Wow, thank you for typing all that out. Now I must really try it!

I think lamb will be nice too. In fact, if I am not wrong, the Eurasians also use rabbit previously. For that I will need to ask my wife, ha ha!

Am at work now so I don’t have the cookbook, but here’s another great dish I love from the Eurasian collection of culinary delights — beef smore.

The recipe can be found here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Eurasian_Smore

Here’s the chicken recipe I tried first:

It makes 4 servings and you’ll need:

2.5 cups of chicken stock
20 large garlic cloves
2 tablespoons of butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
8 chicken thighs
1 lemon, peeled and thinly sliced
2 tablespoons of all-purpose flour
2/3 cup dry white wine
salt
ground pepper
parsley or basil to garnish
(you can serve it with potatoes or rice if you’d like)

First put the stock into the pan and bring to a boil. Add the garlic cloves, cover and simmer gently for 40 minutes. Heat the butter and oil in a saute or frying pan, add the chicken thighs and cook gently on all sides until golden. Transfer them to an oven-proof dish. Preheat the oven to 375 (farenheit)

Next, strain the stock and reserve it. Distribute the garlic and lemon slices among the chicken pieces. Add the flour to the fat in the pan in which the chicken was browned and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Add the wine, stirring constantly and scraping the bottom of the pan, then add the stock. Cook, stirring, until sauce has thickened and is smooth. Season with salt and pepper.

Finally, pour the sauce over the chicken, cover and bake for 40-45 minutes. If you’d like a thicker sauce, remove the chicken pieces and reduce the sauce by boiling rapidly until it reaches your desired consistency. Garnish, perhaps put it over rice or potatoes (I skipped the carbs and just served it as a main dish alone).

(Copied “almost” verbatim (lol) from my favorite cookbook, Mediterranean Food of the Sun, by Jacqueline Clark and Joanna Farrow)

I love Indian food, and we have pretty good ones here in Singapore too! My favorite is actually North Indian food, like korma and stuff like that. Simply delicious! Haven’t really tried a lot of Mediterranean food, but from the little I’ve had the opportunity to sample so far, I think I’ll like it.

Been cooking a good while now, and here at home we either have Chinese, American/British, Malay, Indian or Eurasian food.

Singapore is a hodge-podge of cultures — Chinese, Malay, Indian, Eurasian, and we also have the Colonial period to thank for some of English palates. Plus, because we are quite a multi-cultural city, there’s food from almost every corner of the world to sample. I particularly love Thai food too, especially the green and red curries and Tom Yam soup.

I’d say my best dish would be Eurasian stew for now. Into the pot goes potatoes, carrots, chicken, pork or even beef, mushrooms, etc., and let it cook and simmer for a good couple of hours. Serve it up with steaming white Thai rice and a condiment that I learned from Thai food that’s got red small but very hot chilli, lime juice and Thai fish sauce.

Love to cook because I find it therapeutic in some ways.
You must share that recipe you had rave reviews of with me, lol! I would love to try making a Mediterranean dish.

OK, if I type anymore I’d be hungry again though I just had dinner about a couple of hours ago, ha ha!

And I think we were talking about fasting, lol!

How long have you been cooking?

I’ve only just discovered that I like to cook. Sounds weird since I’ve been doing it since my son was a baby (and he’s a grown man now), but it was more of a boring, but necessary, chore to me all of these years. A while ago, my husband bought me a mediterranean cookbook. I liked the pictures and thinking about the food made my mouth water, but since I didn’t like to cook, I put the book away and stuck to the same old boring meals I was used to making. For some reason though (I was bored, lol), about a month ago, I thumbed through the cookbook and found a recipe that I thought I’d try. It came out quite good and I actually enjoyed the process (and the rave reviews I got), so I tried another the next day and the next and the next and now I find myself looking for recipes everywhere! I’m still a novice, but I think I might like this cooking stuff after all.

What are your favorite foods?