September 2011
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Kuai Tiao Neua - Thai Beef Noodle Soup →
Being a noodle soup fanatic, I especially miss having good Pho and Kuai Tiao Neua (Thai beef noodle soup). Both the noodles and soup are light and refreshing, making a perfect 1 bowl meal on even the hottest summer day.
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients For the Stock: ==================
2 lbs ox tail
10 cups water
1 star anise
½ tsp whole black peppercorns
1 cinnamon stick
4 cloves garlic
1...
May 2010
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Scallops with Asparagus and Parma Ham →
Prep time: 10 mins | Cook time: 10 mins | Serves: 4 Crisp, crackling-like slices of Parma ham complement plump scallops and buttery asparagus in Gary Rhodes’ sophisticated starter
Ingredients:
16-20 asparagus
1 tbsp olive oil
4 slices parma ham
12 scallops, out of their shells
6 tbsp sour cream or crème fraîche
1 tsp butter, melted
salt and black pepper
(tarragon vinegar)
(lemon or...
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Seared Scallops and Asparagus Recipe →
These scallops are presented with a creamy wine sauce made from marscapone cheese.
Ingredients:
450 g asparagus
450 g sea scallops
4 tbsp olive oil
¼ tsp black pepper, freshly ground
¼ tsp salt
2 cloves garlic
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp fresh parsley
3 tbsp marscapone cheese
⅓ cup dry, white wine
1 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions:
Trim the...
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Scallops with Asparagus →
yield: Makes 4 servings | active time: 30 Min | total time: 30 min Sautéing scallops and asparagus adds depth to their subtle flavors — and the dish only gets better with the addition of a silky beurre blanc–style sauce.
Ingredients:
225 g medium asparagus
3 tbsp olive oil
900 g large sea scallops, tough ligament removed from side of each if attached
½ tsp black pepper
¾ tsp salt
...
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Mussels Hoegaarden →
23 min | 20 min prep | serves 2
Ingredients:
1 kg live mussels
1 onion, finely chopped
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
100 ml double cream
100 ml light wheat beer (Hoegaarden)
Instructions:
Wash the mussels in cold running water.
Pull off any stringy “beards” and throw away any mussels that fail to close after tapping them firmly.
Get out a large, heavy saucepan with a...
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Or Luak (Oyster omelette) →
Prep 10 mins | Cook 15 mins | Serves: 4
Ingredients:
4 eggs
2 tsp fish or soya sauce
2 tbsp tapioca flour
1 tbsp rice flour
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 tsp chilli paste
6 to 8 large fresh oysters
salt and pepper
coriander sprigs
Instructions:
In a medium bowl, beat the eggs with fish sauce and set aside.
Mix the tapioca flour, rice flour and a...
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Orh Luah / Orh Chien Recipe →
Ingredients:
½ cup potato starch
¼ cup corn starch
¾ cup water
1 pinch of salt
10 pieces of fresh oyster
4 eggs
1 tbsp fish sauce or soya sauce
Oil
Instructions:
Mix the two starches and salt with water. Set this aside for now.
Heat up a large cast iron or non-stick skillet on medium-high heat, add some oil to grease the skillet.
Add the oyster and stir fry a min. or two, until it’s...
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Orh Luak Recipe →
The perfect marriage of just-cooked-to-perfection oysters, eggs, a somewhat crisp finish of the flour and starch mixture is what to expect from this dish.
Ingredients:
8 - 10 large fresh oysters or 1/2 lb frozen oysters
2 tbsp tapioca starch
1 tbsp rice flour
8 tbsp water
1 tbsp oil
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
3 whole eggs, beaten
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tbsp chinese wine
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Tom Yum Talay →
Ingredients (Per 1 Serving):
3-4 medium sized prawns – cleaned (headed, shelled, deveined and tailed)
3 slices of fish meat
3 rings of squid
3 straw mushrooms – cut into small pieces
1 cup chicken stock / broth
1 galangal root – cut into pieces and crushed
1 lemon grass – cut into pieces and crushed
1 kaffir lime leaves – tear partially to release aroma
3 hot chillies – crushed
2 tsp...
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Home-made Chocolates →
Ingredients:
1 pack of almonds (or whatever type of nuts you prefer), chopped
1 pack of cooking chocolate (non-sweetened), melted in double-boiler
1 cup light brown sugar
1 stick of butter, softened (optional)
Method:
In a mixing bowl, combine all ingredients.
Distribute into paper cups. Preheat oven to 135°C/275°F.
Bake in the preheated oven for a quick 5 minutes, or until coating is...
