Homemade Noms

Easy to Make Mug Cake

I said it yesterday on Instagram and I’m saying it again today here: whoever invented Mug Cakes are pure geniuses!

I think my first try was the most successful one. My version of the Nutella Mug Cake.

I was raking my mind on what nice dessert make because a friend is coming over for a ‘slumber’ party. I already knew what to prepare for dinner (Roast Potatoes, Roasted Coca Cola Spare Ribs, Garden Salad) but what to serve for dessert or something sweet was a bit hard to decide on. You see, I’m really not good at baking which I recently found out, and accepted, when I baked G’s birthday cake, so I was leaning towards a no-bake cake, ref cakes or fruit salad! Anyway, my go-to site has always been Pinterest (well, ever since I became a member) so I searched for ‘desserts’ and found a recipe for Mug Cakes! 🙂

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Simple Recipe: Baked Potato Crisps

I love cooking for and feeding G. And since we didn’t have a proper dinner at home this week, I decided to cook for him ‘something edible’, nothing grand, just a simple meal from the available ingredients in our kitchen. So tonight’s menu are:

(1) Mini Pizza. The Flavours? Garlic & Bacon and Cheesy Meatballs. These are ‘recycled’ ingredients.

(2) My Coca Cola Chicken Wings. I haven’t had my chicken wings fix for a while now so this is a treat for myself. I feel good looking at G devouring it. ^_^

(3) And Baked Potato Crisps, the recipe I got from Pinterest. We just need to have potatoes in the menu because G loves his potatoes.

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Homemade Easy Chorizo Pasta

My very own (Sweet) Chorizo Pasta. 🙂

For a change, I decided to cook lunch (instead of dinner ^_^) for G today—Chorizo Pasta. I was initially thinking of cooking Adobo since I still have a few chicken parts and pork belly left in the freezer. But G said he wanted something light and not rice and we all know Adobo cannot be eaten without rice! So rummaging through our fridge and pantry, I didn’t have that much ingredients to do anything so it was an internal debate between (1) homemade pizza as we still have the frozen pizza base, cheese, and a few veggies that I can throw on top, (2) Chicken and Pork Afritada or (3) pasta! It was a NO to the first two because (1) we just had pizza last night and (2) Afritada is also best paired with rice. So pasta it is.

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Recipe: Coca Cola Chicken Wings

I came across this dish when it was Donald’s, my trainee at work, turn to cook the day’s staff meal. Donald is a mainland Chinese, from Shenzhen, who loves to man the kitchen and any main dish with chicken wings is his favorite recipe. He said it was the easiest to make. And true enough, as I was observing him prepare the meal, I was amazed at how easy it was, with not much ingredients used, but the result is just perfect, utterly divine. Well, at least for chicken wing lovers like me.

And so I decided to try it on the day my siblings arrived here in SG for a short visit. It was well received. And since then, it has been my signature dish.

Due to popular demand - by Miko - I am posting my recipe for you to try at home. 🙂

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