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



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


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


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.

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:

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.

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...


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.



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


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

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.