics soon… I hope.
Meanwhile it’s busy busy busy in preparation for a Christmasy dinner tomorrow. Hubby’s friends are coming over. More photos on the way, after the dinner. Now it’s off to prepare the Buche De Noel.
The November 2009 Daring Cooks challenge was brought to you by Audax of Audax Artifex and Rose of The Bite Me Kitchen. They chose sushi as the challenge. I kinda waited till the eleventh hour to complete this month’s challenge. With the overseas trips and all, I hardly had time to cook, bake, let alone make sushi. Anyway, I steeled my resolve and managed to complete this in the nick of time. I’m still not happy with my dragon roll though. The avocados were too raw and couldn’t adhere to the rice. Otherwise, everything else was tasty. I would however, add a little more water to the rice during [...]
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