Was browsing Pinterest (do you pronounce it as pin-terest or pin-interest? I mispronounced it as pin-interest for so long that I can’t correct myself anymore 😛 ) for breakfast ideas last weekend and stumbled on a sausage patties pin. It brought back childhood memories of a particular popular fast food chain’s breakfast menu – though I can never…
Meat: Beef
Vietnamese Beef Pho (Beef Noodles Soup)
Pho is a popular street food in Vietnam, which is a noodle soup consisting of broth, flat rice noodles, vegetables, herbs and meat. The most common version is beef, but chicken pho is usually offered as well. I cannot remember when was the first time I tried pho or when I got hooked to this…
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…
Chili Con Carne with Baked Tortilla Chips
Several months ago, while thinking of ways to use up the two cans of tomatoes idling away in my kitchen (without making pasta sauce), somehow it dawned on me that I can make chili with it. (Don’t ask me how, but somehow it did heh.) Chili, or chili con carne, is a spicy stew containing…
Macanese Minchi
Have you been to Macau? I was there a few years ago and I love the place – especially the food (to be honest, food is always the main focus whenever I’m travelling, hah!) The egg tarts, Serradura, pork chop buns… mmm! Macanese cuisine consists a blend of Chinese and Portuguese cuisines, with the addition…
Beef and Guinness Stew (Jamie Oliver)
Weather in Singapore has been getting colder lately – evidence that the monsoon season is here! I found myself craving for soups and stews for dinner these days but unfortunately I have been working overtime that I didn’t really have the time and chance to go back home for dinner. Hope work will slow down…
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…
Steak with Chimichurri (Curtis Stone)
Grilling steaks is not a favourite hobby of mine as high heat is needed – and when there’s high heat, there’d be lots of smoke and my house would always ended up smoky and oily! I’d have to mop the floor after the cooking, which is definitely not my favourite household chore. However, restaurant steaks…
Surprise! Potato Surprise Meatballs and an Award
I swear, these meatballs are revolutionary. If you have never been a fan of meatballs – these meatballs will change your perception of them and your whole world. You will fall head over heels in love with these juicy, herby and tasty little things. And why, you ask? Purely because there’s a surprise in these…
Jamie Oliver’s Meatball-Tomatoes Cheesy Bake
I was watching TV a few weeks back and one channel was re-playing one of Jamie Oliver’s old cooking series – Oliver Twist. Jamie whipped up a baked meatballs-tomatoes dish for his pals that looked really delicious, so I immediately decided to give this recipe a go. I tweaked his recipe a little as I…
Easy Grilled Steak
Sorry it’s not a very good photo… I couldn’t wait to devour the steak so I didn’t really put in effort to take a good shot… :p This was a simple lunch that I cooked many weeks back (heh). It’s my first attempt to cook a steak, and I was so worried the steak would…