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!

Arrowhead with Pork in Bean Paste

For those of you who are familiar with this dish, you would think I should use the reddish preserved beancurd called "nam yu" but well, I realised the bottle that I have had expired ;p Oops...so, what to do? Use la whatever is available :) So, now I can tell you that it's taste pretty good too with bean paste.

Ingredients:
Arrowhead (sliced)
Pork (sliced)
Garlic
Bean Paste
Water
Oil


Method:
1. Heat oil and saute garlic.
2. Add in arrowhead and stir fry for 1-2min.
3. Add in pork and bean paste. Stir fry for 1min.
4. Add some water and let it simmer then turn to medium-low heat.
5. Once pork is cooked, dish up.

Christmas Dinner

Yesterday was Christmas and hubby decided that we'd cook dinner instead of eating out. I do prefer to stay at home on public holiday because no matter where we go, it's always crowded. At first we thought of going to the mall but when we saw the long queue of cars waiting to get into the car park, we thought it'd be better to spend the afternoon at home taking an afternoon nap or watching tv. Hahaha....

We had a nice time preparing the dinner together. This time, hubby cooked ABC soup, vege and he even tried to cook pork in soy sauce! Very ambitious hor...but it was a nice meal and am very proud of him for his interest to learn :)

ABC Soup

Ingredients:

Pork Ribs (can use chicken also)

Tomato

Carrot

Potato

Onion

Water

Salt

Hot boiling water

Method:

1. Pour the hot boiling water onto the pork ribs and let it stand for 5min or so.

2. Boil a pot of water and throw in the ribs and all other ingredients except the salt.

3. Cook over high heat (soup will be boiling) for 1hour or so, then turn to medium or low heat for another 1-2 hours.

4. Season with salt and serve hot. Love this soup and very comforting on a rainy day!

Pork in Dark Soy Sauce

Ingredients:

Pork Meat (slice thinly)

Ginger (shred thinly)

Sesame Oil

Dark Soy Sauce

Light Soy Sauce

Sugar

Method:

1. Heat sesame oil and saute ginger till fragrant.

2. Put in pork and stir fry for 1/2min.

3. Add in dark soy sauce, light soy sauce and sugar.

4. Stir fry for for another 1/2min and dish up. Goes well with rice..

Pan Fried Minced Pork

Stir Fried Spinach with lots of garlic and onion

This may not look very nice but my hubby loved it. We had this with another vege dish as dinner.


Ingredients:
Pork (minced)
Carrot (chopped finely)
Onion (chopped finely)
Salt
Sugar
Corn Flour
Pepper
Sesame Oil
Light Soy Sauce
Oil

Method:
1. Mix everything together, except the oil, and let it marinate for at least 30min.
2. Take a spoonful of the mixture and pan fry on a non stick pan.
3. Cook 2-3min on each side.
4. Serve with chili sauce.

Steamed Minced Meat with Tung Choi

This is a traditional dish that my mum cooked quite often when we were small. I like the tung choi although it can be very salty if you add in too much of it and didn’t soak it in water first. It goes well with porridge and white rice. To me, this is one of those comfort food that you cook when you miss home or your childhood.


Ingredients:
Minced Pork (I used lean meat but it tastes better if you use meat with some fat)
Tung Choi (a kind of preserved vegetables)
Sesame Oil
Pepper
Light Soy Sauce


Method:
1. Clean the tung choi a few times – it tends to have some sand in it.
2. Soak the tung choi for at least 30min, otherwise it will be very salty.
3. Add some sesame oil, pepper and light soy sauce into the minced meat and let it marinate for ~30min.
4. Squeeze excess water from tung choi and mix it into the minced meat.
5. Steam until cooked. I steamed it while cooking rice and it’s done when rice is cooked.