Random recipes in 2013

Baked Buffalo Wings

So last week I tried out a few different recipes to varying degrees of success.

Here's the succesful one, and super duper easy, basically 3 ingredients only

Baked Buffalo Wings
Ingredients

• Chicken Wings
• 1 bottle of Frank's Hotsauce
• Unsalted Butter

Boil Chicken wings til cooked and no longer pink
Heat up hotsauce with butter
and then grill/bake chicken wings in oven and when crispy pour heated hotsauce over and keep adding the sauce to it every 5 minutes til sauce is finished

Nasu Dengaku

Here's another one of my new favourites, Nasu Dengaku. The sweet and salty flavour of the miso goes perfectly with the creaminess of the eggplant. I could just eat this all day long. and it was pretty simple to make.

Nasu Dengaku
Ingredients

• Eggplants, sliced in half vertically
• Spring onion
• Miso paste
• Sake
• Seasame Oil
• Toasted Seasame seeds
• Sugar
• Mirin

First, brush seasame oil on cut side of eggplant, place face down to grill in oven at 200 degrees C for 5 minutes til skin blackens, then flip it over and grill for another 5 minutes until it's all a bit mushy.

At this point, while eggplant is grilling, mix miso paste with mirin and a splash of sake (I used vodka) and heat on stovetop, add sugar and keep mixing til the paste is bit liquidly and spreadable. Take eggplant out of grill, spread miso mix on top and stick it back in oven for another 2-3 minutes, becareful the top can burned quite easily because of the sugar.

Remove from over and top with chopped spring onion and toasted seasame seeds to serve.

Why am I eating alone?

I think I got food poisoning for the past couple of days, and it's the worst ever. I am so over Congee at the moment. Even though usually I looove that stuff, but after 2 days of eating nothing but plain congee. it's enough to dry up one's palate.

So for my day 1 recovery, I wanted something simple. Not going to make some crazy curry at the moment. LOL

Initially I contemplated on the Fusion Tom Yum Pork and Mushroom Spaghetti. But I think that might be too much for my tummy to handle. So the lamb cutlets were on sale in the local IGA supermaket, plus I still had some green beans I meant to cook from the week before.

And I totally thought my flatmate was home, so I set about cooking some anchovies garlic beans, dry roasted potatos, lemon & rosemary lamb cutlets and a salad for dinner.

But turns out I was the only one home! All that food and just for me....greedy piggie it is