NARCISSISM IS NECESSARY

Since I’ve posted about how to make burger buns, it’s only natural to follow up with how I made the burger patties. Everytime after I’ve made things like meatballs or burgers, I do get to wonder why people buy the frozen stuff. Firstly, you’d have to thaw them and secondly, they taste gross. It’s almost [...]

Two reasons to eat buffalo meat: 1.they are quite lean. 2.they taste surprisingly beefy. 3.they are cheappppp! Yeah they are ridiculously cheap! The same amount of beef would have cost me more than double minimum, depending on its source. So cheap I just had to try buffalo out, who knows I might just discover a [...]

Today I chanced upon a curious thing called “Indian Buffalo Mince” at the supermarket. Bought 2 packets out of sheer curiosity without really knowing what to do with them. I’ve done things like this before, buying stuff due to curiousity. 2 kilos of liquid glucose, still unused and nasty vegetable shortening which I had used [...]

This is a recipe from Ben O’Donoghue and I was THRILLED with the results. I made a few changes, things like changing saffron to tumeric (too expensive), getting rid of mint leaves (couldn’t find any) and conveniently forgetting bay leaves (old age). Yet, the biryani was absolutely delicious! # – Made it for a family [...]

This dish was actually inspired by Rachel Allen’s Individual Beef Wellington, which I saw her made in her show, Rachel Allen’s Dinner Parties. Thing was, all I had in hand was minced beef so instead of a traditional Beef Wellington, I made Mustard Beef Pie instead :D Still, if it weren’t for Rachel Allen, I [...]