Easy Nasi Lemak Overseas - Malaysia’s great favourite

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Nasi lemak

Nasi Lemak (pronounced as ‘naah see ler mark’) is one of the top most popular hawker food that is widely sold in morning markets, night markets, eating shops, hotel restaurants, Malay or Indian restaurants and even served on Malaysian or Singapore airlines. This is every Malaysian’s favourite. If you like spicy, exotic food, this one is for you.
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Asparagus And Seafood Soup (Guest Post)

Asparagus and seafood soup

I am really delighted to introduce to everyone a wonderful friend and food blogger to be my first guest blogger for 2011. She is none other than LeQuan at luvtoeat. I love her blog. It’s always fun to read what goes on at her side. She lives in Canada with her husband, a very loving husband who I come to know eats a lot, haha (check it out here if you don’t believe) and 2 very adorable children.
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King Prawns And Herbs Fried Rice

King prawns and herbs fried rice

Fried rice is such a comfort food. I’m sure everyone likes it. It’s really a meal on a plate. I was very surprised when I came to Scotland and found that restaurants even sell egg fried rice…only with eggs! That shows how popular fried rice is in this part of the world. To me, I don’t think it’s any worth the money paid. Cooked at home, you enjoy all the good quality ingredients, eat your heart’s out and save a lot of money. I think my plate of fried rice will have to cost at least £15 here with so many king prawns, herbs and other good quality ingredients used. I have eaten a very simple country fried rice that cost about £8.20! There were very few ingredients in it. Home cooked food is still the best!

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Easy Peanut Butter Swirl Cake - Baking Lesson For Friend

Peanut butter swirl cake

If you like peanut butter, you will like this cake because it’s full of peanut flavour. It’s a very easy cake to make. I added condensed milk to the peanut butter to make it even more special. If you love condensed milk like me, you can save a lot of money by making it yourself at home. Click on How To Make Condensed Milk. It’s quite thick which I like. But if you like it runny, use less milk powder.
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Peri-peri Chicken Goujons (Strips) - Better Than Nando’s

Better than Nando

Nando’s is a chicken restaurant as it only sells chicken. It’s also a fast food chain. My children love to eat at Nando’s. To me it’s nothing much special. The chicken is grilled. It’s the sauce that makes it special. If you love Nando’s, you will love this simple and easy chicken goujons cooked with Nando’s peri-peri sauce. By the way, I had just learned this new word ‘goujons’ recently when I saw a packet of frozen chicken meat in the supermarket. I’m sure you can call it chicken strips or even chicken sticks. It’s very quick to cook. It’s a real homemade fast food.
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Easy Low Fat Fish Pie

Easy low fat fish pie

I seldom cook a western dish. It always looks too intimidating to me. The thought of using dairy like butter, cream or milk in cooking just freaks me out. I only feel very comfortable doing stir fries, pan fries, boiling, baking or braising. I love simple, easy and quick cooking. I’m not too keen on recipes that come with a long list of ingredients. But I thought 2011 is a good year to venture out, get out of my comfort zone and learn more. This low fat fish pie is just one of them. It looks difficult but actually after trying it out one time, the second time was very easy after simplifying the ingredients and being more organised.
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Super Easy Cake Crumbs And Cookie Crumbs Cake

cake from cake crumbs and chocolate chip cookies

Ever wonder what to do with left over cake, left over cookies or even unsuccessful cookies? I have found a way…a super easy way to turn them into a moist, delicious cake. What joy! I was already really happy to turn my unsuccessful chocolate chip cookies into the best chewy cookies. But I had a big tray of the ‘cookie pancakes’ that didn’t turn out into cookies. Click Unsuccessful Big Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Turned Out Best for the recipe if you would like to make them.
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Unsuccessful Big Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Turned Out Best

Ellie with the big chewy chocolate chip cookie

It’s good to eat healthy food everyday but we do need some desserts occasionally to fill in those boring gaps in life and make us smile. I thought of chewy cookies yesterday…….big chewy chocolate chips cookies would be perfect for this freezing weather.

I had made Double Chocolate Cookies. They were really good but not chewy. I would love the chewy ones and I also want to try with white chocolate. I took a simple chocolate chip cookie recipe from my old notebook which I have never tried before and tried to substitute the milk chocolate with white chocolate. I cut down the sugar by a lot and then added in chopped milk chocolate. The result? It failed very badly but after adding more flour, it turned out to be the best ever chewy chocolate chip cookies.
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