FINDING PLEASURES IN THE SIMPLE THINGS

Category: Meat

Baked Beef Curry Puff

Baked Beef Curry Puff

Seeing that ground beef is on sale this week, I asked hubby what he would like – curry puff (Malaysia’s version of empanada), pasty (the English version of empanada of which the recipe came from hubby’s grandmother), or Louisa’s Spaghetti Sauce (named after one of my closest friends […]

Fried Bee Hoon with SPAM

Fried Bee Hoon with SPAM

Whew, it’s been forever since I last posted something. I thought I would have more time in the summer to blog since school was out but it didn’t turn out that way. We were all too busy cramming as much “outside” time as possible into […]

Pickled Mustard Soup with Pork

Pickled Mustard Soup with Pork

I love the convenience of a slow-cooker. It is a simple way to cook something without having to be there the whole time to monitor it, and I just love how tough cuts of meat turn meltingly tender in the slow-cooker. Below is a recipe […]

Chinese Roast Pork (Sio Bak)

Chinese Roast Pork (Sio Bak)

I love Sio Bak (not to be confused with Char Siew – the red color barbecued pork). The best part of Sio Bak for me, is of course its super crispy skin. I’ve always thought it’s a complicated process to get the skin crispy like […]

Beef Rendang

Beef Rendang

I came across this recipe approximately five or six years ago on a Geocities website. Although I have made this dish based on the original recipe before and it turned out great, I have since then tweaked and refined it a little because I felt […]