Dinner on 02/26/09

Using yesterday's leftover beansprout, we made noodle for today's dinner. The base soup was a quick job using anchovie stock, kei chi (wolfberries), some peppercorn, salt and sugar. On top of the noodle, we mixed in plenty of stuff as can be seen in the photo below :)

We had fishball, seaweed, beansprout and siew bak choy. Yum yum...

Dinner on 02/25/09

I found a recipe for Pad Thai (Thai Style Fried Noodle) while cleaning up my messy documents, and I got interested to try it, since Pad Thai was one of my favourite food in US. So today, I cooked Pad Thai for dinner, after we finally have prawns in our fridge :p


The main ingredients for the Pad Thai dish from the recipe includes noodle, prawns, roasted peanuts, preserved radish, bean sprout, shallots and garlic; and seasoning are tomato sauce, thai chili sauce, tamarind juice, sugar, fish sauce and chilli flakes. We also added carrot, cili padi and curry leaves which are not called in the original recipe :)

As can see from the photo, the Pad Thai does not look like actual Pad Thai, and in fact the taste was not exactly like Pad Thai too :( This 1st attempt was not successful. Hmm.. I guess I put in too much tomato and chilli sauce, and cooked a bit too long. Anyway, I'm going to try cooking Pad Thai again in the near future. I guess I will have to do more homework before I make 2nd attempt.

Lunch on 02/21/09

We had stir-fry spaghetti for lunch today, prepared by et :p
We added many ingredients to the spaghetti. Hehe, basically whatever suitable raw food available in our fridge. This is one of the reason I cook spaghetti quite frequent last time, great flexibility on the ingredients :)


This time, our stir-fry spaghetti has purple cabbage, carrot, chicken sausage, chinese sausage, dried mushroom, onion, garlic, and lot of Italian herbs, garnished with chilli flakes and dried parsley.

Dinner on 02/20/09

For today's dinner, i prepared Baked Salt and Pepper Chicken. This dish is one of the simplest to make and also happens to be one of the most delicious too.

Dinner on 02/17/09

Dinner today is sumptious again with Pan-Fried Pollack in Creamy Chives Sauce, Sweet Pea Sprouts Stir-Fried with Garlic and YuZhu soup.

The pollack fillet is first lightly pan-fried before the chives sauce that had been prepared separately are poured onto the fish fillet. This dish has always been one of our favorites. We'll share the recipe soon.

The sweet pea sprout (Cantonese: tau miu) is stir-fried with garlic, with a little bit of salt and light soy sauce. Quick to cook, nice to eat. What else to say... :)

This YuZhu soup is also one of the favorites for its easy preparation and great taste. Yuzhu is known in English as Fragrant Solomonseal Rhizome and its Latin name is Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati. More info here. Basically you throw in some meat, yuzhu, carrot, red dates and kei ji (wolfberries) together for soup. Voila! Nice-tasting nutritious ready to be ... ;)

This photo is actually et's lunch for the next day which is today's dinner. Looks nice :) Especially with the brown rice.

Dinner on 02/13/09

Dinner on 02/12/09

We only have purple cabbage in the fridge for today's dinner. We need a meat based dish, so we decided to open up a can of luncheon meat. Instead of pan-frying the thin sliced luncheon meat like we always do, I decided to try one of my favourite dish by my mom. It has been long time since I eat the dish, and I missed it! In fact I do not know how to cook the dish. I just remember the luncheon meat is cubed, plus lots of onions and black soy sauce.

This is the output ... :-) The taste is quite good (can't be too wrong with luncheon meat :p ), but definitely could be improved. We should add more onions...

This is also our first time cooking purple cabbage. We were attracted with its color in Supermarket and decided to bag it home. We stir fry the purple cabbage like we do for green cabbage. Purple cabbage is crisper than green cabbage :) This is only 1/3 of the whole cabbage we bought, so we are going to explore other ways of cooking purple cabbage soon... :D

Dinner on 02/11/09

Today's Dinner (10/02/09)

We had a nice dinner tonight. The great food was prepared by cw :)
First up was the steamed broccoli. Steamed for 10 min to perfection with the electric steamer, its natural taste was enhanced with the addition of oyster sauce.


Second dish of the night was the Butter Pollack. It's a twist to one of Malaysian favourite dish, the Butter Prawn. Pollack was used in place of the prawn. It tastes good. :) Recipe will be coming along soon.