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I’m going to share another simple and nice recipe today which is braised pork with red fermented bean curd. To make the pork taste better, marinate the pork (I cut it in cube form) with 1 piece of red fermented bean curd and 1 tablespoon of brown sugar for at least 2 hours.

Stir fry some chopped garlic with pan. Once smell the aroma of the garlic, put in all the marinated pork and stir fry until 70% cooked. Add in the pre-soak black fungus and a small bowl of water. Cover the pan and braise with low heat.

Just a small note, black fungus not only delicious it also beneficial for coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.

This is a very good dish to have with a bowl of rice

If you have some leftover roasted pork aka siew yok sit inside your fridge then you may try out this recipe.

This recipe is as simple as eating kacang putih. Just get ready the roasted pork without marinated it because it’s already being marinated when the pork being roasted. Stir fry the roast pork by added in some chopped garlic, oyster sauce, soy sauce (if your roasted pork are salty can ignore this) and sugar.

The roast pork I had have enough flavor so I just add 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce and 2 tablespoon of brown sugar.

This dish can be ready within 20 minutes and it taste fantastic! Give it a try and you will know

With the extra sauce that I had from the pot-stewed chicken & pork I cooked yesterday. I decided to try to boil coddled egg which I always saw people posting the nice photos of it. Only a few simple steps you will be able to make it without fail.

You need to use the eggs that are in room temperature. If you stored your eggs in the refrigerator then you will need to take it out way before you start to cook. Boiled some water. Pour a small bowl of cold water in the boiled water follow by putting in the eggs. Boiled the eggs for 5 minutes.

After 5 minutes, takes all the eggs out and directly put the eggs in a bowl of ice water. This will cool down the egg to avoid it continue ‘boiling’. Peel off the egg shell carefully and put it in the pot-stewed chicken sauce.

Simple and nice recipe! This coddled egg will be a good combination with ramen.

Today is a lazy day so I decided to have stewed chicken & pork only for our dinner. What I need to prepare was only the sauce which with the combination of soy sauce, water and sugar.

The portion of soy sauce and water are 1:1.5 if the soy sauce that you use not as salty as mine you may just put 1:1 portion. Due to the soy sauce that I use is way too salty I had put 6 tablespoon of brown sugar in and also some cinnamon and star anise. Once the sauce boiled put in all the chicken and pork and leave it simmering very gently for half and hour.

After half and hour, it’s ready to be served. You may add in toufu and egg as well according to your own favorite.

Bored of having meat daily so gonna cook some mushrooms for dinner. I used seafood mushroom, buna shimeji mushroom and abalone mushroom.

This is a very simple vegetarian dish where you just need to cut and clean all the mushrooms then fried it. I fried the mushrooms with some garlic and ginger. Since mushroom somehow are tasteless (they don’t have any strong taste) so I put a tablespoon of oyster sauce and a pinch of salt for favor purposes.

If you did follow my blog you will noticed I will always go for simple and yet healthy food as I will have to finish my cooking within an hour. It’s always not an easy task to prepare a dinner while have to take care of a 4 month old baby.

My fridge always has a lot of apples which I can’t finish it before it spoilt. Normally I will use it to boil apple juice but I felt so bored that always having apple juice. So I decide to try to use the apple in my cooking at the same time I can expand my own recipe book.

I used 2 boneless chicken drumstick, some onions and an apple. Cut both onions and apple in cube form.

I pan fry the chicken without adding in any oil. All I did it put the skin part on the pan first and while pan fry the chicken until it become brownish then only pan fry the other side. This way will make your chicken chop a bit ‘crispy‘.

Once both side of the chicken was pan fried. Add the onion and apple in the pan. Before cover the pan, put in some teriyaki sauce and some sugar (the teriyaki sauce that I used is a bit too salty). Cook the chicken chop for another 15 minutes with covered.

Ta-dang……

After cooked the apple are way too sour so we only finished the chicken chop. The sauce taste with the mixture of sweet, salty and sour all 3 tastes.

I also found out that can use apple to boil chicken soup. Gonna try out the new recipe soon!

Recently there are a lot o people sharing a page about making tomato rice with rice cooker. As far as I remembered we can order tomato rice at any banana leave mamak stalls. If you like tomato rice why not cook it by yourself as you only need very simple tools and ingredient to cook it.

I gave it a try today as it’s way too simple to prepare it. All I need is a rice cooker, rice, tomato, some black pepper and salt and also a bit of olive oil. I used virgin coconut oil or commonly known as VCO as I don’t use olive oil for cooking.

I put in the usual amount of water to cook the tomato rice due to I’m using brown rice instead of white rice. If you are using white rice do cut down a little amount of water due to during the cooking process tomato will produce some juices which will make your rice too watery.

It come out pretty yummy. The tomato rice is very good for people who stay alone and only have simple tools with them. You may add in additional ingredient like prawn, sausage or maybe add in other type of vegetable like carrot to make it more nutrient.

Give it a try!!

My hubby always crave for pandan leaves chicken – a famous Thai dish. which I always doesn’t have a chance to look for the recipe. Just last week, I myself also craved for it so I decided to googled and get the recipe.

It’s consider a pretty simple dish except for the wrapping part. I spent most of the time in wrapping the chicken.

I marinated the boneless chicken drumstick overnight with:

Lemongrass (smashed and filter the juice – only use the juice to marinate)
Onion (minced)
Ginger (minced)
Turmeric powder
Salt

After a day, wrap the chicken with pandan leaves. I spent more than 1 hour to wrap the chicken (around 20 pieces). It was tiring……

I kept the wrapped chicken in the fridge for another day and fried the next day for our dinner.

For the first try of this dish, it was a bit tasteless. I should put in more lemongrass juice and use fresh turmeric juice instead of turmeric powder.

I’m gonna make another round of this and hope there will be some improvement.