Fragrant Claypot Salted Fish and Pork Belly

Adopt this cooking from 'Nasi Lemak Lover aka Sonia' in her blog. But mine turned out to be too dark as I did not follow her cooking measurement as I am cooking only for both of us. I've missed out to reduce the seasoning and this is the results of being forgetful...

15-12-2011 ENCORE Nyonya Prawn Pineapple Curry

I'm cooking this again and the results is AWESOME! It taste better than the first time cooking with the reduce coconut milk and dry chilies...




p/s: this is steam lap cheong with garlic and chili padi...its so simple and delicious...

3-12-2011 Non Bake Lemon Orange Cheesecake

This is my first time putting my hands on the non bake cheesecake. I get this recipe from kuali and the results is awesome! Not so much of creamy and cheesy taste but its more to like soury taste due to the orange juice and lemon juice which I've added into. I realise that the base which is made from digestive biscuit is too thin for me. Perhaps on my next round of making this I will add in more biscuit and the base will be more thicker.

Lemon Zest

Digestive Biscuit

Whipping Cream

Cream Cheese

Jelly powder (agar-agar powder)

Melted butter

Mashed digestive biscuits

Results after left in the fridge for overnight


YUMMY!!

TEFAL Non Stick Fry Pan-Elegance

My parents is in town this week and they stayed overnight at my place while I was thinking to bring them out for shopping suddenly I told my mom...'ma I feel like buying a non stick pan..those that branded type (mom dont know about the brand) what do you think?' My mom told me if I am using it frequently I can consider buying one. So we went to the nearest supermarket, Sunshine Bayan Baru and browse around the TEFAL counter and we came across this TEFAL fry pan original price RM75.90 (-20%) for a 26cm fry pan. When we've decided to buy that fry pan we came across an another model of TEFAL Non Stick Fry Pan - Elegance original price at RM119.00 with 50%! What a whooooppppiiieeeee price! But the pan diameter is only 24cm. Mom like this elegance one so we ended up buying this elegance fry pan. Mom is the first one to try on this pan and she like it...BUT...she's telling me...'the one that your brother bought for me is much more heavier than yours and it's better!' and I was like hmmmmmmmmppppp....


so can you see my Tefal pan in the trolley?

Chinese Herbs-Cooling Drink

He told me last night before bedtime that he has been having a mild headache for the past 3days. The first thought in my mind he is too heaty due to his work nature he often exposed under the sun and rain. Thus this morning I went to the market and bought this chinese herbs I don't know what it called in english but all I know is 'leng yong sai kak'. When I was 13years old I was down with chicken pox my mom has been making this drink for me. From I heard from her this drink has its 'cooling' effect and it's good for those with heaty body.


-Prepacked RM5

-Wintermelon 'sugar' RM2

-Mixed everything with 1.5L water into the slow cooker and let it cook for 3hours with high heat.when its ready shimmer with low heat for about 30mins then turn off. Drink this when it's already cold.

Konstar All In One Kitchen Helper

I bought (to be more precisely...I redeem) this Konstar All in one kitchen kit from COSWAY early this year and I seldom use it. As it contain a number of slicer,grater etc to help us in the kitchen but so far I only use the slicer but not the rest. So last weekend when I was doing some cleaning in the kitchen I found the box in the cabinet and give it a try for juice squeezer and it's so easy to use. Anyway, I've tried to use that to crush the ice cube and it works the wonder. This is the website:

"Konstar"

25-10-2011 Ju Hu Char (Stir Fry Jicama with Shredded Cuttlefish) & Egg Tofu with egg gravy

Our dinner for tonight...


Stir fry Jicama with shredded cuttlefish

Egg Tofu with gravy

Mom's Loh Mai Kai (Glutinous Rice with Chicken)-ENCORE

Yesterday mom make her famous loh mai kai again and this time the taste is better with added more shallot, ginger, mushroom & chinese sausage...the taste is soo gooodddd

Mom's Corn Soup with pork ribs

An another cooking from my mommy dearest today. I told her that I love this soup so much and she cooked it for me today. Thanks mama ^_^ She added pork ribs into this cooking but sorry eh picture taken is without pork ribs cuz someone already eat it.

Mom's Loh Mai Kai (Glutinous Rice with Chicken)

Today is mom's first time making loh mai kai. She learned this cooking from my cousin brother which is doing the dim sum business in Penang. It's so delicious as mom make 9cups of loh mai kai and I eat 2 cups at one time..hehe

Chrysanthemum with Wolfberry and Red Dates Drink

My dad was having an eyes operation yesterday and my sis in law has told us to prepare this drink for my dad but without Red Dates. I gave it a try with additional red dates and it taste so good and of course with added some sugar in it.