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Steak with Chocolate Sauce →
Serves: 2
Ingredients:
2 × 150g steaks
300g potatoes
16 tbsp olive oil
Continental parsley
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
8 sprigs of thyme
½ Spanish onion, chopped
60g low-fat butter
300ml red wine
1 chilli, finely chopped
1 tbsp melted dark chocolate
French beans
Freshly ground pepper
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 220°C. Place the steak in a bowl with half the olive oil, the...
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Kangkung Belachan
Equipment needed: frying pan or wok with a lid
Ingredients:
Spice paste: Garlic Red Chilli Shallots Belachan Hei Bee (dried shrimp)
Kangkong
Instructions:
Chop ingredients for the spice paste. Unfortunately, I cook by agak-agak so I can’t really say how much of everything I use, roughly equal amount. Leftover spice paste can be frozen to use again for the next batch, so not a disaster...
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How to Make Delicious Date Night Alfredo Sauce... →
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Ingredients
1 Stick Real Butter (about 1cm thick slice from the butter block)
1 to 2 tbsp Fresh Minced Garlic
2 to 3 tbsp Cornstarch
240 g Real Parmesean Cheese (not powdered)
950 ml Heavy Whipping Cream
Medium Saucepan
Whisk
Your Favorite Pasta, cooked (I prefer Angel Hair for this recipe)
Grilled Chicken or Shrimp if you desire
Directions
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April 2010
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Steak Tartare Recipe II →
Steak tartare is a meat dish made from finely chopped, or ground raw beef. It is often served with onions and seasonings, and sometimes with raw egg.
This dish is popular in Belgium, where it is known as Filet américain (“American fillet”).
Ingredients: ½ pound (225g) of quality beef (filet mignon) with all connective tissue removed 1 egg yolk 1 tsp Worcestershire or Soy sauce 1 tbsp...
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Steak Tartare Recipe I →
Steak Tartare is an old-school steak house classic, and this article will show you how to make it authentically. It will also discuss the ins and outs of finding the right beef and the right butcher for the meat you will use.
Ingredients: 1 lb (450g) USDA prime sirloin 1 tbsp finely chopped parsley 2 tbsp finely chopped white onion 1 tbsp salt-packed capers 5 finely chopped Italian anchovy...
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BBC Good Food Croquembouche Recipe →
Serves 20 Preparation and cooking times: Takes 2-2¼ hours, plus cooling
Ingredients 185g plain flour 175g unsalted butter, cut into pieces 6 large eggs, beaten
FOR THE LIMONCELLO CREAM 9 large egg yolks 150g golden caster sugar 50g plain flour, plus 1 tbsp finely grated zest of 2 lemons, plus 4 tbsp juice 500ml full cream milk 7 tbsp limoncello (Italian lemon liqueur) or an orange flavoured...
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Cream of Mushroom Soup I
[from here]
Prep Time: 20 Min Cook Time: 30 Min Ready In: 50 Min
4 Servings (Original Recipe Yield 6 servings)
Ingredients
235 g sliced fresh mushrooms
235 ml chicken broth
55 g chopped onion
0.1 g dried thyme
30 g butter
15 g all-purpose flour
1 g salt
0.4 g ground black pepper
160 ml half-and-half
10 ml sherry
Directions This recipe’s...
March 2010
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1 Corinthians 7 (in a nutshell)
hmm
so
if you get married
have lots of sex
(do not deprive each other except by mutual consent)
so no I have a headaches
excuse
if you want to have sex
get married
if you are having sex, you shld get married
even if your partner does not believe in god
neh mind
cause your children will because you do
if you want to divorce because he is an unbeliever
also can lah
cause he dont believe mah
so neh mind also
but try not to lah.
if you are not married
its okay
cause then you are married to god
if you are married
then you are married to your wife lah
so either you are celibate and a priest
or married and must follow the rules
so marry or don marry
also can lah
oh
and if you remarry, must marry a believer
cause first time already got concession
second time cannot
but don marry also ok
then you just devote yourself to god
also can
wah lao.
May 2009
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Oyster Sauce Siew Bak Choy
Ingredients
Garlic
Oyster Sauce
Sesame Oil
Salt
Chopped Siew Bak Choy
Boil Siew Bak Choy in water until cooked but still crunchy. Add salt for taste.
Fry garlic, oyster sauce, and sesame oil in pan, stirring thoroughly and pour over boiled Siew Bak Choy.
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Lemon Chicken
Marinade Ingredients
Light Soya Sauce
Olive Oil
White Pepper
Salt
Garlic
Other Ingredients
Cornflour
Kantong Lemon Chicken Sauce
Mix well, marinate chicken strips, batter in cornflour, deep fry in oil, drain well, then re-fry, adding lemon chicken sauce and frying till hot
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4 a.m.
