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Hi there......

2010-07-16T22:00:00.000-07:00

I have been neglecting this blog for quite some time. I am still cooking here....trying out quite a few dishes but just lazy to snapshot the photos to upload to the blog.

Talk about nasi lalapan. This is our latest craze. Hubby and I have been searching around the best nasi lalapan in town and almost we had at least once eating out a week.

Finally, we found out the best sambak cobek served is from Muara Restaurant and it serves the best lalapan in town.

I will prepare nasi lalapan next week for dinner and definitely share with you the ingredient and recipe in preparing sambal cobek. Stay tune!

Grilled Chicken Drumstick

2010-05-20T22:19:00.000-07:00

I cooked this for lunch yesterday and it was simply delicious and yet easy to prepare.

Ingredients:-

1) Few Chicken drumstick, trimmed off the fats and let the skin intact; Marinate with Teriyaki Sauce, Black Pepper and dash of brown sugar; Leave in the fridge for 3 hours;

2) wash and cut potato, broccoli, green capsicum, big onion and carrot into chunks;

3) Few button mushroom;

Methods:-

1) Extremely easy! Arrange everything on the tray, pour olive oil all over the meat and veggie.

2) Turn the temperature to 220'c for 40-50 minutes.

Note:- It is best to put in the veggie 20 minutes before the chicken is well cooked.

This grilled chicken drumstick serves together with boiled sweet corn create a very yummy and wholesome meal!

Simple Lunch - Udon

2010-05-05T21:10:00.000-07:00

I was short of time the other day when the kids came back from school and they "shouted" for lunch. I think they must be really hungry that day because they normally take their lunch after their bath and rest.

In the nick of time, I came out with this dish. Udon with sausage and mushroom minced pork meat sauce and topped with ikan bilis (their favourite!)

Luckily, I made some mushroom minced meat sauce a few days before and keep some in the freezer for next meal to stir fry with Japanese tofu. Besides, there is always a bottle of dried anchovies ever ready in my kitchen.

So, I thawed the frozen sauce in microwave while cooking the sausage and the udon in the boiling water in a saucepan.

Once the sauce is thawed and warm, just mix it with the udon. Final touch was topping the dish with their favourite ikan bilis!

Tuna Puffs

2010-05-05T20:43:00.001-07:00

I browsed through a mommy blogger' website the other day and came across this recipe. Since I had an oven now and I can try my hands on baking puffs for kids and hubby. My cheeky boy likes it very much because he has been fancy on all those crispy food all the time.

Verdict: The tuna puffs do not look "nice" but it is really tasty, especially when it is just out from the oven. see one missing, can't wait to let hubby tried my "produce"

Here's the ingredient you need:-

6 pieces ready cut puff pastry 10X10cm, thawed
2 hardboiled egg, cut into quarter

Tuna Filling Ingredients :
1 can tuna in olive oil, drained & mashed coarsely
½ cup grated cheddar cheese

Method:
1. Lightly grease muffin pan and line puff pastry.
2. Fill each pastry with quartered egg and tuna mixture.
3. Sprinkle the top with some cheddar cheese.
4. Bake it for 20 to 25 minutes until pastry is golden and crispy.
5. Serve crispy tuna pies while it is still hot.

After A Long Break - Homemade Lor Mai Kai

2010-05-05T20:12:00.000-07:00

After a long break, I finally come back to update my cooking blog. Not that I didn't cook for the past 4 months (in fact, yes. I didn't cook for the 2 months holiday in Kuantan as I had my Dad to take care of this! )

Okay, let's start on the ingredients we need to make lor mai kai:-

1) Chicken fillets ( I use drumstick and deboned), cut into strips . Marinate chicken with seasoning sauce. set aside for an hour.
2) 500 g glutinous rice, soak for an hour and drained
3) oil
4) cloves of garlic (estimate), chopped finely
5) small shiitake mushrooms, soaked and removed stalks
6) 1 large onion, chopped finely
7) chinese sausage (lap cheong) (optional)
8) Roast pork (char siew)/ sliced (optional)

Seasoning for chicken

oyster sauce
rice wine (optional)
ginger juice
light soy sauce
dark soy sauce
sesame oil
sugar
a little of cornflour
water

Sauce ( to mix with glutinous rice)

oyster sauce
light soy sauce
sesame oil
fine sugar
thick black soy sauce
1 cup water

soak glutinous rice in warm water for an hour and drained. Steam for 45 minutes. Set aside until ready to use.

