I get mine from allrecipes.com and jamie oliver's website. I tried few from allrecipes..turn out great..just go for those that has highest rating..keekke... JO..I've tried his roast chicken...turn out great! Even learnt how to make my own sauce from the trivet..hence..I don't buy those instant brown sauce to go with my roast chicken.

Those cooking chocolate are not in the fridge in the first place when you buy. They are just sitting on the shelf. Just don't add too much liquid to dilute it. In the natural form they are hard, actually very hard, needs heat to melt it. Expiry date wise, I dunno worrr. You made it so we won't know when it will expire Just like MacDonalds ice cream, they dip the ice cream in the chocolate and the chocolate hardens almost instantly. After melting and fine tuning the taste and flavour of the chocolate mixture, make sure you have enough time to mould or cover your nuts or rice crispies or whatever before they hardens.

Thanks thanks! my snicker bar gone bad a few times. really need to have lots of patient. now im trying to figure out what make MARS so good. snicker bar should not have problem because it's basically caramel and nuts. MArs a bit different , it has 2 coats inside. 1 is caramel and the 2nd one i still can't figure out and u it's easy to google for Snickers but not Mars. Anyone knows the secret, mind to share with me pls. thanks.

I made spicy spaghetti olio with grilled chicken last night. Didn't know that it was sooo easy to make. I no longer need to go to Dome to eat it.

Ingredients
Cooked Spaghetti
Chopped garlic
about 1/2 cup of olive oil
chilli flakes
1 cup of water from the spaghetti water
Chicken fillets
sea salt
freshly ground pepper
Parsley flakes

Method
Grill the chicken in a non stick pan on low fire. sprinkle with sea salt and freshly ground pepper. Put aside

Pour the olive oin into the pan, add the garlic. Cook on low fire...without browning the garlic. Then add the chilli flakes. Next put in the cooked spaghetti and mix it up. add the parsley flakes. If it's too dry, add the water.

voila..a simple meal when there's nothing much in your fridge

This post has been edited by phythia79: Jun 8 2011, 12:36 PM

Good for you. Cooking is actually very simple but you need to be passionate about it.

Speaking of Dome and Pasta, anybody know how to make the Chilis's macaroni and cheese (kid's meal)?

anyone using greenpan here? saw Jusco selling GreenPan for promo price 28cm for RM 88. I read some reviews online and a lot complain about greenpan being very sticky after a few uses.

My current teflon pan are currently like, have a shiny metallic circle (about 10cm in diameter), surrounded by the black teflon circle. Wonder is it time to change or not

Just to confirm, Green Pan works on induction cooker right.

I made red velvet cupcakes...using shortening..the taste..so so... I'll try again but substituting it with oil (as per reviewers of that particular recipe).

Most user wash their teflon pans immedietely after cooking and this is a big No, No. You have to let it cool down first which is why pasta restaurants have a lot of this pans and they wash it later. That's why busy commercial kitchens avoids non stick pan, they only use it for certain purposes. Cast iron is still the best. I think not using metallic utensils, you should know right? The high heat and sudden temperature cool down will affect the coating not to mention it might warp the pans if you buy a cheap one.

The green pan you mentioned is made of granny smith's apples extract and after staining they won't come off. According to my wife, she won't encourage buying it as customers complains that it sticks even for non stick that it claims. I will listen to her as she is working for a reknown pots and pans company.

Ok in that case I might stick to stainless steel pots and pans as my replacement pans. Cast iron, any brand to recommend?I don't really do hardcore cooking lol.

Currently using my loyal zebra pot to fry stuff lol.

if u do some research on the net, the best n expensive cast iron is from france . it has very colourful as compare to american lodge logic cast iron. for budget cast iron, go ikea it cost around rm 200 plus. in ikano, theres a brand call gourmet i think , seems like they copied the french one, cheaper too . having promo now

Gourmet is too expensive for its price. If you really want nice ones, I saw a few good ones in Viva, the new home shopping center in Jalan Loke Yew. Just have a look there but don't buy as they are priced too high there. From there get an idea and head to Jalan Pasar where they have more shops but only a few selling stuffs for commercial kitchens. I like pan with handles where I can put it directly into the oven. They last wothout bothering about the handles get burned or loose screws.

The first maker of non-stick, Tefal is a good choice but price can be a bit prohibitive, real ones. They also have cheaper ones but quality is not like the real ones. The other brand Supor is also marketed by the same company.

i didnt know there are cast iron cook skillet or pot in jln pasar, thoughy there were mostly electronic shops in a rows there?

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Added on June 17, 2011, 11:10 pmi did saw china brand but its very light compare to branded one which require extra muscle to carry.

This post has been edited by hackwire: Jun 17 2011, 11:10 PM

Actually not Jalan Pasar but Jalan Pasar Baru. The shops along the fishes and aquarium stalls, former Hai-O but the other end facing the Pudu Market itself.

Thanks for the tip!

Anyone knows how to make homemade steak sauce? the one that is red and taste a lil bit smokey. I wanna try marinating/bbqing it with my steaks.

Oh my. I just bought a green pan yesterday. Thought it was a good bargain. It was hard anodized with ceramic... Thought it won't stick...

Anyway, bare in mind that cast iron are very heavy and it rusts quicker than you think. It distributes heat evenly but u got to cook and immediately clean and apply a layer of oil before storing. Once I left it over night and it rusts. Took a lot of effort to make it shiny again

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Added on June 26, 2011, 7:37 amAbout the sticky green pan. I would like to highlight that all anodized pan are NOT non stick pan. They require a small amount of oil to be non stick. Tefal however doesn't need any oil at all but the Teflon coating are harmful to human health if not well managed

I guess having a oil can spray and a hard anodized pan helps a lot in the kitchen

This post has been edited by Al3x0174: Jun 26 2011, 07:37 AM

Last weekend , I'm trying to make a cute cute lunch box aka bento for my bf.
It almost took 2 hour to finish make the bento
but the result is not as I expected

The important thing is trying and trying. You can never expect to get it right at the first time. Cooking is practice and needs lots of it. Like they say, "Why does the red Indian is always successful in their rain dance?" Because they danced till it rains. So cook it till you get it right.

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Added on June 29, 2011, 3:56 pm Most important for using casr iron cooking utensils is NEVER WASH WITH COOKING DETERGENT! It will rust. Usually the msot preferred method is let some water boil together with the stubborn stains until it comes off. If you see those cast iron woks that CKT people uses they are just wash with high heat and water only. It makes the cast iron wok kind of oily and shiny. Food don't stick on it either.

Although I use a lot of Tefal products and the teflon coating is the best, I still use a little bit of oil in my cooking. Say Tefal just released their latest pots and pans using Inox steel. Very nice

This post has been edited by etigge: Jun 29 2011, 03:56 PM

Thanks for advise....
I'll keep trying