: : Let’s goto Texas! : :

When in Texas, eat this! BBQ spare ribs! Now I know the secret! It’s using dark beer as part of the marinade ingredient. Having said that, since we could not find any dark beer, we decided to use Guiness Stout instead. And it work! Gosh, did it ever work! I owe it all to Gwen for telling me how it’s done.

Gwen : My butcher in Taman Tun is hilarious! He only let me buy 10 pieces of spare ribs. Why? Said that the rest were poor quality and not good. Haha!

Now, Yce was asking me how I took such good pictures. I don’t. It’s a lot of editing, editing, editing. Here’s an example :

This is the original photo. What I did was to crop it until the subject matter filled the entire picture. In this case, it’s my nephew Tidan hard at work in the kitchen. After cropping it, I adjusted the brightness and contrast. Also, having taken a big picture of him, I sharpen the picture. After that, it was resizing the photo to fit the blog.

Voila! It’s done. Looks good no?

: : IMBB No. 8 : :

I haven’t been taking part on the last 2 IMBBs. Put it down to FORGETTING to check other people’s blog to find out. Doh!

Anyway, the latest one is No. 8 : Lift your Spirits High! The hostess this time is Donna Marie Zotter of There’s a Chef in my Kitchen. I think I know what to do.

Hmmm…another thing that we should do is really start a mailing list to notify folks of the next IMBB. Digging through a lot of blogs is not exactly easy.