From the monthly archives:

July 2006

Seafood

July 30, 2006

Fried Fish with a sprinkling of oil & soy sauce. My attempt to replicate one of my favorite restaurant dish. Normally this dish is done with a whole fish but I had to replace it with fish fillet. Nevertheless, it turned out yummy!! Will definitely cook this again

Salty Shrimp

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Bulls Eye Cheesecake

July 30, 2006

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BBQ Chicken

July 25, 2006

BBQ chicken & grilled fishballs & corn

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Seafood Pasta and Rainbow AgarAgar

July 19, 2006

Seafood Pasta with Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus
&
Rainbow Agar-Agar

Recipe for agar-agar:
500ml of water
1 Tbsp agar-agar powder
100g sugar
a few pandan leaves
1. Boil all the above together. When boiled, remove from fire & keep warm in a crockpot.
2. Meanwhile, mix together 90 ml coconut milk (with a pinch of salt added to it) and 90 ml fresh milk. Boil. Switch [...]

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BBQ Galore

July 19, 2006

Got ourselves a new toy this weekend – a new BBQ grill. So inevitably, the menu for this weekend is BBQ Galore.
First . . . . . . . .

A nice juicy steak + grilled asparagus + portabello mushroom
And . . . . .

Grilled Snapper, scallops, shrimp, zucchini, onion & rice pilaf

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Banana Cake

July 15, 2006

Bananas were ripening too quickly so decided to make a cake for breakfast using a new recipe. This is definitely a keeper ‘cos it ended up to be a fluffy banana cake instead of the usual dense banana cake. Yummy! I also baked the cake using my new rose cake mold. Isn’t it cute??

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Bread Day!

July 15, 2006

A Loaf of White Bread

Kaya Bun

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Buffalo Wings

July 10, 2006

Buffalo Wings with Rosemary Baked Potato

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All things Pandan

July 10, 2006

Drowning in pandan leaves now since my pandan plants have become a mini jungle. Aside from throwing some away & freezing some, I decided to cook something with pandan. So ended up with . . . . . . .
Pandan Chiffon Cake

& Pandan Kaya

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Pork Porridge & MinJiang Kueh

July 10, 2006

A nice yummy bowl of porridge to start off the weekend . . . . . . . .

Accompanied by MinJiang Kueh (Peanut Pancake).

The recipe is actually for making a thick MinJiang Kueh but I made it into the thin type since that is the preference of the family. It turned out pretty good but [...]