Homemade - Egg Mayo Sandwich

I prepare this for breakfast. Egg mayo sandwich :)

Ingredients:

- 3 hardboiled egg

- Mayonaise

- Black pepper / white pepper

- Lettuce

- Wholemeal bread

Method:

- Mashes the egg using a fork or masher

- Mix with mayonaise until all the egg are covered in mayo

- Add in pepper to the mixture

- Serve this filling between the wholemeal bread and lettuce

- Enjoy!

Note:

If you want to speed up the process in the morning, you can pre-boil the egg and mashed it up the night before and store it in the fridge. :)

Homecooked - Animal Bento1

Trying my hands on making cute bento using the tools that I bought. An attempt to make octopus sausage and bread handroll :)

Using the cutter to make animals sandwich :)

Here is with the addition of cute picks, to make it more colorful.

Ingredients:

- Cocktail sausage

- Wholemeal bread

- Ham

- Cabbage

- Bento tools

Took me almost 1 hour, just to fry and prepare.. think have to practice more next time to make a speedy bento :)

Homecooked - Chili Tuna, Onion Omelette and Stir fry Cabbage

Cabbage stir fry

Onion with chili omelette

Chili tuna

Simple meal put togther within 30 minutes :)

Homecooked - Steamed pork cube, lady fingers and bread

Feeling a bit peckish but didn't want to take a long time to cook something... so to save time cooking rice, we turn to bread :)
With some steamed lady fingers and chili slices

The highlight of the meal, steamed egg pork cube, I made this a few times already :)

Put it all together and we are ready to eat :)

Homecooked - Steamed Ginger Chicken, Garlic Prawn and Sauteed Mushroom

It have been a long long time I cooked, so I am very excited that I have the time and place to cook this for dinner :)

We just heat up this leftover from our dinner in Garuda. It is tapioca leaves.

This is also another leftover, sambal potato with quail egg and chicken internals :)

Sauteed white button mushroom

Ingredients:

- Oyster sauce

- Sliced button mushroom

Method:

- I put a bit of oil on the pan

- After the pan is hot, I dumped in all the mushroom, making sure that it is spread evenly on the pan

- After a while, the mushroom start to produce a lot of water, I am waiting to boil off the water, but due to the time factor, I decided to just drain the water off and continue to sautee and add oyster sauce in

- Serve

Steam Ginger Chicken. This is the first time I cook this but luckily, it turn out just the way I want it to be haha

Ingredients:

- Sliced ginger and chop a small portion finely

- Sliced boneless chicken thigh (De-skinned)

- Wolfberry and red date

- Sesame oil

- Cornflour

- Oyster sauce

- Soy sauce

- Rice wine

Method:

- Season chicken thigh with soy sauce, oyster sauce and corn flour

- Add in rice wine and mix well

- Heat up sesame oil in pan and pan fry the chicken skin briefly

- Throw the chicken skin and add ginger to it. Fry till fragrant

- Pour the ginger and oil to the pan

- Steam the chicken

- When the chicken is almost done, throw in wolfberry and red dates and continue to steam

- Serve

Garlic prawn. The prawn turns out a bit sticky, I just bought the prawns from supermarket though, so I dunno if it is coz of cornflour or the prawn is not that fresh.
Ingrdients:

- Peeled prawn and deveined

- Cornflour

- Garlic

- Soy sauce

- Sugar

- Pepper

Method:

- Season the prawn with soy saucem sugar and pepper

- Coat the prawn with cornflour

- Fry the prawn and set aside

- Pan fry garlic till it is starting to be brown

- Add prawn in and stir thoroughly

- Serve

Hami melon is in season now, so we also have this fruit to complete our meal :) isn't it beautifully cut :p

To celebrate the joyous occasion of me being able to cook :p, we got Jolly Shandy for our drink.

