My simple lunch – 酿豆腐

I cooked a simple lunch for myself after sending my boys to school.

Dumpling Making Session

 
I did something really meaningful today. ;D (oops, does it means that I am doing unmeaningful things every other days.) :P  I had a dumpling making session with my group of  “aunty” friends today. :D Well at least that’s what the kids addressed us as …. “AUNTY!!!!”  And I couldn’t agree more, I am really getting old.

Fried Dao Xiao Mian

I was introduced to this noodle by Xiu Yan. On 1st glance, the below picture of the cooked noodle may looks like fried guo tiao, but the taste is definitely better than it. The noodle is quite Q when you bite into it and the texture is smooth.

Rainbow Butter Cookies

I baked these cookies for Javier’s school racial harmony day celebration tomorrow. Actually I was feeling kinda lazy from the baking yesterday and wasn’t really in the mood to bake today. So I asked Javier if is it ok if I fried fishballs for him to bring to school tomorrow instead … And his reply was a firm ‘no’ and that he wants me to bake cookies for him.

My little boy kept asking me and remind me to bake cookies for him before he left for school. So how can I disappoint him???? So I decided to do a simpler one instead of the doggie cookies.

Milo Doggies Cookies

This is my 2nd time baking this doggies cookies. The previous time I made Horlick Doggies Cookies whereas for this baking, I substituted horlick with Milo instead. As it turn out the doggies still look as ugly as the previous baking. :(

I baked these cookies for Jayden Racial Harmony Day celebration in school tomorrow. He was  pretty excited when he saw these when he came back from school today. After he gobbled up the 2nd piece of cookies, I asked him whether is it nice? He says “of course!” :D

Whereas for my other little boy, he was stuffing down the 3rd piece when I asked him.

Mummy: Nice or not?
Javier: Yucks, Not nice!
Mummy: @_@
{A while later…..}
Javier: Mummy, can I eat one more?
Mummy: I thought you said not nice.
Javier: Nooooo… very nice!!!
Mummy: @_@

Chocolate Lava Cake

I decided to make this chocolate cake for my boys instead of the usual sandwich bento, hope that they would like it.  And doesn’t this cake look sweet when served in this cute bear plate. :D

I chanced upon this recipe here. Its a really simple cake to bake and it only took me 30 minutes from preparation to complete baking.

Sunny yFried Rice with Roasted chicken

I cooked a real simple dinner for me and D tonight mainly due to laziness, while I cooked noodle fish slice soup for my boys.

烩饭

I cooked a simple dinner of 烩饭 for D and myself, while the boys requested for Macroroni Soup for dinner.

It is really easy to prepare and cooked, all I need is 30 mins from preparation to serve. :D

Ingredients:
1 Large Fried Fish cake, cut into slices
Chicken Slices
Fish Slices
1 Bunch of Choy Sum
1 medium Onion, cut into wedge
3 Cloves Garlic, finely chopped
2 Eggs
2 Rice Bowl of Cooked Rice
100 ml Water
1 Tablespoon Cornstarch Solution (cornstarch mixed with water)

Macaroni Soup

I cooked a simple dinner for both my boy as me and D usually dine out after we send Jayden to his Berries Class on Thursday. I was pretty pleased with the comments I received for today dinner. Both of them keep saying it tastes very good and cheeky Javier keep showing us the ‘thumb up sign’ and saying “ ummmm… this is goood!!!!!”

Winter Melon, Woodear & Pork Ribs Soup

I have been goggling for new recipes to try for our lunch and dinner, instead of cooking the same food all the time for my family. I came across this easy to prepare soup which looks nutritious. Recently, I would cooked a big pot of soup, and used partial of the soup base for cooking rice instead of water so that the boys will get the most of the nutrition from the soup. (and I realized the rice taste sweeter and smoother this way)

Pumpkin Rice

This is a very healthy, delicious and easy dish to prepare when I am feeling lazy to cook. Actually Jayden loves it, he had been wanting me to cook it for him. But after the failed attempt about 1yr ago, I was quite reluctant to cook it. But yesterday I managed to get the tips to cooking a simply marvelous, delicious pumpkin rice. And I was very keen to try it out today and I am glad that my boys love it, and they finished their meal within 15 minutes.

