FollowPan-fried red snapper fish and mackerel fish marinated with turmeric powder, Baba’s fish curry powder, organic shoyu and ground black pepper. I have tried frying fish using steel wok, non-stick granite pan, non-stick Teflon pan and Khind stir-fryer. My verdict is – the Khind electric stir-fryer gives the best outcome. For the 3 slices of…
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Baked Corn Flakes Chicken
Our girls love grilled chicken. I cook it at least once a week, sometimes twice. My grilled chicken is cooked in a variety of styles – with turmeric powder, teriyaki sauce, honey, lemon grass, lemon juice, curry paste, tomyam paste, black pepper, breaded and much more. Last week I tried something different with the chicken…
Butadon (Pork Bowl Rice)
Tau Yew Bak (Braised Pork Belly With Soy Sauce)
Tom Yam Fish & Grilled Boxing Chicken
Dinner on a hectic Wednesday yesterday… 1 Tomyam pomfret fish with lots of brinjal, tomatoes, carrots and broccoli. I used half a packet of Mak Nyonya Tomyam paste. 2 Blanched organic broccoli. The reddish tomyam paste looks and tastes really fiery. I sauteed the paste with some oil and garlic. You can add onions…
Easy & Healthy Home-Cooked Meals
The first meal for dinner that I cooked after a half-year hiatus is this: 1. Cincai fried rice with onions, left-over shredded chicken breast meat and eggs. 2. Blanched organic veggie 3. Steamed pork ribs braised with sand ginger, shallots and tomatoes. The mil had cooked this earlier before she left for Hong Kong and…
Khind Stir-Fryer
I have always wanted to get an air-fryer and Thermomix (TMX) to help me cook in the kitchen. But lack of support from the hubs (he commented that these gadgets will eventually turn into another white elephant, duh!) and most importantly, lack of budget (the TMX costs over RM6,000!) have prevented me from getting those…
Home-Cooked Dinner – 19 July 2016
Yummy dishes whipped up by the mil for dinner yesterday… On the foreground above: acar fried fish, which is an extremely tasty and tantalizing Nyonya dish. It’s my favorite and a traditional recipe that not many people know of. Foreground below: stir-fried lean pork slices with preserved vegetables. This is another much celebrated appetite-whetting dish…
Simple Lunch Thursday: No-Fry Fried Rice
Lunch today was a one-dish + rice meal. Some spoilt brats weren’t too pleased as they had expected more than that. When Drama Queen and Cass came back from school, they looked really disappointed when they found out that there was only one dish, i.e. steamed egg with minced meat and that’s something very rare.…
School Holiday, Day 2 (1 June 2016)
This morning I was interviewed by a Caucasian professor from an Australian university at a cafe in my neighborhood. The topic was on social media ‘micro celebrities’ who are also parents. It’s for his research paper. It was an eye opening experience for me. While I was away, Cass and Sherilyn attended Mandarin enrichment class at…
First Half Of May 2016 – Random Things
Thursday Home-cooked Lunch – 14 April 2016
Today I had a battle within myself – a mind over matter over what to eat for lunch 😀 After paying Cass a visit in school (to ensure that she pees and to bring her Izumio), I shopped for some groceries at our neighborhood supermarket. I could not decide whether to cook lunch for Cass…
Delightful Home-Cooked Dishes
Here are a few more wholesome and delightful home-cooked dishes that the mil wok-ed up this week… Below – Braised chicken with dried sand ginger, shallots and tomatoes. Below – braised chicken with dried tofu sheets (fu choke) and mushrooms. Below – pan fried prawns with soy sauce and Chinese cooking wine. I am so…
Home-cooked Dinner – 3 March 2016
Yummy home-cooked dishes for dinner last night, lovingly dished out by the mil… Stir-fried baby sweet potato leaves with garlic, vegetarian ‘cai’, blanched lady fingers and crispy fried baby pomfret fish with tomato + onion sauce. Cass who has just recovered from high fever had pretty good appetite last night. It’s a joy to see…
Healthy Homecooked Dinner – 21 February 2016
My healthy low in cholesterol, low in fat, low in oil and high in fiber dinner yesterday 🙂 Bitter gourd soup with carrots, red dates and lean pork with 4 tablespoons of organic oats… Sauteed organic spinach and braised arrowroot with roast pork and ‘nam yue‘. I singled out only 3-4 small pieces of lean…