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I posted about this Indonesian dish before with instructions and a display of ingredients. Here it is presented in the oh-so-trendy towering pile of food style, and as you can see it still has difficulty looking tantalising. You just have to eat this one to believe it. It looks like it is mainly crispy fried onion - when in fact that is just a generous sprinkling on top of the peanut sauce (and also the best bit!).
Ingredients and recipe link: www-us.flickr.com/photos/emathome/255200823/
Bought fresh from the fish market in Zadar. They were really easy to cook and delicious! We're trying to make more meals ourselves this time round to save money.
Ingredients: Chinese sausage (two varieties: pork sausage, and pork and liver sausage), shrimps, water chestnut, eggs. Sticky rice has to be steamed and washed the night before so it will be soft, translucent, but not too sticky.
Vegetable biryani. Very spicy but excellent tasting. Contains cauliflower, carrots, peas, yellow corn, mushrooms, onions, raisins.
Greek Couscous, is that a thing? I had some left over couscous from a weeknight dinner so next day I added some chopped fresh tomatoes, kalamata olives, feta cheese, cucumber, salt & pepper and a little bit of Trader Joes Feta Salad Dressing. It was very good, looking forward to having this for lunch during the work week.
Kacang Petai (Malay) or
Twisted cluster beans (English)
Parkia speciosa (Scientific Name)
Stink beans (because they make you stink)
100+ degrees today means salad for dinner. Mixed greens, Valdivia Farms cherry tomatoes and baby pattypan squash, green beans, avocado, hard-boiled eggs, mozzarella.
Top left - shop-bought ham.
Top right - Prawn paste chicken from the shop on the corner. Went like lightning.
Bottom left - roast lamb
Bottom right - vietnamese chicken salad.
The food was good but unfortunately there wasn't much meat - two salads, one veg dish, two starches and the ham and lamb amongst the 25 pax. So my dad took a 5 minute walk and came back 15 minutes later with the prawn paste chicken courtesy of the zhicha at the corner.
December 23, 2010. Pan-Roasted Chicken with Oranges and Rosemary.
Recipe adapted from: www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ask-aida/pan-roasted-chicken-...
BBQ pan-fried chicken with mushrooms and zuchinnis, baked potato and heirloom tomato salad w/ mozzarella
The BCNYC (babycakes NYC) apple pie. It's vegan, sugar-free, and uses spelt flour (Though spelt flour is not gluten-free, many people with wheat sensitivities seem to be okay with it, but YMMV so check with your doctor). Instead of butter and sugar, the recipe calls for coconut oil and agave nectar.
I'm a total meat-eater who doesn't mind indulging in the occasional real-fat real-sugar desserts, but this apple pie is actually pretty darn good. Few lessons I learned: 1) Adjust water/flour contents to the feel of the dough -- mine was too crumbly as you can see. 2) Try baking it on a slightly higher rack for a crisper crust. 3) Don't pour in all the juices from the roasted apples. 4) Warm up the coconut oil for a bit before using.