Pardon the kinda-blurry picture. I only managed to take 2 photos of these cookies before they were devoured. Here is another better looking photo for you to enjoy. I will update this post in the future with more pictures. As with my earlier post, it is Christmas and I enjoy making cookies during the holiday…
Author: Airinie Azhar
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Green Tea Cookies
Green tea – full of anti-oxidants and my staple drink. I drink it hot or cold, every day, winter or summer. And matcha, which is the powdered version of green tea is probably one of the best flavours out there. Matcha ice-cream is superb! For Christmas, I have decided to not make the normal Greek…
Homemade Bread
What can I say about freshly baked warm bread? Its great. ‘Nuff said. Having freshly baked bread is great for the weekend. It doesn’t take long, and this is a basic recipe that you can add to if you want. Add in olives and cheese and you get a very tasty savoury bread that you…
Octopus In Tomato Sauce with Pasta
I can’t remember the first time I had octopus. I may have tried the rubbery plain kind you find on top of nigiri sushi back in Kuala Lumpur, but the first time I had octopus that didn’t try to dislodge my teeth was in a taverna in Thessaloniki, approximately 13 years ago. It was divine….
Meatball Soup (Giouvarlaki)
I love this soup! It’s quite hearty and refreshing at the same time. Its a great winter warmer dish, but surprisingly it goes down really well during cool summer nights. The egg-lemon sauce makes it fresh-tasting, and the meatballs are juicy and flavourful. The secret to this dish is the egg-lemon sauce (avgolemono). My mother-in-law…
Chilli Con Carne
This dish has a special place in my culinary heart. I first tried this spicy tomato-meat concoction on top of a baked potato (jacket potatoes!) when I was 12 years old – in a small cafĂ©, in a town called Loughborough, England. It was so exotic to me, to eventually taste this much sung about…
Mango & Coriander Spicy Kerabu Salad
This refreshing salad is based on the Thai Som Tum Mamuang (Thai Green Mango Salad) and the very much-loved Kerabu Mangga recipe that Makmah makes. I love mangoes, but the quality of mangoes I can find here in Greece at times disappoint me. They ripen into hard, sour fruits and I find that they are perfect…
Bhel
I was first introduced to Bhel as I read the opening paragraph to The Namesake, about the main character Gogol’s mother and her attempts at making a snack that she sorely missed. It somewhat reminded me of a snack I once had when I was growing up in Malaysia – unable to remember the name…
Nasi Lemak
Nasi Lemak is a rich and creamy rice cooked in coconut milk. Traditionally it is accompanied with sambal tumis (sauteed sambal), ikan bilis and peanuts, cucumbers and a hard boiled-egg. I can say that Nasi Lemak is our national dish. It is a versatile dish, can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, dinner and for the…
Sambal Tumis (Sauteed Sambal)
Here is a recipe that is a basic building block to many Malaysian dishes – the sambal tumis. It literally means Sauteed Sambal, sambal being a chilli paste/sauce and you can find the basic sambal paste recipe here. For sambal tumis though, I add a bit of garlic and shallots (or red onions) in the…
Bedrooms
I have read about this installation last year, as it was first presented at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. What a surprise for me to find that I can actually see it now, as it is brought back home in Athens. It is presented at metamatic:taf in the city centre (Monastiraki). The venue was very unique…
Kawaii
Here are a few photographs of an exhibition I went to see recently. Its theme was ‘Kawaii’, meaning cute in Japanese. Enjoy the photographs!
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