Roasting pans on my mind

Hallelujah! After months of living in our wee apartment, I finally figured out that our oven (which thankfully did not explode in my face because it was electric) works! I am just so excited to move one step forward with my beginner cook skills and try my hand at oven roasting and perhaps some baking.

BUT again, our wee kitchen is so bare that I do need to make some kitchen equipment purchases to help get me started. This week, roasting pans have been on my mind because I dream finally of cooking up some roast pork / beef / chicken / lamb / vegetables and perhaps throw in a batch of brownies or homemade granola too.

The dilemma is: What kind of roasting pan am I supposed to buy?

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Upcycled! Koka Oriental Style Instant Noodles

My life will be pretty much on the go from this day forth. It’s been busy as a meantime housewife in Dubai (house chores, writing, projects, quality time with the husband and all), but it will be busier. Because of some happy developments :-) I’d love to shout it out to the world, but I’d prefer to keep it hush-hush. Just say a “I’m so happy for you!” and I will accept it with grateful arms. Hehehe!

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Katsudon blasphemy!

I was craving for one of my favorite Japanese rices bowls of all time, the Katsudon: tender yet crispy panko breaded pork cutlet drowning in a mixture of sweet dashi-soy-mirin sauce, runny barely scrambled egg, translucent onion slivers and green peas atop a cup of pristine rice. And having passed Umami a number of times, [...]

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The I-don’t-like-Arroz-Caldo recipe

The Arroz Caldo (chicken congee or porridge) is a bowl of comfort for millions of Filipinos out there. Perhaps the counter part of chicken noodle soup from the North Americas, it is a cure all for the sick. It is also a warm hug for the grieving, often present during memorial services, especially in the [...]

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Spring onions and a kitchen tool epiphany

I used to hate the fact that I live in a bachelor’s pad (Yes, it still is pretty much that.). I used to envy other women, who get to enjoy all these kitchen gizmos, tools and what not. But because of some kitchen beginner epiphany, which came about after hours and hours of indulgent dream [...]

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Upcycled! Beer Beef Stew sauce

Today was a lazy cooking day. I was supposed to whip up something, but The Husband and I decided to enjoy our boerewors (South African sausage) loot from our Dubai Mall trip last weekend. Since we still had some leftover beer beef stew (And since no food should ever get left behind to fester into [...]

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