Lunch : Feb 27, 2012

Hubby works night this week.

Here's what for lunch and his dinner box :-

Soup : Lotus Roots with Ribs and Red Dates

Stir-fried Lettuce

Pan-fried Pink Grouper

Cause he is not bringing the fish, so added another dish - Eggs with Green Onions

Dinner Time : Feb 21, 2012

Back!  Starting small, just gonna post the daily stuff that I cooked!

Tonight's menu :-

Baked Wings

Apple & Almond Soup

Anyhow Fried Rice

Go Lean in Every Way

I'm back.... Sudden inspiration to re-org the kitchen...

Here's the before with all the

clutter...

Here's some of the after...

My most used 2 pieces

My tiny stove

The year old "extension"

Another view

Overall view

Better?

Anyway, went to the market this morning. Bought a bunch of stuff, with the resolve to eat better while spending less and hence the title - Go Lean in Every Way. Here's what I got...

Organic Red Brown Rice - 2kg for $8 at Chong Pang Market

I put it in a tight seal container.

I pasted both the stickers on the packaging on the container for reference.

Dun forget to recycle the packaging to throw your waste.

2 Sakura Chicken Breast (bone-in) for $4.40 (748g)

Australian Broccoli for $1.60 (236g)

Mushrooms from NTUC. Forgot the price. Should be about $3 for both.

2 Bitter Melon for $2.16

Prepping for 2 to 3 meals

Tonight : Mushroom Chicken, Broccoli with Carrot, Chicken bone with Bitter Melon Soup, Bitter Melon with Egg

Boiling the soup.

There are more than enough ingredients for both my meals tomorrow since DH will be dining at work for his meeting. Planning to have macaroni chicken soup or some variation tomorrow.

I'm Back

Hey! I'm back! My hand is finally much better... so here's dinner for today...

- Watercess Soup with Dates and Lean Pork

- Sesame Oil Chicken with Dark Sauce

- Butterhead Lettuce with Fresh Shitake Mushrooms

- Cold Dish Tofu with Spring Onions

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Today's Menu

Getting lazy to blog...

Anyways, today is my turn to cook for the guys. Here's the menu.

1. Cai Xin with Oyster Sauce
2. Non-Bake Char Siew
3. 三杯鸡
4. Hot and Sour Seafood Soup

It's repeating as I am running out of ideas as to what to cook.

Cook and Cook

As mentioned in an earlier post, I now cook once a week for Ken to bring makan to work. The group of 6 men now take turns to cook everyday, which is a nice break for me. :p

Today Ken is working night shift, meaning I cook in the morning and he bring it as dinner for the guys. As I ran out of ideas what to cook, I was looking around on some blogs for inspiration and found a recipe for a 三杯鸡. It seemed easy to cook and it was, the result was not bad too - just that the chicken a bit tough.

Here's what the guys are having for dinner today... (sorry about the blur pics, my editing skills sucks)

Seems like a lot? Actually I prepared 4 portion of fried rice to go with the chicken. I wanted all of them to try the Xin Hua Noodles thingy that my MIL will cook every 1st day of CNY. All you have to do is put some Xin Hua Noodles in a bowl and add in the Mixed Vegetables. The Fried Omelette Strips, Fried Shallots, Peanuts and Hei Cai are toppings to enhance the flavour. Suppose to add Hua Diao Wine before eating but I dunno how to pack that. Haha.

The noodles is very precious, brought from Singapore and I still have some in the fridge. I am keeping it for CNY. :) As you noticed, it's somewhat a vegetarian meal, it's pretty nice if served hot. Hope they will enjoy it.

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Non-Bake Char Siew

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Cactus Blossom @ Texas Roadhouse

Sweet Dinner Rolls @ Texas Roadhouse

Chicken with 5 Kinds of Mushrooms and Oyster Sauce

Sushi with Brown Rice, Avocado and Pork Floss

Back in Action

Hey hey hey! I'm back in action. I will not bore you with the details, or do a blow by blow account of each dish I cooked. I will just 'feature' some dishes that I liked.Clockwise from top left :

Fried Spring Roll

Corn, Pork n Date Soup

Yam Paste with Ginko Nuts (Orr Nee)

Curry Chicken

I will be posting 2 other recipes that I have used. They are nice, maybe you would like to try them out.

