BANGERS n MASH!!

Thats it man, i had enuff of the stupid powder form of mash potatoes and decided to make my own mash, which i call it.."the best mash in the world" , u cook potatoes, mash them with butter and some sour scream..salt n pepper and some basil ...ooo yeah..tats some real mash man, so , to match that, I decided to make what i was always wanted to eat..bangers and mash!

I got some sausage (swiss cheese and pork, beef, and chicken/mushroom) and grill them with some sourkraut, and of cos i made some onion brown gravy to go with the mash...yum yum

Ding kitchen invited Kenny and Andy over for this dish, :) cheers!

Alaska Salmon steak in bourin cream sauce!

woot! back to back posting !! haha i think Lyn had too much chicken recently that when i offered her a choice of fish or chicken, she took the latter without much thought, so.. the i remember the last time i did a fish dish, it was a snapper fillet..

so this time i decided to go for some Salmon steak in cream boursin sauce, (Boursin is kind of soft cheese with garlic and herb infused) so it taste pretty cook, and yes, those are tiger prawns sauteed and added to the sauce with some rocket leaves and ground oregano for tat extra flavour hehe) and damn....the mash is really dumb cos neither me nor lyn could finish it after eating the salmon and prawn LOL

Enjoy the pic(since u cant enjoy the food hehe)

Roman chicken!

Arghh been playing too much company of heroes tat i didnt update the blog lol. Alrite..so here come some updates of Ding kitchen!
This is more of a chicken in a pan dish lol, very easy to make, and yes it is cooked in a braised style, (panfried and simmer in wine sauce for a while before it hits the table)

What you see is chicken thigh, in plum tomato and white wine sauce, with some capers as well as olives.(damn! i love olives..hehe) it goes pretty well with potatoes but i think i wont cook so much mash next time as it is rather filling.

Who got the privilege of tasting this? well its GRIMLOQ -yanxian! lol cos he came over for dinner. Hehe, but he did the best BBQ gathering i ever been to by getting someone to do all the grilling LOL..and yes..he called the poor girl his minion .....WTF lolol till next time guys!

The 15min pizza

It always seemed to troublesome to cook some stuff or ANYThing at all when u are hungry at night..so what we end up with are usually cup noodles and stuff haha However its possible to cook a simple but still good tasting pizza in just 15min!! all u need is a oven (DUHZ...)

Alright, i know this is the 2nd time i am talking abt pizza and yes, i still prefer them to be crispy instead of the pizzahut pan pizza thingy so for the base..the closest u can get and very crispy are the.. TORTILLAs!!! here is a pic of wat i used
what u are lookin at is the wild rocket (i know some ppl hate these, but i love it lol, tortilla wraps- u get them easily at supermarkets, buffalo mozzarella (drained and to be tore into portions later, sundried tomote paste and yes...parma ham, i manage to buy them in slices from the deli at the basement of Paragon instead of those tat come with 10 slices in a sealed package. And of cos some extra v olive oil) and after baking in the oven for like 10min ..

u get...
, and the best part is u can actually just roll in and eat it and dun really have to cut cos its very crispy haha. till next time ppl!

Tirrraaamisu by LynTang!

omg, i cant believe i am so damn lazy tat i didnt update my blog for almost a month! LoL ok this time, i aint going to show u something i cooked but rather...something my darling Lyn did..Tiramisu Nemo Style! lol

its the 3rd or 4th time she made it, actually she made it cos i told some of my taiwanese stewardess frds are coming over..but she fell sick so the party was cancelled, and i only get to eat it the next day hehe

things tat i like abt this homemade version is tat it isnt as sweet as wat u normally get outside, although still as sinfullBUT HEY...all desserts are ok! haha so live with it LoL.

Nicely whipped layers of mascarpone cream cheese with sponge fingers soaked in coffee n kaluha(coffee liquer) yeah..just a simple nice serving and its heavenly.

anyone tat is interested in how to make this..do post it in comments and i can let Ms Nemo Tang tell u how the magic is done hehe..ciao!

Coq Au Vin and Mango milli-feuille!

wooot! i know i wasnt much of a chicken person and more of red meat guy but its good to explore some chicken dish so for today, i decided to go ahead with a very classic 1970s dish

the Coq Au Vin - pronounced as "koq aw van" is a chicken stew cooked with onions, garlic, thyme, and mushrooms and simmered over low heat with red wine.

i used Pinot Noir this time, might wana consider chosing other variety of red cos its quite an xpensive choice for cooking LOL, but the taste was quite awesome. I think this dish is perfect if there are like 4-6 person coming over for dinner hehe


Also, i manage to make my 1st successful mash potatoes hehe, very soft and creamy, definately will try making it again if i grill sausage next time hehe.(BANGERS & mash...sluuurrrp!)





For dessert, i made this Small rectangular pastries made of crisp layers of puff pastry and pastry cream. The word mille-feuille means a thousand leaves. LOL wtf french class?! haha nah, cos i dunno how to describe this term in english so yeah , and for fillings, i used this icecream mango i bought at cold storage hehe just nice for the 2 of us. :)
but i failed very badly at the chocolate drizzling part LOL
lesson learnt : use a bigger spoon for drizzle LOL so it wont look so bad...arghhh
till next time, oh man,.tomolo SNY for JCL...for melb..2 meal service....arghhhhhhhh

Tiger prawn Linguine with scallops!!

I ate pasta mania with lyn and cherlyn yersterday at bugis and seriously i think they really serve wtf.com pasta...so i decided to make some myself..well tat wasnt the actual plan , Andy was planning to make risotto but fail cos he couldnt get the ingred at carrefour HAHAHAHA dude, tats noobish man, mistake number 1, dun ever ever go there if u thinking of cooking some western kind of dish, carrefour is like market full of stuff tat you dun really need LOL, but yeah, He manage to redeem his mistake by getting the tiger prawns and scallops i was thinking of cooking, Andy also decided to noobish by buying shitake mushrooms...which the clear instructions given was to get some brown cap cos i was thinking of making mushroom soup ..LOL

I took a pic of the mushroom and cream soup, cooked with olive oil , red onions and of cos stock and cream, verdict? i hate it cos i cant take shitake. but they kinda of like it. i dunno, gotta hear some comments from lyn and Andy abt the soup.


Lets move on to the pasta ! This dish is cooked with the Linguine done aglio olio style = which is garlic, olive oil, basil and a bit of chill, (chilli goes quite well with seafood) , prawn and scallops are panfried with garlic and the special sauce i used for tat extra punch is a stock of the prawn, white wine, onions, rosemary,zest of lemon ,carrots, salt, pepper and chicken stock cooked over low heat for like 1hr till its reduced to this thick sauce with all the flavour sealed in..drizzle these on top of ur pasta with the seafood, and VIOLA! ---the below pic.,. hehe