According to my sister in law this drink especially wolfberry is good for the eyes. I did several research online and found out that this drink is really good to treat those with blurred vision and it help to improve the eye sight. Since I am spending my day time at work with most of the time infront of the PC and at night time I am spending the time with my cross stitch. Thus I can see that I need this drink BADLY.

Despite taking this drink regularly but there are few things I have to look out for as the chrysanthemum has its cold effect and those that can easily has the cold sweat sensation and for those that down with flu, fever, flame and diarrhea are not encourage to take this drink at all.



All you have to do to get this drink is put few of the chrysanthemum flower into a cup with wolfberry and red dates and pour hot boiling water in it and steep for 5mins. If you prefer to have some sweetness in this drink you may add in some sugar and if you want it to be in natural way just skip the sugar.

Pork Ribs with Ginger & Garlic (Pai Kut Soup)

Two weeks ago when I went for breakfast with my family we dropped by JAWI while on our way back to me hometown my dad has ordered this soup Pork Ribs with Ginger & Garlic. The taste is almost same with bak kut teh and the I love it so much. Coincidentally today I have the urge to make this soup and I asked mom how to cook this soup. The results is VOILA! The picture will be post later.


This is the one I had at Jawi, Restorant Soon Lee

They served famous chai kuih as well. I will post up more interesting picture about this kopitiam ^_^

15-10-2011 Deep Fried Tofu 'Pok' with meat filling

This is my first attempt in making this dish. All I added in the meat was chopped spring onions & chinese mushroom. This time the tofu 'pok' i got from the market is smaller in size. I should buy the tofu 'pok' from TESCO as the size is bigger and it's easy to put in the filling.


Not to forget to add some mayonnaise on top the fried tofu 'pok'.

Szechuan Hot & Spicy Soup

My fave soup Szechuan Hot & Spicy Soup. This time I've added a lot of ingredients in it. Delicious! I saw many online recipe where they added egg in it but I don't really fancy having beaten egg in it. So here's my version of szechuan hot and spicy soup.

Hello

Not much cooking lately as everyday HE finished work late and I ended up buying my own food.

I wanted to make this snack food called 'sushi bread' which I saw in one my friend posting in FB. I plan not to have any seaweed on as this is the first time I am doing it. All I wanted to do it just start off with only the bread and the filling. I have not get all the ingredients yet but I am going to buy it tomorrow. As what I saw from my friend's posting they don't add any vege / cucumber but I am going to add in japanese cucumber. They used the chicken fillet is the filling but I am replacing it with hotdog / crabstick / fried egg. Shall see what is the results after I tried on it this weekend. I will post the picture here when I am successful ^_^

ENCORE: Tu Kar Chor aka Pig Trotters in Vinegar

It's been a week or more since the last I blog here. Now I am back in action! Was thinking to make this tu kar chor this weekend. Supposed to plan it for tomorrow's cooking but I ended up have to attend a training at Eastin Hotel maybe will postponed it to Sunday cooking.

24-9-2011 Kai Choy's Rice (Chinese Mustard Cabbage)

The aunty in my office was telling me how delicious the 'kua chai' rice and of course I can't resist the temptation and asked her for the recipe. And this is my version of kai choy with some slight changes from the original recipe.



-after stir fry all the ingredients.waiting to be put it into the steaming hot rice.

-cook in the rice cooker.

-and ready to serve!!

This cooking is so easy and not so complicated as I imagine.Here's the step:

1-Cut and clean the kai choy. Finely shredded carrot, chinese mushroom,garlic,dry prawns and stir fry with normal cooking oil (1tbsp) and sesame oil (2tbsp). Once you smell the nice aroma it's time for you to add in the cut kai choy and stir fry again until the kai choy is soften. Put it aside.

2-Wash and clean the rice and let it cook and right before all the water dry up pour in all the stir fry ingredients in it and stir around by add in some sesame oil. Close the cover and taaaaadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa your kai choy rice is ready!

Hooooray!!! It's weekend!

Ah! Weekend is just around the corner! Tonight I will be attending a pre-wedding dinner and this coming Sunday is the dinner for her wedding. Although not much cooking I can do this weekend but I have few cooking in my thought...

1-ENCORE-Hokkien Prawn Mee
2-CENDOL in coconut milk
3-Ayam Kapitan OR
4-Ayam Rendang
5-Assam Pedas Fish

We'll see what is in my mind when I wake up this Saturday morning. See which is the lucky dishes that 'pop' into my mind and I will cook that.

