Friday, November 30, 2012

Easy-peasy Pork Rashers

Really yummy, tender and awesome with ingredients you already have! (and unlike the title, there are no peas in this, I promise.) 

What was used:
500g of Pork Rashers (also known as pork belly slices)
3 cloves of garlic
2 Tbsp Sugar
2 Tsp 5 Spice Powder
5 Tbsp Kecap Manis (Sweet Soy Sauce)
1/2 Tsp Ground Pepper
(if you want it a little spicy, add some chilli!)
- Preheat Oven to 180 Degrees.


a) Mix all the dry ingredients together (including the garlic). I used a hand held dicer but I guess you can use a food processor or anything else that chops the garlic to little pieces and mixes everything together.
b) Add in the Kecap Manis to the mix. I just stirred it all together with a spoon and made sure it was evenly mixed.
c) Cut the Pork Rashers into about 4cm pieces (or whichever size you like). I find this size the easiest to eat with rice!
d) Mix the sauce and pork in a bowl, ensure its well covered!
e) Lay on an oven try (deeper is better as there's sauce!), cover with foil and place into preheated oven for 45mins. At this point when you take it out it should be sitting in its own juices and not be burnt at all as its been covered.
f) Flip all your pieces and remove the foil lid. Back into the oven for 15 mins and that should change the colour and texture of the meat as now its direct heat onto the meat.

Smell it!


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Mixing meat with sauce - pre cooking



The finished product - it tastes much better than it looks :)

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Luxemburgerli Surprise

Mini macaron surprise from JLO when he got back from Switzerland! Got a box of them after his colleague recommended them to him, sweet of him as he can't eat them - yay more for me

Luxemburgerli.. What are they?
Super light mini macarons with a top and bottom sugar based confection filled with yummilicious cream in it's center. They are the lightest, easiest to eat macarons I've ever had! 

Enjoy my photos as I enjoy them.. nom nom. Thanks JLO, much love!


Pretty & Perfect.. pretty perfect!
In its protective case - it survived a plane ride!

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Lounge food (the airport sort)

Some of you might know that I just recently returned from a whirlwind trip. Plenty of cities in 10days! London-Singapore-Sydney-Singapore-Johor-KL-Johor-singapore-London.. Hectic! It was a trip filled with family and food (so so so much food), where there were days I needed to lie down after each meal for fear that I'd topple forward or fall into a food coma. We ate whenever we felt like it, so it was hardly a 3 meal a day affair and became more like phat kids trying to eat through the world affair.

It all started on my journey to Singapore. On the plane I was fed so well; satay (with some extra skewers as requested by this phat kid) then the main of chicken rice followed by fruits and slice of cake for dessert.. Let's not forget the many cups of green tea and garlic bread I felt I had to consume. I knew I had to get some sleep in preparation for my 9 glorious hours of layover in Singapore, but what I wasn't prepared for was the food that awaited me in the airline lounges! Someone went a little mad with boredom it seems..
-first course: more sticks of satay
-secondly: curry with brown rice
-followed by: pear and apple juice
-fourth course: rice with green curry
-then: carrot cake (chai dao kueh)
-are you appalled yet: sushi rolls
-seventh plate: more carrot cake ( but I was in a different lounge so it looked and tasted different!)
-finished with: watermelon and pineapple. Seriously the sweetest and most awesomest pineapple ever. I kid you not. My dad would make a stop at this lounge every time he flies just to have it. Naturally I had more pineapple to absorb it's awesomeness, till my mouth was so furry it became a furby.


Tried to take photos but I was so caught up with eating I forgot at times..

By this time I was ready to roll onto the next plane to take me to Sydney. However, (hold on to your tummies..) Singapore Airlines could read my mind and gave me more food! Satay again, followed by garlic bread and then my main of chicken curry and rice! 

Are you full just from reading this yet? Actually I'm a little hungry thinking about it.This was all before I had landed at my first destination of Sydney. Needless to say, I had an awesome trip filled with food, family, fun and a new dog Billy. Now it's back to daily work life /dread.