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50 Ways to Cook Bacon

Every way to learn about cooking bacon.

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How to cook Hong Shao Rou

This is an interesting way to share cooking instruction for "Hong Shao Rou" or braised pork cooked the Chinese style. 

How To Fillet Every Fish

This is interesting to watch.  Don't throw away the bones. Can use them to make fish stock. They make soup taste more flavourful when deep fried first.

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A New Way to File Bills

I used to waste my time punching holes in my bills to save them in files.  After a few years, I remove them from the files to recycle the paper.  By then, the hooks on the files are rusted and they are not in good condition to be re-used.

So, I have started saving the bills in used coffee bags that are large enough to hold A4 size bills.



Since they are mylar bags, they can be re-used if I want to.  But by then, they may have more value being recycled.

Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Ruffles

If you learn to make your own ruffles, you can control the amount of salt in them.  Start the video at 31.36 minute into it if you are only interested in getting straight to the recipe.

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Cleaning and Cutting Pineapple in Four Easy Steps

Here is how you can clean and cut a pineapple.

Prepaaring Fu Chok or Dried Bean Curd

Fu Chok or Dried Bean Curd is often used ingredient in Chinese cooking.  Here is how you can prepare it so that it is soft and nice to eat.

How to make Flaky Pancake

This looks like Roti Canai.

How Spring Roll Wraps are Made

You can roll meat or other ingredients in this Spring Roll Wrap to eat.

Simple potato pancake (Gamjajeon: 감자전)

Kids love to eat pancake.  This is a Korean version.

How to make Roti or Chapati

This is how Roti or Chapati is made.


Here are some rolling techniques you can use to make it flaky.

3 Ways To Make Chinese Steamed Rice Noodle Rolls • Cheung Fun 腸粉 • Vegan

Chee Cheung Fun can be eaten without any ingredients rolled into it.



Watch this video if you are wondering what is the difference between this and Garaetteok, the Korean Long, cylinder-shaped rice cake that is often seen eaten on Korean dramas.

How to make Malaysia Mee Hoon Kueh Dough aka Pan Mee

Mee Hoon Kueh is a Hakka dish which my mother-in-law used to make.
 

Healthy Snack Spinach Balls

You can hide vegetables in a dish if you finely chop them to combine and deep fry.  Try cooking this with all ingredients in the recipe for finicky eaters.  If they refuse to eat, remove one or two vegetables and give it another go.

3-Ingredient Ham and Cheese Crescent Sandwiches

If you need to cook in a hurry, find recipes that use fewer ingredients. Instead of bread, this Ham and Cheese Crescent Sandwiches use crescent rolls and you need only three ingredients to bake it.

ONE POT CREAMY CHICKEN CORN CHOWDER

If you enjoy eating corn and potato, you should enjoy eating Creamy Chicken Corn Chowder.

If you do not like cooking with too many ingredients, try cooking Quick Potato Corn Chowder.  Note that 1 cup of milk is required in this recipe and it is divided in half to be used separately.  So, this recipe requires only 9 ingredients.

One Pot Penne Pasta Recipe

Replace smoked sausage with other type of sausage or meat you prefer in your One Pot Penne Pasta Recipe.  Experiment with a can of pineapple or tomato instead of roasted red peppers.

Classic Chinese Chow Mein

Additional ingredients like the following can be added to Classic Chinese Chow Mein

1) Marinated sliced or minced meat
2) Prawns
3) Sliced Fish cake

Fry meat and prawns till they change colour before adding cabbage to cook.

Creamy Garlic Butter Pasta

I made a minor change to this Creamy Garlic Butter Pasta by substituting 4 large cloves of minced garlic with 4 to 5 tbsp of garlic oil.

Slow-Cooker 3-Ingredient Italian Chicken

Found this Slow-Cooker 3-Ingredient Italian Chicken on Pillsbury.  The Penne pasta should be cooked before the chicken dish is pour over it as pasta sauce.


This is how pasta is cooked.