Articles and reviews from Zach

Please supoprt the author by sharing  this link! This   is  competition article  between two  contestants : The greek suvlaki and the malay satay .Both counties  have a very long tradition in cooking mean in any form. I m not good in cooking history and  i m neither itnerested . The text below is only for showing you he process i made to colect the ingredients, cooking it and finally checking the tasting results of two difrecnt cuisines for nearly the same species .The original malay recipe has been  found from  rasamalaysia   a well known malay cooking site owned by Bee a female food  blogger and chef. The collection process  has been made in two steps. It was discussed with my relatives one week before soall have the same  time   testing  both kinds of  satays. we decided that Saturday 19 May 18 would be the perfect day for cooking them On May 15th i have searched  in a frinds deli- ...

Complete Malaysian cookbook More than 240 recipes are refereed to this  18x 18  cm book of ca 270 pages and a pric of  ?9 . This is the last book I ordered  this year on Jun 12 as part of cooking series and concludes   my line of cooking recipes Written by a native Malaysian  chef of  possibly Chinese origin is a color edition. This book has a different  aspect of recipes divided  by region (county ) Here is a  small pickup of recipes  by the region some of them are referred by tre author (notice that I only refer to the titles of recipes without further explanation ) Johor : Laksa johor , laksa bersundas , mee rebus, sayur lodeh , teochow fish Melaka : ikan masak kuah lada , nyonya ayam (nyonya inhabitant  Chinese ) Negeri Sembilan: rending rimbau, renadang pinang , dodol Selagor : (my picks )fish and curry , prawn sambal , beef steak Pahang:: rendang daging , dadar  masak acar Kelantan: kuzi...

Cook Malaysian ! Lee sook Ching One of my oldest  again books on Malaysian  cooking  bought in mid 90s  which is one of the most vcomplete  reference books . This was one of my first  ever  books in Malaysian cooking and this has a format  close to A4 paper and is hardbound This is a classical  recipe cookbook with standard hierarchy . It first starts with  terms of cooking together with a shot of most ingredients and some drawings and hints for cooking Then the series  gies this way together with some random recipes : Rice : nasi lemak , nasi beriani , kunyit Meat: satay ,spring rolls ,rendang Poultry : almond chicken ayam , golek Seafood : otakotak , pie apple curry Egs and soy : sambal telur , eggs with crabmeat Veggies: gado gado , fried eggplant Soups : streamed melon soup , chicken and corn , beef soup Noodles: laksa lemak Desserts (20):  pineapple tarts , vadai Misc : soybean milk Glossary of...

Women weekly    Malaysian  favorites This year ;looking for  something  easy for Malaysian  cooking  I was  quite much looking not only on the net but also on Amazon  for a small  but quite  easy book on Malay cooking . This book as advertized there was with the promise for easy and fast Malay cooking And really  this  book after received together  with a bunch of other cooking books in the June 12 order , can be deemed this way . as with most recipe books is a small less than A5 sized  books and fully colored with about 35 recipes , each of them shown in the one page and on the other with  the recipe Here are part of these  recipes : Hot and sour soup (hhm  yummy and my top Chinese dish made with nearly everything ) prawn laksa , curried lamb pastries , laksa  lemak , spicy fish  in banana leaves , rending , curry capitan (!!??), squid curry , ...

THE Chinese book for Indonesian dishes Don’t freak looking this book ! This is a bilingual book written  in Chinese and English with nice and delicious dishes  from Indonesia. It is one of my oldest  indo cooking recipes, possibly more than  15 years ago !! and it is written in HK For this  reason I m not sure when I bought it and how , though surely via letter . As with the Murdoch books this is also a pictorial book  with ca  40 recipes , Instead of Murdoch’s  (I will call here as M ) this book  ha a big photo on the right or the left pane which the opposite page  has the  recipe in bot Chinese and English . Instead of  describing you  the  contents I will show  you only  part of the  recipes : Indonesian baked fish with banana leaves (similar  to M’s fish in alu foil ) , acar , satay chicken , padang beef (close to rendang beef) padang chicken , pegedel  (with minced ...

STEP BY STEP INDONESIAN COOKING  MURDOCH  PUBLICATIONS This book is one of my oldest cooking  recipes  book which I bought on  90s in UK  when  I  visited  London for 5 th  time! I was  the filler  person for a group of 3  to visit London and Paris , and I think that I bought it from Dillons  book mega-store in Charing Cross (I dunno does this store still  exist? I didn’t find any web page from them in the web  ) This book  could be better  called as leaflet of 60 pages  with the same size  with the previous books ,but the most important  difference is the color and the  illustration . as the  publisher is Murdoch , it has the  design of a newspaper  with 3 columns  , with  4 photos  for the step by step and a  full-page picture   in the right pane  with the finished  recipe. And a small  colored box...

Thai  cookery secrets  by Chris Dhillon Something  tht you possibly not know  is that I also  cook sometimes . But please  bear in minf that  I prefer to  cook rather  Asian  cuisine  than local . I do it more than 15 years ago  and I also have a wok  but for electricity  rather for gas (which I do nt have ) This  book is one of the ca 100 books  of Asian cooking and one of my most recent purchases  via Amazon   this June . Tough  bought that time this is the first  time I made a recipe from this book Now I ma returning back to this book  and the recipe I made , which  consisted  from prawns (though fresh  was required by the recipe  I used  frozen! ), garlic , grated lime  zest (??? I used lemon rind instead ) red chili (I used sambal olek instead ) ginger cumin oil and lime juice , and still the recipe was delicious I am ...