Fried french beans with pickled olives vegetables

Cook the above dishes to go with porridge.Yummy goes well with porridge.

Minced meat ball with chiku

I use chiku to cook this dish instead of potatoes which usually everyone who cook this will use it tastes good too.

Ipoh Chee Cheong Fun

INGREDIENTS
2 tbsp oil
1 tbsp chopped garlic
200 gm minced meat
4 dried mushroom-soaked and chopped

SEASONING
3 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tbsp light soya sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp dark soya sauce
600ml water

2 tbsp cornflour mixed with
4 tbsp water for thickening

SERVE
10 pieces chee cheong fun
2 tbsp fried shallots
2 tbsp chopped spring onions
4 tbsp dried sambal chilly paste

METHOD
1. Heat oil and fried garlic,addd minced meat and mushrooms fried till fragrant.
2.Add seasoning and bring to boil.Lower heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Thicken with cornstarch.
3. Cut chee cheong fun into pieces and pour sauce over,garnish with fried shallots and spring onions on top add chilly sauce as well.

Steamed Spare-ribs with preserved plums

INGREDIENTS
500 gm spare ribs-cut into bite size

MARINADE
6 preserved plums-mashed
2 slices ginger-choppped
3 tbsp rice wine
1/2 tbsp garlic-chopped
2 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tbsp Lea and Perrin sauce
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tsp pepper
1 tbsp cornflour

GARNISHING
1 red chilli-chopped
1 stalk spring onion-chopped

METHOD
1. Mix spare ribs with marinade and leave aside for 3-4 hours to marinade in the fridge.
2. Steam on high heat for 20-25 minutes until cooked.
3. Garnish with chillies and spring onions serve hot.

Baked Peppery Minced Meat Dumplings

Skin A
400 gm plain flour
1/2 tsp instant yeast
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
230 ml water
1 tbsp oil


Skin B
100 gm plain flour
40 gm oil

FILLING(Mixed and divide into 16 portions)

500 gm minced meat
1 tbsp black pepper
150 gm spring onions-chopped
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp cornflour
1 tbsp shaoxing wine

Some sesame seeds 
1 egg beaten

METHOD
1. Skin A Combine all ingredients except oil mix well. Add oil and knead into a smooth dough.Cover with wet cloth and leave to rest.
2. Skin B Combine all ingredients and mix into a dough.Divide into 16 portions.
3. Divide skin A into 16 portions. Wrap B with A.Flatten the dough, roll up, flatten and roll up again.
4. Roll out dough into round and wrap with fillings. Flatten dough slightly.
5. Arrange dumplings onto baking tray. Glaze with egg and coat with sesame seeds.Cover with wet cloth and rest for 20 minutes.
6. Preheat oven to 190* C. Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown. Serve hot.

Ikan Tempra

 Cook this today after reading the recipes from Mind Your Body paper yesterday.A nice citrus taste fish dish.

INGREDIENTS
3 tbsp oil
3 kembong fish
2 red onions-sliced
1 tbsp dark soya sauce
1 tbsp sugar
5 kasturi limes juices
1/2 cup water
2 kaffir lime leaves
3 red or green chillies

METHOD
1. Heat oil and fry fish till brown on both sides.Leave aside first.
2. Add more oil and brown onions till soften and caramelise.
3. Add soya sauce.sugar ,lime juices and water.Add lime leaves.
4. Bring mixture to boil and cook till sauce thicken.Taste and adjust seasoning i add a pinch of salt.
5. Pour sauce over fish and serve with rice .

Fried Long Beans with Salted Egg Yolk and Daun Limau Perut

After trying this dish from BaliThai i came back and try to replica this dish quite close but not so oily then the restaurant ones i think they deep fried the long beans first before frying with the sambal and salted egg yolk.

INGREDIENTS
1 bundle of longbeans-cut into long strips
8 pieces of daun limau perut leaves (leprous lime leaves)
2 salted egg yolks
Spices Ingredients(to blend all the ingredients together)
5 fresh red chillies
5 shallots
3 pips garlic
1 tbsp belachan
2 tbsp dried prawns soaked till soften

Method
1. Heat up 4 tbsp oil and fry the blended ingredients till fragrant.
2. Add in salted egg yolk and daun limau perut and fry for awhile more till fragrant.
3.Add in long beans and fry till long beans changes colour .
4.Dish up and serve hot.

