Eating Good Food at Home and in Restaurants

Cooking and eating food is one of the most primal activities in which a human being can engage. Anyone can cook as long as they have the desire. The more a person cooks, the more skill they build. You can discover new and exciting ways to entice the palate by searching for recipes online or by experimenting on your own. Going out to eat can be frustrating. Often times you receive a plate of food and taste it wondering why you didn’t  just cook your own food at home. The best tasting food is usually the most simply made. Many eateries have become more focused on profit than satisfied customers. Fortunately, there are still Boston Back Bay restaurants that focus on quality dining and whole ingredients.

Can They Prepare a Good Steak?

The ability to cook a delicious steak is a great way to test out the cooking skill of any person or fine dining establishment. Any meat eater will agree that cooking great steak is an art form that improves with practice. Some of the simpler recipes are the most delicious. Many restaurants make the mistake of doing too much or too little to their steaks. First, the meat should be of quality, properly aged, and butchered, harvested from a healthy animal. Secondly, the meat should be prepared for grilling by sprinkling sea salt on the meat and letting it warm to room temperature. Next, the grill should be heated before the meat is placed for cooking.

Equal Parts Skill, Instinct, and Magic

Cooking time will vary depending on how rare or well-done the steak is to be prepared. Always remember that steak will continue cooking even after it has been removed from the grill. There is nothing worse than having to send a good piece of meat back because it is well done when you asked for rare. Preparing a delicious steak is equal parts skill, instinct, and magic. Only an experienced chef or a great restaurant will be able to do this simple dish justice. Thankfully there are a few good Boston Back Bay restaurants left in the world.

 

Cheerio…

LadyJava

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Shopping at Tesco Online Store

Last week because of the bad haze (as seen here from my balcony), we decided to try Tesco Home Delivery Service and avoid going out in the haze. As mentioned in my previous post, we found some items even cheaper than Giant. I checked out all their promotion items page and selected a few that I thought was really worthit. Then I went around to search for the items that we really needed like our instant coffee mix, tissue, some frozen times like hotdog and fries. potatoes, sour cream… you get the idea. All in all we ordered 24 items and the amount came to RM225.77 inclusive of delivery charge of RM10.

Ok here’s what I found while shopping with Tesco. Firstly before you go shopping, check that they cover delivery to your area. You would think that right? Well actually you’re right and wrong. When I first check, they didn’t deliver to my area and the areas they put up for the state was very generic but because I wanted to see what they offered, I signup a the site anyway.  So after signing up I started to fill up my profile and delivery address and that is where I found a more detailed list of addresses. I knew we had a Tesco nearby so I for one would not understand if they didn’t deliver to my area. I looked at my postcode and I couldn’t find my road at all, so I look at another postcode nearby, and nothing.. then I click on another postcode and there it was, MY road.. lol… so at this point, I was really getting excited.  I told A about it and the said.. GO SHOPPING LOVE.. hahahahha…

So I did! The check out process is really easy.

1. You select your items and check out
2. The next page that comes out will be the Book Your Delivery Slot. Here you choose what date and time you want them to deliver your item. I choose Wednesday 6-8pm. Then click on Checkout
3. The next page will be to confirm your order and delivery date and time again and you’re done
4. Payment will be made when they deliver your items to your doorstep and mode of payment is ONLY via credit card or debit card.
5. Wait for your grocery to be delivered.

 

I should have taken the picture when the basket was full with my delivery..haha..

Here’s our groceries. You might see that there are items in blue and white bag. Those in the white bags that stuff that I ordered and in the blue are for substitute orders. That just means the stuff that I ordered was not available and they substitute it with something else. In my case it was potatoes. At this point if you do not agree with the substitute you don’t have to accept it and they will deduct the cost from your total bill.

Shopping at Tesco is simply, for lack of better word, AWESOME. You get to shop at your own home and the delivery comes to your front door. Here’s their info again:

Tesco Online Store
HELP/FAQ

PS: I can’t find any info on whether there is any minimum order but I reckon since they charge RM10 for each order and they do deliver right up to your doorsteps, I reckon you might be ordering a lot right? Enjoy!

Cheerio…

LadyJava

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Lunch With Mom at Hajjah Maimunah, Geylang (Singapore)

So mommy was craving for some Malay that that wasn’t cooked by her and so we decided to give Hajjah Maimunah at Gelyang (Singapore) a try. This is place is very popular and always jam packed that most time me and mommy would just pass by and eat somewhere else. However since it was pretty early that Saturday afternoon, we decided to just join the queue and finally give it a go.

While I queued, mommy was already peeking and selecting the dishes she wants to try so by the time I was at the showcase, she was ready with her selection. You can see the spread we had but guess what the bill was only SGD26. I was really in awe. I mean the place was air con, the food was good and with that kind of prices, no wonder the place is always full!

A quick round up of what we had.. Ikan Siakap (Fish), Rendang Daging (Spicy Meat dish), Pucuk Ubi (Vege) and Brocolli with prawns. Yums.. I’m hungry now!

 

Here are the details of the place in case you are interested to try whenever you are in Singapore.

Cheerio…

LadyJava