Chilli Paneer (Sweet And Sour Cottage Cheese)

This Chilli Paneer is another typical Indo-Chinese dish, the preparation is what I called vegetarian food made Non-veg way. It works well as starter, and a good side dish too!

Savoury Steamed Pumpkin Cake

My friend harvest a few pumpkin recently and called me to pick up some. I went with expectation to bring back a cute little Japanese pumpkin.


My jaw drops to the floor when I saw the said pumpkin that I was suppose to bring home! It must have been like 50 lbs or something... almost triple a basketball size! All I could think of at that point of time was... What the Hxxx!


I only agreed to bring back about 1/5 of tha monster with me and my friend had to use something like an axe to chop it into pieces for me...


Even with only 1/5 of the whole thing, I manage to sent 2 large pieces to two of my neighbours, made pumpkin pancake for 3 adults as breakfast, made this steamed came for thanks giving party, and STILL have more than half of them sitting in my fridge...


Yupe. if you are thinking what I am thinking now...... it's going to be a lot of Pumpkin dishes in near future...

Pickled Potherb Mustard and Minced Turkey Tofu

I made a simple Pickled Potherb Mustard and Minced Turkey not long ago, I normally make a big box of it, and keep in the fridge, it could be easily turned into simple dishes such as this one here with tofu, it goes very well with con-gee, and rice.

Onion Grill Cheese Sandwich

I backpacked to tour Europe during my last year in England. As a student, I had limited budget, thus was very calculative when it comes to food. I used to go to the local supermarket and bring back some cheese and bread, and that became my staple as long as it last.

Over time it became dry, cold and tasteless, and I almost couldn't stomach it anymore, one morning at the shared kitchen in a Youth Hostel I put up for the night, I saw a beautiful Irish girl making this grill cheese sandwich, the aroma in the kitchen was so warm and welcoming.

I immediately asked her to teach me and with little butter she generously lend me, I made this tasty warm sandwich with a cuppa hot chocolate... that was the first hearty breakfast I had during my trip and I felt like the happiest person on earth!

Microwave Peanut Sesame Chikki （Brittle）

Peanut sesame brittle is a traditional candy I grow up eating and thought it exist only in China/Malaysia. I came to realized that I could not be more wrong later during my time in India. The Indians too, have a very similar version of this Peanut brittle, though slightly different in taste and ingredients.

The recipe I created today is of the Indian style, I like the fact that it doesn't call for corn syrup/maltose, and I am a sucker when it comes to Jaggery! Just couldn't say no to the earthy smell and taste of it!

Frozen Paratha Samosa

 


I always keep a packet of frozen paratha in my freezer. It comes in very handy when I am either busy or lazy.

The other day while chatting with a group of friends in a forum, one of the girl asked about a good way to use frozen paratha, and whether it could be turned into samosa.

I loved the idea and set off to check recipes online and found handful of them... looks like we are not the first one to think it that way! I like my version of samosa filling, using homemade Malaysian curry powder, so here it comes my version of frozen Paratha samosa!