A New Face, A Domestic Ho

Shitty food blog was an experiment to see how people would react to things I made and stuff I wrote. A Domestic Ho is the second incarnation of this experiment. I am grateful for everyone who gave this blog a look and to all the followers who clicked the follow button. Expect bigger and better things…

On bread, medicine and the future of the shitty food blog

  Well, it’s been fun. Sorry I haven’t posted in like 2 months. But I’ve been figuring out how to pass these exams 100% of my brainpower is now dedicated to medicine I started this blog so that I could dedicate time to two things that I’m passionate about, cooking and writing. When I started…

Tiramasu + Gnocchi (feat. Charles and Grace)

In this episode, Charles, Markus and Grace leave their comfort zones. The scene is Grace’s tiny-ass apartment and its accompanying tiny-ass kitchen. The theme is Italian. The med students are on mid-year break and have ample time to  procrastinate and ignore the mountain of work that lies ahead of us. A whole afternoon is dedicated…

Pulled Pork in Everything Part 2

Night number 3 of pulled pork and I had to come up with something to cook for the flatties. I actually had those burritos on the second night but they are nothing to write home (or on a blog) about. I like the way you can toast the shit out of them until the cheese…

Pulled Pork in Everything Part 1

This week I was reminded about the utility of cooking large slabs of meat for long periods of time and subsisting on said meat for days on end. Back in the day we would churn out little foil-covered packages of balanced nutrition that would be toasted to melted-cheese goodness aka burritos. Pulled pork, beans, rice,…

Breadventures pt. 3: Focaccia

“The moment something becomes comfortable, it becomes boring” – Markus Ho, 2016 I feel like I’d overstepped it a little in the last post about bread; banging on about how I was going to find “the Loaf of Ho”. Unfortunately, what really happened was that bread has been slowly and irrevocably absorbed into my daily…

Eggplant Ravioli

I took a break from making bread (and actually cooking in general) for a bit. It was getting out of hand. All I thought about all day was bread (and food and cooking). Honestly, I found myself at a bit of a bread block. I wasn’t entirely sure where to go next. But I really…

Breadventures Pt. 2

I’ve opened Pandora’s box here with the bread making. It’s the sort of thing that appeals to the shokunin part of my psyche perfectly. So now I’m constantly in the pursuit of the perfect loaf. One day I will create “The Loaf of Ho” the recipe for which will be a carefully guarded secret at…

Pear Pie

So I’ve been grappling with the whole apple/pear pie/crumble thing for a while now and admittedly I haven’t been able to take my pie/crumble game to the next level. Last year, I made a really really good apple pie. Well, the pastry was absolutely amazing but the apples could do with some work and it…

Siu Yuk aka Roast Pork Belly

So I’m back in Christchurch and I’m back in Momma Ho’s kitchen where it all began. The kitchen is very much her domain and I find myself slipping back into the student-teacher dynamic again. It’s like returning to you master’s dojo after a some time and you think you’re hot shit, and your sifu just…