Homemade Fish Cakes
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Category: Home-cooked food
FollowYellow Ginger Chicken
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
Crockpot Lid Unveiled
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This is what was stewing in the crockpot – abalones. These are not canned abalones but dried abalones and are supposed to cost way more than canned ones. How did my mil cook the abalones? First, she soaked the abalones for a few days in the fridge. Then, she put the abalones into the crockpot…
What’s Stewing Inside The Crockpot?
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Would anyone like to guess what’s stewing inside this crockpot? Hint – they’re something rare from the deep ocean, they are very costly and can only be eaten in certain restaurants. Some people like them cooked with soup while some people like them stewed and eaten like a piece of steak. If you still have…
Porridge For 3 Days
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Since hubby had a bad bout of food poisoning as a result of eating sushi at the hotel that we stayed at last weekend, we have been eating chicken and dried scallop porridge for 3 days straight. My maid would cook one big pot of porridge and everyone in the family including my maid would…
Braised Noodles with Pumpkin
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This is the braised meehoon with shredded pumpkin that my mil cooked for lunch several days ago. Everyone loved the noodles. Ingredients :MeehonShredded pumpkinChicken meat cut into stripsBean sproutsDried shrimpsShredded fresh mushroomsChopped garlic and onions Shredded pumpkin and bean sprouts. Dried shrimps No. of times viewed = 222
Stewed Pork Ribs
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My mil cooked this very tasty and simple-to-cook pork ribs dish the other day. No garlic or onions or frying are needed. All you need are :Pork ribs2 tablespoons Lee Kum Kee ‘hoisin’ sauce (seafood sauce)2 tablespoons tau cheong (fermented soya bean paste)1 tablespoon Oyster sauce1 teaspoon black sauceA dash of sugar or half slice…
Nice Smell Coming From The Kitchen
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As I am typing this post, my tummy is growling and rumbling away as I hear my mil clanking the spatula away on the wok frying meehoon with shredded pumpkin strips, strips of chicken meat, dried shrimps and bean sprouts. This is a recipe which she had learnt from a Taiwanese friend. I shall take…
Sweet and Sour Minced Chicken Meat
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This is another simple and very tasty dish for kids and adults too. Alycia loves it very much. Ingredients :Chicken breast, coarsely blended and marinated with soya sauce and pepper3 ripe tomatoes, blended1 Bombay onion, cut into ringsChopped garlicFreshly chopped spring onionsAround 2 tablespoons of tomato sauceMixed herbs and Lea and Perrin sauce (optional) Method…
All-In-One Wholesome Dish
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This is what we had for lunch yesterday : A wholesome omelette made with 3 eggs, 1 Japanese sweet potato shredded, some minced chicken meat, chopped spring onions, Bombay onions and a dash of salt and pepper. You get protein and iron from the eggs, carbohydrate and Vit A from the sweet potato, fibre from…