Strawberry Yogurt Cake

Ingredients
1 yogurt pot (strawberry yogurt)
1 yogurt pots of sugar
3 yogurt pots of flour
1/2 yogurt pot of vegetable oil or butter
2 eggs
1 tbsp of baking powder
Strawberries; cut small

Method
1. Mix together the yogurt, sugar, flour, vegetable oil, eggs and baking powder.

2. Grease a baking pan and line with parchment paper.

3. Add the cake mixture into the baking pan.
4. Top the cake with the berries.
5. Bake in the oven at 200 degree C for 25 minutes. (notes: very depends on oven)
6. Stick a toothpick in the middle of the cake. If it comes out clean, the cake is done.
7. You can put any fruit jams on top. - Serve -

Note: Add more sugar if using plain yogurt

Mushroom Sauce Pork Chop & Garden Saute With Macaroni

Mushroom Sauce Pork Chop

Ingredients
2 pork chops
Half big can Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom
Some fresh white button mushroom, sliced (quantity based on preference)
1/2 cup of water
1/2 cup of milk (optional)
2-3 tbsp. dried parsley
2-3 clove garlic chopped
1 small size onion chopped

Method
1. Rub pork chops with salt and black pepper, let stand for 15 minutes.
2. Fry pork chop until both side lightly golden and cooked.
3. Remove from pan and set aside.
4. In the same frying pan, saute onion and garlic until fragrant.
5. Return fried pork chop and add in dried  parsley, button mushroom, 1/2 cup of water and cream of mushroom.
6. Cook in low heat for 2-3 minutes.
7. Taste it, if not enough then season with salt and pepper.
8. Add in milk and cook for another 2-3 mintues. - Serve -

Garden Saute With Macaroni

Ingredients
1. 1 bowl macaroni
2. 8 charry tomatoes, seeded and cut into thin strips
3. Half yellow bell pepper, cut into thin strips
4. 3 cloves garlic, minced
5. 2 tbsp dried parsley
6. 3 tablespoons olive oil

Cooked Macaroni Method
1. Put water, salt and olive oil into a medium pot and bring to boil.
2. Put in macaroni and cook until macaroni is tender. Remove and set aside once ready.

Method
1. Saute garlic in oil until fragrant.
2. Add bell pepper and saute for another 2 minutes.
3. Add tomato and parsley. Saute for 1 minute.
4. Stir in hot cooked pasta, stirring for 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated. - Serve -

Milkly Whole Meal Bread

My first attempt at baking a bread. First day, the bread turns out too salty, so throw away. Second day try again, the taste is nice but the skin of the bread is hard. The bread is dense and not soft. Gonna try again and adjust the temperature and ingredients.

  

ABC Soup

Ingredients
1 big chicken drumsticks; cut
2 tomatoes; cut
2 carrots; cut smaller size
1 potato; cut smaller size
1 onion; cut into half
Seasonings
Salt to taste
A bit of organic g-powder

Method
1. Blanch chicken drumsticks in boiling water to remove blood and fat. Rinsed with water once
done.
2. Place all ingredients in a pot.
3. Boil for 2 hours.
4. Add salt and g-powder to taste. -serve-

Chicken with scallion and ginger sauce

Ingredients
Chicken breast - cut cube
1 bunch scallion - cut 1 inc per piece
3 inches young ginger - cut slices
1 clove garlic - chopped

Marinate
1 tbsp shao xing wine
A bit of corn starch
A bit of salt
Sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 cup water
1 tsp sugar

Method
1. Marinate chicken for 30 minutes and set aside.
2. Heat 2 tbsp of oil then add in ginger. Stir fried till fragrant then put in garlic.
3. Then add in marinated chicken. Stir to coat in oil.
4. Add the sauce and cook until sauce has thickened slightly.
5. Add in scallion, cashew nuts and 1 tbsp of shao xing wine and stir fried a while. - Serve -

ShangHai Pan Fried Char Xiu

Ingredients
800g pork belly, cut into 4 thick slices
3 tbsp chopped garlic
500ml water

Seasoning
3 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tsp dark soya sauce
2 tbsp oyster sauce
2.5 tbsp sugar

Method
1. Mix pork belly with chopped garlic, seasoning and marinate for overnight in fridge.
2. Bring water to boil, add in pork belly and cook at medium heat until the gravy is dry.
3. Lower down fire and continue to pan-fry the meat until is lightly golden brown on both sides. 
4. Remove and cut into slices and serve hot. - serve -

Steam Chicken (I)

Ingredients
1 big chicken drumstick; cut small
Some geiji
2 pieces of tong guai (optional)

Method
1. Rub chicken with some salt.
2. Place chicken on plate and put some geiji and tong guai pieces (optional).
3. Steam for half and hour. -serve-

Terriyaki Chicken

Ingredients
3 chicken drumsticks; cut small and give some cut on chicken meat

Marinate Sauce
4 tbsp Terriyaki sauce
3 sliced Smashed ginger
4 garlics
A bit sugar
A bit chili flakes
Corn flour

Method
1. Marinate and massage the chicken with marinate sauce for overnight. (or few hours)
2. Heal oil in wok and fry chicken till cooked. - serve-

Stir Fry Red Bayam



Stir fry red bayam with geiji.

