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Christmas menu - Day 1

Been running around so much today. First, I took the kids to the park, then I went off to get some groceries. Festive air hangs at the Cold Storage with so many expats shopping for foods. I bought one bottle of seafood sauce. But didn’t manage to take dinner ‘cos after [...]

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Candlenuts = buah keras

Every time I see these candlenuts or buah keras, I feel like popping them into my mouth because they look so much like macadamia nuts.  It is about the same size and colour.  But candlenuts are very, very cheap and has almost no taste except for some oiliness. Yeap, I did bite a bit yesterday [...]

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Need Jamie Oliver style Christmas dinner ideas

Postings have been very slow lately because I have been busy preparing for Christmas. I hardly have time to sit down to write or cook. Just a general idea - Yesterday I had prepared three chicken for curry kapitan for my choir group potluck plus some 100 wantans.

Today, I baked a nice, [...]

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What makes a good recipe book (and a recipe for beef curry)

The other day I went to this secondhand bookshop and found a recipe book that is more than 20 years old.  It goes for only RM5 and most of the products advertised there aren’t even available in our market anymore.  I like it because the contrasts of the recipes then and our current batches of [...]

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Recipe : Curried Pumpkin (part 2) - Halloween recipe

So, how did my experimental curried pumpkin turns out?   It was fabulous!   So delicious, it deserves another post and a proper recipe:

If you are adventurous, try to do it when you have guests over for dinner and I bet they are going to be bowled over with this pumpkin in it’s own shell. [...]

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