Saturday, August 17, 2013

Still Storming In My Kitchen

A few weeks had past and I am still storming in my kitchen. Had been whipping up dishes instead of packing bentos of late. Feels good to be whipping up dishes that often and people enjoyed eating those food. But it is really tiring cooking up a storm. Come to think of it, I really do prefer baking than cooking.


30 July 2013


Top - Chinese Spinach in Broth
Middle - Pan Fry Black Pomfret
Bottom - Ox Tail Soup

Simple dishes but took me 1/2 a day to prepare.


31 July 2013


It is total indulgence for tonight. Tonight's 加料 dish is BAKED SCALLOPS!!! Managed to picked up a bag of scallops on shell from the wholesaler for $10 a bag. There are about 9 huge scallops in there. Topped the frozen scallops with cheese and black pepper, sent to bake and viola. Juicy and cheezy scallops are ready to eat!!!


5 Aug 2013

Always hate to think what to cook on MONDAYS. Markets are closed and can only shop at supermarket for ingredients. However, selection is limited too as whatever that is availabe are mostly 'left overs' from the weekend operations. You can only see what it available and make the best out of it.

After a round in the supermarket, managed to picked up the ingredients required for a new recipe that I'd planned to tried out.


Left: Pork Strips w Bamboo Shoots and Black Fungus. The new dish that I'd tried. A dish that is easily acceptable generally except for the bamboo shoots. It is something not everyone could accept the taste. Hubby even suggest to replace that with cucumber instead and he believe would make the dish nicer.

Right: 豆苗. An ordinary day to day type of vegetable. So hard to decide what vegetables to eat sometimes.


13 Aug 2013


Tuesdays = FISH DAY!!!

Being lazy, I'd decided to just make 1 type of fish and everyone eats the same. Fish of the day = COD STEAK!!! Very easy to prepare fish and most of all it is yummy!!!

Also trying out a new sauce introduced by a friend. It is a Japanese sauce specifically used to fry bean sprouts, so I was told. Sauce was bought from Media-ya. Bought 50 cents worth of bean sprouts to give this sauce a try. Verdict ... it taste as good as our friend claims. Now this opens up to another alternate way to cook our bean sprouts.


15 Aug 2013


Menu for tonight:-

1. Buttered Broccoli and Corn for the boys.
2. 卤炸猪排, a new recipe that I'd tried out. Taste of the pork turned out not bad but did not really like the tapioca flour coat for deep frying. It turned kinda soggy after being returned to be simmered in the sauce.
3. Stir Fry Baby Kai Lan.
4. 玉竹排骨汤.


All these are the missing dishes from my lack of updates lately. Not forgetting PIGGING OUT sessions with neighbors and friends recently. We had a BBQ night with Roast Beef and Lamb Chops that I'd made together with many other nice seafood and meats. I also had invited neighbours to our place for dinner which I had fed them with Roast Chicken, Sweet Sour Pork, Pig Stomach Soup etc.

It had been a long time since I had been that active in my kitchen cooking up a storm. Though I'd enjoyed it but seriously, I do hope my cooking days will end soon. Almost run out of ideas what to cook already!!!

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