21-9-2011-Golden Fried Rice

I still have some balance rice left in the fridge the other day and I did not know what to do with it and since my man will be coming back home late from work so I decided to make fried rice AGAIN but this time it's not tomyam fried rice although it came across my mind but I just want to make this fried rice called Golden Fried Rice.

I saw this type of fried rice at the hawker center before BUT I did not know how to do it and I manage to break the clue today! And the secret is EGG! ahh I just love it..Let's see what I've added in for this fried rice....shredded cabbage & carrot, crabstick & hotdog and I fried it in medium fire so the eggs don't burn / overcooked . The taste is AWESOME and you still can smell the eggy while you're eating it....

Tom Yam Paste

One of my ex-schoolmate has been asking me what is the brand of the paste that I am using to make my fried tomyam beehoon and this is the answer:



Ive tried on an another brand (I'm not gonna tell what is the brand but a hint for you to guess 'with a bird' as their logo) does not taste as good as this when you used that to make fried tomyam beehoon.

19-9-2011 Tom Yam Fried Rice

I still have a half bottle of the tomyam paste left over from my tomyam beehoon cooking last week and still have some leftover rice in the fridge so I ended up making TomYam Fried Rice. I add in whatever I have in the fridge...Cabbage,Carrot (shredded), crabstick,hotdog,bunga kantan (ginger flower/torch ginger bud), red bird eyes chili, onion and some kaffir lime leaves. I just throw everything in to the wok and start to fried and voila! My BF love it so much!

18-9-2011 Pineapple Curry Prawns

I learned this cooking from 'Nasi Lemak Lover: Nyonya Prawn Curry'. This dish is AWESOME!! But I think I should reduce the amount of thick coconut milk as it appear to be very thick for me. But it just taste too good!

Pineapple Curry Prawn

Saw a note from one of the blogger she has actually cooked the nyonya style of prawn. And I am going to cook this for our lunch tomorrow as this few days BF has been finishing work late and I had my dinner on my own. Since it's a weekend for tomorrow I'm going to learn to cook this for the first time...hmmm recently been cooking a number of dishes for the first time..hehehe

Anyway, I went to TESCO EXTRA today to buy some prawns and recently it seems they only sell the XXL size prawn. I've been buying the prawns in three different occasions and the price is vary each time I buy the prawn. But today the prawn is kinda big in size and it cost me RM16.99/kg well I bought 12nos of the prawn and it cost me at RM4.80..worth it huh...I still have about 5prawns left over from yesterday hokkien prawn mee and 6nos left over from last weekend tomyam poktek's cooking.oh no no no I am not going to cook all these prawns!!! lol..maybe I will use the 12 prawns I bought today for the pineapple prawn curry...the balance maybe to cook tomyam and to stir fry belacan kangkung ^_^

Check this out!

Found this website and I guess it will be very useful to those who like to cook but uncertain on the name for the spices / herbs that we need to use in our daily cooking...Check it out

"Wai Yee Hong-Bringing The Orient To You"

16-9-2011 Hokkien Prawn Mee

The usual me....Was watching tv this afternoon and have the thought of making Hokkien Prawn Mee and went to TESCO Extra at Sg.Dua to buy some cooking ingredients. Mom taught me how to cook this and I also added in 'Sengkuang' aka Sweet Turnip. This is to replace rock sugar (as in most online recipe they encourage to add in rock sugar)..Normally I will make a big pot of the broth but since I am cooking it for our dinner I just make quarter of the pot. And last but not least....bean sprouts! Also very important garnishing...water spinach! this is whoooppppiiiilicious!

16-9-2011 Bee Koh Moey aka Pulut Hitam

My first attempt in cooking bee koh moey and I use slow cooker to cook this and it took me only two hours to complete. In Penang they called it Bee Koh Moey in my hometown Taiping, we called it 'Oh Chu Bee'. I soaked the pulut hitam overnight after cleanse the pulut hitam and in the morning before I start my cooking I soak the 'sago' for an hour while waiting for the pulut hitam to ready I added in the screwpine leave aka pandan into the slow cooker then I add in the soaked 'sago'. After the sago turn transparent I add in the coconut milk then sugar and a little bit of salt directly into the the bee koh moey...and taaaaaaaadaaaaaaaa its ready to eat!

