Recipes & Cooking : Summer
It’s Labor Day weekend this week and I am sure many of you are throwing one last summer party before Fall arrives and the weather becomes colder. I have shared many summer recipes with you this year and I hope you have had a chance to try them out. I have two more recipes that will complete this summer. Let’s…
Can you believe that it’s almost August 2012? Soon it will be Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas. Anyway, while summer lasts, I wanted to share a popsicle recipe with you. I grew up with a lot of popsicles in Malaysia. Back home in Penang, we could buy really cheap, colorful, and exotic-tasting popsicles that feature the abundant fruits found…
Everyone loves their morning bacon, but you can use bacon in many other recipes, for example, these bacon-wrapped scallops. The crispy and greasy bacon adds a buttery and smoky flavor to the scallops, and the end result is always heavenly, especially when they are grilled. To make perfect grilled bacon-wrapped scallops, first you have to make sure that the scallops…
Every summer, when I host BBQ parties, I would always have satay for my guests. My favorite is chicken satay. It’s hard not to fall in love with satay—skewered of marinated meat (chicken or beef) grilled over fire, and then served with a savory peanut dipping sauce. The combination is just brilliant. While I make Malaysian-style satay most of the…
Let’s talk about your favorite summer seafood meals. For me, it’s simple peel and eat shrimp, lemongrass and Sriracha grilled shrimp or beer-steamed mussels and of course a cool starter like lobster and mango salad. What about all those extra hot dog buns left over from 4th of July? I’m thinking lobster salad again. Nothing fancy, just delicious chunks of…
How’s your summer so far? I hope everyone has been busy firing out your grill, having endless pool parties, and more importantly, having a blast with your friends and family. If you’re looking for new barbeque recipes and ideas, I wish to tempt you with my upcoming Asian-style BBQ recipes. Let’s start with this mouthwatering lemongrass grilled shrimp, spiced with…
To celebrate this year’s July 4th, I have invited my good friend Harry Soo at Slap Yo Daddy BBQ to share an all-American burger recipe with us. Harry also came from Penang, Malaysia, and is currently the top 10 BBQ Pitmaster in the United States. His barbeques are truly legendary and the BEST I have ever tasted. Please take a…
Are you prepping your grill for the upcoming 4th of July weekend cookout with friends and family? If you’ve got your burger, steak, kebab, and ribs ready to entertain, but are still looking for that perfect appetizer that will appeal to all your guests, then you have definitely got to try this Chicken Lollipop recipe. Bite-size finger foods are always…
If you live in the Los Angeles area, I am sure you have heard of Kogi food truck and its famed Kogi taco. Kogi tacos pretty much launched the food truck culture and craze in the United States. For the longest time, I have wanted to share the recipe here and finally I got to do it over the weekend….
I miss the breakfast breads in Vietnam during my travels, specifically Vietnamese-style baguettes (bánh mì). Here in the States, whenever I need my bánh mì fix, it’s a fifteen minutes drive to Little Saigon. Most of the time, there’s a line, so it takes even longer to get my fix. That’s why I decided to make it at home. Bánh…