Monday, March 9, 2009

Lunch and Dinner on 03/07/09

Today we remained indoors, not having any agenda to go outdoors.
That means we had home-cooked meals for the day's breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Breakfast was pancake made by et, but no photos taken this time.
We had the pancake together with peanut butter, honey, and banana. All eaten separately together with the pancake, rather than one big mix of everything.

As for lunch, we had Tom Yam Noodle. For the Tom Yam, we used Tom Yam paste, onion, tomato, chicken frankfurter, chicken meat, cauliflower, carrot, bell pepper, and mushroom. Unfortunately we had no bird eye's chili nor red chili to get the extra spicy kick. Nonetheless, we used chili flake as substitute which did a decent job. For the extra sour kick, we used lemon juice.
The result as you can see in the first photo, the amount of ingredient overwhelmed the noodle until the noodle can't be seen. lol



Tom Yam Noodle
The first photo was taken before we 'attacked' the meal. The second shows et's bowl after she 'assaulted' her bowl. :)


Empty Tom Yam Noodle Bowl

Since we had some of the Tom Yam soup left from lunch, we decided to make Tom Yam Fish with the tom yam being more like gravy rather than soup. Into the Tom Yam, we added mixed vegetables, chicken frankfurter and fish slices. The fish slices are of the Pollack, marinated with some salt and pepper and pan-fried before being mixed with the Tom Yam. The photo below shows the resulting dish. The dish was ok, as the Pollack still retained some of it fishy taste. Sutchi would have been better, but lately we are less inclined on the Sutchi (aka Dory to some, erroneously). You can refer to this post for the reasons.

Tom Yam Fish Slice
The 2nd dish for our dinner was Stir-Fried Cauliflower with Carrot and Bell Pepper. Other ingredient was onion and garlic.

Stir Fried Cauliflower with Bell Pepper and Carrot
Well, we managed to have our meals today with whatever we had in the fridge. Good to have some stuff in the fridge. Beats the hassle of going out just for meals.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Chocolate Cake


It has been close to a year since I last baked cake from scratch (scratch means not from cake mix :p) I fall in love with baking while relo in US, I started with cake mix, and slowly decided to try making cake from scratch. I got myself a small tabletop oven many years ago, it's still in service now. Hehe, good investment :) Anyway, I am not diligent enough in baking, sometimes not doing any baking for months.

Early of the year I bought a cup cake recipe book which comes with baking kits, so I decided to do some baking with the new toy (silicone muffin pan). And here it is, chocolate cup cake:

Chocolate Cupcake
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Dinner on 03/05/09


Tonight's dinner was home-cooked again. We had Kung Pao Chicken, Sambal Kangkung (water convolvulus) and Old Cucumber soup. The Kung Pao Chicken was done following a recipe from a food magazine. Turns out to be quite a good recipe. I, however, had put quite a lot of dried chilli which results in quite a spicy dish! Just the way I like it :)






The Sambal Kangkung was cooked using our own sambal belacan that was prepared by et.


Monday, March 2, 2009

Dinner on 03/02/09

Our dinner on Monday was delicious :) Two thumbs up for cw who prepared the food :D

Dish #1 is Butter Prawns. This is the 1st time we cook prawn dish at home and it turned out to be very nice, both the look and the taste...

Butter Prawns
Dish #2 is Otak-Otak. Otak-Otak is a popular food in Muar. Its main ingredient is fish paste, wrapped in banana leaf and grilled like Satay. This particular Otak-Otak was bought from Parit Jawa, a well-known seafood village near Muar town.


Otak-Otak
Dish #3 is Lily Bulbs Egg Soup. Hehe, it is an instant soup, but tastes good too...

Lily Bulbs Egg Soup
Dish #4 is mix vegetables. We do not have any fresh vegetable in fridge, so frozen vege is our only choice.

Mix Vege