Soto Ayam
I love Soto Ayam. I’m not sure if its a Malaysian dish or an Indonesian dish but its a dish I learnt to cook from a Malaysian recipe book ages…
Category: Main Dish
Caesar Salad with Cajun Grilled Chicken
We all love Caesar Salad especially if its made the right way. As a side dish or to start a meal. But as a main meal, its nice with Cajun-style…
Mummy’s Fantastic Fish Curry
I love Mummy’s curry and every time she cooked it I said I would watch and learn. In fact my actual words were “I’ll recipise it.” One day. And it…
American Red Bean Soup
This is a more liquid version of our chilli beans and much less calories. We don’t use flour in this recipe and the portion also uses less beans than the…
Ann’s Ayam Goreng Berempah (Ann’s Spicy Fried Chicken)
This is a great way to fry chicken. The longer you marinade, the better the taste. And its great with white rice, beriyani rice or tomato rice. Even nasi lemak.…
Judías Blancas (White beans stew)
We usually cook Spanish bean dishes the night before…well, usually hubby cooks it. But we forgot to make it yesterday so I said I would do it this morning. I…
The real Bolognese sauce
Hubby cooked up this “new” (maybe “different” is the right word?) Bolognese sauce tonight and I asked how come he changed the recipe? His answer was, “Actually this is how…
Fish with tomato sauce and potatoes
My Indonesian friend in Kuwait, Diana Loubry posted some photos of a fish dish her ex-chef husband cooked. It looked interesting AND low calorie so I promised myself I would…
Butter Prawns
I first discovered prawns at my brother’s house last year. Apparently it was Lela’s signature dish and she made it very well. We had already had lunch when we got…