I have this thing for baked chicken breast recipes, mainly because it is so easy to prepare and secondly because it is healthy, lean white meat cooked in an oil-free way. Now, baked chicken are usually soft and moist so what if I wanted something crunchy? I do love fried chicken but it is not all that healthy to be eating fried chicken all the time. Besides, deep frying stuff always left the kitchen oily and that means I have to do loads of clean-up. Uggghhh…the only thing I hate about cooking is the cleaning . . . → Read More: Chicken recipes: Crunchy baked chicken recipe
I know I am supposed to post the results of my Pay it forward contest I held in December last month but….one thing led into another and it clearly slipped my mind until now. Heheheh…sorry.
Anyway, there were only five people who commented (sigh, why so few people only want to join in the contest? Doesn’t anybody else want to Pay it forward in the blogosphere? ) so, I run the random number generator and came up with the winners:
Flowers have always been the main ‘thing’ for Valentine’s Day but The Food Critic is not really big on giving me flowers (the last time I got a bouquet of flowers was so many years ago, I don’t even remember when it was).
Still, this year, I got a pleasant surprise when he came back with a plainly wrapped bouquet of white calla lilies and gruffly gave it to me (yes, The Food Critic gets very gruff when it comes to sweet, romantic stuff). Now, calla lilies may not seem romantic to some people but it is quite meaningful . . . → Read More: Valentine flowers, chocolate roses and heart-shaped chocolate mousse cake
After my first attempt at cooking quinoa, I sorta went a bit obsessed with this super grain and came up with quite a few different ways to cook it. So, I decided to start a series on how to cook quinoa with my first attempt as the first in the series.
Now, I did mention that quinoa is a pretty versatile grain to cook with. You can pretty much cook it with anything you want. Since I am into making homemade burgers, I thought, hey I could use quinoa in my burgers instead of oatmeal or oat bran. Well, . . . → Read More: How to cook quinoa series – Healthy Golden Quinoa Nuggets
Putting apples and chicken may seem a tad weird but I have good reason to use apples. For one thing, apples are healthy and they are one of the fat burning foods you should have in your diet. For another thing, do you know that apples could act as a natural tenderizer for meat? It is true. Especially if you use green apples where the acid content is higher. Apple juice has been used to season meat overnight for really tender meat so I figured, using fresh apples to bake it with chicken should do the . . . → Read More: Chicken Recipes: Baked Chicken Breast with Apples
I’ve loved chocolate brownies for the longest time ever so it is not a surprise, really, when I baked one for my birthday and almost finished the whole lot myself. Hey, I did say almost…so I am not all that greedy. There were some left for The Food Critic and Mr Picky. Anyway, I found the Best Ever Chocolate Brownie recipe over at Recipes2Share and since it is pretty simple, I thought I might as well bake it as a treat for myself. Heck, I did turn older and eating chocolate brownies is very, very comforting. So, I pigged . . . → Read More: I baked my own birthday cake which is not a cake but the best ever chocolate brownie
Firstly, sorry for the silence…I don’t know why but time seems to move so fast and before I know it, it has been almost a week since I last updated this blog! Time sure do flies, it is already my birthday and I felt as if I just celebrated my last birthday.
Sigh…one year older, a tonne more wrinkles, an even more sluggish metabolic rate, more food turning into padding on my hips and waist…I will have to say, I don’t feel any wiser than last year except more tired, more fat, more . . . → Read More: Chicken Recipes: Healthy salmon and chicken burger