Simple & Quick Fried Rice

No car to drive out for lunch. So today lunch, fried rice with bacon and marinate pork. Ingredients that i use :-

1. Soya sauce, corn starch and chili flakes to marinate pork.

2. Use garlic to stir fry the pork and hams.

3. Put in rice to fry and stir in yesterday left over sauce (Stew Chicken with Carrot and Potato).

4. Done.

Stew Chicken with Carrot and Potato

Ingredients
3 chicken drumsticks; cut small
1 potato; cut into cubes
1 small carrot, cut into cubes
1 small onion, sliced

Sauce
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1/2 tsp dark soy sauce
1.5 cups water
Corn starch

Marinate
1 tbsp light soy sauce

Method:
1. Marinate chicken with light sauce and leave aside.
2. Boil carrot and potato until soft and leave aside.
3. Fried onion until slightly brown.
4. Stir in chicken and fry until half cooked.
5. Stir in potato and carrot and stir fry for 1 minutes.
6. Add in oyster sauce and dark soy sauce.
7. Add in water and cook/stew for 15 minutes or until sauce getting less.
8. Add in corn starch to thicken. - serve - 

Superior Herbs Soup

This is another type of herbs i bought outside of my house. The taste is nice and not bitter. I will definitely boil this again.

Fried Tofu (2)

Ingredients

2 pieces of tofu; slice into cube
Cover it with some black pepper, all purpose powder and paprika powder
Methods
1. Fry tofu into golden brown.
2. Place fried tofu on plate. - Serve with chili sauce -

Fry Pea Shoots with Tofu

I got this recipe many years ago from a TV cooking programme. It have a very nice name 豆苗蟹柳扒玉子豆腐. The dish actually using frozen crab meat instead of carrots, but today i don't have crab meat so i use carrots to make the dish look more presentable with some color. :)


Ingredients
1 packet japanese tofu; cut
1 packet pea shoots
Some slice carrots
5 garlics; chopped

Sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 tbsp soy sauce
A bit of sesame oil
1 bowl of water
A bit of corn flour

Methods
1. Steam tofu in 3 minutes and put aside.
2. Put oil to wok and sautee garlics till fragrant.
3. Put in carrots and stir fry a while; follow by peas shoots and put a dash of salt and sugar and 
    stir fry a while.
4. Put in sauce and cook for a while or until sauce getting little. 
5. Remove from wok and pour onto tofu. -Serve-

Restaurant Bubur Goreng

My first try on fried porridge. There is dry squid, tofu and yam in the porridge. It smells nice and the price is reasonable. RM12 is enough for 2 person.

Initially i want to try their salted eggs prawn mantis which i heard is very nice but too bad when i reached there prawn mantis sold out already. So i tried the lala in ginger and wine. Not too bad, i would say it is very fresh and nice. No single shells that is empty. This cost RM 15.

American Ginseng Soup

I think is time to 补一补 so today decided to boil american ginseng soup. The herbs i bought from the herb shop outside of my house. They sell a lot of different ready packed herbs for making soup.

Steamboat

I can't live without aircon due to the weather is so hot and dry recently. But you know what, i'm having steamboat today. :) First time using the free stainless steel pot when i bought induction cooker, first time prepare steamboat at my own house, first time bought the fishball from Jaya Grocer which have a very fishy smell (no next time)...

Usually people having steamboat during cold days but i just lazy to cook tonight so...

Soup recipe
1 pork big bone
Cut half of a white radish - cut small
Cut half of a carrots - cut small
4-5 red dates
Some 'kei ji'

Salt to taste

Boil for 2 hours. Done.

 

I used the left over soup to cook mee for supper. The soup is so sweet and yummy~!

Stir Fry Spinach

Spinach is one of my favourite vege. I always get spinach from Jaya Grocer. I found it is not selling in Giant or Tesco here. It is high in vitamins, minerals and other phytonutrients. Here a article about spinach in chinese

菠菜

Thai Style Steam Fish

Ingredient
1 shun hok fish
3 stalks lemongrass -
3 red chili padi - cut
5 green limes
5 garlics - sliced

Sauce
2 tbsp sugar
2 tsp fish sauce
Lime juice - used 5 green limes
Half bowl water
A dash of salt

Method
1. Steam fish for 2 minutes, there will be some liquid in the dish. Pour the liquid away.
2. Bruise the lemongrass with the back of a knife and cut half.
3. Arrange lemongrass, chili padi and garlics on and bottom of the fish.
4. Pour the sauce over the fish and continue steam for another 15 minutes or until cooked. - Serve -

Old Cucumber Soup

Ingredients

2 Chicken Drumsticks
1 Old Cucumber; remove seeds and cut into thick pieces
4 Red Dates

Seasonings
Salt to taste

Method
1. Blanch chicken drumsticks in boiling water to remove blood and fat. Rinsed with water once
    done.
2. Place all ingredients in a pot.
3. Boil for 1 hours or 2 hours. (i prefer boil longer)
4. Add salt to taste. -serve-