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Crazy easy tomato prawns recipe.

12 Oct

You know I’ve never cooked prawns in my life till today? Prawns seemed like a hard subject to tackle (by now you’ve probably realised that I have a lot of unfounded fears about MANY things) but with enough persuasion (read: pleading from the BF), I decided to try my hands at cooking it. So I [...]

Slow carb friendly – Peri-peri pork kebabs.

7 Oct

If you’ve made the peri-peri sauce that I’ve blogged about before, this recipe would be super stress-less to make! I made about 1 litre of peri-peri sauce last week and it’s such a superb concoction! Great as dipping sauce as well as a marinade. # – Peri-peri pork kebabs. And so….I decided to make these [...]

Vietnamese Chicken with Mint – my best Asian dish to date?

5 Oct

If you don’t like to eat chicken breast cause they’re bland and tough, this recipe might change your mind. I got this recipe from Chef Wan’s book, “Simply Sedap!”. It’s one of my favourite recipe books! The instructions are clear and the flavours are always bang-on. Anyway, I made slight changes in the recipe but [...]

No butter, no sugar fluffy pancake recipe.

28 Sep

Fluffy pancakes. One of the most satisfying breakfast options in my humble opinion. Pass the lips and onto the hips, I know, I know. But really, this recipe is preeeeeetty healthy; no sugar, no egg yolks, no butter but still fluffy and delicious. # – Fluffy pancakes!! Without further ado, here’s how to cook these [...]

Make your own crunchy caramel popcorn!!!

23 Sep

It started with Fiqa bringing back some Garrett’s popcorn from Singapore for us to try. OMG the popcorn was gorgeous!! But since we were sharing the popcorn and I’m like really chinese when it comes to stuff like this, I didn’t eat more. I pretended that I was considerate and that I cared about my [...]

The crazy simple delicious 3 bean salad recipe.

22 Sep

We’ve been eating a lot of beans thanks to the slow carb diet. Basically, we can still eat carbs, mainly to keep us from getting hungry but those carbs must be of “slow carb” type, which really means it has low glycemic index (low GI). Low GI foods release glucose into your bloodstream more slowly [...]

Attempting to make my own Nando’s peri-peri chicken recipe.

20 Sep

For years we were bitter that the nearest Nando’s wouldn’t deliver to our home which was only about 5kms away. But that didn’t stop us from eating at Nando’s. In fact, if we ever spotted a Nando’s anywhere, it would take precedent over other meal options. Like seriously, we would know where to eat in [...]