Chicken Maryland

Posted on 6 March 2012 by mrsmultitasker

Hello everybody! I’ve been MIA for a very long time. For those who didn’t manage to figure it out, I was busy having a baby =) My little girl is 4 months old now and having the privilege of mothering her has been both delightful and extremely challenging! I’m handling most of the childcare on my own while my husband is at work, so time is now a scarcity and fun activities like cooking have become a luxury.

This means, of course, that fuss-free and delicious recipes have become my best friend. And I was pleased to discover one such recipe last week in Jamie’s Dinners. This recipe is easy-peasy, doesn’t require any chopping (hooray!), is intensely flavourful and a wonderful dish for a Sunday dinner at home with the fam.

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Strawberry Coconut Ice

Posted on 27 September 2011 by mrsmultitasker

If you’ve been following my blog for some time, you might recall the Ice Cream Slice recipe I posted a little over a year ago. Many of you tried the recipe with much success and wrote to tell me about it, so since then I’ve been keeping an eye out for another easy and delicious frozen recipe to share with you.

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Sia Huat Annual Warehouse Sale 15-18 Sep 2011

Posted on 2 September 2011 by mrsmultitasker

Hello dear readers. This might interest those of you living in Singapore. Sia Huat is a leading distributor of kitchenware and tableware in Singapore that supplies many local eateries and retail outlets. They’re also the ones behind ToTT – the gorgeous homeware store on Dunearn Road.

Happy shopping =)

Sia Huat Annual Warehouse Sale
15 – 18 September 2011
10 am – 8 pm
20 Pandan Road, Singapore 609272

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Bacon Cornbread

Posted on 30 August 2011 by mrsmultitasker

As promised on my Facebook page, here’s the second follow-up to the Corn Fritters post. Last week I suggested what you could  do with the leftover buttermilk; this week I focus on the leftover cornmeal.

When my husband and I were in London last month (thankfully before the rioting started), I picked up a whole bunch of lovely magazines, among which was BBC’s delicious Olive magazine. When I did a cursory scan of the magazine the first recipe that caught my eye was this one for corn and bacon bread. I’m always on the lookout for alternative ways to use up the cornmeal that I can’t ever seem to finish using, and this recipe seemed just the ticket.

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Buttermilk Biscuits

Posted on 22 August 2011 by mrsmultitasker

After I made my most recent batch of corn fritters, I was left with the age-old problem: What to do with the leftover buttermilk? Besides using the buttermilk to make pancakes or red velvet cupcakes (neither of which I felt like making), I just didn’t know what to do with it. Then the solution landed on me like a ton of bricks: BISCUITS! Of course! Why hadn’t I thought of that before?

I love buttermilk biscuits. I think the infatuation started from the time I was in college when, every few months, my roommate and I would brave the New England cold to visit the Popeyes nearest our dorm. There we would sink our teeth into a wholesome meal of fried Louisiana chicken and biscuits. Oh how I loved those biscuits! You can imagine my delight when Popeyes finally found its way to Singapore a few months back.

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Corn Fritters

Posted on 17 August 2011 by mrsmultitasker

Hello everyone! I am back in action after another long break… Thanks so much to those of you who’ve been checking on my blog during this time.

I thought I’d ease into blogging again with a very simple recipe that I got from the Straits Times long ago. Well what actually happened was I cut the recipe out of the newspaper, tried it, loved it, and promptly lost it. So when I recently decided I wanted to try it again, I contacted the lovely Ms Tan Hsueh Yun (food writer for the Straits Times) who kindly provided me with another copy of the recipe. (Check out Hsueh’s facebook page here – lots of good bite-sized updates on the Singapore food scene!)

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Billowy Blueberry Cheesecake

Posted on 20 May 2011 by mrsmultitasker

What do we do when we want to bake something but our mind draws a blank? Easy. We ask the husband what he wants to eat.

“Blueberry Cheesecake!” come the exuberant reply. Ok – so we make Blueberry Cheesecake.

And what do we do when we are looking for a good cheesecake recipe? We consult the baking oracle:

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Early Easter Brunch

Posted on 24 April 2011 by mrsmultitasker

My dear friend Wendy came over to my place on Thursday for brunch. I decided to make things easy for myself and prepare what I call the Gordon Ramsay brunch. I came to know of this brunch through Quinn, and have loved it since I first made it.

There’s a wonderful little Gordon Ramsay video in which the masterchef himself shows viewers how to make the perfect scrambled egg, which he serves up on toast alongside grilled portabellos and vine tomatoes. Ramsay says that all his new chefs are asked to make scrambled eggs because if they can make a good scrambled egg, you know they can cook. And Ramsay’s scrambled egg technique is terrific. It’s easy to execute, and it gets you moist, creamy, fragrant scrambled eggs. (If you think my eggs look a tad overcooked in these pictures, you are absolutely right! Perils of yakking with your friend while scrambling eggs =) Anyhows, watch and learn from the master….

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Herb-Crusted Pork Schnitzel

Posted on 21 April 2011 by mrsmultitasker

Who loves Junior Masterchef Australia? I do, I do!

The spritely and oh-so-gifted young ‘uns on that show really put us oldies to shame. How a 9-year old can handle such complex recipes with such deftness and confidence is truly beyond me…

Anyhows, on the show the kids were taught this one recipe, the recording of which keeps playing between programmes on Star World. After watching the recording (and salivating) three times, I decided I should stop living vicariously through the children and actually try the recipe for myself.

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Steamed Herbal Chicken

Posted on 19 April 2011 by mrsmultitasker

Dear faithful and patient readers of mrsmultitasker.com,

I apologise for my lengthy and untoward absence these past 7 weeks. It has been an exciting but challenging time for me since I recently entered into my new line of work (which, by the grace of God, is going well).

On top of that, I have been experiencing a gradual healthy-eating awakening, which has led to my:

  • Cutting back drastically on my sugar intake
  • Switching, wherever possible, from refined carbs to unrefined carbs (I must confess it still takes me a lot of willpower to finish my brown rice)
  • Consuming much more of fruits (or their associated juices) that are high in Vitamin C

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