Home Cooking

When in need of a quick food 'fix' for looming hunger pangs, or when you want to play 'masak-masak' (Malay for cooking) in the kitchen :

Snacks:

• Plain old mushrooms - mushrooms on toast, fast & healthy snacking
• EoMEoTE#7 - The Limerick Edition (Beans Omelette Pillow) - eggs and baked beans, your quintessential breakfast
• Wontons - Swallowing Clouds - home-made wontons to whet your appetite
• Reds & Yellows - herbed omelette with tomatoes, onions and green chillies salsa
  

Fish & Seafood:

• Quickie Dinner A La Salmon - salmon on soba with a lovely fusion twist in the dressing
• The Saute Pan Christening - salmon steaks in red miso & mirin sauce (really quite nice!)
• Beanie Fish - fried fish in combination bean paste
• A Sake Parcel - baked grouper fillets with enoki mushrooms in sake sauce
  

Meat:

• Verjuice, Green Juice for Cooking - roast chicken with verjuice (unfermented grape juice)
• Making Lamb Headway! - (1) grilled lamb steaks with Asian marinade and (2) fresh corn with crabmeat soup
• Sweet & Sour Roast Chicken - roast chicken with pineapples, onions and capsicums
• Slow Cooking to beat the evening ERP - slow cooker beef stew
• Virginal Outing for Staub Pan - roast pork loin with apples, prunes and mustard cream sauce
• Pock-faced Grandma's Tofu - mapo doufu
• Velvety Burger - taste the difference with Wagyu minced beef
• Why Lamb & Mustard? - grilled lamb tenderloin with honey and mustard marinade
• A Christmas Dinner at Home - lamb shanks braised in red wine and cinnamon
• A Dutiful Wife's Contribution - shepherd's pie (mashed potatoes with minced beef)
• Bangers 'n' Mash - minced lamb with rosemary sausages and lighter mashed potatoes
• Carnivore's Delight - roast bacon-wrapped maple pork loin (flavor-brined)
• Osso, what? Shokubutsu? - osso bucco milanese style (veal shanks)
• The Real Deal in a Veal Meal - grilled veal cutlets with gremolata and a side of french beans and sliced almonds
  

Pasta & Rice:

• Olio e Aglio with Extras - spaghetti olio e aglio with prawns, mushrooms and bacon
• Where's the Spaghetti? - Spaghetti Carbonara
• How many Hours? - Ragu alla Bolognese
• There's Just Something about this Pair - Meatballs in Tomato Sauce Spaghetti
• Poppin' Edamames - edamame tomato pasta
  
• Hanging up My Carbo? - fried olive rice
  

Savoury Tarts:

• Toh-mah-toh Toh-may-toh - tomato ricotta tart
• Preparing for World Cup - bacon & onion cheese tart
  

Vegetables:

• A Christmas Dinner at Home - (1) prosciutto-wrapped salad and (2) saute chinese cabbage
• Steamed Strands of Wonder - steamed shark's fin melon with hon shimeji mushrooms in a light sesame soy sauce dressing
• Healthy Reds & Greens - prawn and grapefruit salad
• Corn Days - (1) corn and ginger soup and (2) chilli-coriander butter for corn-on-the-cob
• A Green Serving - green pea soup with mushroom cream
• A Stir-fry and A Salad - (1) spicy peanut stir-fried long beans and (2) Caesar Salad
  

Soups:

• Corn Days - (1) corn and ginger soup
• A Green Serving - green pea soup with mushroom cream
• Coffee, Tea or Tomato Soup? - curry peanut tomato soup
  

Asian Desserts:

• steamed honey pears in place of throat lozenges - chinese-style steamed pears with red dates, 'chuan bei' and honey
• Water Chestnuts Steaming over a Wok - traditional steamed water chestnut cake
• Vitamin C Comin' Up - orange-flavored konnyaku jelly served in orange moulds

Western Desserts:

• Red Jewels - creme caramel with raspberries
  

Beverages:

• Mojito Power - mojito cocktail

Anything Else:

• Eating my Curds - lemon curd