Method:

1) Heat oil in wok over medium fire. Stir fry garlic until fragrant. Add mushroom and continue to stir fry. Remove and set aside.

2) Heat oil in the same wok and stir fry onion until fragrant, add steamed glutinous rice and sauce. Stir to mix well. Turn off fire.

3) Lightly grease 10 rice bowl (same as below) with oil. Put in the mushroom, chicken, and others meat into each bowl.

4) Fill glutinous rice until 3/4 full. Press rice firmly into bowl.

5) Steam over boiling water for about 40 minutes. It's best when serve with chili sauce.

Steamed Fish with Japanese Tofu

2010-01-21T02:31:00.000-08:00

I steamed the 七星斑 fillet for dinner last week. It was so yummy that the kids eat most of the fish.

Ingredients:-

1) 1 packet of Japanese Tofu

2) Handful of salted vegetable ( 咸菜 )

3) ginger

4) 1 tomato , cut into wedges

5) Bragg liquid amino

6) Dash of sesame oil

Method:-

Very easy. Just look at the pictures below:-

Steam the fish for about 10 minutes and a wholesome dish is ready to be served!

Fish Maw Dessert

2010-01-17T21:43:00.000-08:00

Apart from its' nourishing ingredients, "yoon" in Cantonese, it cures cough too.

See how I cooked this dessert.

Ingredients:-

1) Fresh fish maw
2) Rock Sugar (I use the brown colour one)
3) A handful of red dates

Method:-

1) Soak the fish maw overnight.

2) Just before you put everything into the slow cooker, make sure you cut the fish maw into small pieces.

3) Then, just put all ingredient into the slow cooker/crock pot. Let is cooked for about 5-6 hours on auto mode.

Salmon Fillet

2010-01-17T21:15:00.000-08:00

The salmon fillets taste really good to be fried this way.

Ingredient:-

1) Few Stalks of lemongrass.
2) I clove of garlic
3) Salmon fillets

Method:-

1) Heat up 3 tablespoons of oil in a wok/frying pan.
2) Add in lemongrass stalks (slightly smashed) and garlic.
3) Once you smell the fragrant, put in the fillets to fry.
4) Turn side when see the colour turn golden brown.
5) Squeeze some lemon juice on the fish as final touch while it is still being fried in the pan, then dish up and serve.

Home Remedy

2010-01-17T06:53:00.000-08:00

I read a post from a blogger mommy on the home remedy to cure her chronic cough. But in her post, she mentioned that she uses fresh olives from Hong Kong.

However, it is hard to find fresh olives here and coincident there is a type of "black olives" in Miri. So, I am just try my luck and use it to double boiled with lean pork.

Surprisingly, Jia Jia's cough has been cured after she drank about 4 bowls continuously in two days. I think the fresh black olives work just well as the fresh green olives. At least she does not need to complete the course of singulair prescribed by the doctor.

Very easy to prepare.

Ingredient:-

1) A handful of black olives
2) some lean pork

Method:-

1) Wash all ingredient and put everything into the double boiler.
2) I use Milux double boiler and set the time to 4 hours.

Here's the soup. Taste not bad. Jia Jia drank the soup and I ate all the olives.

Stir Fry Japanese Tofu with Mixed Veggie

2010-01-12T10:01:00.001-08:00

It is an easy to cook dish. I normally fry the Japanese tofu before stir fry it with the mixed vegetables. I find that the tofu taste better this way.

You can use any veggie but I personally like to use broccoli and cauliflower because both my kids loves it.

Braised Fish Maw with Sea Cucumber

2010-01-12T00:52:00.000-08:00

Braised fish maw in sea cucumber, chicken, shitake mushroom and clams

Here is one of my best dish and it is a all time favourite during "big day'. I learnt to cook this from my dad.

Ingredient:-

1) Fish maw. Cooked in a boiled water until soft. Wash and cut into bite size.

2) Shitake mushroom. Soak until soft and cut into halves if the size is big.

3) Cut the chicken thigh into halves. Marinate with pepper powder, oyster sauce and ginger slices.

4) Sea cucumber (optional). I normally buy the ready-to-cook type. Cut into bite size.

Method:

1) Stir fry chicken for about 15 minutes until it is half cooked. Place it nicely in a big pot.

