Food
All food posts.
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Banana Bread
I made banana bread yesterday , it’s been a long time and i happened to have overripe bananas laying around on the counter . The problem with banana bread is , there are tons of recipes out there , throughout the years i’ve tried plenty recipes , sometimes i forget which one that tasted the best , and which one is the okay so so version . So going through my recipe box was tricky , i had to try to remember which one was this . But the one that i picked yesterday was the one without butter , so i considered it a little healthier version .. 😀…
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Southern Fried Chicken
I don’t know why but during the end of the sermon this morning at church , just about a minute before the pastor let us all go home , suddenly i thought about fried chicken . No  , not thinking about buying fried chicken , because that’s what we usually do , i don’t cook fried chicken , i know they’re easy but i don’t , just because to me it seems pointless spending about a gallon of oil just to fry chicken , not to mention , it is unhealthy . We usually settled with oven baked fried chicken , similar but not quite the same original fried chicken…
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Thai Sticky Rice minus Mango
I love thai sticky rice , near the town where i live there is this thai restaurant that we occasionally go to . Me and my friends like to have lunch over there too , their price was very reasonable and they have a very yummy curry . But what i like the most was their dessert , thai sticky rice . I figured it shouldn’t be too hard to make , and so i googled it and i was right , it was super easy . As long as you have the sticky rice , and coconut milk , whether you have mango or not , it’s not a…
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Sweet Red Bean Paste
When you go asian bakery , chances are you will find items with sweet red beans fillings . Growing up in southeast asia , i found one dessert with beans , but not red beans , so this is all new to me also . I thought red beans are only for main dish , who would have thought it’s also for dessert , esp. it’s very famous in asian bakery . I decided to put my red azuki beans to a good use over the weekend , i thought it’s not going to be hard to make . I soaked the beans overnight . I tried cooking it without…
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Shrimp Creole
I like shrimp , i think they’re one of the healthy food that is packed with protein yet you don’t have to spend so much time in cooking them . In fact the longer time you spend cooking the shrimp , the chewy they get and in result , it’s not really that yummy . But cooking them quick is the key and i need this kind of meal once in a while . This time , we’re trying to make shrimp creole , i thought the taste was a little lacking , probably because i have the asian tongue that is looking for that specific blend from shrimp dish…
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Durian Cake
Over the weekend we went to check out the other asian market in the same area where the korean market was located at . Â At that asian market , i was thrilled because i found so many indonesian items , just like the store that we used to go back in Chicago , a whole aisle dedicated especially for indonesian food . Well , anyway , i also found durian , which i was really thrill to see . The last time i had durian was about 4 or 5 years ago , yes it’s been a long time .So i picked it up and bought it .. This morning…
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Vanilla Cup (cakes) w/ Frosting
Nothing beats home made cake , although you have to admit , those box cake mix , makes our lives a lot easier , not only they’re easy , they’re soft and yummy too . But i really don’t like using a cake box mix for some reason , to me , it’s not really a home made when you all have to do just throw in oil , water and eggs . The past few years i’ve been searching for a good vanilla cake recipe , or as you call it , white cake . I think i finally found one … This recipe is easy to throw together…
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Strawberry – Rhubarb Crunch w/ Vanilla Ice Cream
I had never tried rhubarb before . From what i heard they go great when cooked with strawberry , and people said it has quite similar taste with strawberry . So it is full spring down south , and i figured it should be easy to find rhubarb , and it should be widely available . So yesterday when i went grocery shopping , my eyes was set to find rhubarb . I found them , those long red stalk , not to be mistaken with swiss chard by the way 🙂 But it happened , when i was about to pay for my grocery , the girl didn’t know…
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DIY Tiered Flower Pot
Few days ago as i was browsing and wasting my time on Pinterest , i ran across this cute idea of making tiered flower pot . I thought why have i never thought about this before ? Of course we’ve seen in the a huge green houses , beautiful pots on top of pots with beautiful colorful impatiens or petunias or allysum . It’s just pretty !! So , yesterday i set my mind to this , i knew i had that 1 huge pot laying around doing nothing , then a small pot in the back porch that used to have basil before winter last time , now it…
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Chocolate Stout Cake
chocolate stout cake how to
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Kimchi Fried Rice with Bacon and Shiitake Mushroom
When i made my kimchi , i made a big batch of it , so sometimes i felt like what should i do with this ? It’s like a kimchi overload happened in my fridge . My husband’s favourite dish with kimchi is kimchi stew , that was also my favorite . One morning i decided to try to throw together kimchi omelette , and that worked pretty good too , nothing to it , just beaten eggs , salt pepper and rice wine . This time i tried to make kimchi fried rice . As always my guidance is the korean food website Maangchi . Fried rice is everywhere…
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Hot Spicy Rice Cake
This is the recipe that i got from Maangchi website . And this is how i learn of my korean cooking too . She had a video of how you can try making your own rice cake . To tell you the truth i am not really into rice cake . And i think i know why , because i never made my own rice cake . All the rice cake i used to cooking was always from the store . It’s a frozen store bought rice cake . So Maangchi website teaches us how to make your own rice cake , and to my surprised it was quite easy…
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Superb Chili
I didn’t really like chili a long time ago , but for some reason , my taste has changed . Before i got pregnant 8 years ago , i started liking it ,but then during pregnancy i hated it . After my son was born , chili , was something that i can have , but it’s okay if i  never had them anymore . I was always looking for a delicious recipe for chili . Ever since my son was born , i started to have interest to cook anything from scratch , and that’s how i ended up searching and searching for a good recipe for chili .…
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Braised Pork ( Babi Kecap )
How to make easy chinese dish , babi kecap , braised pork
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Chicken Mole
Jamie Oliver's chicken mole from American Cookbook
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Coconut Friands
French friands , delicious snack for afternoon tea
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Madeleines
how to make french cookies Madeleines
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Grilled Chipotle Pork Tenderloin with Polenta
This is one of the easiest way to make yummy dish . I am not so much of a fan of pork tenderloin , although it is actually can be considered a healthy food . It’s the other white meat , i like to get pork tenderloin that has white fat on top still . It brings out the flavor to be better , compared the one that you have the skin removed . This one is super easy , as long as you have ziploc bag , spices , brown sugar , and pork , and grill .. you’ll be set and ready for a yummy quick dinner .…
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Roasted Asparagus
Asparagus is one of our favorite vegetable . They’re widely available during early spring time , once spring is over , chances are , it’s be hard to find any fresh asparagus in the market . I never really cared about canned asparagus , just like any other vegetables , i like them thousand times better than having them straight from the can . That’s why i always get vegetables when they’re in season , if not , then find something else , that way , you don’t need to eat veggies from can . So , since asparagus is one of our favorite , i found a super easy…
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Texas Brownies
What is Texas Brownies ? I have no clue , all i know is .. that it’s a sheet chocolate cake with chocolate icing . And in my case , it is a really moist cake !! Why do they call it brownies ? They’re not even chewy like most brownies are .. I wonder about that too sometimes . Maybe i should as a true Texan , born and raised and who knows maybe one will be able to give me the answer . The first i made this was years and years ago , from a Taste of Home magazine that my MIL subscribed into . I thought…