15-9-2011 Fry Tomyam Beehoon

I'm back with my this week cooking! I fry this tomyam beehoon before but it does not turn out to be good. And last Wednesday while I was at work all of sudden I think of making fry tomyam beehoon so I headed to the nearest supermarket near my office during lunch to buy the ingredients..I've bought a tomyam paste (this brand I bought taste so good,I'll upload the picture in my later post),beehoon,taugeh,bunga kantan, and I pluck few leaves of kaffir lime leaves from my office. And I make this tomyam beehoon for our dinner last night and it is AWESOME...I managed to find out the 'trick' to make the fried tomyam beehoon taste better and the answer is WATER...aha...here's the picture.

Tom Yam Poktek Part II

I've made this tomyam soup this weekend. I had my first try on this tomyam last Sunday during our lunch at one of the Thai Restaurant nearby our place and it taste so good! I tried to make this soup based on the taste and when my tomyam poktek is ready I realize it does not taste the same as what I have tried on last Sunday. I've grind all the ingredients but my tomyam turn out to be very 'clear' perhaps I've added too much water in it. But no worries 'ikan bilis' cube to the rescue, I've added one cube into the soup base and it turned out to be so delicious! I only grind 3 stalks of lemongrass...kaffir lime leaves, ginger and some garlic. I should have grind the galangal together but I failed to get one from Tesco & Sunshine supermarket today so I've skip the galangal. I added some big prawn into the soup as well with oyster mushroom, carrot , kaffir lime leaves and crabstick. I will try this tomyam poktek again this Friday hope it can turn out to be as good as the one I had at the Thai Restaurant last weekend.

Tom Yam Poktek Part I

We were having our lunch in this Thai Restaurant at Paya Terubong last weekend. We ordered Tom Yam Poktek soup. It taste so GOOD and yummy-licious!It's a clear soup and has grind lemongrass,red bird chili,kafir lime leaves,galangal,and a little bit of ginger. All this ingredients grind together and turn it into clear soup served with oyster mushroom,prawns and chopped coriander leaves. It has some sour and spicy taste. To my assumption they have grind the red bird chili together with the rest of the ingredient as I saw some chili flakes in the soup. And also they have added the 'asam keping' in making this special soup. I've tried to google the recipe online but I did not come accross of any similar cooking as the one I had.

It's about time for me to use my taste buds to do the cooking. Hope it turn out to be a good one. I have all the ingredients needed for this cooking stock up in the gridge except for prawns and coriander leaves as this two ingredients I will need a fresh one. Let's see this is going to be my Saturday project or Sunday project.

Tomyam Poktek serve in the pot

The individual tomyam poktek in a small bowl. As shown, is the grind ingredients use to make this soup.

Fried Spaghetti

Ever heard of stir fried Spaghetti? Well I am going to try this cooking this weekend. This idea came to me moment ago when I was in the kitchen I saw a pack of spaghetti in the cabinet so the idea came struck my mind the moment I saw the spaghetti...Now it's time for me to Google around the internet to find the way to fried spaghetti :D

Fried Oyster-O'chien (Relau-Taman Bendera kopitiam)

I used not to eat fried oyster because I hate the oyster texture but two years ago I had my first try on o-chien at Jelutong market I started to fall in love with it. Soon after bf took me to try an another o-chien in town near prangin mall the road side kopitiam where they served the best koay teow th'ng the o'chien taste good. And when there's an o'chien stall open at the eateries near my house we had a try on it..and guess what this o'chien taste way better than the two places where I had the o'chien before. The price is cheap and potion is big.

3/9/2011- Perak Road Charcoal Char Koay Teow

This char koay teow was recommended by an another blogger 'Ho Jiak (Best Asian Food, Home Cooks, Recipes)'. We waited for about 20mins before our take away food is ready.




Normal-Chicken Egg without chili
Duck Egg with chili

Curry Prawn with Deep Fried Mantau

During my friend's wedding dinner last Tuesday they served us with Indonesia King Prawn Curry but to our surprised the curry is SO DELICIOUS! They served with deep fried mantau and now I am google-ing through see if anyone does cook the same type of curry~ Both of us missed that dish so so much :D

Claypot Chicken in Dark Soya Sauce

I cooked this dish before BUT..it's Claypot Egg Tofu. After BF tried on my tofu he has given me an idea to cook the same dish but to add in chicken instead of tofu. So I did as he requested. The taste is the same its just that I've added in chicken meat. I also add some chopped red chili to spice up the cooking. I've did some slight adjustment for the sauce as the first time when I was cooking claypot egg tofu I realize that too much dark soya sauce been added and the color does not look good.

Claypot Chicken in Dark Soya Sauce

Claypot Egg Tofu

Jelly Mooncake Part 3

There you go..my green tea mini jelly mooncake. The taste is not bad full of green tea aroma..but its a lil bit too hard. Maybe I've added in too much of the jelly powder.