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…

Light And Healthy Meals

These days, I have very light meals – light in meat and light in portion. 80% composes of greens / fiber and 20% meat or eggs. This is my breakfast this morning – a bowl of pork soup from the pork noodles stall with lots of bitter gourd and a little minced pork sans the…

Fried Minced Meat & Potato Curry

To all my Muslim readers, this is a non-halal post. Apologies! Two nights ago, I created another new dish for my curry-loving kids – minced pork curry with potatoes and tomatoes. And it was so delish! You can also use minced chicken or minced beef to cook this dish. Direction for Minced Pork Curry: 1)…

Babi Pongteh / Pork Pongteh

I had a sudden craving to eat braised pork belly with soy sauce and star anise the other day.  But I found out that my bottle of organic soy sauce in the fridge wasn’t enough to prepare braised pork belly. Plus, I had some carrots, tomatoes and eggs that had been sitting in the fridge…

Home-cooked Dinner – 7 January 2016

Here’s our home-cooked dinner on a busy Thursday night, on the first school week of 2016 🙂 Tomato omelette ala Fong Lye Taiwanese Restaurant Grilled fish cutlet with curry paste, topped with potato curry sauce. Chicken soup with green radish and organic cabbage and ‘foo pei’ (fried bean curd skin) This is the first time…

Ayam Pongteh For Dinner – 6 January 2016

I had a sudden craving for Ayam Pongteh since weeks ago but only got into the cooking mood at full swing a few days ago. Yeah, after the December holidays, celebrations and feasting with almost a month of hiatus in cooking, I needed a few days to get the momentum going. The last time I…

Home-cooked Dinner – 18 December 2015

It’s fridge-clearing day every Friday and here’s what I dished out today… ABC soup – Sakura chicken (breast and drumsticks) with carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, lots of onions, pepper corn and sweet corns. Sauteed organic brinjal with ‘tau cheong’ sauce, minced meat, tomato and organic ‘lai park’ veggie.  Used a little ABC soup to give this dish…

Breakfast & Dinner Today – 2 December 2015

This morning, I was greeted by 2 forlorn looking over ripened bananas in the kitchen counter. And a bag of wholemeal bread too.  I wanted to bin the bananas but hey, they are imported bananas and cost over RM7 a bunch! We will be away for a one-week vacation and I had better clear all…

Home-cooked Dinner – 30 November 2015

It was a last minute preparation, with only half an hour for the marinate sauces to seep into the chicken boxing.  My bad. I find that I am so much lazier during school holidays and so much more efficient on school-going days. I find that when I sleep in an additional of 2 hours a…

Breakfast And Lunch – Thursday, 19 November 2015

Breakkie today – organic quick oats with mango yoghurt, topped with pistachio nuts, toasted whole almonds, toasted strip almonds and a few shakes of Japanese flavored seaweed. Love this savory yoghurt!  It’s low in carb and high in calcium and fiber. Lunch: Lunch was some modification of last night’s extra portion of dinner that I…

Lunch And Dinner – 12 November 2015

With some leftover vermicelli and curly carrot wheat noodles from the previous night (I made pork noodles for dinner), I recycled the noodles into a plate of delish stir-fried vermicelli  for lunch with lots of shredded carrots, eggs, minced pork and scallions.  The  girls loved it. Dinner menu: Grilled pomfret fish marinated with turmeric powder,…

Garden Theme Tuna Fried Rice

When I run out of ideas on what to put on the dining table, fried rice it is for the kids! This time, I cooked tuna fried rice. Ingredients used: 1) 1 can of tuna in water 2) Loads of chopped garlic and chopped onions. These 2 ingredients add a LOT of flavor to the…

Simple & Wholesome Home-cooked Dishes

My no-frills, easy-and-quick-to-dish out and wholesome home-cooked dishes for the 3 royal highness over the past few days 😀 Pan-fried chicken fillet marinated with ground coriander, thyme, coarse black pepper,  minced garlic and palm sugar.   Sauteed organic cabbage with minced meat… Steamed free-range chicken eggs with minced meat… Pan-fried tempeh… Radish + carrot +…

Delish And Easy Rice Cooker Chicken Rice

This was what I dished up for lunch at the eleventh hour last Friday just before we rushed Cass to the hospital. Rice cooker chicken rice – this is seriously easy and fast to cook and anyone can cook this. And it tastes seriously delish!! I had no intention to cook lunch on that fateful Friday. I…