Easy Egg Fried Rice Fried rice is one of the easiest and most basic of all the rice dishes. There are many variants, Nyonya fried rice has dried prawns and the Thais have pineapple fried rice.
Turmeric Chicken, Grilled or Pan Fried
Turmeric chicken is one of my family’s favourite dishes. Originally, we grill this over charcoal or in the oven grill using the grill setting. It is also known as broiling in the US, I think.
Sambal Taukwa
Sambal Taukwa is a long forgotten dish as far as I am concerned. As a kid growing up in a small town, we commonly go across the street to buy food from the Malay shop. Nasi lemak or coconut rice wrapped in banana leaves is a firm favourite. Sambal taukwa is
Shrove Tuesday, Pancake day!
Tuesday is pancake day. I actually should be posting Chinese New Year recipes as it is on Friday. But I have posted most of my recipes, I have only a few more left unless I experiment more with new recipes. I now post this pancake recipe and will get to my Chinese New Year stuff …
Tamarind Spare-Ribs
Tamarind Spare Ribs I have a tamarind recipe for chicken, which is a very old hand-me-down recipe. So now I am coming up with a spare ribs recipe with tamarind sauce. This is delicious eaten with rice and some freshly cooked vegetables. It looks deceptively long to cook, but, you only simmer it …
Whatever You Have Tomato/Pasta Sauce
Whatever You Have Tomato/Pasta Sauce As the Lunar new year is a fortnight away, I have been slowly clearing out my larder and other nooks and crannies that I stashed my dry and canned food. This is a good time to do this.The Chinese believe that we should clear out our house of rubbish so …
Oriental Spicy #Chicken #Quick Stew
Hello again, Today I am sharing this recipe of mine which I used to cook very frequently when I was in Malaysia. I remember cooking it for my late dad’s birthday when I was around 14 years old. I was pretty chuffed when the guests commented that it was really tasty. I used quite a bit …
Dried Prawns Fried Rice
I am not feeling all that good for the past 10 days or more. I believe it is the horrible weather that we are having right now, which is autumn and going into winter. For the duration I was aching all over. I had my flu jab in October so it looks like this …
Reunion Dinner and CNY Lunch, Valentine Day.
Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner Well, most of my friends would have posted on their Facebook accounts all that had taken place. As for me, I am so busy with a lot of matters on hand. Our reunion dinner was a simple one. We had Duck!! which is my favourite but not often made. We …
Fried Left-over Pork and Chicken for Love Food Hate Waste Class
Further to my earlier post, on the LOVE Food Hate Waste sessions, here is the recipe for the Fried Left-over Pork and Chicken. I have the recipe for coking rice porridge, or congee. However, I have not be able to get a good photo of it. I will post the recipe when I have a …
Wait!! Chinese New Year is not over yet! Braised Turkey/Chicken
Chinese New Year is not officially over yet. We celebrate it for 15 days, until the 15th day of the lunar calender. So I am still entertaining my guests. Not that I have a lot of guests, though. Last week, we invited the neighbours – not many, only a few, over for some dinner …
Hokkien Mee – Penang Prawn Noodle Soup
Serves: 4-6 Difficulty: Intermediate Cost: ££ Time: 30 mins prepare, 30 mins to cook I used the shell of the crab recipe ( previous post ) to cook the soup. I usually use prawn shells. If you do not usually use …
