FollowI made pork chop for the first time several weeks ago. The first time, it didn’t turn out well as I had forgotten to marinate the pork with corn flour. Corn flour helps to soften the meat. A week later, I made another batch and this time it turned out well. The secret to having soft tender meat is…
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Black Chicken Soup
This is my usual ‘poa pun’ (nutricious stuff in Cantonese) during my pregnancy – black chicken soup with snow fungus, wolfberries and red dates. Black chicken is known to be more nutricious than regular chicken. During my previous pregnancies, my mil or my former maids would chop and crush the black chicken into pieces before putting the chicken into a special double boiler with holes…
Pork Ribs Oats
Instead of cooking rice porridge for my 2 sick kittens, I cooked oats with pork ribs yesterday. This is a perfect meal if you want to whip up something that’s fast and tasty. All it takes is less than half an hour. First, marinate the pork ribs with sesame oil, light soya sauce and corn flour…
Getting Bored of Steamed Dishes
Ever since the gals were down with fever and throat ulcer since last Saturday, we’ve been eating very plain and bland food – plain porridge, noodles in soup, steamed fish, steamed tofu, oats and bread. I am getting really fed up with these food and today, I’m going to ask my maid to pan fry…
Bovril Noodles
This is the picture of the Bovril noodles that I had written earlier. Method : 1) Blanch meehoon and vegetables in hot water. 2) Remove them from the hot water with a colander and leave aside. 3) Fry shallots and garlic in sesame oil till fragrant in non-stick pan. 4) Add minced fish paste or minced chicken…
I’m Hooked On Steak
This baby must be a meat lover, especially beef, pork ribs, mutton and curry chicken. I am really crazy over steak and hubby is more than happy to know that coz he loves steaks too and now, he has even more excuses to buy steaks. Each week, we will shop for our steaks at Village Grocer…
Substituting Dark Thick Sauce With Bovril
My 2 gals love to eat ‘kon loa’ noodles (or noodles with dark thick sauce) from the hawkers stall. I don’t like my gals to be eating too much dark thick sauce as it’s an unhealthy condiment – the sauce is loaded with sugar that’s cooked till it becomes thick caramel. Any carbohydrate that is overcooked and burnt produce cancerous…
Appetizing Dish To Serve With Porridge
Here’s an appetizing dish that goes very well when eaten with porridge. It’s called ‘tau kok lup’ in Cantonese which literally means ‘diced long beans’ in English. All the ingredients in this dish are diced and toddlers will find this dish interesting and appetizing too. Be careful of choking hazard with the peanuts if you’re…
Homemade Fish Cakes
Yellow Ginger Chicken
This is my all-time favorite dish – ‘wong keong kai’ or yellow ginger (kunyit) chicken. It’s wholesome and delicious. I can’t wait for my confinement days to arrive (though I hate the ‘pantang’ part) so that I can ask my confinement lady to cook this dish for me everyday. Yes, when I love a dish,…
Sweet Corn Fritters
Here’s another dish that both toddlers and adults will enjoy – sweet corn fritters. My gals are crazy over this dish. It contains protein, iron, carbo and fibre – a wholesome meal. Ingredients : 1) 2 cob of corns – remove corn kernels from the cob (choose young corns) 2) Chopped spring onions or you…
Deep Fried Chicken Wings and Drumsticks
Remember I mentioned earlier that I will be trying out a recipe on deep fried chicken wings and drumsticks that I have whipped up myself? Well, they turned out really well. The wings and drumsticks tasted really good but I must say that the wings tasted better and more crispy than the drumsticks. Here’s the…
Homecooked Dish
This delicious chicken dish is yet another of my mil’s recipe. It’s chicken braised with fermented black bean or ‘tau si’ in Cantonese (we use organic ones) and Bombay onions. Ingredients:ChickenFermented black beans or ‘tau si’ (around 2 tbsps)2 -3 medium-size Bombay onionsSome ground black pepper Method:Heat wok with oil and fry Bombay onions until…
Stewed Chicken
This is another simple yet very tasty chicken dish which requires no frying, another of my mil’s recipe. Even Miss Spity Spat Sherilyn who hates meat loved the chicken! My mil doesn’t have any fixed measurement for the ingredients, she just estimates the ingredients and tastes the sauce as she cooks them. Ingredients : Chicken…
Homemade Maki
My mil made Maki 2 weeks ago. It’s actually quite simple and all the ingredients used are healthy and wholesome stuff. This is also a suitable food for toddlers. This is what you’ll need : Japanese riceChicken breast – cut them into cubesCarrots – cut them into cubes3 eggsJapanese mayonaise (you can omit this if…
Homemade Chicken Balls
I made chicken balls for dinner yesterday. As Alycia and Sherilyn love meehoon very much, we had meehoon with ABC soup, chicken balls and vegetables for dinner yesterday. It’s another very simple and nutritious meal which kids will love. Method of making the chicken balls : Blend chicken breast Add a dash of sesame seed…