Braised Chicken

                                            The braise chicken before adding the sauce

                                                     Braised Chicken after adding the sauce
  A very easy to prepare chicken dish and taste good as well recipes taken from Y3K Recipes

INGREDIENTS
3 whole chicken legs
INGREDIENTS for Braising
400ml water
60ml soya sauce
2 tbsp dark saoya sauce
60gm rock sugar
12 pips garlic ( leave skins on)
10 black peppercorns (crushed lightly)
1/4 tsp salt
For thickening (mixed Together)
1 tbsp cornflour
1 tbsp water

METHOD
1. Rince chicken pat dry and rub with a little salt i omitted it .
2. Bring braising sauce to a boil add in chicken and cook over medium heat for 25 minutes with a cover.Turn chicken a few times to ensure they are well-coated in colour.Remove chicken to cool well.Chop into pieces.
3. Thicken sauce and drench over chicken and serve.

Steamed Ginger And Wine Chicken

Ingredients
2 whole chicken legs chopped into bite size pieces
10 gm black fungus
20 medlar seeds
5 pieces dang gui
Seasoning
3 tbsp wine
1 tbsp ginger juice
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1/2 tbsp cornflour

METHOD
1. Place chicken seasoning and black fungus into a big bowl ,mix well.
2. Arrange no.1 on a plate. Scatter medlar seeds on top. Place dang gui on surface.
3. Steam chicken over rapidly boiling water for 15 to 20 minutes till chicken is cooked .Serve hot.


Cook this for lunch, recipes from Y3K book a simple and easy dish to prepare and delicious too.
I use half chicken instead of chicken legs.

                                          Stew Pork Ribs

                                           Assam Pedas Stingray

                                           Curry Chicken Noodles

                                             Japanese Chicken Cutlet Curry

                                            Yellow Wine Chicken Soup
                                          
Cook the above dishes this week.Cook the japanese curry chicken cutlet using the ready curry mix from NTUC tastes quite good too.Curry chicken noodle also use instant curry chicken paste from Penang taste wise also yummy.

Kimchi

I made these kimchi today using recipes from New Paper newspaper publish a few weeks ago by a korean lady nice and simple kimchi but i substitute the rice flour by using pear cos lazy to cook the rice flour paste taste still good.

Stir Fried Tau Kwa and Minced pork with Basil Leaves

A simple Thai dish of tau kwa and minced pork fried with basil leaves very yummy and goes well with a bowl of rice.

This is the brand of brown rice that i used taste wise good and no soaking is required before cooking, just cook like we cook normal white rice and very fragrant and nice rice too.
Also made these chillies sauce goes well with fish fingers.

Wild Roselle Pickles

A very simple and easy to prepare pickles and tastes very good too. Hope you all will try to made it. I took this recipes from  Famous Cuisine recipes book.

Ing A
300 gms roselle
1 tbsp salt
Ing B
150 gm sugar
100 ml water

Method
1. Cook ing B till sugar is dissolves and leave it to cool.
2. Remove the seed of roselle rinse and drain well.Mix with salt marinade for 30 minutes.Next rinse under running water. Drain well.
3. Place roselle in a glass bottle add in syrup. Cover lid of jar and chill in fridge for 2-3 days. Serve.

Stir fried Chicken with Green Chillies

Ingredients

1/2 chicken cut into small bite size pieces
100 gm green chillies cut into sections
1 tsp chopped garlic
1 tbsp salted bean paste
2 tbsp water and cornflour for thickening


Seasoning
1/2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp dark soya sauce
1/2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tbsp light soya sauce

Method
1. Heat up oil and fry garlic till fragrant then add in soya bean paste and chicken stir fry till chicken changes colour.
2. Add in seasoning and add in half cup water fry till chicken is cooked through.
3. Add in green chillies stir fry awhile, lastly add in cornstarch solutions.(After  that off the fire add in 2 small limes juices not in recipes i add in myself cos it taste better with lime juices like ayam tempra)
4. Dish up and serve. Enjoy!


