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Making murukku for Deepavali

All we get are odd shapes and sizes pile of murukku because each son came up with their own designs. I find the flour too mild so I added sesame seeds, garam masala and tumeric powder into the dough. Meanwhile, in the oil, I added some spices to make it smell spicy.

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Recipe : White Radish cake (loh pak kou)

This is the second time I made white radish cake and I can safely tell you that it is the easiest to make because you can never go wrong with it. It is very nice, tasty, cheap and yummy. In fact, much yummier than any of the dimsum restaurant version.

The white radish must [...]

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Three reasons why I love to roast chicken

I love to roast a whole chicken because of three reasons.
One - I get to serve the chicken as a meal without the fuss of cooking other dishes.
Two - I keep the gravy collected from the roasting and the chicken bones to make a very delicious soup.
Three - The balance of [...]

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Recipe : Individually wrapped lamb shank - Jamie Oliver style

Jamie Oliver has a lovely lamb shank recipe using almost the same ingredients. However, Jamie Oliver roasted the lamb shanks while I steamed mine in the pressure cooker.
You actually do not need to follow any particular recipe because these lamb shanks are awfully easy to do. I do not want to make amateur [...]

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Cracked surface on cake - Cause and prevention

I bake a cake today. I used about 250 grams of each item and used a 8-inch round cake tin. You can find the butter cake recipe over here.
I pour the batter into the 8-inch cake tin and leave some behind because I do not want the batter to be more than half [...]

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