Summer Fruit Festival Recipe #6 – Padang-style Eggplant Sambal INGREDIENTS: 500g eggplant, cut into cubes 100g large chillies 1 medium-sized onion 3 cloves garlic (optional) 2 tomatoes (optional) 1 tsp salt Oil for frying METHOD: Blend chillies, onion, garlic and tomatoes in a food processor. Fry eggplant with about ¼ cup oil until browned. Remove…
Summer Fruit Festival Recipe #3 – Mixed Berry Compote and Coconut Ice Cream *Mixed Berry Compote Recipe INGREDIENTS: 1 cup each of any 3 types of berries ¼ cup honey or brown sugar 3 Tbsp butter 1 Tbsp lemon juice METHOD: Combine butter and honey in frying pan and heat. Add berries and lemon juice…
Summer Fruit Festival Recipe #5 – Filipino-Style Fruit Salad INGREDIENTS: Combination of fruits – bananas, nectarines, papaya, grapes, apples, pineapple, fresh coconut etc. – in bite-sized chunks 1 ½ cups whipped cream ½ cup condensed milk ¼ cup coconut cream Pinch of salt METHOD: Combine whipped cream, condensed milk, coconut cream and salt in a…
I am so happy to announce that we have a winner for the Froothie Giveaway from my Southeast Asian Live Cooking Series. Congratulations to Kathy Gilkes of Queensland, who’s won an Optimum Thermocook valued at $1000! Here’s a picture of the Thermocook that she shared on Facebook – Kathy has been busy and in her…
This is the interview I did on Studio Ten last Friday regarding baby Noah and the controversy about having him with me at my markets (I haven’t watched it; I steer clear of watching myself on TV). Noah was meant to have been in the studio with me but he was unusually unsettled that morning…
7VEN Messenger Bag by AlpakaGear.com Full disclosure – I’m friends with one of the founders of Alpaka Gear, so I was very fortunate to have been sent one of the prototypes of the 7VEN Messenger Bag, which I received earlier this week. The Kickstarter campaign for the bag only launched less than a day ago…
Back in late June, I made an announcement about my appointment as a co-founder of TeebTV.com, a “Netflix-for-Indies” startup based in Indonesia and Malaysia. Ever since then, I’ve been inundated with messages regarding my original post, so I’ve decided to compile a quick introduction and to clarify some common misunderstandings about TeebTV. What we are NOT – …
Fried rice is kind of a fridge clear-out type of dish for me, rather than something I plan ahead of time. The ingredients in this particular recipe, I guess, will give you an insight into what my Asian pantry/fridge contains – salted eggs, century eggs, salted fish, leftover boiled rice, that sort of stuff 🙂…
I’m the (newly-appointed) co-founder of an Indonesian-Malaysian Netflix-for-Indies startup called TeebTV and there’s an opportunity if you’re a content creator, to get your work added to our library and in front of our audience. We’re looking for the following in all genres – short films, music videos, animation, feature films and TV shows. Our subscriber…
Here are the recipes from my latest TV segment on Channel Ten’s Let’s Do Coffee – Toor Dhal recipe – INGREDIENTS: 250 g toor dhal, soaked and drained 1 L water 250 g potatoes, cut into chunks 1 1/4 tsp turmeric powder 2 1/2 small green chillies 1/8 cup tamarind extract 1 1/4 tsp asafoetida…