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Cottage Pie Recipe

Happy Pi Day!

Cottage Pie for Pi Day

Cottage Pie for Pi Day

March 14 is sometimes written 3.14, which most mathematically-minded people will know as π or Pi – the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Pi Day was created in recognition of this important number. Besides just talking about Pi, food geeks such as myself also like to bake pies.

At the same time, St. Patrick’s day is coming up on the 17th and I was thinking about what kind of Irish recipe I’d like to share for the occasion. We haven’t done shepherd’s pie yet on this blog but we do like to make it every now and then. So I figured, why not kill two birds with one (Blarney) stone and make a shepherd’s pie for Pi Day?

Only one problem…

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Grilled 3-Layer Pork Belly

We made this amazing grilled pork belly dish that our guests completely devoured.

Sliced grilled 3-layer pork belly

Recently, we celebrated a friend’s birthday at our favorite Western-style pork restaurant here in Kuching, My Restaurant. The most popular dish that we had that night was a platter of grilled, 3-layer pork belly that was a-ma-zing. We asked Walter, the chef-owner of My Restaurant, what was in it.

“Oh, caraway seed, salt, soy sauce, and some other spices which I am not going to tell you.”

Well, being the foodies that we are, we thought we could pull off a grilled 3-layer pork belly dish on our own.

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Royal Roundup

It’s over. The 30-day Royal Selangor Jellyriffic Challenge is OVER! We survived, but we feel as limp as some of these jellies here…about to collapse!

Rainbow 7 Jellies Before we go on with our normal, non-Royal Selangor Jelly Mould-related posts, here is the Royal Roundup, a retrospective of all thirty-one (we posted two creations on Day 28)! We have our favorites, but we can’t choose which one is our absolute favorite creation. Would you like to choose for us?

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