2) Sautee garlic until fragrant. Add in the shitake mushroom. Cook for about 10 minutes. Dish up and place on top of the chicken.

3) In the same wok, add in the cooked fish maw and continue to stir fry. No need to add any oil.
Stir fry for about 8-10 minutes. Dish up and place on the mushroom.

4) Now, bring the pot to add water just enough to cover the fish maw 9which is on the top layer).

5) Bring the pot to boil and slowly add in oyster sauce to taste. Let it simmer on low heat for about 2 hours. Then add in sea cucumber and continue to cook for another 1 hour and then turn off the stove.

6) Clams can be added just before serving. Reheat the pot and add in clams and let it cook for about 8 minutes.

Steam Tofu with Dried Shrimp

2009-12-28T19:15:00.000-08:00

Yet another easy-to-prepare dish and very yummy too!

Ingredients:-

1) 1 pack of tofu

2) a handful of dried shrimp. Soak in water to soften up. Drain and chop.

3) a few stalk of spring onion. chopped.

4) garlic and shallot

5) Oyster sauce

Method:-

1) Put a tiny dash of sesame oil on top of the tofu and steam for 10 minutes. Drain the water. Pour some oyster sauce on top of the tofu. Leave it aside.

2) Heat up 3 tablespoon of oil in a wok. Add in chopped dried shrimp. Stir fry until the colour turn golden brown. Add in garlic and shallot. Continue to stir fry for another 5 minutes.

3) Once it is done, dish up and pour over the top of the steamed tofu. Lastly, garnish the tofu with the chopped spring onion.

Barley Ginkgo Dessert

2009-12-28T18:51:00.001-08:00

I have a hubby who loves dessert. So, I'll make dessert at least once a week. This is one of the desserts that I made. De-seeding the ginkgo/ lotus seeds is slightly time consuming, so, I normally cook this on weekend.

Ingredients:-

1) Barley

2) Ginkgo/Lotus Seeds

3) Fu Pei (bean curd skin)

4) Rock sugar

On side note:- I use pressure cooker to make this as the bean curd skin dissolve /become soft easily when cook in the pressure cooker.

Method:-

1) fill the pot with water. Add in the bean curd skin and barley to boil. Cook for about 45 minutes. Then put in the ginkgo and rock sugar. Let it boils for another 30 minutes.

2) Turn off the stove. You can either serve it warn or chilled it. I find out it taste good when serve chilled.

Mixed Vegetable and Fruit Juice

2009-12-28T18:28:00.000-08:00

I have been juicing this since the past two weeks ever since I found out that both my kids love it.

I normally mix at least 2 types of veggie and 2 types of fruits in a time. It is either be:-

(A) celery, carrot , green apple and orange or

(B) cucumber, carrot, green apple and orange

It is so good that they eat the celery in this way and they normally do not like to eat celery.

I'll try adding beetroot next week and see how well they can take it!

Stir Fried Fish Fillet With Ginger

2009-12-28T17:57:00.000-08:00

My kids like this very much as it goes very well either with rice or porridge. Besides, it is so easy to prepare.

Ingredients:-

1) Fish fillet (marinate with sesame oil, pepper and soy sauce for about 20-30 minutes)

2) a few stalk of spring onion

3) Slices of ginger

4) 1 clove of garlic

5) cili padi (small red chili) . Optional. I normally add this at last stage after dish up a portion for the kids as they can't take spicy food.

6) Dash of corn starch.

Method:-

1) Sauteed garlic and ginger until golden brown.

2) Add in the fish fillet and stir fry.

3) Put in the spring onion, chili and water. Continue to stir fry.

4) Lastly, mix corn starch with water and pour in to thicken the sauce.

Stir Fried Squids in Sauce

2009-12-28T17:41:00.001-08:00

I like sotong (squids) very much. Whenever I cook squids, I am the only one who eat up everything because hubby cannot take squids due to health issues.

Here's the ingredient:-

1) One big squid

2) One big onion (cut into wedges)

3) One tomato (cut into wedges)

4) Green & Red bell pepper (optional)

5) 1 clove of garlic

6) A dash of black soy sauce

7) Some light soy sauce to taste ( I use Braggs )

Method:-

1) Heat up 2 tablespoon of oil in a wok. Sauteed garlic until golden brown.

2) Add in the onion and stir fried until fragrant.

3) Put in the tomato and green pepper and continue to stir fry.

