Ayran (Turkish Yoghurt Drink)
Ratios: I cup full-cream greek yoghurt 1 cup cold water 1/4 teaspoon salt Blend for 1 minute or until frothy. Reduce the water to half cup if your yoghurt is low fat or not...
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Quick Pasta With Shrimp and Broccoli
I realized i still had the prawns from last Tesco order, so … removed skins and deveined and marinade with olive oil, salt and cayenne pepper. Boiled spaghetti. Chopped and minced garlic, fried together...
Sous-vide Salmon (living dangerously!), roasted pumpkin and salad with yoghurt-garlic dressing/dip
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...
Stir Fried Okra With Salted Beans
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...
Docker breaks KVM Bridge – Fixed!
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...
DIY Gaming Headset
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...
“Kya Zhan Athoke” — Burmese Glass Noodle Salad
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...
Tofu and Long Beans with Fermented Soy Beans
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...
British Airways Retires 747 Fleet …
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 Belacan Goreng (Stir Fried Water Convolvulus with Shrimp Paste)
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...
