Beef fajitas

The best way to deal with leftover steak imo is to make some other dish outta it. Reheated steak just doesn't taste that great! We had some leftovers (steak and grilled corn) from our BBQ on Sunday, so I bought some bell peppers, onions, and tortillas. I sliced up the steak into bite-size pieces, cut the corn off the corb, and diced and peppers and onions. Threw everything together to stirfry in a pan (high heat). I don't need to add any more seasoning because the steak should've been seasoned already. But I do add quite a bit of fresh ground pepper.

The end product:


Mexican style cheese with jalepenos (green chilli).


Tortillas! I heated them up in the pan that's still warm from the stirfry. If the tortillas aren't warm and soft, they'll crack and fall apart easily.


First sprinkle some cheese on the tortilla...


Then pile on the beef/veggies. I always put too much and end up not being able to roll it up the way I want to. I love the beef/veggies, which is kinda weird because I don't really like bell peppers but I will eat them when it's done this way.

Greek yogurt

I've always liked yogurt but didn't like the super sweet, borderline syrupy flavored and too watery kind. I first heard of greek yogurt while watching some program on the food network and decided to try some. My current favorite is a brand "The Greek Gods" honey flavored greek yogurt. Goes well with fruit or simply on it's own... yummy creamy goodness with fewer calories than icecream!

Anniversary dinner

It was our 2nd wedding anniversary yesterday, but both of us were feeling a little sniffly and opted for noodles with bean sprouts instead. So we made up for it today with our little dinner.

1) Burgundy pepper marinated skirt steak with some rice on the big plates,
2) Stir-fried dungeness crab with lots of pepper, bean sprouts (can you tell I bought a big bag of bean sprouts recently?), mushrooms, and I also threw in some leftover asparagus. Didn't turn out too bad.
3) The little black tray is scalloped potatoes.



I had bought some rum to make some drinks but neither of us are feeling quite up to drinking. Damn this cold bug going around...

Hainanese chicken rice

I had tried making chicken rice before... not too bad of an attempt, just a little troublesome. I recently found out that this chinese BBQ store (roast duck, char siew, etc) I frequent often actually sells Hainanese chicken rice. I didn't think that it'd be as tasty as the average Singaporean hawker's food, but it wasn't too bad. The rice had a light ginger flavor but not as salty and flavorful as I hoped. They let you add char siew to it though!

The makan blog is coming back up!

Yeah I haven't really updated in a really loooooong time. Mainly because since the last time, we moved into a different apartment which had a kitchen the size of a HDB storeroom and I haven't been whipping up awesome meals like I used to. Now we've bought a townhouse and I have a super roomy kitchen, I'm back on track!

My new kitchen...