Food
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Baked Yellow Plantains ( Maduros Asados )
I had never tried plantains before . To me , plantains are huge banana , king banana , it reminds me back in Indonesia that we have what we call Pisang Agung , it’s huge , long and skinny . Of course back in Indonesia we have few varieties of bananas , unlike in US , what they call banana is just banana , almost looks like ” pisang ambon ” back Indonesia . Over there we have pisang raja , pisang ambon , pisang susu , and many many more . This picture below is what we call Plantain , they’re big , more than normal size of bananas…
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Salami , Roasted Red Pepper Calzones
I made pizza last week , and i froze the other half of the dough , a good way to use the left overs pizza dough , either you make another pizza , or make calzones . I ended up using it for calzones . I thawed out my frozen pizza dough in the fridge this morning , by late afternoon it was pretty much ready to be used . The pizza dough i used freezes very well , and i can use it as if it’s a just made fresh today . For the filling , i put some salami , added some mushroom , roasted red pepper ,…
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Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
The simplest , easiest , pasta dish ever !! You’d be surprised , there are only 3 main ingredients in this delicious dish . Sometimes , the simplest meal is the most delicious one . As long as you have extra virgin olive oil , garlic and red pepper flakes , i think you should be set to make this yummy dish . Oh not to forget salt , and pepper if you like . I think this will be good for summer , where you don’t want anything heavy , something light yet delicious .. You will need : 1 lb of spaghetti ( al dente , cook according…
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Proper Blokes’ Sausage with Rotini
Another superb recipe from Jamie Oliver , not only it’s delicious , it’s super easy and quick !! From the start until i finish my dishes , it only took me 45 minutes total . And surprisingly there is no garlic or onion in this pasta dish , but it tastes great !! I have nothing else to say , just try it !! You need : 2 tsp. fennel seed 2-3 chili pepper , i used thai chili In a pestle or mortar , mash these together really good , set aside . 1 lbs of good quality italian sausage , remove from casing olive oil about a glass…
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Weekend Cooking : Green eggs and ham , Chicken Tikka Masala and EZ strawberry napoleon
It’s our weekend cooking , this morning after i woke up , i tried to think what would be good for breakfast . Usually i would make french toast , but i ran out of maple syrup , then i thought about eggs , since my husband mentioned just making scrambled eggs . But i’d like to make something a little different , i ended up trying to bake the eggs . I put ham on the bottom , layered it with sauteed veggies , and finally topped it off with the eggs . Super easy , and looks good. I guess you can call it green eggs and ham…
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Roasted chicken breasts with leeks , thyme and pancetta
Another great recipe from Jamie Oliver , this one was also super easy , but not too quick to make . Unless you’re making it with boneless chicken . You have to be really careful when baking / cooking chicken breasts , because a lot of people tend to overcook it , and ends up with dry chicken breast . This is one of the reason i’ve never liked chicken breasts , until i found out how to really cook it right , not overcook it !! Anyway , i used chicken breasts with bone in this recipe , i removed the skin , and the rest was just so…
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Saturday Afternoon Pasta
Don’t ask me why it’s called saturday afternoon pasta , this recipe was adapted from Jamie Oliver’s cook book . Wasn’t sure at first since i never really had tuna pasta that has cinnamon in the ingredients . I never used cinnamon for cooking , i usually use cinnamon for baking . Period ! But , i am glad i tried this dish though , it’s super easy , did not take long at all to make , and it turns out pretty delicious .Jamie was right though , that you have to use the good quality of tuna . I tried to get the white albacore tuna in oil…
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Falafel with Pita Bread
Ever since i tasted hummus , i became interested trying more and more some of middle eastern dish / cuisine . I thought they’re healthy enough , so why not trying it ? Falafel was made from ground chick peas , just like hummus , except we added few ingredients such as parsley , onion , cumin , coriander , some recipe even calls for mint in it . The recipe that i used to make this falafel does not use mint , and only used canned chick peas .Although i have other recipe of falafel that requires soaking the dry chick peas overnight . This recipe is quite easy…
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Shish Kebabs
shish kebabs with marinated chicken meat , sausage , red peppers , pineapples , and soy sauce ( kecap manis ) yummy !!
