Simply known to us as the “Pork Lady”, our good friend at the West Coast Market can be found butchering massive cuts of pork from the wee hours of the morning until late in the afternoon.  Her precision, that of a surgeon. Her smile could melt an iceberg and her prices…well, that’s the best part of all! Her prices are phenomenal and I doubt you’d get ribs of this quality for this price anywhere else on the island. $60 for 3.2 kg of ribs…NO WAY! It pays to be a repeat customer

All eggheads have done this at one time or another… They’ve burned all the hair off their arms and possibly their faces too.  Why?  Burping the egg or I should say incorrectly burping the egg. Tonight I was grilling some seriously good steaks and wanted Heather to capture what it looks like if you’re not careful in burping the egg.  First, I would tell you that investing in a pair of heavy duty leather gloves is a potential life saver and with them I would caution everyone an

I love mid-week eggness because both Roman and I work it means we usually leave egg cooking until the weekend when we have the time to relax. However we had a craving for hamburgers of the homemade variety and as usual some egg based goodness ensued. The burgers were quite straight forward 1lb of Beef mince with a 1/3lb of pork mince, Roman version of the “righteous urban barbecue” rub and some kosher salt. Note that I pushed the centres down about half an inch prior to grill

So the ribs are the same recipe as the Fred Flintstone ribs but this time using baby back ribs rather than prime rib. It was Chinese New Year so we got them from Hubers butcher rather than the wet market but I really love the quality of Hubers produce. Surf and turf In fact thats how we ended up with the scallops because we were browsing while buying the ribs and just fancied them as a side. The scallops recipe was the one in the Big Green Egg Cookbook unfortunately again bec

We’ve never really tried to cook any traditional Indian food before and well, now with one of the best Tandoori ovens available, we had no excuse but to try.  Our mission?   Tandoori Chicken with Garlic Naan bread.  The recipe we used was right out of the BGE cookbook (page 100 for the chicken and page 217 for the naan!) To quote the BGE cookbook, “A tandoor is the traditional oven used to cook this typical Indian dish. The tandoor can be charcoal burning or wood burning and

We had Salmon left over…. I know it’s amazing but we were one less than we expected for dinner last night so hence the extra piece of salmon. So after a root around in the fridge we toasted up some sesame bagels and poached a couple of eggs and then voila an absolutely delicious breakfast. I think we will be cooking an extra piece of salmon every time so we have some left over to do this again. Next time though I need to whip up some hollandaise sauce and then it will be perf

Heather loves salmon, I mean really loves salmon. So we were excited to try one of the fish recipes and particularly now that Roman had tracked down a local supplier in Singapore for cedar planks. Staying true to Roman’s Canadian roots we started with Maple Glazed Salmon. Salmon prepped and on the plank Now this recipe is based on a recipe on epicurious but we didn’t use scallions/spring onions and we set the egg to 400F and cooked the Salmon on the cedar plank for 15mins. He

So Roman has been tinkering around with this recipe for a while. Different rubs, different sauces, different cooking methods and just lots of practice. We had 11 people coming over for dinner and he was determined to get it right so warm up for this night included a practice session on the Tuesday night which meant we were starving waiting for the ribs to be finished which was 9.00pm. It was worth it because by Jove I think he’s got it. Here are the step by step photos Rubbin

Okay so maybe we were a bit naive how robust our pizza stone would be. We thought the “only use in temperatures of 180c and lower” was merely guidance not a hard and fast rule. Unfortunately the temperatures of 600F were just a little too much and by the second pizza we had two pizza stones rather than one. When we moved the stone out it completely disintegrated so other eggheads beware if it says maximum temperatures of 180C don’t ignore the warning. CRACK!!!! The pizzas wer

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Roman torching the egg After weeks of waiting patiently with the egg wrapped up on the balcony of our old apartment it was time to unwrap and what better recipe to start with than the grilling classic steak. The first challenge was learning how to light it…. Now it is no exaggeration that this became a dangerous spectator sport when Roman dropped the propane torch and almost set fire to his leg and then Brett. He eventually managed it but has now adapted his lighting techniqu

Fred Flintstone Ribs December 2010 a new home and a new addition to the family, actually make that two new additions to the family. Purchased on Craigslist from someone leaving the country it would be fair to say I have become addicted to my Big Green Egg and I foresee many happy years grilling. #RomanMatla #BBQ #grilling #BigGreenEgg #Singapore