Home Cooking

Sometimes I am out of idea on what to cook with sotong (squid). So the easy dish would be goreng kunyit with biji sawi (mustard seed) and curry leaves (daun kari). I usually will marinate the squid with turmeric powder […]

Hail the king of all fruits – durian! Honestly I don’t eat durian but everyone else seems to enjoy the fruits to the max. We were in SIL house when she served this pulut durian (glutinous rice eaten with durian). […]

Info taken from wikipedia: “Spaghetti alla Bolognese, Spaghetti Bolognese, or Spaghetti Bolognaise in a form popular outside of Italy, consists of a meat sauce served on a bed of spaghetti with a good sprinkling of grated Parmigiano cheese. Although Spaghetti […]

What to make with the leftover of fresh okra or ladyfingers that you buy to put in fish curry? Not to waste the okras that I bought and cooked earlier, I decided to pound some fresh red chili, dried anchovies […]

Try Google nasi lemak and you will be amazed to read that it is proclaimed as national dish..haha! Nasi lemak is rice cooked with coconut milk, eaten with slices of boiled egg (telur rebus), fried ikan bilis, cucumber, fried peanuts […]

There are many versions of curry, some cooked with coconut milk, some with just the tamarind juice and the curry powder. In certain states in Peninsular Malaysia it is called gulai rather than kari, but for certain people in East […]

I think this style of cooking for lala (clams) is very popular among Malays. Most of the Malay food restaurants that have nasi campur will serve this for lunch – masak lemak cili api lala. I tried cooking this once […]

I love petai (Parkia Speciosa) or stink beans! I think I’ve made a post earlier but it was about having petai rebus as ulam with sambal belacan. This time I managed to blog about my home cooked sambal petai with […]

I’m not sure what others call this dish, but I called it masak lemak putih..haha..to differentiate it with masak lemak kuning or masak lemak cili api (the yellow color comes from the pounded fresh turmeric thus the name..heh!) You can […]

If you are somehow tired of having the typical maggi sup, try frying them for a change. I usually use curry flavor – Maggi Kari (now they have Kari Letup or was it Kari Berapi? hehe..I got mixed up with […]