My Weekend Dinner

Well times are getting bad now, better eat more home cooked food cos it's more economical.

On Saturday, got my helper Mary to cook "yat wok sook"...means all cooked in a pot. It's the rice cooker version of Claypot Chicken Rice. To make the meal more complete with vegetables got Mary to fried "tao miow". Simple meal but healthy meal!

On Sunday, I cooked Nasi Goreng Pattaya, and fried some ready made tofu fish cake for dinner. My omelette was not big enough to cover the whole bowl of rice, so one of it is without omelette below and the enough one, can't even wrap....not too bad. We all had quite a full meal with simple cooking.

MY BREAKFAST BENTO

Woke up quite early this morning cos RJ "adjusted" my clock to half and hour earlier (without me knowing it)....

Since I bought some bread yesterday for today's breakfast, so decided to do a breakfast bento for myself. Will be using the new Barney lunch box, a 2 tier lunch box but I'll be using one of it only.

PHOTOS TAKEN AT BOTANIC GARDEN

Breakfast Bento

This week, I've done 2 breakfast bento (of course with the help of my maid, she helped me to prepare the food).

With nice coloured bento, it will make our food looks more yummy and will feel the sense of satisfaction!!!!

TUESDAY BENTO

THURSDAY BENTO

Chilli Crab

Yesterday went shopping at Sheng Siong, bought some crabs home to cook Chilli Crab. This is my very 1st attempt in cooking crabs. I've always wanted to eat Chilli crab but it's very ex to buy, so thought of trying to cook it using my own way. Quite simple and easy to cook!

RESULT....Taste not bad...the sauce was good when we eat with toasted bread!!!! Am so satisfied after eating the Chilli Crab!

RECIPE: (don't ask me how much I put in cos it's all "agaration")

Crab

Chilli paste

Chilli Sauce

Tomato Sauce

Tamarind Juice

Starch

Egg

Garlic

Sugar and Salt

Water

METHOD :

Fry garlic, then add in the chilli paste. Fry till fragrance is out.

Add tomato sauce and chilli sauce.

Add in the crabs...Fry it for awhile then add water.

After that add in the tamarind juice.

Cook for awhile then add in the starch.

Last add in the beaten egg.

Voila...all ready to serve with some coriander as garnish!

MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL

On 12th September, my company organised a pre-Mid Autumn celebration. So happen it's also my colleague's last day at work...so we had a farewell for her too...We had good buffet spread from Neo Garden.

We started the buffet party at 12pm and by 3.30pm we started our mooncake party. We have mooncake from Ritz Carlton, Four Season and Raffles The Plaza. I love the "ping pi" mooncake from Raffles, all with liqour in it.We had mooncakes, pomelo and chinese tea...and not forgetting left over from our lunch buffet!

Wow see to lose weight????

"LOU KAI"

Don't know how to call this in Mandarin or English, only know that it's known as "lou kai" in Cantonese.

This suppose to be my mother's signature dish but it is rather complicated. All thanks to my sister in law, nice food can be cook in simple way. Now I can easily ask Mary to cook for me and don't have to wait till I go back to Kuantan to enjoy this dish!

Simple ingredients :

Ingredient A:-

Shallots

Garlic

Ginger

Salted bean sauce

Preserved beancurd (those red colour type - in cantonese called Nam Yu)

Others:-

Chicken

Gula Melaka
Water

Oil

Method:

1) Blend ingredient A into paste. (add the bean sauce and beancurd later cos it's easier to blend).

2) Heat up the oil, cook ingredient A till you can smell the fragrance.

3) Put whole chicken in and try to mix the paste with the chicken

4) Add in water. When it's boiling, can add in gula melaka.

5) Put under low fire and slowly cook the chicken and till the sauce quite dry up.

6) Once cooked cut the chicken into pieces and pour the sauce over it.

I must admit Mary is a good cook, all I need to do is to prepare the ingredients as how much to put in, give her theory lesson (haha means I talk only), she will go the practical and END RESULT = GOOD!

My hb likes it very much and all of us agreed that it is YUMMY!

P/s : sorry no nice presentation...forgot about it cos my mind just thinking of trying the dish nia!