What kind of food are you

I saw this quiz, very interesting. You might like to try.


http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindoffoodareyouquiz/

Five Spice Chicken WIngs

There are many ways to fry chicken wings and by using different ingredients, the chicken wings taste different. I fried the chicken wings with five spice powder, it tasted good.



Ingredients

1 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp five spice powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp dark soya sauce (for colour)
8 chicken wings

Method

1. Mix garlic,five spice powder and dark soya sauce.
2. Cut chicken wings at joints. Pat dry and add to spice mixture and coat evenly.
3. Fry in hot oil till it gives a nice colour.

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Recipe Source: alicecozycorner

Penang Char Kway Teow

I had Penang Buffet few days ago. Really like the Penang Char Kway Teow, so I search the internet for a nice recipe of Penange Char Kway Teow. Managed to find one and wow, I did quite well for 1st attempt but of course the hotel's char kway teow is better. But mine is not bad too, yummy, simply loves the chives, wondered if it had got to do with my teochew genes (lol).


Penang Char Kway Teow
Ingredients

600g kway teow
Chopped garlic
Cooking oil
300g prawns, shelled but leave the tails intact
1 Chinese sausage (optional), sliced thinly
150g cockles, scalded and shelled
150g beansprouts
100g chives, cut into 3cm lengths
Chilli paste
eggs

Seasoning:

1 tbsp light soya sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tbsp chilli paste
A little dark soya sauce for colour
A little water

Method

Heat wok with 3 tbsp oil until hot and fry l tsp chopped garlic until light brown. Add about three to four prawns, some beansprouts and Chinese sausages (optional).
Push all the fried ingredients to one side and add in a plate of kway teow. Stir-fry the kway teow quickly. Add seasoning and sprinkle with a little water and mix in all the fried ingredients together.
Spread all the ingredients around the kuali and create an empty space in the centre, then crack an egg into it and add a little more oil. Cover the egg with all the ingredients and stir-fry evenly. Add cockles if desired and mix in a handful of chives. Do not overcook.
Remove the dish to a plate and serve hot.

(Note: I did not add beansprouts and cockles nor chilli paste, but added some fish cakes.)

Photo Source: alicecozycorner
Recipe Source: By Amy Beh

Tofu with terriyaki sauce

Ingredients

1 box tofu (drained and cut into thick slices)
Fried Shallots
3 tbsp terriyaki marinade
3 tbsp water

Method

1. Pan-fry tofu in oil till golden yellow or steam tofu (more nutritious) and drain away liquid.
2. Mix terriyaki marinade and water in pan and boil and pour over tofu.
3. Sprinkle with fried shallots.

Photo source: alicecozycorner
Recipe source: alicecozycorner

Pork with Cola

Saw this recipe in the internet and make some adjustment to it to suit my own taste. The photo don't look nice but taste good. Coke is tasty (ha ha ha).


Ingredients

300 gm pork cut into cubes
1 tbsp oyster sauce (or to taste)
1/2 tbsp ginger juice
1 clove garlic (crushed)
1/2 tbsp corn flour
spring onion (sliced)
300 ml of coke (or to taste)

1. Marinate pork cubes with 150 ml of coke overnight.
2. Heat up oil in wok, fry garlic till fragrant.
3. Add marinated pork cubes, ginger juice, oyster sauce and cornflour.
4. Stir all together.
5. Pour remaining 150 ml of coke in.
6. Cover the work and let pork and coke simmer.
7. Add spring onions and stir some more.

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Recipe Source: alicecozycorner

Stir Fry Lean Pork with potato

Ingredients

200 gm lean pork (slice thinly)
1 small onion (sliced)
2 potatoes (cubed)

Marinade

1 tsp sugar
1 tsp light soya sauce
1 tsp dark soya sauce
few drops of sesame oil

Method

1. Marinade Pork
2. Deep fry potato till yellow brown and set aside.
3. Drain oil
4. Fry onion till fragrant
5. Add pork and fry till almost cooked.
6. Add potato and fry for a while more.

Photo Source: alicecozycorner
Recipe Source: PoPoCooking Blogspot

Stir fry cabbage with dried shrimp (hei bee)

I love to eat cabbage, this is a simple version cause I dont like too many ingredients in my food. You can add other ingredients if you like (eg. mushroom, tang hoon or glass noodle, lily buds, black fungus, etc).



