Ramadan

Lentil Dhal Recipe

Lentil dal recipe

   I have been busy. The last weekend, I worked really hard and the weekend was basically non-existent for me. Nevertheless no complaints, at times having a lot of work is good. It pushes you beyond your limits and in this case, earning extra cash was good with the crazy number of birthdays coming up. Every May and June, I empty…

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Baked Baby Potatoes with Creamy Tuna Filling

Baked Baby Potatoes with Creamy Tuna Filling

  Sighs! The blog was down for a good 12 hours. Hostgator said it was "due to an undocumented bug in firmware utilized in our vendor’s hardware." Okkay, whatever that meant. That must have been one hell of a bug because it brought down about 100,000 websites including mine. I was a wreck when that happened. I was moping around, missing…

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Black glutinous rice pudding with coconut milk

Bubur Pulot Hitam

  Black glutinous rice pudding with coconut milk or more commonly known as Bubur pulot hitam is a popular dessert in Asia, traditionally made by cooking the black glutinous rice with water. Once cooked, palm sugar (gula melaka) is added to the pudding. It is then topped with coconut milk. Simple to make but crazily delicious. It is one of my favorite…

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Aglio olio

Angel Hair Aglio Olio with Shrimps

The weekend literally flew by. Cream cheese still sitting pretty in the fridge. Yup, cheesecake didn't happen. That has to happen soon though. Soon can be tomorrow or next week. Nobody knows, not even yours sincerely.  The weather is pretty weird right now. I hope God isn't upset or something because it's the same almost everywhere apparently? My cousin in Toronto…

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Chef Wan's Nonya squid sambal

Chef Wan’s Nyonya Squid Sambal

  Chef Wan's Nyonya squid sambal is a dish that originate from the Peranakan (Straits chinese). The "Peranakan" refers to people of mixed Chinese and Malay/Indonesian heritage. They are also well known as the "Baba nyonya".  Peranakan males are known as Babas while the females are known as Nyonyas. My brothers and me are years apart in age, thus I grew up spending…

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Bubur-Chacha

Bubur Chacha Recipe

Don't you feel at times researchers are over-researching things? Initially we were told to cook with olive oil due to it's immerse benefits. A few years down the road, they "found" out that olive oil, when heated gets altered. It is said that high frying temperatures isn't suitable for olive oil as when it is heated,it gets toxic. Then you had an…

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