4) Lastly, pour in the squids and add in the black soy sauce, light soy sauce and a little bit of brown sugar. Stir fry for about 5 minutes. Dish up and serve warm with rice.

It goes very well if serve with rice alone as there are already include veggie in this dish.

Assam Fish

2009-12-28T17:18:00.000-08:00

I normally used the ready mix rempah in making this assam dish all the time. Of all the ready mix products in the market, the brand that I like most is Rempah Nyonya.

Here's the ingredient I used:-

1) Whole fish or fish fillet ( I used mackerel fish fillet because I couldn't find a fresh ikan merah)

2) A few stalks of lemongrass

3) 1 tomato , cut into wedges

4) 1 red chili, cut into slices

5) few slices of Mengkuas

6) Assam paste (mixed with water and strain)

Method:-

1) steam the fish for about 5 minutes and let aside.

2) put 2 tablespoon of oil to wok to heat, add in the lemongrass and Mengkuas to stir fry until fragrant. Then add in the red chili and ready mix rempah. Stir fried for about 3 minutes.

3) Pour in the assam water and add in the tomato. Stir for a while.

4) Put in the fish and let it simmer for about 5 minutes. Dish up and serve warm.

Simple Lunch

2009-11-01T11:27:00.000-08:00

I cooked something different and wanted to tried new dishes on them the other day. We had plain porridge for lunch with stir fried french bean and fish fillet.

stir fried french bean with eggs.

stir fried fish fillet with fermented sweet bean paste and garlic. (I just put in a tiny bits of fermented bean paste as taste)

Verdict; Both of them like it so much. Sometimes it is good to serve plain porridge with other side dishes instead of put everything into the pot and cook together.

Quick Fixed Lunch

2009-10-30T22:17:00.000-07:00

Jia Jia has to attend ballet lessons today and she was really hungry when we reached home. So, in order to fill up her hungry tummy, I had to come out with this as quick fixed lunch.

Shell pasta cooked in Heinz white sauce and tuna, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. It is served with broccoli coated with butter .

These are the ingredients. Easy, right?

Simple Meals

2009-10-29T07:55:00.000-07:00

Read a few blogs the other day and was keen to try out some yummy recipe that shared by the mommy blogger. Here are what I had cooked for our dinner today.

fry prawns (dry-style) with soy sauce, Chinese cooking wine and brown sugar.

stir fried french bean with garlic and fermented bean paste.

marmite chicken served with stir fried broccoli and cauliflower. Thanks to HN for sharing this.

Not forgetting the fruits after dinner. Cherry tomatoes, grapes (red and green) for the kids.

Simple Lunch

2009-10-28T11:09:00.000-07:00

I lost of ideas for lunch the other day or maybe mommy is still yet recovered from the tiredness from traveling (excuses, excuses) and just prepare a very simple lunch for the 3 of us.

In fact, I have been taking long afternoon nap this few days ever since I am back from Brunei. Hubby said that it was due to lack of sleep during the weekend as I stayed up quite late till 2am+ chit-chatting with my brother.

Here's what we had on Tuesday afternoon.

Toast brown bread with cheese and ham. Serve with strawberries and yakult.

Both yakult and strawberries were bought at Supa Save, Brunei. These two items are the "must-have" in my shopping list whenever I go Brunei.

Simple Lunch

2009-10-27T07:36:00.000-07:00

I had cooked a quick and easy dish for lunch the other day. As my little girl likes prawn so much, I tried to add in prawn into the stir fried broccoli. Both the kids like it so much that they had a big plate of rice that day. I just serve the dish with white rice, no soup etc.

Ingredients:-

Broccoli, Japanese tofu, prawns, tomato

1) Marinate prawns with corn starch, light soy sauce and sesame oil.

2) Put broccoli in boiling water and let it cooked for few minutes. Drain and keep it aside.

3) Heat up oil, put in chopped garlic, saute until fragrant. Add in marinated prawns and stir fried for a few minutes then add in tomato. Continue to stir fry.

4) put in the broccoli and stir fry for a while before adding the Japanese tofu. Put in water and let all ingredients simmers for a few minutes before add in some oyster sauce.

5) Dish up and serve. Easy, right?

Simple Meal

2009-10-23T00:33:00.000-07:00

We had chicken rice for dinner yesterday. Stir fried a green veggie dish and it is too bland just to eat chicken without any veggie.

stir fried veggie with garlic and oyster sauce

晒油蒜米白切鸡 (chicken in garlic and soy sauce) . This dish is very easy to prepare.

