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Another case of opening the refrigerator and figuring out what to have for dinner. Found a half-cut of pumpkin, from two grocery deliveries ago. This was sliced, peeled, and diced and tossed around in...
Made Okra with Shrimp and Salted Beans today. These are the ingredients: okra chopped at an angle diced tomato chopped red chilli diced small onion chopped garlic diced tofu prawns, de-headed de-tailed de-veined salted...
I recently enabled docker on my desktop PC running Ubuntu 20.04LTS … and it ended up breaking Bridged Networking on my VirtManager/KVM Virtual Machines (NAT still works). It turns out that (1) docker...
A friend of mine recently bought a PS4 ( yes … weeks before the PS5 launch, but this was a pre-loved set for half the price) and we’ve been playing on-line together. Which means...
I decided to try a recipe from the Motherland 🇲🇲 called “Kya Zhan Athoke”. An “Athoke” is a Burmese Salad — but unlike typical western salads that consist of greens, some form of acid...
Another dish to add to my list of recipes … best served with rice to form a complete meal. Ingredients Long beans https://eshop.tesco.com.my/groceries/en-GB/products/7001765361 washed and chopped into 1″ pieces. 1 or 2 blocks of...
I was fortunate to have traveled a lot when I was young, as my dad worked for British Airways. Most of our holidays were spent visiting wherever British Airways flew. The bulk of these...
Kangkung (Water Convolvulus) is a leafy vegetable that is very common in the tropics. It grows easily and therefore is commonly available and cheap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea_aquatica). It was only after I started cooking Kangkung Belacan...
Tempeh is a form of food popular in Indonesia. It is made through the fermentation of soy beans by the Rhizopus mold. The growth of the mold also binds the soya beans together, resulting...
This is one of my favourite dishes that my mum makes regularly. It originates from the Negeri Sembilan area of Malaysia. My dad’s village is on the border of Melaka and Negeri Sembilan and...
