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| Food Notes |
- Love to cook Asian dishes but don't know how the ingredients look like, or how to choose them? Fret not, the Makan Time's Asian Ingredients Guide is here.
- Mom's and other Recipes has selected favourite recipes from this region: Malaysian, Singaporean, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, and others. Being away from home now doesn't mean that you'll have to miss your favourite food!
- Black Pepper Crabs is one of the Singaporean's all-time favourite seafood dish. However, some places literally smothered the crab meat with so much pepper that you are actually biting into a mouthful of pepper every time. For a lighter feel, and a better taste of the actual crab meat, why not try out my recipe at home.
- Soft-shelled crabs are very easy to eat as the whole crab is usually deep fried and one eats the whole crab (no hard shells to tackle!) Here is an easy-to-cook original recipe that taste just as good but at a fraction of the cost found at restaurants.
- My latest crab creations - Crabs fried with young ginger and spring onions. I got the inspiration from a Cantonese dish of frog legs with ginger and spring onions. It came about after I couldn't find the chilli crab pre-mix, so I decided to concoct something new. It turned out pretty well!
- Some friends of mine were excited about cooking with cheese, and after barbequeing the Haloumi, a Greek cheese, in kebab style with great success, I've created up a simpler version with some stir-fried vegetables that is more suitable for daily cooking. Cheese-lovers, do try this out: Stir-Fried Veg with Cheese.
- If you want something savoury, tasty and quick for breakfast, you may want to indulge yourself with this Olive Oil with Toast simple treat.
- Singapore has a popular dish called the Or Luak (Oyster Omelette) which is commonly found in the hawker centres and food courts throughout the island. It was given the thumbs up by a famous Western chef who came visiting in 2008. Do try out this deconstructed version from our food columnist and great cook, Sylvia Tan.
- If Western food is what you hanker for, then you will not be disappointed with Geocities' award winning site: Mary's Good Cooking. You'd find recipes for spuds (potatoes), New England clam chowder, beef stew, cookies, bread, and so on. Yum yum!
- Western bread and pizzas recipes galore at Bridgford. This dough company has a online Home Baking Collection that is full of coloured illustrations of the end product. Put your colour printers to good use, all you budding bakers!
- The Avocado is more nutritious and less fat than you think. Let www.avocado.org show you the wonderful ways you can eat the fruit.
- There are many versions of tiramisus served out there, but this version of the traditional Italian pick-me-up dessert has always gotten exceptional response whenever I served them. Originally sponge fingers are used for the cake portion, but as they are so hard to find, I've replaced them with frozen plain butter pound cake. Hope you'll like this adapted Tiramisu recipe too.
- Indians have lots of bread and this page explains them and gives you recipes too. Check out the Recipes Indian site. The site also features both North and South Indian recipes contributed by 19 authors!
- I like the recipes from Australian self-taught chef Bill Granger in his TV shows. Here's a collection of them at Lifestyle FOOD.
- Another celebrity TV chef that I enjoy watching is Jamie Oliver, particularly his series called "Jamie at Home" which has a lot of BBQ cooking and showcases recipes made fresh from herbs and vegetables in his garden. Here are some of Jamie's recipes. Jamie has his own website and podcast too. Jamie uses Tefal cookware, and Tefal also has some of his recipes on their website. The Asia Food Channel has recipes from his Naked Chef series as well.
- After acquiring more cable channels, the Asia Food Channel quickly became one of my favourites. They have a website that shows the channel's programming, as well as recipes from some shows. The shows that I like are Restaurant Makeover, and anything by Jamie Oliver. Those looking for barbeque recipes can check out the Licensed to Grill series which often has some asian-inspired seasoning.
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 Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels, and BBQ with Bobby Flay are some of the nice shows I chanced upon from the Food Network. Rachel's show focuses on good and affordable eats throughout the USA. Whereas Bobby brings us interesting BBQ cooking techniques, places and all stories BBQ related.
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Last update: 19 May 2009
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