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Monstrous Meringue Mayhem

Yet again, a recipe has failed me. I believe it was due to wrong proportions or something like that. I wanted to make beautiful, puffy, light meringues, but instead I ended up with chewy hockey pucks. Not so good. Oh well, at least I had fun doing it. Following this video was the reason for my disaster. This is the record of my failed process.

Phantastic Phở

Last night I tired making one of my favourite Vietnamese dishes, Phở, which is essentially a spicy beef noodle soup. It's a dish that at its core has a very flavourful broth with many complex flavours, which proved fairly difficult to replicate. It takes a lot of time and love to create this stock, which carries the flavour for the whole dish. Unfortunately for me, I did not have too much time that I could invest in making an awesome soup from scratch, so I ended up following this 5 minute recipe. I also lacked a fair few of the key ingredients. Alas, I did not let this be a stumbling block for me, I improvised! This is how I made my quick and easy Phở.

Grilled 'Egg In The Basket' Sandwich

This recipe was a bit of an experimental one. I was influenced by this scene in 'V for Vendetta', where V is cooking an egg within a slice of bread (known as an 'egg in the basket'). I then saw this video which took it too the next level, by inserting a layer of cheese between the slices and thus, converting it into a grilled cheese sandwich. Stay tuned for more of this experimental wonder.

Succulent Salmon Steaks

After my sushi recipe turned out really good, I wanted to do another salmon based dish because salmon is so yummy! YouTube once again was my saviour and gave me this video, which lead on to finding this one too. I used bits and pieces from both recipes to create my own one, and the result was pretty excellent. Read on for more fishy goodness!

Coke Chicken with Agnolotti

Okay this one was made by me in the middle of the night because I couldn't sleep : p so I decided to cook! This time I decided to do something reeeeally special and weird. So basically as you can see the title it's the mix of coke, chicken and agnolotti lol About why I put coke into it, well I just watched a video of this lady doing what they call Coca-cola chicken. Here is the link. It looks way better than mine. As for agnolotti, um... I don't know it's just that it has been in my fridge for like a week and I thought maybe it's time to put it into good use :) So here's the process of me cooking this chicken or agnolotti or whatever it is lol

Jucy Lucy Burger

No, that is not a spelling mistake. What is a Jucy Lucy then, you ask? Wikipedia's explanation is fairly comprehensive: a 'Jucy Lucy' is "a cheeseburger having the cheese inside the meat patty rather than on top... resulting in a molten core of cheese within the patty... that tends to gush out at first bite". I first saw the Jucy Lucy in this episode of Food Wars and I knew it was something that I just had to try. Let's get juicy... I mean, jucy!

Supposedly Simple Chicken Fettuccine?

I assumed a pasta meal with a few ingredients wouldn’t take long, but I was wrong. This is my recipe for creamy chicken fettuccine, made from ingredients you can generally find in the pantry.

Seriously Simple (yet satisfying) Steak

Red meat. We were made to eat it. There is nothing quite like chomping down on a sizzling steak, full of meaty goodness! Celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay shows us all how it's supposed to be done with this video, and boy that looks delicious. I didn't really follow his recipe completely, but I figured I couldn't really go wrong with steak, right? Here's to a journey of delicious proportions.

Super Sensational Sushi

Man, I love sushi. And when I say "I love sushi", I mean I REALLY love sushi. And when I say "I REALLY love sushi", I mean I REALLY REALLY -- okay you get the point. I'm not sure why I did not attempt this recipe sooner. It's simple, quick, fun and delicious, what more could you really ask for? The guy in this video makes sushi like a pro, and I used his technique for rolling up sushi. These bad boys turned out great, and were well worth the effort. Okay, enough talking, more sushi making. Go go go!

Experimental Apple Cider

One of my mates brews his own beer at home. A while back, he came up with the idea of trying out an apple cider for the first time. He had no real clue on how to make a cider as it is a fairly different process to brewing regular beer. After a bit of research and asking around, he had a vague idea of how he would be able to brew the cider. It was not a rock solid idea, and there was a lot of room for error, hence the title 'experimental' apple cider. Regardless, I did not want to miss out on this opportunity, so we got a couple of friends together and gave him a hand. It is possible to brew this concoction without big, speciality equipment if you follow this easy recipe video. Let me show you how we made our own homemade alcoholic apple cider!

Creepy Rainbow Rice Pie

So after the last epic fail of trying to cook a chocolate cake, this time I tried to make a rainbow pie with rice in it. So I call it rainbow rice pie. I know it’s a bit weird to mix rice which is Asian food with pie together. But whatever, I just wanted to try something new. However it didn’t turn out to be what I expected because it smells like soap after I took it out of microwave and I didn’t even bother tasting :P Anyway like what a looser will always do, I’m presenting you my creepy rainbow rice pie! Keep the applause down please :)

   

Epic Fail Egg Fried Rice

Chunky vomit, or fried rice? You be the judge. I got my inspiration from this video, but the final result turned out nothing like it. To make things even worse, my camera did not save a couple of the photos I took while I was cooking, so I'm missing photos for a few of the key steps. I had to use screenshots from the recipe video, to fill the sections where my camera failed to work. Here goes my attempt at fried rice!

The Most Disgusting Pasta Evaaa

So this was the second time I tried to "cook" and I chose pasta. As you can see, ( the picture below) this time was a total FAIL :P yeah it looks like hundreds of fingers with blood on them and it tastes like nothing! Anyway laugh at me all you want, I just wanted to share this terrible experience with you guys. So enjoin it!

Fully Loaded Nachos

I have been craving nachos all week. The other day, on the way back from work, I looked up recipes for nachos and this is the one I based my attempt on. When I got home, I had a look in my pantry cupboard and luckily found everything I needed to make it. Lets get started!

Epic Chocolate Cake

Okay this is my first time cooking a cake and it was so much fun. So this article is suppose to provide some information on what ingredients you need to make a cake and how to make it. However I will also share some of my "failure experiences" with you so that you would not make the same mistakes as I did. So here we go!

 

Blog Design

Okay this is our first post on this blog and we are going to explain how our future blog will look like including the basic layout, special features and the overall design. So let's get start with the layout.

Blog layout

So this image below is the basic idea of what our blog looks like. It has blog title on the top, different sidebars on the left and right on the middle is our post. However, we made some change on this when actually designing the blog. We added some extra sidebars such as "Links for Websites and Videos" and "Labels" which we will use to put up some links to some popular food channel or blogs and make it more user-friendly to viewers by providing the labels for our posts. As we add more posts, we will probably change some other features as well.