Ingredients

300 gm cabbage (est)-shredded
30 gm dried shrimps (est)-soaked in water
1/2 tbsp oyster sauce (or to taste)
50 ml water (est)
1 clove garlic-chopped finely

1. Wash and soak dried shrimps in water.
2. Heat oil and fry garlic till fragrant.
3. Add cabbage and fry for a while, drain dried shrimps and add dried shrimps into it. Fry for a while.
4. Add oyster sauce and water.
5. Cook till water absorbed or cabbage is cooked. Dont cook too long and add less water, if you prefer your cabbage to be more crunchy.

Photo source: alicecozycorner
Recipe source: alicecozycorner

Oyster Sauce Chicken

I saw this recipe in the cookery book, I find it very salty even though I did not follow the recipe of adding salt, so I added sugar to it. Maybe the next time, I would marinate the chicken with dark soya sauce and not follow the recipe of adding light soya sauce. Will try again and perfect my cooking (lol).

Oyster Sauce Chicken
Ingredients

8 chicken wings
1 tbsp light soya sauce (next time I would leave this out)
1 clove garlic (chopped)
1 tsp minced ginger
2 tbsp oil
3 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp chinese wine
1 tbsp sugar (or to taste)
1 cup water (est.)
2 tsp sesame oil
cornstarch with water for thickening.
2 tsp dark soya sauce (for browning the chicken)

Method

1. Cut chicken wings at joints.
2. Marinate chicken wings with light soya sauce,dark soya sauce, garlic and ginger for one hour.
3. Heat wok and add oil and lightly brown chicken wing on high heat.
4. Add oyster sauce, wine, sugar and water. Cover and bring to boil and turn temp down. Cook for 15-20 mins. Turn temp to high add sesame oil and thickening.

Note: Can take away light soya sauce (not necessary)

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Recipe Source: alicecozycorner

My Say

Wow, I am so proud of myself. If you look on the right side under Links, you can see alicecozycornerindex. So if you want to look for a particular recipe, just click on the index and you can find the particular recipe and you dont have to scroll all the way down or looked into the archives to locate it.

All I did was to look at some other bloggers style of blogging and without any knowledge of programming I just " trial and error" and manage to create an index. Amazing, I don't believed it myself (ha ha ha). My husband and sons must be very proud of me (he he he).

From now on, I won't be blogging videos under alicecozycorner's blog, so if you like to view funny videos or fans of Teresa Teng Li Jun's songs, you can click onto alicetraveltales on the link section. I have nice videos of teresa's songs. Geez, so happy I am a true fan of Teng Li Jun.

Happy Weekend.

Seah's Spices Emperor Herbs Chicken

Today I tried this Seah's Spices Emperor Herbs Chicken. Taste very good and had a very strong herbal smell. At first my two sons who hate to take herbal soup, disliked the smell but when I insisted that they tried the chicken, I saw that they ate until the bone was very clean (lol). Hubby also said it tasted very good and it was so easy to make. The packet of Seah's spices could easily obtained from supermarket or from the chicken stall seller in the wet market. I enclosed the photos on the step by step method of making the chicken.



Ingredients

1 packet of Seah's Spices Emperor Herbs Chicken Spices
One Chicken
Aluminium Foil and One HDPE wrapper (it comes with the packet of spices)

Method:

1. Clean chicken, remove the head and feet.
2. Rub some Emperor Herbs Chicken Spices onto the skin (including the wings and drumsticks) and inside the body.
3.Wrap Chicken with HPDE wrapper followed by aluminium foil.
4.Steam for about 2 ½ hours under slow fire.

Caution:

(1) Please keep checking water don't dried up when steaming. If you are forgetful, it is alway useful to set a timer with ringing sound for every 20 mins.
(2) Steam can cause severe burns. Always open a steaming pot away from you and let the steam escape before you reach inside or look at the food.


