Today I’m sharing not one… but two Korean recipes that I like making these days – an addictive, delicious and spicy stir-fried pork and a nutritious seaweed soup. We had these two dishes with rice and homemade kimchi, which was so, so satisfying. I took only about 1 hour to make both dishes and the rice, which…
Freezer Meals
Taiwanese Braised Pork with Rice [Lu Rou Fan / 滷肉饭]
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Lu Rou Fan, which means “Braised Meat Rice” literally, is an extremely popular and incredibly delicious Taiwanese specialty. Made with pork braised primarily in soy sauce and other aromatics, the mixture is spooned over a bowl of steaming hot rice and served with eggs and firm tofu. It is one of my favourite dishes – so good that…
Shepherd’s Pie
When I went back to Singapore for a month in June while X stayed in the country, I prepared a few types of freezer meals so that it would be easier for him to cook his own dinner. There’s frozen marinated pork slices (gochujang, bulgogi and ginger soy sauce) which just need to be stir-fried and go with steamed white rice….
How to Make Homemade Clear Bone Stock / Broth (Chicken / Pork / Beef)
Back in Singapore, my mom had never made bone stock from scratch before (always resorting to stock cubes or those in cans), maybe because it’s a time-consuming affair and perhaps because it’s a pricey one (my mom always say gas is expensive). So I’ve never made bone stock before until last year – when the local…
Easy 4-Ingredient Tomato Sauce for Pasta
I’ve been making this tomato sauce for pasta many, many times ever since I stumbled upon it on Smitten Kitchen’s blog – it’s incredibly easy as it’s a dump-everything-in-one-pot kind of sauce and uses only 4 ingredients (Smitten Kitchen uses 3 but I added an additional ingredient just because I think it makes it better!)
Gochujang Beef Steaks
In a few months time, I will be heading back to Singapore for a short visit, and I’m already making a list for the things that I want to bring back, like gochugaru (to make kimchi), soy sauce (sorry Kikkoman, you just taste weird in Chinese dishes), Milo (to replace our depleting stock), the serrated…
Ultimate Beef-Pork Meatballs
Meatballs are such a comfort and convenient food. True, the making of them may not be that convenient, but after you made them, they can be frozen and they will last you for many meals to come. They can be pan-fried or baked; eaten plain, with pastas, with potatoes, in sandwiches etc… so many choices to choose from! I’m…
Beef Bulgogi
Bulgogi (불고기), which literally means “fire meat” in Korean, is a popular Korean dish involving the grilling of thin slices of marinated prime beef. The beef slices are pre-marinated in a mixture of sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, and sometimes garlic, onion, pear etc. I got the recipe from Maangchi, a very popular website for…