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Baked Pasta

May 14th, 2012 Sharon

Okay, today I’m feeling a bit better and more enthusiastic about writing again. Yesterday was Mother’s Day and hubster brought us all out for a Western dinner. But I’m reminded of my own mother and the sort of Western dishes she would make for us. My mom doesn’t cook Western very much, but I remember a handful of recipes she would make like; steak (her steaks were divine!), spaghetti bolognese, apple pie, homemade beef burgers, fish fingers and this baked pasta dish which I still make today for my family.

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Still out of it & Ribs and Bean Paste Stew

May 9th, 2012 Sharon

**Sigh….I never knew being preggers could make your senses so dull and brainless. I’d think I’d survive a zombie epidemic at the moment. I still have not made anything post-worthy but I did receive some good news about a competition I partook back in March. Will share the details with you soon.

Here is a dish I made a couple of months back from Wendy of Table or Two or more’s, recipe. What attracted me to this dish was the fact she mentioned you can drench your rice in the gravy, which to my husband, is like music to his ears seeing how much he adores flooded rice.

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Update…..

May 4th, 2012 Sharon

Hi readers, I have been really lousy at doing some regular posts even though I have some recipes in stock which I haven’t uploaded yet. Just to give you a short update, my appetite is still in a limbo at the moment. It’s unpredictable and deceiving. I say deceiving because my mind would convince me that I want to eat this particular something and then when I did get round to it, my palate just refuses to cooperate.

Some of you who are unaware, this might probably come off as a rant….and why not? It’s been rather torturous not to feel excited about food. I am coming to the beginning of my third month of being preggers and it’s been hard to keep anything down at the moment. Which is why I refuse to eat most of my favourite foods, for fear that throwing up might put me off it completely.

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Prawn Fritters and an announcement….

April 20th, 2012 Sharon

Hello, my lovely loyal readers….I’m far from gone just slowing down a bit and to owe you an explanation, this is where the announcement part comes in, I have a second bun in the oven! I’m 7 weeks into my first trimester and unfortunately, am having some slight complications which my doctor has advised me to be on strict rest and relax mode while on medication. I’m not allowed to do anything as much as I can so that includes….cooking and experimenting. But on the other hand, I am also currently, really averse to the sight, smell and taste of food right now. What a horror I know…but I can’t help it. Rather than feeling excited, I see images of the toilet bowl in my head, so until this phase has passed, I’ll be posting subsequently though not on the same frequency as before. Hope you’ll understand and have patience as I weather through this time.

But I’m not leaving you high and dry, here is a recipe that used to be a regular in my mom’s house but she stopped making it for a long time due to…don’t know what. When I went back and asked for this again, some distant memory suddenly jolted in all my siblings’ mind and they were like ‘Yeah, why didn’t you make this anymore?’, ‘Because nobody asked for it,’ was her matter-of-fact reply. Well, made sense.

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Pull-apart Bread with 3 Cheeses

April 13th, 2012 Sharon

I’ve been seeing loads of this recipe on Pinterest and also several other blogs. They are calling it in several names; bloomin onion bread, pull-apart bread, flaming hedgehog….They were raving about how good it was so I thought I’d test that theory. Although it was more of an excuse to use up some leftovers (I had half a loaf of bread left and also some hot Italian sausage meat) I concocted my own mix to stuff into the bread.

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How to have steaming hot and soft reheated pitas

April 10th, 2012 Sharon

I have been feeling a bit off lately and have been falling behind on my posts. My brain and mood seem to be on indefinite freeze. So, I thought I’d do a tip post instead.

This method applies to store bought pitas and homemade but leftover pitas. The thing about pitas is that you don’t want it crisp on the exterior, it has to be soft but steaming hot. Hot on the inside pockets as well when you reheat them. So what do you do? Microwave them? Yeah….well, personally I find that to be a bit dry. But here’s a tip I learned, I think it was from Jamie’s 30 minute meals series but I forgot which one, you can reheat your pitas, make sure they’re warm all the way through and still have that soft texture you’re looking for in a pita, even if you find when you buy the store-bought ones, they are already a little tough.


1. Take a sheet of baking paper (depending on how many pitas you have) and scrunch it wet it under the tap. Shake of excess water.

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Chicken Tikka Pita

April 4th, 2012 Sharon

Hubster came home one day and announced that he needed to be on a low-carb diet. *sigh….that to me means, amp up the protein which portion-wise is not all that economical compared to certain carbs. But I try to give him what he wants but low-carb main meals can only do so much when you’re sneaking potato chips into your midnight snacks (yes, I know…I see the empty bags in the trash). Anyways….I made this do-it-yourself meal with pitas because it seems that if you want to cut out bread-carbs, they always seem to substitute with pitas.

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