Photo Source: alicecozycorner
Recipe Source: Seah's Spices Emperor Herbs Chicken (can be found on the back of packet)

Cup Cakes

Ha Ha Ha... I baked cup cakes today again. Saw the recipe in the internet. Taste very good, I halved the recipe that I saw in the internet and baked about 18 cupcakes. The preparation is very easy and not time consuming but my small oven can bake 1 tray at a time, geez... think I got to buy a bigger oven but hmmm.... where to put in my small kitchen....lol.



Ingredients

125 gm butter
110 gm sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla essence
3 large eggs
150 gm self raising flour
1/4 cup evaporated milk

Method

Mix butter,sugar and milk.
Add egg one at a time and add vanilla essence.
Fold in flour.
Bake in oven at 160 degrees for about 20 mins.

Photo recipe: alicecozycorner
Recipe Source:http://preciousmoments2.blogspot.com

Sweet & Sour Fish

Ingredients

1 fish (garoupa)
cornflour (for dusting)
1 beaten egg
1 clove garlic (chopped)
1 tbsp ginger (sliced)
carrot (finely shredded)
green and red peppers (optional)
pineapple chunks (optional)
Spring onions

Sweet & Sour sauce

2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp cornflour
100 gm water (est)
4 tbsp ketchup

Method

1. Clean fish and pat dry. Cut 2 slashes on both sides of fish. Rub with salt.
2. Dust fish with cornflour and dip in eggs, then coat again in cornflour.
3. Deep fry fish till almost golden brown and remove.
4. Fry garlic, ginger, carrots and green peppers, etc. for 1/2 min.
5. Add sweet & sour sauce and bring to boil. Add in spring onions and pour sauce over fish.

Photo Source: alicecozycorner
Recipe Source: alicecozycorner

Steam lean pork

My mom used to steam this dish but she used chicken instead of pork. A very traditional cantonese dish and very easy to cook.



Ingredients

300 gm lean pork (sliced)
1 chinese sausage (sliced)
mushroom (sliced)
dried lily buds
1/2 tbsp light soya sauce (or to taste)
1 tbsp cornflour
few drops of sesame oil

Method

1. Trim off end of lily buds and tied into a knot.
2. Soak mushroom and lily buds in hot water till soft.
3. Mix all ingredients together and steam on steaming tray on top of rice cooker and cook your rice at the same time.

Photo source: alicecozycorner
Recipe source: alicecozycorner

Red Vegetable (Slippery Vegetable) Soup

Ingredients
1 bunch of Red vegetables or Slippery Vegetables
10 pork meat balls (est) or slices of lean pork
200 gm pork ribs-scalded in boiling water for 3 mins
1 tsp of salt
light soya sauce to taste
2 litres of water (est)
1 salted egg

Method

1. Scald pork ribs and discard water.
2. Add pork ribs, water, salt to pot.
3. When boiled, add pork meat balls and light soya sauce to taste.
4. Continue to boil for another 15 to 20 mins from medium to low heat.
5. Then add vegetables (leaves only) and boil for a minute or two.
6. Turn off heat and add salted egg white and stir the soup as you add so that the egg white would not be lumpy and can give a flowering effect. Please do not throw away the salted egg yolk, add into the soup too.

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Recipe Source: alicecozycorner

Steamed shrimp & Beancurd in Gravy

Saw this recipe in the cookery book "HomeDishes", I tried it out, look quite close. But I added some dark soya sauce to make the gravy look darker.



Ingredients

1 big soft beancurd
prawns (shelled)
1/2 tsp chopped garlic
1/2 tsp fried chopped onion (I used those ready type)

Seasoning

1/2 tsp chicken stock granules (I used those in bottle types for cooking chicken rice)
1/2 tsp light soya sauce
1/4 cup water
little pepper
litle sesame oil

Thickening

1 tsp cornflour + 2 tsp water

Method

1. Steam soft beancurd in a steamer at medium heat for approx. 10 mins. Remove and drain, place in a dish for later use.
2. Heat up wok with 1 tbsp oil, saute chopped garlic till fragrant. Bring prawns and seasoning to boil and pour in thickening. Pour over soft beancurd and sprinkle fried chopped onion on top.

Note: Instead of prawns, can fried some whitebaits till crispy and sprinkle on tofu.

