31st dec 2009 simple new year eve dinner

Today is the last day of new year, i cook curry for my daughter who ask for it during christmas day, last two days went market carry too heavy stuff, now back still aches, must rest and rest to get it heal.

before baking

After baking

30 th december 2009 wednesday
yesterday went market twice so tiring. today still got so many things to buy but too tired to go 2nd round, even no strength to scrub toilet wall and mop the other two rooms. Carry too heavy things can cause backaches, very tiring just cant do any thing ! worse my daughter throw so many tissue in the washing machine, the floor is full of tissue, even her pockect still got 2 pcs havent drop out from the pocket and i have to shake shake and shake all the tissue from all the clothes, so tiring! Already so busy now worse so tiring ! Didnt even got strength to buy my oranges which i have a habit to eat it daily for the last 40 yrs. Ah girl i hope u read and understand me.
Afternoon now busy making pineapple tarts for u, now resting wait will post for u to see and taste it tonight fresh from oven. picture on top.

roast red pepper and red onion

mash pototoes

roast pork leg wrap with bacon with yellow and green zuchizi and tomates

roast chichen with mushroom stuffing

shepherd pie

salad, lettuce, avcocado, prawn, cherry, strawberry, pineapple, bird eggs.

25 dec 2009 christmas eve dinner.

i spent morning till afternoon cooking all the dishes on 24 dec. christmas got lot of left over.

just eat leftover dont ask what i cook. Especially when i just come back, very hot and tiring n ask me whether i am cooking curry. i dont cook curry on christmas day. dont eat dinner tell me in the morning not when i defrost the food and going cook and u said u r not eating and ask me why i like that. i cannot stand pple like that.Cannot stand pple last min.

3rd dec 2009 thursday

Today lunch have salmon, fried red onion with spagetti and roast pork rib. salmon and red onion are leftover from monday and pork rib is yesterday dinner leftover. clement have bacon, pototoes sandwiches and 1 small piece of pork rib. His bacon and pototes is leftover from tues lunch and pork rib is yesterday leftover dinner.Very thrifty har ! Tonight fried 5 small pieces of chicken wing , the 2nd part tits only. yesterday leftover soup but cook fresh shan yao with red seed and 1 chicken leg for family. There is this leftover towkay from last night dinner. So later i will fried one egg and if towkay uneible i will parboil lettuce.

11th oct 2009 sunday
today rest at home to do a bit of cleaning and packing.
Going to 8 days korea holidays.
wonder the 3 will keep my hse clean?
pray to god to have a peaceful holiday.
Thanks God for everything.

8th october 2009 thursday
daughter took the pictures for me

my rice wine

yellow kiwi for teabreak

sweet pototes with yam and coconut milk for teabreak

korean instant noodles with fresh prawn and squid very tasty.

bananas pancake

18th september 2009 friday
Friday alway nobody want to eat dinner, everyone go happy except me. get my pictures wongly post again. This cup is suppose 3rd pictures, anyway this is my noon teabreak a cup of thick milk tea, not bad would lose to coffeeshop.After eating pancake which is heaty u just need a cup of hot tea to cool it down.
korean squid sping onion green only pancake go with mince garlic,light sauce, blk vinegar,water.
very nice after just a very light lunch below.

suppose to be korean alblone porride but to ablone so use squid, Clement said taste funny.

fry mince garlic,small ikan billies add rice and water, carrot cube, fishcake cube, squid cube,fish slice, salt, pepper, sesame oil, light sauce and spinkle with lot of spring onion.

two days sago flour sui jing bao.

The ingredient for the above bao - fried small onion, blk mushroom, dried prawn, mince pork, chye poh (this chye poh is very salty spoilt my food), off fire add green - spring onion.

dried mee tai mark, tow kay, mince pork,prawn, fried small onion,spring onion, it better to eat this with some soup. a bit dry.

last friday dinner chye fan- with some salted fish and lot of green , did not fry , just add to the rice and mix.

11th september friday
hokkien noodles with fish cake, prawn kai lan for lunch. fried mince garlic add water sauce add prawn,fish cake, veg, noodles, pepper, wine, sugar, dark sauce for colour and let it cook for 8mins.
yesterday lunch maggie noodile with mince pork, pork ball, chinese spinach and flower egg.

yesterday dinner pumpkin with chicken breast and big onion

long cabbage with garlic, dried prawn, carrot strip, black mushroom strip, black fungus and straw mushroom.

braised two kwa and bird eggs with yesterday belly pork sauce, still got some more sitting in the regri.

chinese spinach,

31st august 2009 monday - part ii
chillies crab
portuguese tart, original and durian flavour

meji yogurt - strawberry

Fresh strawberry with yogurt

All sitting in the regri. nobody eat.

