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A different kind of BBQ

jason — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:22:32 +0000

It was pretty much a BBQ weekend for Lyn (my boo) and I as we headed over to her sister’s chalet for dinner two nights in a row. The first night was pretty much normal with our plates piled up with the usual heavily buttered sausages, prawns, chicken wings, slices of pork, chicken nuggets and a tonne of other stuffs. As BBQs go, as long as there is good company and beer, we would all have a good time..and so we did.

Planning our second trip to the chalet the very next day, Lyn and I weren’t really looking forward to eating the same ‘ol food again. We wanted to experience something different and thought it would be marvelous if we attempt to cook what we learnt from one of Jamie at Home’s episode on BBQ from the Asian Food Channel. With that, we popped over to Sheng Siong at The Verge, Little India which oh by the way is not exactly a good idea on a Saturday evening (yes we learnt our lesson) to pick up some ingredients.

Armed with a big piece of rib eye and two striploin steaks, live prawns, clams, razor clams, asparagus, mushrooms and loads of other herbs and seasoning, we excitedly made our way to the chalet looking forward to a fantastic BBQ dinner. The seasoning process was a little troublesome given the lack of utensils and cutlery but we managed to pull through with a good half hour or so with Lyn, her sister and I chipping in. Before we knew it, we made our way to the already fired up pit with our dressing and seasoned goodness and started our cooking process.

Left: Prawns and razor clams | Right: More prawns and clams

Left: We added more flavour by adding bay leaves into the hot charcoal and covered the food with an aluminum tray| Right: Our dressing made of extra virgin olive oil, mint, Italian parsley, fennel tops, chili, lime juice and zest and other seasoning

Unfortunately, I forgot to take photos of the steaks on grill so please do forgive me. After about an hour of cooking, we dumped the seafood into our dressing, cut the perfectly grilled rosemary steaks (or how we called it) into strips and jumped straight into our dinner. In my humble opinion, one of the best BBQ we have ever experienced, apart from the one at my sister’s place. I guess it is safe to say we will never look at BBQ in the same light ever again.

Left: Steaks strips | Right: Asparagus

Left: Mushrooms with butter, garlic and Italian parsley | Right: Jamie’s seafood BBQ…amazing…

Left: The three of us cleared the BBQ goodness | Right: Can’t go without beer

More photos in my Flickr album here.

Red + White BBQ

jason — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:08:27 +0000

Dear sister Fel and her family threw a Red + White BBQ last Sunday evening to celebrate our Nation’s 44th. Decked out thematically and appropriately, everything from the cutlery to decorations and food such as muffins and wines were in red and white. Heck even the food had toothpicks with our national flags sticking out of them and tonnes of other medium sized ones were hanging everywhere.

Left: Very sweet red and white muffins from Fel | Right: Food had to be patriotic too

Armed with pizzas and ‘inner dead pig parts’ (or how we call them) from KP and a nice keg of Brewerkz’s deadly Indian Pale Ale from Lyn (my boo) and I, we BBQ’ed into the night while catching the National Day Parade on TV with a group of other friends. This is in addition to other food that included Aza’s (Fel’s beau) oh so lovely burger (I want more dude) and the usual sausages, chicken wings, loads of other lovely meat and prawns, amongst others.

Left and right: Firing up the BBQ

Channel NewsAsia was also present (all thanks to Fel’s connection) that night and filmed a significant part of our session before heading back to file the story. You can catch the video here. To be honest, if Fel had told me about the coverage earlier, I would have either worked out a little more to show off my ‘soon-to-be-sweet-body’ (its really going to take a while) in my Singapore Slingers‘ jersey or wear something with sleeves. What came out was a fat bloke in a jersey. Not too glam if you would to ask me .

Left: Of course the girls were working… | Right:..while the boys were goofing off

CNY @ Greenwood

jason — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:17:12 +0000

Popped over to Ian and Eva’s house yesterday to ‘celebrate’ our 2nd visit for the Chinese New Year. Yeah we all love chilling at their house. And to make our visit even sweeter are these babies…

Left: My lovely lovely steak | Right: Two racks of lamb

Uh huh…Ian fired up the ‘ol BBQ and we all helped ourselves. Have I ever told you how much I love eating beef?