Simple Fare for Busy Day

Today was a day full of 'activities' for me. Haha. Woke up at 7am in the morning to prepare a simple sandwich for Ken to bring as breakfast. Took my daily supplement of Vitamin C and Collagen. Went back to sleep around 8am to 12noon cause I only slept at 3am this morning. zzz...

Anyways, after I woke up (in the afternoon), I had a bowl of cereal. Then I went out about 1 plus to shop! Not forgetting to bring my trusty granola bar with me. I had to use it around 3.30pm to sustain my outing. Hehe. I reach home about 4.30pm and had half of the blended green apples with celery (the other half still sitting in the fridge). Also had 3 small spools of haw flakes.

Dinner was real easy and fast today. Did an upgraded version of ABC soup and fried chicken rice. I usually cook lots more chicken rice and then use it for fried rice tomorrow. Easier and dun have to keep thinking what to cook.

Chicken Rice

Today we had chicken rice for dinner. On the top left corner is avocado milk with honey - just an avocado, milk and honey put into blender and blend. The result - yummy and nutritious drink. Top right is the chicken rice itself. Misc in the bigger pic is plate of cut chicken (ugly, cause I anyhow cut). The green mixture is a blend of spring onions and ginger mixed with the chicken soup, sesame oil and light soy sauce. You should not blend it too much like me, but my blender is too powerful liao...haha. The bottom left is lady's fingers with he bi hiam. And the oily corning ware is the chicken soup (very oily :p). Not bad but Ken commented that the chicken a bit dry, guess I cooked it too long in the pressure cooker. Need to use a lower pressure and cook in a shorter time too.

叉烧肉 - Non-bake Version

Today I tried the non-bake version for 叉烧肉. Ken likes it and it is easier to make than the oven-baked one, not to mention that the cooking time was shorter too. I think one strip of the 五花肉 was not enough, cause it was nice. Haha. When I do it again, I shall add another half portion and I could use the balance for 叉烧云吞面 the next day.

Monday, 24th September 2007

Yes, we had 生面 for dinner again. I used the pressure cooker to cook the sauce, only 2 to 3 mins, however, the broccoli and carrot become too cooked and melted in my mouth. Eh, think vegetables cannot use the pc (pressure cooker) to cook. Had to cook this as the balance half pack of the noodles were sitting in the fridge. The last time it sat in the fridge, some mushroom got to it before we did. :p

Sunday, 23rd September 2007

So I finally gave up my fear and trade it in for a Fagor Express 6-qt Pressure Cooker. I have heard horror stories of how they 'explode' from my mum...haha... so I grew up with this huge resistance to using a pressure cooker. Many of my friends have told me about the benefits of cooking with a pressure cooker. Ken wanted me to get one so that I can cook in a fraction of the time and also his colleague told him that the meat falls off the bone...blah blah blah...

Anyways, here was our first attempt at using it. Notice the 'our' in the former sentence. Haha... I prepared all the ingredients and insisted that he does the actual cooking cause of my worry of the 'explosion'. :p We used it to cook 肉骨茶, which cooked in about 20 mins. Could have taken a shorter time but we were too cautious and used the lower heat and the dish took a long time to boil. zzz.... haha but the result was amazing. The meat really fall of the ribs, and it was soft and the soup was flavourful. But we got a scare, or rather me, when we released the pressure and the thing went hissing... haha... I have to use to cook dinner later. Wish me luck!

Makan Time - Friday, 21st September 2007

We had Nasi Lemak for lunch... with the coconut rice, fried ikan billis, fried egg, fried wings and fried cabbage, accompanied by homemade Nasi Lemak Sweet Chilli.

As tomorrow is Ken's birthday, I baked Pandan Chiffon Cup Cakes. The attempt was not so great as I failed to adapt the baking temperature and time to cup cakes, I followed the instruction for the regular-sized cake. But it tasted good, so all was not in vain after all.

卤肉 for Lunch

Here's what we had for lunch

卤肉

Lady's Finger with Heh Bi Hiam

Today's Menu

Breakfast

• Cantaloupe (Rock Melon)
• Dan Active (something like Yakult, but more like yogurt drink)
• Milk

Lunch

• 生面

Dinner

• Salad