Ingredients:-

1/2 chicken ( I use 2 big chicken drumstick)

2 pips garlics(chopped)

Clean chicken well , boil a pot of water. Once water boils, put in the chicken and cook for about 10 minutes. do not remove the chicken from the pot. Let it soaks in the hot water for at least 25 minutes. Dish up and chop into pieces.

The most important part is the seasoning sauce. Ingredients are simple, some oyster sauce, sugar, chicken stock, water and wine. Heat up some oil in a pan, stir in garlic and fry until fragrant. Add in all seasoning ingredients. Keep stirring until gravy turns thicker. Pour on the chopped chicken pieces.

As for the chicken rice, I use pre-mixed Nyonya Rempah to mix into the rice, add in 2 tablespoon of margarine and put in a few screw pines leaves and cook.

Simple and yet easy to prepare! Kids and hubby loves it.

Kueh Chap

2009-10-20T17:30:00.000-07:00

I am not sure whether you can find this in West Malaysia but it is very common in Sarawak. Almost every stall in the food court sells kueh chap.

I did not fancy this bowl of big, thick noodle plus the "spare parts" and lean pork when a colleague of my hubby brought me to try it out.

But then ever since I have tried out a few times, I am just fall in love with kueh chap. On most Saturdays, hubby will bring me to the "best in town" kueh chap stall for breakfast after drop off Jia Jia for her ballet lesson.

我们简单的午餐

2009-10-19T08:04:00.000-07:00

昨晚临睡前，问我的小公主明天午餐想要吃什么，她说要吃麺条。我这个女儿在吃这方面，像极了我！偏爱麺条，面包这类食物。

她还特别要求我放鸡肉与鱼丸，于是我就炒了一盘麺当午餐，放些鸡肉，鱼丸与长白菜，即简单又有益。

连我的小佻皮皓皓也吃下一大碗！

Our Dinner

2009-10-09T15:37:00.000-07:00

These are the dishes I cooked for our dinner yesterday.

stir-fried green mustard with garlic in oyster sauce

steam garoupa fish with ginger and tomato

The curry dish looks complicated but it is easy to prepare with the ready mix spices and sauce.

Simple Lunch for the Kids

2009-10-03T22:28:00.000-07:00

Here's our simple lunch today.

1) Cook pasta and drain well.

2) Boil the anchovies broth. Once broth is done, add in shredded cabbage, carrot and spinach.

3) Add in the chicken meatballs into the broth.

4) Once the meatballs are well-cooked, scoop out the soup and pasta into a bowl and serve.

Yet another simple and healthy lunch for the 3 of us! By the way, preparing meals are getting easier as the "picky eater" of mine becoming quite a "good eater" nowadays.

Less headache for me!

Breakfast At 阿凤麺档

2009-10-02T17:07:00.000-07:00

Remembered that I’ve mentioned in my previous post about our yummy breakfast at Sungai Lembing? The stall was visited by 阿贤 in his eatery program 阿贤人情味. Here’s the place 阿凤麺档.

the lady boss is very friendly. She was "pai sei" when I asked her how she was interviewed by 阿贤.

the stall was located at the "food court". It is easy to find as there is the only food court at Sg. Lembing which was on the main street.

It was a good breakfast and I am sure we’ll be visiting the stall again when we go back for Chinese New Year next year!

Ikan Bilis Broth

2009-09-25T17:13:00.000-07:00

Sometimes when I have no pork ribs or chicken in the fridge, instead of using the G Seasoning Powder, I use ikan bilis (anchovies) to make a broth.

In order to get rid of the “fishy” smell of the soup, you can put in cloves of garlic and bit of peppercorn. Let it boils for about an hour. Voila! It is another very tasty and nutritious anchovies broth.

Once the soup is done, I’ll put in tomato, Chinese spinach and add in fish balls or chicken meatballs. You can even add in a beaten egg to thicken the soup.

It goes very well with rice and my kids like it very much!

Glutinous Rice Balls Dessert

2009-09-24T22:00:00.000-07:00

Hubby likes to munch on some dessert after dinner occasionally. Last night after dinner, he tried to look for something to eat from the freezer and found a few packs of glutinous rice balls that are ever ready in the fridge and ask whether I can prepare the dessert for him. I am sure I can darling!

