Category: Recipes

How I Make Beef Enoki Roll

Yakitori is one of the best street food and bar chow Japanese has invented. If I were ask, my favorite yakitori is the Enoki Maki or Enoki Rolls. The enoki mushroom just pops some different kind of peanuty flavor. It perfectly blends with quality meat. After all, some of the other Japanese grilled meat skewers

How I Make S’mores Cookies

I am totally excited and proud to share my latest creation in the kitchen! It’s S’mores Cookie! I know it’s just a simple cookie with chocolate, graham and toasted marshmallow. But honestly, I’ve never perfected a chocolate chip cookie. All of the past cookies I posted here has defects. So let me just have this

How I Make Marshmallow Espresso Con Panna

Espresso Con Panna is described as a shot of espresso with a generous dollop of whipped cream on top. It’s as simple as that. Some people find it indulgent. I find it plain and boring. Therefore, I hope I don’t hurt anyone if I tweaked this classic hot drink by adding flavors to the cream

How I Make Singaporean Cereal Prawns

If you are ever in Singapore, Cereal Prawn is one of the must-order dishes. Both kids and adults love this because of the crispy and fragrant combo of savory and sweet. When I recreated this Singaporean prawn dish the first time, I felt in love instantly. There’s some kind of texture and flavors to this

How I Make Filipino Butter Sugar Toast

Biscocho is a famous Filipino butter sugar toast of biscuit, that we can see in pasalubong shops. The termbiscocho is derived from Spanish bizcocho. However, they are not the same pastries. The original Spanish bizcocho refers to a type of sponge cake known as broas in the Philippines. The sugar-coated Philippine biscocho does not exist in Spanish cuisine. Just recently, I learned that I’ve

How I Make Brie Gravy Fries

The process of making this so-called Brie Gravy Fries is similar to poutine, a Canadian dish, emerged in Quebec. However, I am familiar that poutine uses cheese curds and not brie so we cannot really call this poutine. The Canadians might be angry when they read this. But having fries, cheese and gravy on the

How I Make Banana Split Parfait

It’s rainy but nothing’s gonna stop me from eating cold dessert, especially when it’s banana split! Banana Split is usually served as a sundae, if not on a boat-shaped dish. I’m gonna tweak the usual a bit by making a parfait. Why does it matter? What’s the difference anyway? Actually, the taste is just similar

How I Make Chorizo Pizza Rice Croquettes

Arancini – a rice or risotto formed into balls and deep-fried into croquette. I never heard of Arancini until I discovered it on Netflix’s Best Leftovers Ever! when a contestant tried to transform leftover rice to Arancini. Speaking of leftovers, January is the month when we get a lot of it. We still have remaining

How I Make Singaporean Chicken Rice

I’m a fan of Netflix’s Street Food TV Series. Well, actually, I watch almost all Netflix reality shows about food because as a foodie, I naturally enjoy learning about them. Street Food: Asia, Street Food: Latin America and Street Food: USA are few of the documentaries that interest me because I got to explore cultural

How I Make Pandan Iced Tea

Iced Tea is American. But make it Pandan Iced Tea, then that’s screaming Asian! I first tasted Pandan Iced Tea at Banana Leaf and I instantly felt love with the natural taste of Pandan transformed into drink. It tasted like home since I grew in a place where Pandan is used as flavoring to desserts