Photo Source: alicecozycorner
Recipe Source: HomeDishes Cookery Book

Laksa

I saw a recipe for laksa in the Sunday Times, was thinking about making my own laksa. But when I saw the numerous ingredients it needed, I change my mind. Why bother to make, when I can buy from the stall at my coffeeshop for S$2.00(look at photo). And it is quite tasty and nice. I think my Singapore friends would agreed with me 100% (lol). Anyway, I cut out the recipe and keep it in my recipe file incase someone decided to cook for me (lol).

Spare Ribs with black bean garlic sauce

Spare ribs with black bean garlic sauce

Ingredients

Spare ribs 400 gm(cut into pieces)
Black Bean Garlic Sauce 2 tbsp
Sugar 2 to 3 tsp (adjust to your flavour)

Method

1. Marinate spare ribs with black bean garlic sauce and sugar.
2. Steam spare ribs on steaming tray on top of rice cooker and steam it while you cook your rice.

Note: Black Bean Garlic Sauce is quite salty so you need to add sugar.

Photo Source: alicecozycorner
Recipe Source: alicecozycorner

Minced meat with tung choy

I loved this dish, mom used to cook it when I was young. Very easy to prepare. Tung Choy is a cantonese name for preserved vegetables, come in small packet and it is salty.

Ingredients (Quantity est.)

200 gm minced pork
1 desertsp tung choy (preserved vegetables)-less if you dont like too salty
2 tsp tapioca flour
few drops of sesame oil

1. Chop tung choy finely and mixed with minced meat and the rest of the ingredients.
2. Put on a steaming tray on top of the rice cooker and steam it while you cook your rice.

Note: Tung Choy is salty - so you adjust the amount according to your taste. For me the above measurement are just nice for me.

Photo source: alicecozycorner
Recipe source: alicecozycorner

Kou Kei (medlar) Soup

Hot Hot Hot......It's middle of the year again, the hot weather is terrible. I cooked some kou kei (medlar) soup (thanks pris for finding out for me the english name for kou kei). Only the leaves can be eaten, discard the stem and be careful of the thorns. The soup is very tasty and nice.

Ingredients

1 bunch of kou kei vegetables
10 pork meat balls (est)
200 gm pork ribs-scalded in boiling water for 3 mins
1 tsp of salt
light soya sauce to taste
2 litres of water (est)

Method

1. Scald pork ribs and discard water.
2. Add pork ribs, water, salt to pot.
3. When boiled, add pork meat balls and light soya sauce to taste.
4. Continue to boil for another 15 to 20 mins from medium to low heat.
5. Then add vegetables (leaves only) and boil for a minute or two.
6. Turn off heat and add egg white and stir the soup as you add so that the egg white would not be lumpy and can give a flowering effect.

Photo Source: alicecozycorner
Recipe Source: alicecozycorner

Tingkat rice and BBQ Chicken Rice

Today had tingkat rice for lunch and son had BBQ chicken rice. Guess Singaporeans are lucky to live in a food paradise country. We don't bothered to cook on weekends and if we are too lazy to think of what to cook, just head down to your nearest coffeeshop or food court. Food are cheap and aplenty. I bought the tingkat rice at Compass Point and it was worth the money. The minced meat with salted fish cost me S$3.80 and and it comes free with steam rice, steam egg and some stir fried cabbages. I ordered takeaway and if you dine there, they come in very nice tingkat container. Very worth the money, was recommended by my sister. My son had BBQ chicken rice at Carona. When Carona first started, I like the Carona's chicken rice but now I am quite sick of it (lol) and I feel the standard had dropped. But my sons still loved it. I did not blog for many days and my friends had been asking me about it (lol). Glad my friends are enjoying it. Sorry, my migraine was making me sick. But now I am fit as a fiddle (lol). Will be blogging more. I guess the proverb of "you grow wiser as you grow older" is very true. I found that I am wiser each day as I grow older each day (lol).

When I first started blogging, I was nervous but now I am more confident. I can now add video into my blog. And the latest, I had learned was how to put the number of visitors to my blog. If you scroll right down the page, you can see the number of visitors to my blog but I cant see who are the ones who log in, so dont worry (ha ha ha).

Maybe I should conduct a one day basic blogging class and charge S$20 each. Ha Ha Ha.....good way of making extra income.