Cooking with secret ingredients

"How can you order from there? It's against everything you stand for!"
That's my sister's (slightly) over-exaggerated reaction on hearing I was excited about a Secret Ingredient (SI) recipe.

What's SI you ask? It's this super cool service in HK which allows you to choose your meal and then sends across all the ingredients, chopped and ready to cook with the recipe and their 'secret ingredient'. What better way to cook than without the trinity of hassles, washing-cleaning-cutting?

After hearing about them last year (and unwittingly benefiting from their SEO), I finally decided to try their recipes. Tried the oregano chicken ratatouille last week

 ... and loved it so much that ordered the Chennai Fish and Prawn Curry early this week. This is such a boon on days I get home at 8pm only to have an evening of work and multi-country calls to look forward to!

Since their recipes keep changing every week, I'm looking forward to a whole lot of 'secrets' floating around in my kitchen! :)

Just to re-emphasise, this blog and SI might have similar names but the only thing we have in common is no 'secret ingredient'.