31st august 2009 monday
small ikan billies fried rice. use sesame oil to fry ikan billies till fragrant, add mince ginger then egg ,pepper a bit of sauce, ikan billies quite salty, lastly add chopped spring onion.

tea break - fried bananas kueh
use the very ripe bananas, very sweet, add a bit of sugar, flour, water mixed well. use more oil to fry this, very nice but very oily and filling, now stomach bloated.

Yesterday h bought crabs not very nice esp the sauce not tasty, is a waste of money. He also bought portuguese tart and the durian flavour. Ask him to buy 2 instead he bought six. All still in the refrig. Tried half of each, not bad, quite nice.

25th august 2009 tuesday

Yesterday laptop no battery so cannot blog, dont use to use other com. This is sat tea break, korean chives pancake. Saw the chives in the market thinking what to do with it, so fry the pancake, not bad but ate too much flour, heaty too, ear got pimples, putting on weight too so must cut down flour.
monday lunch clement want chicken sandwiches, so i also ate the same, finish the two bread skin, the chicken didnt add salt so not salty not very nice. Enough of bread alrdy.

Today lunch, want something light, so sweet pototoes porridge, use the japanese purple skin but yellow flesh taste like chestnut very nice.

can pork cube go with porridge, try the gulong brand the colour not very nice and oily, shld buy narcriss brand. u dont eat the pork directly from the can, it got one kind of funny taste. So u must use mince ginger, garlic, fry it first till fragrant, add pork, wine fry for 1 mins, add green pepper cut into smaller pieces or green chillies and chillies slice, add a bit of dark sauce to gave it a nicer colour.
The pork is quite sweet, so quite unhealhty, eat once a while .

can cucumber lettuce from 3 AAA bottle, want to try how it taste not very nice, the white carrot not bad, my daughter only like the chye sim, actually the jap cumcuber also not bad, go very well with porride. Anyway i hardly eat porridge.

22th august 2009 saturday
satuday usual lunch is alway wanton noodles with roast pork.
sauce for noodles
1/2 tb oyster sauce
1/2 tb tomatoes sauce
1/2 sesame oil
1/2 tsp dark sauce (if u want it black)
add 2tb to 3 tb hot water or ikan billies stock to mix.
put a big pot of water boiling hot then add noodles if not it will turn out not the right texture.

mince pork for mee tai mark or noodles

what u need

100g mince pork
1 small onion mince
1 garlic mince

method
season mince pork with light sauce,pepper,1/2tsp cornflour for 20 mins.

Fry mince garlic and onion till fragrant, add pork fry till cook add 1/4 c of water, more sauce,pinch of salt. cook for 5 to 10 mins.

21st august 2009 friday
squid boil in braised sauce, a bit too hard, boil for 5 mins and soak for `1 hour.
spinach - eat half away forget to take picture.

what veg is this ? cannot remember hardly cook that why u see it overcook, it turn blackgohiang cut into smaller pieces.

gohiang before cut.

what u need

gohiang skin, also call tow kee skin

mince pork 200g

mince prawn 100g or 200g

waterchestnut chopped 4

carrot mince

spring onion chopped 1 to 2 stalk

egg 1/2 to 1

mince big onion 1/c cup

mince garlic , a bit

five spice powder

pepper,salt

light sauce

sugar, a bit

dark sauce, a bit

corn flour 1 tb

plain flour 1to 2 tb.

method

Tow kee skin is very salty, so u need to used a clean wet towel to clean both side.

waterchestnut after chopping u need to squeeze away the water, cannot too wet.

add all above together n mix well, by go round till it sticky. let it stand for at least 2 hour before wrapping.

the sweet sauce buy the brown colour type, the black sweet sauce is another flavour is for soon kueh. u can dont add prawn, like this one i didnt add prawn , can u taste the difference. usually i add taste better.

20th august 2009 thursday
yesterday tea-break - sandwiches - bread, fried pork chop,bread,egg, lettuce with lot of mayo, tomates to brighten up your sandwiches and cheese spread
today tea break - kaya kueh and glutinous rice with sweet coconut

lunch - shanghai noodles with seame oil and light sauce, egg, lettuce with mayo and leftover pork

new bottles and honey rock sugar

black mushroom from medical shop.

korean instant noodles - spicy mushroom flavour

last night dinner - celery, big tow kay, mo gua with prawn skin, purple brown white rice, mince pork two who and mo gua, carrot, pork rib soup. So much fibre really very good for clearing one system. Today went west mall bought some stuff.