Here’s how I prepare the dessert for him:-

Put in slices of ginger and gula melaka as the soup base.

Cook the glutinous rice balls in other pot. Don’t cook them in the soup base as it will “dirty” the soup.

does it look like fish ball here?

Once the glutinous rice balls are well-cooked, scoop them out into a bowl and then scoop the gula melaka soup base into the same bowl. Ready to serve.

Strawberries Oh Strawberries

2009-09-11T08:23:00.000-07:00

I think I won't be buying strawberry anymore, I mean not from here in Miri. I didn't notice the strawberries here were selling at a very expensive price until I went to Carefour and Jusco during my recent trip back to KL.

Can you guess how much is a punnet of strawberries here? RM22 at departmental store and RM28 at the wet market. It is darn expensive! No wonder there were once a blogger mommy commented that it is expensive.

Do you know how much it was selling in West Malaysia? It is only RM8.99 for a small punnet and RM16.99 for a big one. It has the same label and packing and come from the same country!

So, will you buy a punnet of it when you know you are being charged that high?

Tell you, I ate lots of them while I was in Kuantan and KL because I know I will not buy any strawberries while I was here. At least not at the moment.

Simple Meals

2009-07-24T04:57:00.000-07:00

These are the dishes I cooked for dinner last night:-

Stir fry choy sum with oyster sauce

Leftover satay

Steamed garoupa fish with sweet bean paste and ginger

Also, our soup for the day, shark fin melon boiled with pork ribs and honey dates

G Seasoning Powder

2009-07-16T09:27:00.000-07:00

I use it in my stir frying of most veggies and also to put a taste to my soup. I mixed it to most of my kids’ dishes to replace the salt. You can use it to make a delicious soup base by mixing 5 teaspoonfuls in 1litre water.

Whenever I need to prepare a quick meal like noodle soup and run out of pork rib or chicken, I will do it a “short cut way”.

First, I stir fry some garlic and onion with a little oil in a pot, and then add in some water. Once the water boils, just add this Japan Style G seasoning powder with some fish ball, meatball，鱼滑 and green veggie. Voila! A tasty rice noodle is ready to serve.

Birds' Nest

2009-07-15T15:17:00.000-07:00

I used to buy in bulk when I was in Cambodia as I didn’t travel back to Malaysia often and it was cheaper for bulk purchase. I always get my stock from my aunt in Sandakan, Sabah.

The good thing to buy direct from the local orang asli is that you can get a cheaper than market price. But the problem is those birds'nest are really dirty. You may spend hours just to clean one piece.

Miri is also quite famous of the birds' nest. I found a shop here selling CLEAN birds' nest with reasonable price.

My mom asked me to put one to two slices of ginger while double boiled the birds' nest. According to her, it is a good cure for cough. I usually just boiled it with rock sugar in a slow cooker. I may try it these days as my daughter is prone to cough same as her papa.

Their Quick Fix Dinner on Sunday

2009-07-14T20:44:00.000-07:00

I managed to get these dishes done within an hour. The best thing is my picky eater likes these dishes so much that he can finish a whole plate of rice and a bowl of soup within 30 minutes! (How nice if he eats like that for every meal, hor?!)

Fried egg topped with organic soy sauce

Mixed veggie soup boiled with prok rib

A complete meal consist of rice, eggs and the veggie from the soup and steamed baby pea.

Simple Meals

2009-07-13T18:44:00.000-07:00

I cooked a few dishes for dinner yesterday. There are very simple and yet easy to prepare.

steamed fish with shiitake mushroom, sour plum, tomato wedges and topped with fried ginger and garlic.

stir fry brocoli with carrot, scallop , chinese mushroom and button mushroom.

a simple stir fry veggie.

Chicken Wine

2009-07-13T05:09:00.000-07:00

Is it delicious? I think those mommies who see this dish will surely think of their confinement days with chicken wine and pig trotters vinegar. I am a fan of chicken wine. Do you know who cook this dish for me? hmmm..................HUBBY!

He has always been a good cook and his specialty is wanton dumplings, pig trotter vinegar, chicken wine, 梅菜扣肉，客家芋头扣肉. I have actually been asking him to cook this dish for me since many weeks ago and he finally cooked it on Sunday last week.

Simple Meals

2009-07-02T13:25:00.000-07:00

This is what we had for dinner….macaroni cooked with Campbell mushroom cream soup.

