I love homemade pancakes, especially the version with creamy buttermilk and juicy blueberries. Nothing is better than whipping up a batch for breakfast on a lazy Sunday, and it’s a great way to impress the one you love! :) I got this receipe from GQ Magazine (American version, May 2008), which I modifed to serve [...]
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Both EG and I absolutely adore tofu - silken, firm, puffed or frozen. We eat it dressed with tamari and sesame oil, or pan fried in teriyaki ginger sauce, or stuffed with fish paste in a soup, or cubed in miso. I could go on. In fact…I [...]
Gnocchi di patate, or potato gnocchi, has long been a favourite of our family. It was one of those special event dishes pulled out at birthdays, Christmas, Easter and so on, which was just about one of the only times when you could justify the time needed to make the dish. Our family gatherings were [...]
Oyako-don literally translates as parent (oya), child (ko) and bowl (don), which is probably because this traditional Japanese dish amusingly contains both the chicken and the egg (…and no what came first jokes!). It is the perfect weekday dish, as you can generally knock it up in the time it takes to cook the rice. [...]
A very inviting bunch of broccoli di rape (or rapini as some may know it) was the inspiration for this dish. Broccoli di rape was a regular staple grown in our veggie patch by Nonno and cooked by Nonna (my Italian grandparents). It is a type of bitter broccoli that is boiled and sauteed with [...]
Congee is a dish that I have only recently come to know and love. Whilst it is a familiar and a staple dish for many, it was only through meeting EG that I broke my congee cherry. Since then I have experienced the gamut of different variations - century egg, shredded pork, sliced fish, minced [...]
Yong Tau Foo is a rather wonderful temple-foody dish commonly eaten in Singapore and Malaysia. It falls into the realm of health conscious fare by being low in fat, low in carbs and high in protein.
Above you will see a variety of yong tau foo, or vegetables/tofu stuffed with fish paste purchased at the [...]
Risotto is one of those quick and easy Italian meals that is an absolute cinch to knock up. As long as you know the “rules“, you can pretty much wing it in the flavour department. A good risotto is all about the rice, the onion, the butter, the broth, the cheese, and just a little [...]
Featured in the Seinfeld episode The Dinner Party, Jerry’s proclamation to Elaine is as much about race relations as it is paying homage to one of New York city’s favourite foods. The black and white cookie is, in fact, not a cookie, but a flat cake with a thin frosting of vanilla and chocolate. As [...]
Check out the artful chi-chi-poo-poo food styling done by EG. Note the upturned bowl of rice, the batons of broccolini and carrot fanned out ever so nicely. And then the best bit, slices of medium-rare rump, drizzled with made-from-scratch black bean sauce. My attempt at food styling was a friggin’ disgrace, so I’ll leave that [...]
