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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…
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Chicken Tortilla Soup
I don’t think i ever had chicken tortilla soup until few weeks ago . I thought they’re good , similar to Chili , but i think i prefer tortilla soup better . The recipe here is so easy , although it took about 1 hour to simmer , so that the taste blends better , so worth it . Perfect day for a chicken tortilla soup , since it’s a little bit cold over here . Anyway here is the recipe : 4 chicken thighs , boneless , cut into bite size vegetable oil salt and pepper, smoked paprika Cut the chicken thighs into bite size , salt pepper…
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French Vanilla Ice Cream
Over the weekend i ordered ice cream maker, it’s Cuisinart newest model , forgot exactly what was the series number . But i remember over the christmas , William Sonoma had a christmas sale for that ice cream maker , the price was pretty good , almost like 50% off or something . But i didn’t get it on time , i didn’t get to read the email on time , so it was too late to order it . So , last week i decided to look this up , and i ended up buying myself an ice cream maker . The package arrived yesterday and i washed the…
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Red Robin’s Honey Mustard Poppy Seed Dressing
The first time i visited red robin was few years ago back when we were still living in Wichita , Kansas . But since then , although they have couple of red robin’s restaurants around our area , we barely went there . It’s just hamburgers anyway , that’s what i think . Until few months ago , we set a playdate for the kids over there , and i ordered their crispy chicken salad with honey mustard poppy seed dressing . I always love honey mustard , so i thought this was a good choice , i didn’t regret it , it was great !! And i found the…
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Slow Cooked Chicken Teriyaki
I ran to this recipe online , it was adapted from Rachael Ray’s website , she’s famous with her quick 30 minutes meal . Well this one wasn’t a quick 30 minutes meal , and i am not really into her recipes either . But this one caught my eye .. easy and it’s like forget it and let it cook by itself . It doesn’t call for too much ingredients , but one thing that you must have , it’s the teriyaki sauce itself . Although in my opinion , you can always make your own teriyaki , this recipe also similar to my Indonesian Ginger Chicken recipe ,…
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Mini Trifle
I made this quick and easy dessert over lunch today . I just wanted to use the shortcake that i bought from the store few days ago , since it’s been sitting there without anybody eating it . I’ve made the custard the other day , was going to use it for eclairs , but i think i’ve been making too much stuff lately for our little family . One can only eat so much , right ? So , everybody can make this , i use the pretty glass for this , just pull apart the shortcake or even angel food cake from store would work just fine ,…
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Raisins Butter Cake
One of my favorite cake of all time . When i was younger , my mom used to bake this cake a lot . The smell of the butter being baked in the oven was so good . To bring back memories , i had asked my sister the recipe for this cake , since i believe she was the one who gave my mother the recipe . ( She went to culinary school ) So , this afternoon , i decided to make butter cake , this cake is so easy to make , yet , they’re so moist and rich . Most of you have the ingredients that…
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St.Patrick’s day cake
This st.patrick’s day cake is so easy to make . I’ve modified them , by using a cake mix . According to all the people who ate the cake , it’s very delicious and they wonder what the secret ingredients was , some asked if i added nutmeg , or hazelnut in there .. LOL . But my in laws had them , 2 slices each , then my husband had 2 slices too , and a friend of mine at the gym also had 2 slices , and everybody said it’s delicous . Yet , if they only knew , it was so easy to make .. everybody can…
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Pasta con Fruitti Di Mare ( Seafood Pasta w/ simple tomato sauce )
It was one of the lazy cooking day , i have been slacking with cooking for a while . We’ve got too much leftovers from cooking the previous days . We finally finished the leftovers from 2-3 days ago of cooking . So it was about time to cook again .. i was going to make shish kebab but changed my mind , and ended up with seafood pasta . I make my own sauce for the seafood pasta , ever since i learned how to cook and found out how easy it is to make your own pasta sauce , i never use store bought pasta sauce any more…
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Lemon Garlic Pasta Cream Chicken w/ Focaccia Bread
This morning after working out , i decided just to make focaccia bread , it’s raining and we had nothing else to do today anyway . So , i put the dough in the bread machine , letting it go , actually you could made it manually , by hand , but to save time and less messy i just let the bread machines take care of the dough . It didn’t take long , about 1 hour and half and the dough was ready to be baked . I put some herbs in the dough , thyme , garlic , basil oregano and black pepper . On top of…
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Fruit Tartlets
This afternoon i decided to make use of these strawberries we had in our fridge . It was cheap , i couldn’t help not to buy 3 pints of strawberries , only to wonder what else could i make with these strawberries !!! It was only $1.00 / pint , during winter month , who could’ve refused that ? Okay , it’s close to spring , but it was still cheap , even during summer months you can’t get $1.00/pint at the grocery store , except at the farmer’s market . I remember early fall last year i got 8 pints of strawberries and it only cost ms $1.00 for…
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Spicy Noodle Soup with Seafood and Vegetables
Tonight’s dinner in our household is Korean dish , it’s one pot meal , since it has everything that your body need . I actually think this dish is pretty healthy , it has noodles , seafood ( i used squid and mussels ) and 1 piece of boneless chicken thighs . For the vegetables i had cabbage only on hand , the recipe ( from Maangchi website ) calls for napa cabbage too , but i don’t have them , and i don’t have white button mushroom either , so i only used the cabbage , and then the shiitake mushroom from the stock that i made , carrots…
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Strawberry Cake with White Chocolate Whipped Cream
Made this birthday cake for our neighbour the other day . Originally i was going to make chocolate cake , but obviously i changed my mind at the last minute . Ended up with making strawberry cake , just 2 layers of strawberry cake , with dark chocolate icing in between , and then white chocolate whipped cream on the icing all over the cake . I have to say that i never worked on whipped cream icing , i usually just use french butter cream icing , or chocolate ganache icing . Doesn’t mean i never used whipped cream , i’ve used it for cakes few times ,…
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Coconut Chicken
This is another easy dish to make for weekdays. The fact that it comes with a dipping sauce or just a sauce to spice up the chicken itself , is yummy , the sauce is made from pineapple preserve , i think you can always make your own pineapple sauce if you have fresh pineapple on hand , or when pineapple is in season , but the preserve is just comes in very handy . And i thought at first pineapple preserve with jalapeno and green onion was kinda strange combination , but it turns out to be delicious and perfect pair for the chicken cutlets . Instead of using…
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Bruschetta
Made these wonderful appetizer over the summer , in fact it was so good who knows how many times i made them . Everything was on season , tomatoes was cheap , basil was grown in my own garden , the taste was so delicious , and not to mention it was so easy to make . Although i make my own french bread , but if you’re short in time , just grab the baquette from the store and you’ll have these snack / appetizers in minutes ! 6 roma (plum) tomatoes, chopped 3 cloves minced garlic 1/4 cup olive oil 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 1/4 cup fresh basil,…
