No thanks to my old friend Suanie’s post on the Malaysian-Western chicken chop, I just HAD to make this dish. Heck, I ran out to the supermarket for some chicken the very next day. I tell you, that’s the one thing I hate about the Internet. You see beautiful food writeups coupled with mouthwatering pictures and description [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Easy Chicken Chop
Posted in Food, tagged chicken chop, easy recipe, Malaysian chicken chop on July 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Mutilated
Posted in Life, Thoughts & Ramblings, tagged bad haircut, hair salon on July 26, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I’m *this* close to breaking out in sobs right now I went for a looooong overdue haircut today. My last haircut was on 20th May 2009 when I was in Malaysia :/ I have put off going to the hairdresser’s for as long as I could due to the language factor as well as the fact [...]
Grilled chicken wings and honey mustard dipping sauce
Posted in Food, tagged Asian chicken wings, chicken wings, grilled chicken wings, honey mustard sauce, sesame on July 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I don’t know what has gotten into me lately. All I want to do is cook, cook and COOK! It’s not like I’m hungry all the time, I just feel very motivated to try cooking new dishes. The hubs has been taking advantage capitalizing saying that since I enjoy cooking so much, he should have [...]
Herb-batter fried zucchini/courgette
Posted in Food, tagged appetizer, courgette, zucchini on July 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I have never cooked zucchini before, but living in Italy, I see it served at almost every Italian restaurant. It is usually grilled and served as part of a salad starter. It is quite cheap and I decided to try buying it while it is still in season. I had some leftover oil from frying [...]
Tempeh Goreng Berempah & Sambal kicap Johor
Posted in Food, tagged fried tempeh, ricetta tempe, sambal kicap, tempe, tempeh, tempeh recipe on July 19, 2010 | 6 Comments »
A couple of days back, an old friend of mine, C, asked on Facebook if anyone knew how to fry tempeh. I grew up in a small town in Johor, Malaysia that had a strong Javanese-origin population. Tempeh is Indonesian in origin, and is especially popular in Java. An extract from Wikipedia: Tempeh, or tempe in [...]
Cold sesame seed soba with smoked salmon
Posted in Food, tagged Japanese food, Japanese soba, noodles, soba, summer food on July 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
When it was freezing cold in Modena, I was wishing so fervently for summer. And now that summer is here, with temperatures hovering around 37-38 degrees lately, I wish it was winter all over again. Thats the problem with Modena, we get winters that are quite cold (there was one day where it was [...]
Prawn Mee / Prawn Noodle Recipe
Posted in Food, tagged Asian food, Malaysian food, noodle, prawn mee, prawn noodle on July 14, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Having been away from home for 2 years now I sometimes really, really crave Malaysian food. I realized that most times, it is the hawker food that I miss most. Prawn mee, curry mee, char kuay teow has got to be at the top of this list. In Johor and Kuala Lumpur where I lived [...]
Our Second Wedding Anniversary
Posted in Life, Thoughts & Ramblings, tagged anniversary on July 10, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Yesterday marked our two years of being married. Where the heck did all that time go??? I’m ageing faster than you can say Ineedbotox The hubs was in Latvia for work the past week, and arrived home at midnight. He was tired. I wasn’t feeling well. It was a simple “Happy-Anniversary” affair. This morning, I [...]
Le Creuset
Posted in Life, Thoughts & Ramblings, tagged cookware, Dutch Oven, Le Creuset, Le Creuset Italia on July 4, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Ever since I arrived in Italy almost 2 years ago, I had been cooking in the hub’s ONE saucepan, ONE frying pan, and ONE 2 liter pot. It drove me nuts especially when cooking Asian food, as it was so difficult frying rice, noodles etc without a wok. Soups were a pain too as [...]
