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.

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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.

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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.