I wanted to make some sort of dish with coconut milk and shrimp and I ended up with something that is more like Thai coconut soup. It actually turned out much better than I had originally expected.
I started by marinating shelled tiger shrimps with garlic, chilli pepper flakes, a bit of salt, some crushed lemon [...]

Tonight I tried to make teriyaki chicken from scratch. It turned out pretty well. I got the recipe for the teriyaki sauce from Japanese Cooking by Emi Kazuko. The original plan was to make chicken yakitori but then I thought about my incident with skewers this past summer and I decided against the skewering. I [...]

I made a new batch of bolognese today.
Here’s how I make my bolognese.
Ingredients can be varied depending on your taste.

300g ground beef
1 onion (chopped)
1 medium zucchini (grated)
4 small-medium sized carrots (grated)
6 cloves of garlic (chopped)
2 cartons of 500g crushed tomato
dried oregano, basil & mystery spice (I had no idea what it was but it smelled [...]

I tried to make biff à la lindström yesterday. It turned out ok. It’s not salty enough and we didn’t have any capers. I also tried to form them using the Hello Kitty onigiri/rice molds. Unfortunately they did not turn out looking anything like the intended shapes. They looked just like the hand formed ones. [...]

I didn’t know what I was going to make for dinner last night. I tried to follow this recipe found in a cookbook I borrowed from the library but like most of my recipes, it did not get followed all the way to the end.
Anyways.

Ingredients:
>2 chicken breasts
>sweet Thai chilli sauce
>soy sauce
>vegetable oil
>couple pieces of garlic
>1/2 [...]

I gave into my baking cravings last night. So I tried out the black bottom cupcakes recipe from JoyofBaking.com.
The recipes originally comes from David Lebovitz’s “The Great Book of Chocolate“.
Cream Cheese Filling:

8 ounces (227 [...]

I tried out a recipe I found on allrecipes.com and I used the frozen pangasius filets we got from COOP.
The recipe originally called for sole but pangasius works just fine. The recipe was submitted by Esther Orgad. I didn’t use garlic salt. I sautéed the onion with some garlic slices. I also didn’t use parsley. [...]