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cranberry & apple pie

chicken goulash

why?

I have recently been converted into a paprika fanatic! Last week after lunch, I walked passed a shop selling spices by weight. You don't see that too often these days, I couldn't help but walk in and walk out with 50cents worth of paprika and after that is done, I'm definately going back to try the other spices. I looked up the internet and decided to make goulash since I had some baguette left over. However, LR's mom does not take beef which is the usual main ingredient. So I decided to 'improvise' :)

success?

I was yummy!! A little spicy but I like!

failure?

The taste isn't as robust as Hungarian Goulash, but I would think that not using beef would have that effect. The taste is more subtle and in fact using chicken brought the paprika from a supporting role in the dish to the lead role! So even in seeming failures something good does emerge!

2 all beef patties!

yam kueh

why?

LR's mom bought ALL the ingredients and if that isn't a hint that she wanted me to make it then I don't know what would :)

success?

Sigh...... continue reading!

failure?

It was rock hard!! The reason... I was multi-multi- MULTI tasking :( I was trying to marinate my meat for dinner, talking to my friend and assuring LR that I would be done soon so that the game sessions would began AND prepare this kueh at the same time, and I left out a transparent, odourless and costing next to nothing ingredient - water!! Almost a whole litre of it! What a disaster. The taste was ok, I guess how wrong can you go with mushrooms, lap cheong, yam and shallots. Two lessons I learnt today. Firstly, FOCUS and secondly, HUMILITY!

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