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Pizza Margherita
When we make pizza , we usually make the pizza with full topping , like the works or some place , calls it , supreme . But tonight , i thought i should try making the authentic pizza margherita , I decided to make 2 kinds of pizzas tonight , since , obviously , Jay would not want pizza with only fresh mozzarella and basil as its topping . And Nick probably wouldn’t like it either . It’s light and it’s not as filling as the works or the supreme . So , i made my own pizza sauce earlier during the day and then made my pizza dough this…
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Korean Sweet and Crispy Chicken
This has become of our favorite dish too . This morning i decided to make this sweet and crispy korean fried chicken . They’re easy to make , except it takes time to deep fry them . And plus you have re-fry them again to guarantee the crispiness of the chicken . Other than that , it’s pretty easy and delicious . The sliced ginger in the sauce turns out to be like a candy by the time the sauce is caramelized . Make sure do not over cook the sauce , or else the sauce not only caramelized , but it’ll get tough and break your teeth LOL ..…
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Hot Milk Cake w/ Strawberry and Cream
I was wondering when i found this recipe in my Bon Appetit book , i bought this book few months ago , it has tons of recipes , from cakes , cookies , ice cream to pies . I’ve tried some of their recipes and they’re delicious . One day i ran across this recipe when i was browsing through it , and i thought what the heck is hot milk cake ?? Why do they called hot milk cake ? Well for a good reason , it literally uses hot milk , and the hot milk is poured into the batter . Now come to think of it ,…
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Oreo Blizzard
This was an attempt to imitate DQ’s oreo blizzard . I would imagine .. how hard could it be ? It has the vanilla ice cream as it’s base and then you can go from there , and in this case .. i used Oreo cookies . DQ has so many type of blizzard ice cream , which is only vanilla ice cream with treats , any kind .. kit kat , butterfinger .. etc . So after making the vanilla ice cream base , i put it in the ice cream maker , and let it run it’s cycle . About 4 minutes before it finished , i added…
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Strawberry Sorbet
Tonight we tried a new recipe from Ben and Jerry ice cream book that i bought the other day . Instead of choosing ice cream , i decided let’s just try making sorbet , we bought lots of strawberries earlier anyway from the grocery store , why not putting them to a good use . The recipe only calls for half a pound , not much at all , but it makes about 1 quart of sorbet . Sorbet is made from fresh fruits , sugar and water , no milk and no heavy cream involved . But i guess if it’s Americanize sorbet , it would be involving milk…
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Baikut Sayur Asin ( Pork ribs w/ sour mustard soup )
When i was younger this was my favourite meal , it’s some kind of soup . I remember usually after school , coming home and i asked her , what’s for lunch , and when she told me it’s ” baikut sayur asin ” i was so happy , it’s my favourite meal !! Eventually after i got married , for a while i was having problems finding the vegetables that goes in this soup . It’s sour mustard , i think it’s like pickled mustard ( not too sure about this part ) , but you cannot use mustard only . It has to be sour mustard , mustard…
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Zabaglione Marsala Gelato
Last night i made this delicious gelato . Gelato is italian style ice cream . They’re stronger in flavour compared to regular american ice cream . This was not hard to make either , the ingredients just like custard ingredients . Using heavy cream , milk , sugar and egg yolks . I used marsala wine and rum . I have to say this is really good , and just like strawberry ice cream , this has become another favourite of mine ! They’re so good it’s bad, cos i can eat the whole batch for myself !!! You need : 4 egg yolks 1/2 cup of sugar In…
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Jay’s sweet spicy fish and sauteed bok choy
That was dinner tonight in our household . I hate it when Jay makes the fish .. take that as a compliment . Why do i hate it ? Because i cannot stop with just eating 1 plate !! I always end up getting 2nd plate with it . It was and always is , so yummy , it was hard just to stop with 1 plate . Jay used catfish , and put green onions , garlic , sambal oelek in a jar , soy sauce , yellow onion , thai chili pepper and sugar . As simple as that , but it’s so delicious !! I cooked the…
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Chocolate Babka
I wouldn’t know what Chocolate Babka was if i didn’t watch Seinfeld , there was one episode where Elaine and Jerry wanted to get chocolate babka , but it was too late , someone else already got it . Since then i always wondered how chocolate babka tastes like . Then i bought Martha Stewart’s baking handbook which has recipe for chocolate babka , except it was intended for 3 loaves of babkas , heck what am i going to do with 3 loaves of chocolate babkas ?? LOL .. I had another bread book , artisan bread , and it has the recipe for chocolate babka also . I…
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Spring Rolls
It has been a while since i made home made spring rolls . So today i got busy , i made couple things , it made me feel like i was in international house of flavours LOL . So the spring rolls was easy enough , had ground pork , i chopped the chicken and also shrimp and prepared the veggies . It wasn’t so messy , except when you use water as the glue for the spring rolls , it’s going to make a big mess because the last 2 rolls i used water for the glue , and when i deep fried them , oil popped everywhere…
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Chicken and Sweet Leek Pie
I put a chicken pie in my menu this week and finally got to try it tonight . It was taken from Jamie Oliver’s cook book . It looks delicious and it seems like the preparation was pretty easy . It was not easy , especially when you have boneless meat , it took me a while because i had bone in meat , i chose to use chicken legs , and i had to de-boned all of them to make enough for it . Wasn’t hard at all , in fact i thought this was quicker than making chicken pot pie . I cut bunch of thyme from my…
