MeeSua Soup

I love meesua for its simplicity and versatility. You can add in anything you like be it vege or meat and it will always turn out well. I cooked this for dinner some time back and absolutely love this especially on a rainy day. It's very comforting.


Ingredients:
MeeSua (soaked in water for a few minutes)
Meat (sliced pork/chicken)
Light Soy sauce
Dark Soy Sauce
Chinese Cooking Wine
Pepper
Sesame Oil
Vegetables (your choice)
Carrot
Tofu
Garlic
Onion
Oil
Water
Salt


Method:
1. Marinate the meat with the ingredients highlighted in yellow for at least 30min.
2. Heat some oil and saute garlic and onion till fragrant.
3. Pour in the meat and its sauce. Stir fry for 1min.
4. Add in carrot and stir fry for another min.
5. Pour in enough water to make the soup and cook till it boils.
6. Add in the meesua, tofu and vegetables. Cook for another min or till it boils.
7. Season with salt and it's ready to serve!

Porks Ribs

Wow....I can't believe it that the last time I blogged about food was almost 3 months ago??? Aiks, how can this be ;p OK, anyway I will always love cooking and here's something really yummy! I cooked this some time ago so just agak-agak la here ;p

It would look better with some garnishing of parsley or something but hey, this is home cooked food and nobody eats the garnishing, so save it la hor. Dont waste the things we dont eat ma. :)

Ingredients:
Pork Ribs
Light Soy Sauce
Dark Soy Sauce
Chinese Cooking Wine
Sugar
Sesame Oil
White Pepper Powder
Tomato Sauce
Onion
Oil
Salt
Water
Corn Flour


Method:
1. Marinate pork ribs with those ingredients highlighted in yellow for at least 1 hour.
2. Heat some oil and stir fry onion till fragrant.
3. Pour in the marinated pork ribs and its sauce. Stir fry till ribs look 1/2 cooked.
4. Add in tomato sauce and season with some salt to your preference. You can add more sugar or pepper....it's all up to your tastebud.
5. Add enough water to cover the meat and let it simmer until soft, adding water whenever needed.
6. Mix corn flour with a little water and pour in the mixture to thicken the sauce.
7. Serve hot with rice. Delicious!

Dutch Apple Cake (Rachel Allen's recipe)

I first saw this in one of the food blogs and then head over to Rachel Allen's web to check out the recipe. It's a simple and nice cake. I love to arrange the apple slices on top of the cake. Only one thing, if you are baking on the lower rack of the oven you might need to bake ~5min using top heat in the last part of the baking to get the nice brown top :)

Packed these for hubby to share with his colleagues.



Old Cucumber Soup

Nice one, my mum said it has cooling properties. Not sure about that but a bowl of hot soup never fails to complete my meal.

Ingredients:
Old Cucumber (cut into chunks)
Dried Oyster (5-6pieces)
Red Dates (7-8 pieces)
Meat (chicken/pork bones is fine)
Salt
Water


Method:
1. Bring water to boil.
2. Add in all the ingrdients except salt. Simmer for at least 2 hours (use high heat for the first 30min, then turn to low heat). I used a slow cooker (used the "high" setting all the time). If using slow cooker, cook for at least 3 hours.
3. Season with salt.

Fried Rice with Fresh Corn

Here's another simple meal I cooked recently. It taste really good all because of the fresh corn!!! I don't know what you call that corn with 2 colours; white and yellow kernels but it's the more expensive type. It's not because I wanted to buy this but the seller ran out of the normal type, so I had to take this one. Anyway, it's very juicy and sweet, so no regrets.


Ingredients:
Cooked Rice
Carrot (diced)
Broccoli (cut into small pieces)
Fresh Corn
Dried Shrimps (soaked and chopped)
Garlic (chopped)
Shallots (sliced)
Dark Soy Sauce
Light Soy Sauce
Oil
Water-boiled


Method:
1. Heat oil in wok and saute garlic and shallots till fragrant.
2. Add in dried shrimps and stir fry till fragrant.
3. Add in carrot, broccoli and corn.
4. Season with light soy sauce.
5. Pour in rice and mix well.
6. Add in dark soy sauce and mix well.
7. Stir fry for 3-4min, adding water when it gets too dry.
8. Cook until corn is cooked (try it!) and add more light soy sauce to taste.
9. Serve hot.

Stir Fried Udon

It's has been such a long time since I have updated my cooking blog I almost forgot how to go about with the recipe. ;p After a long break from the kitchen, I've started cooking dinner almost everyday for the past 2 months. Yeap, I still enjoy working in the kitchen and it's still a way for me to de-stress :)

Here is a simple one dish meal. Saw some udon noodles in the wet market and thought of a stir fried version. Yummy!

Ingredients:
Udon noodles
Garlic (chopped)
Carrot (sliced)
Cabbage (cut into bite size)
Dried Mushroom (soaked till soft and cut into pieces)
Chicken Meat (cut into bite size)
Black Pepper
Light Soy Sauce
Salt
Oil
Water -boiled (if needed)


Method:
1. Heat oil in wok and saute garlic till fragrant.
2. Add in carrot and mushroom. Stir fry for 1min.
3. Add in cabbage and chicken meat. Stir fry for another min.
4. Season with some salt and light soy sauce. Sprinkle some black pepper.
5. Stir fry for 1 min.
6. Add in the noodles. Mix well. Stir fry for another 1-2min.
7. If too dry, add some water, otherwise, dish up and serve.

Chiffon Cake...again...after a long long time

In case you thought I have not only packed but sold my oven, NO, no, NO,...how could I??? :) The eggs had been staying in the fridge for a long time and it's time to get rid of them. So, what cake to bake if not chiffon since egg is the main ingredient for this cake. Since I still have some coffee powder as well, coffee chiffon it is!

See...my tall and lovely chiffon cake ;p Packed most of it for my MIL to bring back to Sg. Yes, I am still the old me. I love to bake but don't eat much of what I bake.

I am really hoping that I can start baking again...when can I have the next baking session??