Lunch Today – 21 Jan 2013

For the kids’ lunch today, I was undecided whether to cook green tea noodles with the new sauce that I had bought from Isetan or mushroom pasta.  Since the punnet of button mushrooms had been sitting in the fridge for over 1 week already, I thought I should just use it before they turn black….

Easy Peasy One-Pot Homecooked Dish

Here is our dinner for tonight, which I have already prepared at 4:40pm, as rascal #2 has ballet at 6:30pm.  For time-challenged WFHMs, there will be lots of one-pot meals without stir-frying, shallow or deep frying. The lesser washing and oil splatters the better… and the food is healthier too. Steamed chicken drumsticks in tong…

Mushroom Pasta With Pan Fried Fish

Mushroom pasta cooked with Campbell’s mushroom soup is one of my kids’ favorite lunch meals.  I normally add in 2 punnets of fresh button mushrooms, onions and sometimes chopped carrots.  This time, I  cooked it with pan fried fish, to pump up their protein and DHA intake. After briefly pan-frying the fish in a non-stick…

Braised Pork Ribs Egg Noodles

My 3 girls are big fans of noodles, especially #2 and #3.  There is a noodles dish on my kids’ menu at least 3-4x in a week as it is pretty simple and quick to prepare.  My noodles dishes come in a variety of styles.  Braised pork ribs with egg noodles is a new addition…

Pan-Fried Salmon Fried Rice

Fried fish only tastes good if it is eaten immediately while it’s still warm and out from the frying pan within the same hour.  For left over fried fish that is kept in the fridge and reheated in the toaster or oven the next day, some how I find that the taste and texture of…

Instant Noodles Minus The Guilt!

Maggie mee (my girls’ way of labeling instant noodles) is my girls’ all-time favorite comfort food. That is because I hardly prepare instant noodles for them.   Even if I do, the sachet of flavouring with MSG is not added into the soup or noodles. And there will be other side dishes like eggs, seaweed,…

A Bento Set A Day

Here’s yet another bento set lunch for my girls prepared this week, something that’s quick to prepare and does not need elaborate preparation and cooking.  For busy working mums like me, you can cook a big portion and deep freeze in smaller portions for future consumption.  The Terriyaki chicken strips go well along with rice…

Bento Set For A Princess Wannabe

Simple meals can be made to look really appetizing and enticing if you do some ‘touch up’ or ‘make up’ to it, like placing the food in nice bowls, plates and decorating the food. My princess wannabe is one such aesthetic fella. She likes food decorated tastefully and presented to her, like it was fit…

Homemade Golden Fried Drummets

My girls love fried drummets, nuggets and fried chicken. While shopping for groceries at Bangsar Village, I saw some raw chicken drummets at the frozen meat section. I hardly see raw chicken drummets at the frozen meat section at the supermarkets that I normally frequent, so I was really excited and got 2 packs. But…

Purple sweet potatoes for dinner

I had forgotten that there was still a bag of purple sweet potatoes that I had bought from the night market. When my maid reminded me about it about a month later, I told her that we had to finish off the sweet potatoes that night itself, lest they rot in no time. So that…

Instant Noodles With Fish Soup

The forbidden fruit is always so juicy and tasty even though you do not really like it. My girls are absolutely crazy over maggie mee, which is their version of instant noodles. That’s because I hardly ever allow them to eat. Each time they see kakak or daddy slurping salty and spicy maggie mee from…

Simple And Nutritious Homecooked Dishes… By Moi

These are some of the dishes that I whipped up last week. You may be wondering why all so porky?? I had used minced pork in most of my dishes. That’s because the pork seller (don’t know whether he deliberately or accidentally) put 2 packets of minced pork into my bag instead of 1 and…

Sam Pei Jie Chicken

My mil can whip up a very good chicken dish of Sam Pei Jie, a Taiwanese dish. This dish comprises of chicken, basil leaves, ginger, garlic and Chinese cooking wine. Now that she’s away for a few months, my girls’ meals are fully taken care of by me – 3x a day! And I’m talking…