Cheers to love, happiness and prosperity :D

Homecooked - Long Bean Omelette with Instant Fried Noodle

Didn't plan to cook but nothing to eat, so after seeing whatever available on the fridge, here goes the simple dinner.. Instant fried noodle with long bean omelette

Fried instant noodle, I added slices of chili padi for the spicy kick

Long Bean Omelette for the vegetable content of dinner. I like the color, looks appertizing :)

Method:
- Cut long beans into rings

- Chop big chili for garnishing and color

- Beat 2 eggs and season with pepper and soya sauce

- Stir fry the long beans with a little oil till soft

- Add in the chili slices and fry around for a while

- Spread the long beans and chili on the pan and pour in the beaten egg mixture

- Leave it to cook for 1 minute

- Cut into triangular slices and flip each side to cook the top of the egg

- Leave it to cook for about 1 minute

- Dish up and enjoy

:)

Homecooked - White Fungus and Red Date Dessert @ Jakarta

On the CNY first day, have to eat something sweet, so we cooked this dessert the day before.. it is white fungus, with red date, wolfberry and dried longan. Rock sugar is added for flavor.

Good and sweet way to start the year :)

This year CNY coincide with Valentine's Day.. so Happy New Year and Valentine's Day! :)

Homecooked - CNY Reunion Dinner @ Jakarta

What is your favourite food during CNY someone asked me.. I think for a while and only one occurred to me.. the reunion dinner :) It is the time when everybody gather together to eat the abundance of food that will last for a few days and even though at different times of the year, I will see the food, it just taste good during the new year as the combination comes together... :p
Cooking the pig stomach soup with other ingredients. The soup is extremely packed with flavour :)

Curry chicken, cooking as well ... such a big pot hehe

The spread... The big table almost cannot fit in hahaha

The condiments, spring onions, parsley

Garlis oil, to be dipped to the soup for extra fragrance

Belachan to go with some of the dishes

Sliced abolone to go with the pig stomach soup. It is sliced and put separate to ease the distribution and finding it in such a big pot :)

The pig stomach soup.. with pig stomach, fish ball, fish maw, pork rib, chicken

Pineapple, the must have dish during CNY, coz it's Ong Lai.. auspicious dish.. so can become Ong (King) :P

Chinese leek, Suan Chai.. so can count money.. so more money comes your way.. another auspicious dish and a must have during CNY

Bamboo shoot, Shun.. so do everything can be smooth (shun).. Also must include during CNY

Fish, is another must have dish.. for nian nian you yi.. year of abundance and excess.. This is not done yet..

Here it is the finished result, sweet and sour fish.. looks reddish orangish.. suit the festive mood. Care must be taken when eating the fish... the bones cannot be broken and must have leftover to bring over to the first day of CNY.. Everybody is very careful not to break the bone, even thinking how best to flip the fish hehe

Pork trotter with sea cucumber.. I'm not sure if there is any significant meaning, so let me come out with one myself... pig trotter and sea cucumber known for the collagen content, so eating this will stay beautiful :p

Wine chicken with the special leaf. I'm not sure what leaf is that.. It is for health (I think since it contain wine, looks herbal). Taste a bit bitter and strong wine smell. :)

This is the sliced fried egg.. to be decorated on..

Qiang mee.. it is a white teochew noodle.. Eating noodle signify longetivity, another auspicious dish :) It is loaded with pork and prawn and leek :)

Rendang pork, new CNY dish :)

Curry chicken with potato and gizzard

Butter chicken, new dish to CNY as well. It taste like the butter frog version. Sweet and nice :)

Happy Chinese New Year! Hope that this will be a great year!

Homecooked - Steamed Pork Cube Egg and Vege

Didn't plan to cook... so just grab whatever happen to be available.. sausage, vege and chili padi with garlic... it then becomes this stir fry dish :) Not bad, I like this :)

Steamed Egg with pork cube.. using rice cooker to cook.. is it faster than using steamer, not sure, maybe about the same length of time, but definitely less hassle as we don't have to prepare the steamer hehe :)

Homecooked - Arrowhead Chips

I bought this Arrowhead/Ngaku/Chiku to make chips.. I read blogs saying that it is easy to make and very nice and addictive, so I want to try.. Happen to see it in the market, so I quickly buy.. It cost me $4 per kg..

Its not the same as water chestnut, even though they look like... it is much bigger than chestnuts

There the comparison side by side :)

First, take one bulb

Using the peeler, peel the skin away, don't waste too much coz then, less chips for us :)

I don't have a slicer, so I used knife to slice as thinly as I can. It will be a breeze if there is slicer.. After it is peeled and sliced to chips thickness, soaked it in salt water

To avoid splashing during frying, I dry it on the newspaper/tissue backing

There you go, the end product :) It is nice and if want to make, better make in HUGE batches in one go to save the time from all the peeling and slicing.

Good snack! I will make again when there is chance :)