Tag Archives: homecooking
Cencalok Chicken & Cucumber Sandwich
October 30th, 2010 Another packed lunch. Inspired by a Friedchillies article some time back, I gave it a twist with cencalok.
Marinate chicken with cencalok, roast and slice. Serve with sliced japanese cucumber between slabs of buttered wholemeal bread.
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Chinchai Cook: Dough, a Dear
May 9th, 2010 If anyone were to ask me if liked bread, the simple answer would be “No”. I don’t really appreciate plain bread. So perhaps it’s rather strange of me then to be attempting to make bread at home. My only prior experience of making bread was years back, mixing flour with water and cooking that over a campfire the way good little scouts are wont to do.
So why the sudden fascination for breadmaking? I suppose it’s the whole process of mixing and kneading that appeals to me, really. That, and the excuse to cook other things so that I’d actually eat the bread I make.
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Chinchai Cook: Of Roasts and Toasts
April 29th, 2010 I had a strange urge to bake some bread, and thanks to Sister Tompok, I got a pack of yeast to start my home experiment. It seems making bread is like the easiest thing in the world, just follow basic instructions that can be found all over the net. Right? Well, making it was certainly fairly simple. Making it so that it comes out right is a whole other matter. Suffice to say I managed to make edible bread. Or some sort of bread that might have been the offspring of a roll and a chewy biscuit. D’oh!
Fortunately, dough wasn’t the only thing I had thrown into my oven last weekend. I figured I’d roast chicken and pumpkin and actually make a proper meal out of it. So I pulled out whatever I had lurking in my larder and semi-invented a suitable marinade.
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