I mixed prawn, cubed lean pork, baby peas (very sweet), grated carrot and broccoli into the pre-cooked macaroni pasta. Once everything is well cooked, add in the mushroom cream soup.

And our soup for the day is beet root boiled with black chicken （竹丝鸡），玉竹 and sweet corn.

The taste is sweet. My boy, the picky eater likes this soup so much that he keeps saying” mummy, soup, mummy soup” …

Jia Jia doesn't fancy the soup much maybe because of its colour. She asked me what that when she sees this bowl of soup. Anyway, she likes the macaroni and this is the first time she has eaten all her prawn.

And not forgetting our red bean sago soup as dessert for the night!

Snacks Time

2009-06-26T13:42:00.000-07:00

Other than fresh fruits, smoothie and biscuits/cookies, these are the stuffs that I normally provide them after lunch or dinner……….

Heinz summer drink is my girl all time favourite. She always ask for it when she returns from her playschool by saying this: “ mummy, I want the yellow juice and I want to drink from the nen-nen bottle”. and my boy says “ mummy….juice juice nen-nen bottle”

….also prune juice and Vitagen.

..off course yogurt and pudding.

Oh…one more thing, I can’t find any Yakult in Miri. I normally get the Yakult while I do my groceries shopping in Brunei.

Berries Smoothie

2009-06-22T05:12:00.000-07:00

Here is what I prepared for the kids today as snack.

Mixed Berries Smoothie

Some frozen blackberries

Some frozen strawberries

1 cup of strawberry yogurt

some fresh milk

I wanted to add frozen cranberries at first but just forget about the idea as cranberries taste a tad sour taste.

Snack of the Day

2009-06-16T19:30:00.000-07:00

I wanted to make a smoothie for the kids for quite a long time and only did it on Sunday last week. A yogurt and fruit smoothie is a quick , healthy and easy way to add more calcium and fruits into a child's diet. It is also the best way to boost up their 5 intake of fruits and vegetable per day.

The ingredient that I used to make the smoothie:-

I mixed fresh strawberries, frozen strawberries, banana, avocado with low fat milk and plain yogurt. Put everything in the blender and blend it. I didn't put in any ice cubes as the frozen strawberries serve as ice cubes.

How How likes it so much and keep saying...again..again" ...... Also, I find it is a good way to get Jia Jia to eat the banana as she does not like banana since a baby. She can't taste out the banana taste in the smoothie, maybe it has been covered by the strawberries taste.

I bought a pack of frozen blueberries and will try out other recipes this week.

Detoxify

2009-06-09T08:39:00.000-07:00

Well, I got this recipe from my hubby’s colleague quite a while ago but only make it during this week long holiday as hubby prefers to do the detoxification during his rest days.

Here, sharing the recipe with you all:-

4 leaves romaine lettuce
1 whole tomato
1 whole green apple
4 stalk celery
Half lemon
1 whole big onion (white)
1 tablespoon honey

Verdict: taste awesome but still able to gulp it down the throat!

Chicken Curry

2009-05-31T21:00:00.000-07:00

This is what I cooked for hubby and I for dinner on Thursday night, chicken curry with fried green veggie.

This dish is easy to prepare with the "help" of Tean's Gourment ready made curry spices. You can try out this dish, trust me, it is sooo.....easy and delicous too!

Quick Fix Lunch

2009-05-18T06:37:00.000-07:00

I have been cracking my head to think of something for my kids' meal this afternoon and was really run out of idea. Hence, come out with this simple, ready-to-cook San Remo La Pasta Sour Cream & Chives. I have added a slice of cheese and 2 tablespoon of butter. Put in some spinach and slices of fish fillet. Once is is done, put on some extra cheese to make it "oh-so-cheesy" taste.

Here you go:-

And two of them can finish the whole plate each.

Agar-Agar (Jelly) Easter Egg

2009-04-08T23:10:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow is Good Friday and it is the Public Holiday in the state of Sarawak.

My girl’s pre-school is celebrating Good Friday a day earlier. I had the idea last week that making some colourful agar-agar Easter egg for her to bring it school. Therefore, my maid and I have been collecting empty egg shell for this "project".

I didn't manage to make the colourful type but instead, making the gula melaka and pandan agar-agar mixed with egg and coconut milk. I had also made an extra tray for the teachers as well.

Guess what! Her school teachers take the agar-agar eggs to add to their "Easter basket". It makes a perfect match.

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