Japanese Cotton CheeseCake

I love to eat Japanese cotton cheesecake, and since a few months ago after chancing the recipe at a friend’s blog… I have been wanting to try making one.

Fried Carrot Cake

It was a a very simple yet delicious meal of homemade Fried Carrot Cake. And the credit goes to Stella mummy who make this delicious steamed carrot cake, and my job was only to stir fried it to become the ‘black fried carrot cake’.

面粉粿汤

Ever since I ate the 面粉粿 at JB, I couldn’t get it out of my mind. So today me and Xiu Yan decided to re-create the 面粉粿 that we ate that day.

Broccoli with Mushroom

 

Ingredients: 1. Broccoli 2. 4 button mushroom 3. 3 gloves of garlic, chopped finely 4. Salt 5. cooking oil 6. corn flour

Method: 1. Boiled some water with half tsp of cooking oil and half tsp of salt added to it.  2. Blanched the broccoli in the boiling water until half cooked  3. Heat up some oil in the frying pan, and saute garlic until fragrance. 4. Add in the mushroom and cooked until soften. 5. Add in the broccoli  and stir fry for a while, then add in 3 tbsp of water (with corn flour added) and stir fry for another 1min.   6. Lastly, add half tsp of salt and mixed well. 7. Dish up and Enjoy!

Crispy Fish Fillet

Ingredients:

1. Batang fish fillet
2. 1 egg
3. half bowl (small bowl) of plain flour
4. half bowl of  bread crumbs
5. cooking oil
6. salt

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius.
2. Pat dry the fish and season it with salt.
3. Beat an egg. Coat the fish first with flour, follow by the egg mixture and lastly the bread crumbs.
4. In a non-stick pan, heat up oil, and saute fish over medium heat till golden brown on both sides. Transfer to the oven to bake for 10 minutes.
5. Serve with Mayonnaise and Enjoy!

Leggo’s Alfredo Spaghetti

I was craving for some spaghetti and also feeling a bit lazy to cook. And so I decided to cook this simple dinner for me and D.

Ingredients (for 2):

Spaghetti, portion for 2 (cooked as the instruction on the packaging)
Leggo’s Alfredo pasta sauce (amount is based on your own preference)
4 button mushroom, Sliced
4 cloves of garlic, peeled and chopped
50ml water
2 tbsp of oil

Method:

1. Heat up oil in a wok. Saute garlic till fragrant. Add the button mushrooms and saute till soften.
2. Pour in the Alfredo pasta sauce and water. Leave it simmering for a while. Toss in spaghetti to mix well. Dish out and Enjoy!

Steamed Cod Fish

 

Ingredient

I piece of cod fish fillet (wash with salt and water)

6 slices of ginger

3 slices of ginger, peeled and cut into thin strips

Ingredient for the Sauce (mixed togather)

2 tsp of soy sauce

1/2 tsp of sesame oil

Fried garlic

Method:

1. Pat dry the fish fillet. Arrange 6 pieces of ginger slices on top on it. Steam over high heat for 12 minutes.

2. Heat some oil in wok and fry the ginger strips till crisy and light brown. Set aside.

3. When the fish is done, pour away the excess water. Pour the sauce over the fish and garnish with some fried ginger.

4. Enjoy!

Bah Kuk Teh

It is a first try for me to cook Bah Kuk Teh. With the pre-packed species available in the market now, cooking this dish is a breeze.

Bombay Toast

Bombay Toast?? Does it sound familiar to you? This is one of the dish which I learned during my home economic class during my secondary school days. Till now, I can still remembered it very clearly and I like preparing it for our breakfast. It is a very easy to and quick dish to prepare. Javier enjoying the toast. He is not a bread person, normally he can’t even finished 1 slice of bread spread with peanut butter. But he like this toast alot, and can eat 2 pieces.

The recipe is very very simple as follow:

Ingredients:

1)  Eggs

2)  Sugar

3)  Bread

Method:

1)  Beat the egg and stir it some sugar (the amount of sugar added depend of how sweet you want the dish to be)

2)  Coat the bread with the egg solution

3)  Heat up some oil, pan fried the egg coated bread

4)  Enjoy