Home-made: Grilled Steak with Baked Sweet Potato

 

Baked sweet potato with chive "sour cream" (Greek yogurt + mustard), grilled spice-rubbed flank steak and misc veggies.

Home-made Bento: Iron Isles-inspired Fish Stew

Sadly, this version may not please the true Ironborn, given heavy cream is replaced with low fat milk, but the myriad seafood therein still present tasty morsels, all in a light broth better to soak your black bread in. Though House Greyjoy proudly proclaim that they "do not sow", the fish stew is sided by some lightly stirfried greens, to keep scurvy and other seafaring ills at bay.

Hollow out your trenchers and eat hearty! Monday is coming...
— reading A Game of Thrones - A Song of Ice and Fire by George R R Martin

Home-made: Grilled Veggies, Bang Bang Chicken + White Button Shrooms, "Forbidden Rice"

 

On this week's menu: Grilled Veggies, Bang Bang Chicken + White Button Shrooms, "Forbidden Rice"!
Really glad "Forbidden Rice", an umbrella term for several types of black rice, is now readily available at the bigger supermarkets. Delicious nutty flavour and very rich in anthocyanins! Looking forward to bento lunch tomorrow (especially since eating out on Friday led to an unpleasant two days of the runs)! =0

Home-made: Blueberry Poppyseed Muffins

Blueberry poppyseed muffins, fresh out of the oven and just in time for tea! ;3 made with 100% wholemeal flour and rolled oats so they didn't rise as high as I hoped!






Chef's further comments: despite comprising only wholemeal flour and oats as a base, the recipe turned out surprisingly tender and moist muffins with loose crumb!!!

Home-made: Gluten-free Banana Chocolate Bars

Gluten free banana-choc bars made with 100% wholegrain oat flour! All the best, Mister Hubz and Team Singapore on your training trip! Hope it gives you guys some energy and cheer!

Home-made: Baked Salmon in Honey Citrus Sauce with Black Quinoa

 

Weekly bento lunch prep is done! On the menu: Black quinoa, grilled asparagus, salmon baked in honey citrus sauce, kale and carrots braised with raisins and topped with flaked almonds! Boom!




 

Note: Black quinoa can be ordered from iHerb.com.  

Home-made: Low-carb Cottage Pie

Weekends are for cooking and eating!!! Next week's bento comprises low-carb cottage pie (topped with mashed cauliflower) accompanied by kale done two ways - stems panfried in butter and the leaves braised in beef stock. ♡ Currently in production - kale chips! ♡ —  

Home-made: Brown rice kedgeree with grilled halibut and salmon

On the bento menu this week - brown rice kedgeree topped with grilled halibut and salmon, accompanied by roasted vegetables! Looking forward to lunchtime ♡

Gordon Ramsay Accepts Singapore's Hawker Challenge!

WOW! The famous Michelin-starred chef will be making his way to Singapore to take on 3 local hawker dishes. I would love to see and hear his reactions to them first, and then see how he tries to improve on it and try to make a better version!

Check out his acceptance video here:
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And click here for the write-up on this endeavour:

And finally, click here to vote your top 3 hawker dishes that you want Ramsay to take on.

Currently, at the top are Char Kway Teow, Chicken Rice and Chilli Crab.
Mky's views are that Ramsay may not understand "wok hei", which is the taste that comes from a well-used hot fired wok to do a fry-up. Secondly, although he will likely be able to replicate the chicken in the chicken rice dish, he might have trouble with the rice itself. He may not be able to make it smooth and greasy enough. The famous Chilli Crab dish, however, could be his easiest challenge.

This is all very exciting stuff, and we look forward to watching Ramsay take on the hawker centre! Thanks Singtel for making this possible!

Home-made: Healthy Quinoa Lunch

Our healthy lunch made by Mky! Quinoa with brussel sprouts, chestnuts, sweetcorn and carrots, and topped with toasted walnuts!

Photo credit this time courtesy of Mky's post-processing and her dad's iPhone.