Roasted potatoes

Sharing my friend, Francine's, recipe for roasted potatoes. Her recipe yields potatoes that are soft on the inside but with a maximized surface area for crispiness on the outside.

Ingredients

1. Potatoes
2. Vegetable oil, or olive oil (not extra virgin)
3. Salt 
4. Rosemary

Instructions

1. Boil skinned potatoes in a pot with salt.
2. (After 10-15 min) Drain the water after the potatoes are ~50% soft.
3. With the cover attached, shake the potatoes inside the pot. The collisions give the potatoes rough edges, which will maximize the surface area for roasting.
4. Place the potatoes on a fully oiled pan (oil should be around 1mm thick).
5. Sprinkle rosemary generously over the potatoes.
6. Bake for 30 min at 375 degF.
7. Flip the potatoes over, and bake for another 30 min, until a nice golden, crispy crust forms.
8. Ready to serve! Best eaten hot!

Look at that crust!!

Nata de coco

One of my favorite jelly desserts!
I add nata de coco to my plain froyo + mochi, nata de coco to milk tea (from the bubble tea shops), nata de coco to vanilla ice-cream, and nata de coco to my warm earl grey tea!
I heart you nata de coco 

Just some facts about nata de coco I learnt today:
It is from the Philippines.
It is produced from "the fermentation of coconut water, which gels through the production of microbial cellulose by Acetobacter xylinus."
Production process:

1. Extraction of coconut water
2. Fermentation of the coconut water with bacterial cultures
3. Separating and cutting the produced mat of nata de coco
4. Cleaning and washing the acetic acid out of the nata de coco
5. Cutting to packaging

Courtesy of wikipedia

Aren't microbes amazing? They produce yummy food like cheese, kimchi, sauerkraut, beer and nata de coco!

Tobiko and Seaweed on Rice

I bought tobiko from HanKook supermarket the other day, and made a yummy afternoon snack with it!
I simply put a whole dollop of tobiko on top of warm rice, mixed in some wasabi+soy sauce in, and added seaweed on top.

yummy!  /blush

Mozzarella on baguette with olive oil

This is one of my favorite home-made snacks! It's really simple to make too --
1. Buy mozzarella cheese (the large ball or bocconcini, not shredded), a baguette and some olive oil.
2. Cut the cheese and baguette into chunks.
3. Place the cheese on top of the baguette.
4. Place in an oven (or toaster oven) at 250F for a few minutes, until the baguette is slightly toasted, or the cheese has melted slightly.
5. Drizzle some (just a little, don't soak it!) olive oil on top of everything, and serve!