It’s great to be back in the air again after 4 months; what’s not as great is waking up at 4 a.m. for that, erks…!
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'Chk-chk-boom girl' lied →
“Using language considered highly offensive in most parts of the world but widely used in Australia to describe immigrants from some parts of Europe or the Middle East…”
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1st observation flight tomorrow, 1st time in the actual Learjet, 1st time wearing wings. 3 × :)))
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Kangaroo fillet
Ingredients
2 tsp Garlic
4 tsp Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
1 tsp Paprika
1 tsp Cummin
1 tsp Ground Coriander
1 dash Salt
1 dash Ground Black Pepper
Mix well, marinate kangaroo fillet, heat pan, add olive oil, grill fillet until medium-rare.
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Masterchef
Of all the shows on Aussie TV, the one I enjoy watching most? Masterchef, of course, heh….
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Marinade for chicken
Ingredients
1 tbsp Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
2 tbsp Nandos Perinnaise (Mayonnaise with Peri-peri)
1 tsp Minced Garlic
2-3 tbsp Nandos Hot Peri-peri Marinade
1 dash of Salt
1 dash of Black Pepper
Mix ingredients well, marinate diced chicken, heat a dash of oil in pan, fry garlic, add chicken and stir-fry.
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Call me what?
I do not appreciate being called an “oriental”, least of all by no-gooder ‘occidentals’. Isn’t that like a belittling colonial term?
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Recruit dies after booking out →
You know NS is really getting soft these days when reporters start to call it “checking out” of Tekong. We’re raising a nation of whingers.
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Girls cannot wear pants
Deut 22:5 “A woman must not wear men’s clothing… for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this.”
So all those homophobic Bible-quoting fundie girls better not wear pants.
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BC
PASSED BASE CHECK TODAY, woohoo!!
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Nabei
Bloody Aussie idiots don’t understand the meaning of ‘the primary account holder is NO LONGER IN AUSTRALIA & is UNABLE TO CALL YOU’, nabei!
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Twitter limits →
Twitter says “constraint inspires creativity”, but in this case, I say constraint inspires bad grammar, spelling, and punctuation to become worse.
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O'Moore
Survived O’Moore today even though he was screaming into my ear at the flare height…. :S Tomorrow: Base Check with Chief Pilot! At 6 a.m.!
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Natural disaster
Wow, apparently the QLD premier has declared a state of natural disaster here….
Microsoft Cibai
Ahahahahaha OMG I don’t believe Microsoft named their R&D project CIBAI. What’s best is it doesn’t actually mean ANYTHING!
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Stationary vs Stationery
Saw a form in the office today: ‘Stationary Request Form’. What is that? A form asking for permission to stand still??
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Dido &... what?
Purcell’s opera is called Dido & Aeneas, not Dildo & An Anus, hahahahahaha!
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BC
2 days to Base Check, 1 day to O’Moore. Frankly, I’m more jittery about O’Moore than Base Check…. :P
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NMP Siew Kum Hong makes police report against... →
Siew Kum Hong suing people for defamation—if other people can use it, why not use it too! http://is.gd/AZJ3
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"Lesser salt" commercial on TV
“Lesser salt”? IMNSHO, MICA or MOE should be given the power to ban grammatically incorrect adverts, or at least fine the ones responsible!
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"Many sexually challenged women were among the... →
Huh? TSM says AWARE Old Guard supporters are “sexually challenged”? http://is.gd/AVGi
Nobody, nobody but chuuuuuu...! *clapclap*
Guys, whether men or boys, dancing the Nobody, Nobody But Chuuuuuu *clapclap* dance is just… gay. Just damn gay.
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“It’s been a long road, getting from there to here
It’s been a long...”
– Where My Heart Will Take Me (Faith Of The Heart) Star Trek Enterprise Main Theme
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海南鸡饭 + 小白菜
Gonna try my hand at Hainanese Chicken Rice & Oyster Sauce Siew Bak Choy now. Keeping fingers crossed….
Group finds body after cemetery trip →
Whoa, is this story freaky or what?
N97 / N86 8MP / N85 / 5800 CwM
Totally in love with the Nokia N97 but I think it’s gonna bust my budget, sigh…. Maybe I should get the N86 8MP, N85, or the 5800 instead.
Question is: a) touchscreen or no touchscreen, and b) no touchscreen may mean no accelerometer also. I like the N96 too but too bulky lah.
Oh, I hope they can Facebook/MSN. They bloody hell better be able to!
Racists
I wonder if there’s any place on earth where people talk down to ang mohs and openly treat them as though they were all stupid.
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YMCA
Quite amusing how the Young Men’s Christian Association came to become the title and theme of a gay anthem.