Another simple dish that i took the recipes from one of my cookbook and modified it and the taste is yummy too.

Acar Fish

These are my acar fish my mum's prize recipes everyone at home loves this dish. I cook this quite sometime ago but lazy to post it. You cannot get this type of fish in Spore these fish i brought over from Penang fried ready first and i came back and cook it. A very yummy dish .Enjoy!

Brown Rice With Tunamagik Sambal

These is a very simple and delicous dish just cook brown rice in rice cooker when rice is cook mix with the tunamagik and serve with fried egg,cucumber and tomatoes and enjoy your meal.

Pan Fried Drunkard Chicken Chop

Cook these chicken chop last month from my favorite recipe book Yum Yum. A simple dish and yummy too.

Ingredients

3 chicken whole legs-deboned
2 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp shredded ginger


Marinade
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 egg
2 tbsp cornflour

Seasoning
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
4 tbsp yellow wine
Dash of pepper

Method
1. Mix chicken with marinade and marinade for 30 minutes.
2. Heat sesame oil pan-fry chicken until both sides are golden brown. Add in ginger and fry until aromatic.
3. Lastly add in seasoning and pan-fry until dry. Dish up and serve.Enjoy !

Fried Sago Kueh with dried sambal prawns

 

                                          The sago kueh soaking in a pot of water

                                           The sago kueh after draining and ready to be fried

These is the fried sago kueh ready for eating i ate it straight away so yummy exactly like my mother's cos my mum is very good with this recipes very happy to be able to replica her recipes cos her recipes is agak agak one.My kueh is very QQ.Sorry i am not sharing this recipes cos is my mum heirloom dish and i am going to cook another of her dish Acar Fish soon when i go back to Penang next week cos unable to find this type of fish in Spore my brother already bought the fish for me.

Honeydew With Sago Desserts

Made this dessert during the Hari Raya public holiday yummmy.

Ingredients
1 honeydew
50 gm sago-cooked till cooked and run under running tap keep aside for later use
1/4 tub of vanilla flavoured ice-cream


1. Half honeydew cut into small cubes and the balance half use a blender to blend it till fine.
2. Add sago,cube honeydew and ice-cream to the blended honeydew and keep in fridge till well chilled before serving.Enjoy!

Stew Chicken

I cook this stew chicken which Alethia like i hope next time this recipes will be useful for her.A very simple to cook dish and use simple ingredients.

Ingredients

1 small chicken (cut into pieces)
3 large potatoes
1 russet potatoes
2 small carrots
2 big yellow onions
1 small can button mushroom

Seasonings
3 tbsp worchestershire (Lea and Perrins sauce)
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp white pepper corn -crushed
dash of pepper
600ml water

Method 
1.Heat up 1 tbsp oil in a pot add onions and saute.Add chicken,potatoes,carrot and button mushrooms.Stir fry for awhile.
2.Add seasonings and water cook until boil lower fire and simmer till chicken and potatoes are cooked and sauce thicken.Dish up and serve with rice or with bread.

Spare Ribs In Black Vinegar Sauce

Try this spare ribs dish from one of the recipes book that i like Yum Yum. A very rich aroma of vinegar if you like black vinegar you will like this dish quite nice according to my husband.

Ingredients:

2 tbsp oil
8 shallots, peeled
5cm cinnamon stick
700gm spare ribs,cut into pieces
2 star anise
Seasoning
150ml black vinegar
3 tbsp light soya sauce
3 tbsp sugar
600ml water

Method
1. Heat up oil and saute shallots until aromatic.Add in star anise,cinnamon and stir-fry until fragrant.
2. Add spare ribs, seasoning and bring to boil. Lower the heat and continue to cook until sauce has thickened.Dish up and serve hot.

Walnuts moontarts and Teochew Chempedak mooncake

 Made both these two types of mooncakes today.Yummy and the chempedak ones are special.                                  

Mooncakes

Made these various types of mooncakes again.They are Cheese mini mooncakes, agar-agar mooncakes, traditional mooncakes,snowskin mooncakes and coffee mini cartoon character mooncakes.

Penang Laksa and Char Kueh Teow

We had Penang Laksa and Char Kueh Teow on National Day.