Apr 27, 2006 · I'm talking about the true yam, not sweet potato. I figured since they're kind of unknown/unavailable to most Western cooks, someone over here might be able to tell me. Does anyone have a good recipe using yams? I want to try them out.

Jan 30, 2025 · The taste wasn't bad, though the zucchini needed salt. The beef bolognase with mini lasagna noodles tasted okay but Craig said it was more like carrot bolognase.

Dec 23, 2006 · A great cook - Madam Cher Yam Tian - created a recipe for preparing fresh-from-the- sea crabs. She and her husband, Mr Lim Choon Ngee, set up a food stall selling sea crabs on the seashore, every day from dusk till the wee hours, by the light of a kerosene lamp. This was the first version of the Singapore Chilli Crab. Dec 23, 2006 #13

Nov 4, 2005 · Serve with pounded yam, gari or semolina (polenta). Personally, I only use chicken or beef, no fish. I also use spices like for an Indian food recipe. Turmeric gives the same coloring as red palm oil. Red palm oil is non-refined oil and personally I do not appreciate the taste.

Oct 28, 2016 · I bought two catfish fillets from the grocery store and pan friend them. Mine tasted fine, but my wife complained that hers tasted like dirt. I tried hers, and indeed it tasted sorta like what mud smells like, if that makes sense. Is this normal? I washed each …

Mar 29, 2004 · In all the recipes, it seems that making gravy involves making roux (with fat and flour) then adding stock/flavouring. However, the gravy ends up tasting really powdery, like flour. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong??? Thanks!!!

May 1, 2024 · I bought ube extract to make ice cream for Halo Halo. Yummy yummy. Anyway, on the ube extract bottle is a picture of what I assume to be a dessert featuring ube. Does anyone know what it is? Or is it just a riff on a roulade/jelly roll?

Mar 5, 2025 · I have been given 2 new Le Creuset cast iron red non stick frying pans. I am used to standard Aluminium ordinary non stick pans which were fine. I find that I can't even fry eggs without them sticking to the bottom. Pancakes last night was a nightmare!!! Some advice from some cast iron Le...

Apr 20, 2013 · I don't use my slow cooker for actual slow cooking, because I think everything cooked in a slow cooker has that metallic taste and smell. I especially dislike chicken made in a slow cooker.

Feb 18, 2007 · As Lulu said, mooncakes are sweet, rich, heavy and dense pastries sometimes filled with salted duck egg yolk. They come with assorted fillings such as the traditional lotus seed paste, red bean, black bean, and green bean paste and in recent years, yam and durian paste. Another version is snowskin using fried glutinous rice flour for the skin.