Grilled Calamari with Thai Sauce

I love Thai food! Our family just love the spices and all that bursting flavours that dance in your mouth with every dish we tasted! However, this calamari dish is really just grilled but the sauce is really Thai. Tangy and spicy, the way we love it!!

Technically speaking, we don't have a lot of work preparing this. Just wash, grilled and sprinkled some salt if you will. I like it clean and charred. sauce is few teaspoon of blended red chili paste, few drops of vinegar, squeeze a lemon, and  add in slices of red eye chili and a pinch of sugar. This will knock you out, totally. I omitted the chilli this time so the "boss" can enjoy dipping the sauce too.

 

Dress it with your choice of veges, salads etc. Have it with rice or as side dish. I love to snack, so it will be just as it is. Gosh... mouth watering isn't it? Simple yet satisfying

 

 

Beef Pho-express version

I had a craving for Pho for many days but the laborious work of making the perfect Pho put me off. At some point, I cave in to my craving and decided to make an "express version" of it. Barely 30mins of chopping and slicing and working in the kitchen, I can smirkly said its a success.

Using leftover beef(I know ideally slice etc but we are talking "express" here) and I am using whatever ingredients I had in the pantry so its really a forgiving Pho:)

For soup:

2 onions (slice, roasted or fried w/o out oil)

2 cloves garlic (smashed, roasted or fried w/o out oil)

2inch ginger

4 star anise 

2cinnamon stick

2 ballpeppers (roasted or fried w/o out oil)

1tbsp fish sauce

Beef stock or vege stock

Noodles

Corriander

Bean Sprout

Lime

Beef chunks or slices

 Just love the clean and clear taste. I feel "healthy" slurping the soup and this call for a second serving! Perfect booster for the harsh winter!

Seafood Horfun @noodles in seafood

ok peeps, this is serious business here. With huge & generous servings of prawns on this seafood horfun, I dont know what not to like!!  Of course you cannot see with your naked eyes the chunky calamari which was hidden deep inside!! That chili there? yup ! thats pickled chilies!? A must with dish like this!!  Enough said!! #seafoodhorfun

Chicken Briyani

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 Chicken Briyani with huge serving. It's an effort to finish this. I never did... But Its good for the glutonnous demon in you, if any...

Seafood Galore!!! Literally dancing with the crab!!

Lobster meat sandwich with buttered toast! Buttery, soft & fluffy!! Chunky meats of lobster trap in between, generous generous servings with truffle fries as side!! Not even thinking of changing the side to salad (like I normally did!). Good call I must say!!

Where do I even start??? Its downright messy but tasty to the max!! Fresh steam sri-lankan crab with loads & HUGE prawns with shells etc!! Time to get your hands dirty!!! Ah, I forgot to mention, you can request your preferred sauces, just check out the menu ok! They had garlic butter & signature sauce which is like marinara sauce.

Black pepper crab, geeze... By now, its time to roll up yr sleeve & yes, work all that pincers & get the meat out. Juicy & meaty, i polished of 3/4 of 2 servings of this, ALONE! The sauce is not so hot, peppery but bearable. Just how I like it!

Desserts love affair

I-scream on toast!! drizzled lightly with chocolate sauce, what's not to love??? Too good to share!! 

Chunky yet fluffy toasted(or was it fried???) it was that good!!

Puten meat loaf patties

I decided to do my own patties and bought a kilo of mince meat (really up to u be it beef or chicken).

1tsp Paprika (dash of it or loads!!)

cumin (a pinch)

1tbsp soya sauce 

2cloves mince garlic

honey (just a teaspoon for binding purpose)

salt and pepper

You can add it chili or anything you fancy

Mix all together and work your fingers. shape it like a ball and flatten in. Grill or oven it, choice is yours! without eggs and flour my patties shape and hold it well too!!

Look at that gorgeous grill marks!!! ready to serve with burgers or if you are on diet with some salad. But with patties like this, we can afford to cheat dont we??