Mini Pear Pork Patties

What do you think of pear pork patties served on a bed of vegetables? A healthy balance? Juicy? I found it quite a palate pleaser and look forward to making it again! These, made larger, would make a great patty for a burger too.   Pear Pork Patties on Vegetables in Rice Wine The meat patty is similar to the ones I made sometime back, which I paired with buns - Read: Pork Apple Burgers....

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Preserved Duck Egg (Century Egg)

The century egg is known by many names. Millennium egg, hundred-year egg  thousand-year egg comes to mind. The Thais, I think, have a good sense of humour. They call it  'horse urine egg', aptly describing the strong ammonia odour that surrounds it. How the century egg is made has nothing to do with horse urine, of course. Personally, I don't find the odour as bad as it has been made out...

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Zucchini, Sunlady Melon Salad with Plum Dressing

Should the ingredient 'cream cheese' be included into the name of this dish as well? Zucchini, Sunlady Melon Salad with Plum Dressing and Cream Cheese....phew! What a mouthful. Zucchini, Sunlady Melon Salad with Plum Dressing The initial plan was to whip up a quick healthy salad for dinner. As I gathered the necessary ingredients, I also seemed to be doing more than what had been visualised...

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Self-Frosting Nutella Cupcakes

I'm a fan of cupcakes with a bit of character. I define this as 'not being too perfectly flat on top'. Frosting makes cupcakes really adorable to look at but I'm more into streusels. A little crunch and crumble makes me beg for more. I came across this recipe at CASA Veneracion, a cooking blog of sorts. The 'self-frosting' aspect intrigued me, so I gave it a go. It's a simple technique but one that...

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Soy Sauce Steamed Fish

I gushed about steamed food the other day. This is one of my favourite ways of doing it - a simple steam that takes only minutes to prepare. You will have time to stir-fry another dish on the side while waiting for this to be done. Notice that this recipe is quite alike the steamed egg dish I made the other day? I have flavoured this in a similar fashion, except that it has been made more exciting...

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Mango Prawn Curry

I knew but I did it anyway. It was one almost-ripe Manila mango which had been sitting in the fruit basket for over a day. I lifted it up - large, smooth, cool on the skin. "How perfect! ", I thought to myself. A little sniff told me it wasn't really ready but the more I looked at it, the more I was drawn to eat it. And that's how I ended up slicing a mango which had not reached its full potential,...

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