(Photo Credit to Omy)
Last Saturday, 6th July 2013 the Singapore Blog Awards 2013 celebrate its glorious 6th year with a 60s Fever theme at Shanghai Dolly. The Singapore Blog Awards is organised by omy.sg, Singapore Press Holdings' leading bilingual news and entertainment portal, and presented by Panasonic.
Cooking en papillote is a French cooking method which means "in parchment". It encloses the food in an envelope, employing steaming and braising as the food cooks itself in liquid. Cooking by this method infuses the entire packet with the herbs, wine, and vegetables. The food cooks and steam by itself without drying out. It's also healthier, because the method requires little or no oil.
Cottage pie (beef), shepherd's pie (lamb), farmer pie (chicken) is traditionally made with leftover roast meat, but today it is more often made with fresh minced or rich ground meat/poultry stew topped with fluffy spuds then baked until the top layer is lightly browned. It makes a nice hearty breakfast or brunch.
Rice cooker - yea or nay? Everyone who loves to cook at home will definitely enjoy the luxury brands of different kitchen appliance, no? Pot for soup, pot for stewing, different size and shape of frying pan etc. Unfortunately not many has the space for storage, especially if you are living in a rented place.
Although food bloggers love to eat, but we are caution about our diet as much as everyone else. Especially if we have lots of tasting, we grow side way faster than expected. To maintain my figure, I avoid taking rice for dinner and soup is my favourite choice. Sadly, I don't have time to boil the soups for hours after work and watching the fire can be a pain in the ass at time, don't you agree?
Not anymore, after I try making soup with Panasonic Rice Cooker. I can stir-fry the ingredients in it, dump everything in, program to FAST/SLOW Cook, close the lid, have a shower, shake my leg and ta-da, the soup is ready!
Honestly, I have never bake a cake using a rice cooker even thou I have heard people doing so. Why? Cause I have a oven at home? I mean, seriously, do you boil your soup in a rice cooker when you have the pot? (well, we did and we shall post the recipe in the next post!)
