Minced Meat Porridge

My girl loves this comfort food. It is easy n fast to make.

1/3 cup of rice washed

Minced pork or chicken

1 egg

Chopped spring onions

Some corn flour

Light soya sauce

Pepper

Salt

Method:

1) soak the washed rice for around ten minutes

2) Bring water to boil (1 cup rice = 6 cups water)

3) Put the rice in let it boil

4) marinate the minced meat with light soya sauce and coat with corn flour

5) lower the fire to medium or small when the porridge is boiling

6) let it simmer for ten minutes

7) Add the minced meat bit by bit and keep stirring to prevent the porridge stick to the pot bottom

8) use a whisk to stir the porridge quickly until the rice breaks

9) Add salt in the porridge

10) Add in the egg & stir

11) Served hot with pepper and chopped spring onions.

Home Make Pasta Sauce

Today's menu. Home made tomato sauce pasta. It's healthy, light and yummy. Eat more without guilt. Haha

For the sauce:

5 tomatoes - diced finely
1 yellow onion - diced
A dash of thyme flakes
1 cup white wine
Pasta water

Method:
1) heat up olive oil in a wok, stir fry the onions for 3-4 mins, add in the tomatoes and thyme flakes.
2) keep stirring until tomatoes are soft, add in 1 ladle of pasta water.
3) add in the wine, salt and pepper to taste.
4) if the sauce is too dry, add in 1 more ladle of water and boil for 5 mins.
5) serve it on the pasta of your choice and enjoy!

Ikea Inspired Baked Salmon

So long never update my blog already! But that doesn't mean i did not cook at all. I was quite busy with other stuff. Well today i shall post one dish that i cooked for dinner just now. My girl was craving for Ikea baked salmon today. She couldn't go out as she was revising for her exam. So i decided to try out the dish to satisfy her craving.

Ikea inspired Baked Salmon

Ingredients:
1 salmon fillet
Some baby potatoes
A handful of french beans
Parsley flakes

Hollandise Sauce:
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon mustard
1 teaspoon lemon juice
100g of melted butter


Method:
1) Rub the salmon with olive oil, salt & pepper to season and baked in oven at 230 degree celsius for 5 mins together with the french beans.
2) Rub the potatoes with skin on with olive oil, salt and parsley flakes, baked at same temperature for 20 mins.

While the dish is cooking, prepare your sauce.

1) Put the yolk in a bowl over the simmering pot of water.
2) Whisk in the mustard and lemon juice.
3) Pour in spoon by spoon of the melted butter and keep whisking.
4) once the sauce thickens, leave it aside and starts to prep your dish on a plate. Pour the hollandise sauce over the salmon and enjoy!

Chicken Glutinous Rice - Lor Mai Gai

I simply love Glutinous rice. Decided to make it over the weekends!

Ingredients

1) 500gram glutinous rice - Soak overnight

2) 3 piece of chinese mushroom - soaked and sliced

3) 1 chinese sausage - sliced and fried.

4) 200gram chicken thigh - cut

5) 1/2 head minced garlic

Seasoning for the rice

1) 2 tablespoon of oyster sauce

2) 2 tablespoon of light soya sauce

3) 1 teaspoon of dark soya sauce

4) 1/2 teaspoon pepper

Seasoning for chicken

1)1 teaspoon of oyster sauce

2) 1 teaspoon of light soya sauce

3) 1 teaspoon of ginger juice

4) 1 teaspoon of sesame oil

5) 1 teaspoon of cornflour

6) A dash of pepper

Methods

1) Soak the glutinous rice overnight.

2) Marinate the chicken overnight with the seasoning

3) Stir fry the minced garlic, add in the rice and rice seasoning. fry till fragrant.

4) Prepare tin moulds or bowls, wipe oil inside. Add chicken, sausage, mushroom and top with rice. Press firmly.

5) Add 2-3 spoonful of water in the moulds. Steam in high heat for 1 hour.

It can make about 6 bowls. 

Fried Fish Bee Hoon Soup

I love fish been hoon soup! But it's so expensive to eat outside with such pathetic pieces of fish! Hence I bought stingray to replace the white fish in this recipe. It's so yummy as the texture is so much different from outside. This never fails to make me drool....

Ingredient

1) 500gram of stingray

2) some cornflour

3) 1 pack of thick bee hoon - soaked

4) some xiao bai chye - cut

5) 2 tomatoes - wedges

6) Sliced gingers

7) some giam cai aka salted vegetables

8) 2 pieces of salted sour plum - mashed it

9) 1 cup evaporated milk

10) a dash of fish sauce

11) sesame oil

Methods

1) Wash the stingray, pat dry and coated with cornflour. Deep fry it till half cook. ( this is to prevent it from breaking apart while boiling in the soup)

2) In a big wok, stir fry the ginger, salted veggies and tomatoes. Add in the sesame oil for fragance.

3) Add in the mashed salted sour plums and stir well.

4) Add in hot water and let it boil for about 10 minutes.

5) Add in the pre-fried stingray and boil for for another 5 minutes in low heat. 

6) Add in the evaporated milk and fish sauce for taste.

7) Cook the soaked bee hoon and xiao bai cai in a separate pot. 

8) Put the cooked bee hoon and xiao bai chye in a bowl, pour in the milk soup with the stingray and veggies. Dash some pepper and served hot.  

Salted Veggie Duck Soup

The other day I was craving for salted veggie duck soup with a bowl of hot rice. And so i decided to go down to the supermarket at my house downstairs to get the ingredients. This is my version of salted veggie duck soup as we are not the spicy food lovers.

Ingredients

1) 1 duck - cut into big chunks
2) 4 piece of spare ribs
3) A pack of salted vegetable aka giam cai - roughly chopped
4) 2 big tomatoes - quartered
5) A big piece of ginger - skin peeled and chopped into pieces
6)  A spoonful of white pepper

Method

1) Blanch the duck and spare ribs
2) Put hot boiling water into a deep pot and boil
3) Add in the duck, spare ribs, salted veggies, ginger and pepper. Bring to boil.
4) Add in the tomatoes and lower the heat. Simmer for about an hour.


I didn't add salt for seasoning as the salted veggies are saltish enough.If you find the soup too saltish, add in 1 teaspoon of sugar to balance it.

Papaya Spare Ribs Porridge

As a woman, I'm very conscious about the puberty years for my daughter. When she started her puberty in Primary 5, i was kinda worried that she may be like me when I was younger. My mother was not into cooking. Hence I did not have a chance to be "well-developed". haha... Anyway, back to the topic. Yeah i learnt that papaya spare ribs soup is good for developing boobies for puberty. But my daughter will not drink as much soup as she does for porridge. So i remix this soup into porridge and she enjoyed it to the last drop. It is a great comfort food plus it is so yummy. The meat and porridge gives you energy and the papaya is good for relieving constipation problems. For coming 5 years, I constantly cook this dish for my girl and I'm glad that she has no constipation problem and she is "well-developed"...

Ingredients

1) A cup of rice
2) A small green papaya - cut into chunks
3) A small piece of ginger - sliced
4) 4-5 pieces spare ribs
5) salt to season

Method

1) Wash the rice, bring water to boil and put the rice in. Cook for 10 minutes in high heat.
2) scald the spare ribs to get rid of blood water and put into the boiling porridge, cook for 5 mins.
3) Lower the heat to medium, put the sliced ginger and papaya in. simmer for 10 minutes.
4) Add salt for seasoning and served hot.

This is a very nourishing comfort food especially during rainy days. It helps to warm the stomach as there are ginger in it. It also cure constipation and nourish the boobies development.