Home Cooked Bak Kut Teh

Mom bought 2 packets of this Wonderful Bak Kut Teh (Herbal Soup Spices) for me to bring over to Singapore, so that I can have home cook soup.   So here it is my home cooked Bak Kut Teh in the morning and I put it in the magic pot to cook till am back from movie.  We went and watched "Bridesmaid" movie and it was such a funny and meaningful movie for best friends.. and it's forever!!  Only best friends know the best of you and I do agree.  Miss my best friend in Malaysia! and of course all my friends there too.  Personally I have a lot of friends and I hope to keep contact with each and everyone of them, but it's not easy.. anyway, I'll try my best.  With facebook now, it's easier to say hi to them and see what and where they have been and doing.

Okay, here is the ingredients used for my Bak Kut Teh.


1 pack of Wonderful Bak Kut Teh pack (Herbal Soup Spices) 
or you may try this: Starflower Brand “Pure Bak Kut Teh Spices” 
1kg Pork Loin and prime ribs (I only use 0.5kg)
200 gm whole garlic (I use 2 here and do not peel but just wash it clean)
some salt (to rub on the meat)
4 tablespoon light soya sauce
1/2 tablespoon dark soya sauce


Optional:
6 taufu puff (taufu bok)
1 fried beancurd stick
6 chinese mushrooms
1 pack of enoki mushrooms (Kam cham ku)
1 lettuce (here I used baby romaine and you can use any vegetables that you like)
a small handful of wolfberries (kei chi)
a small handful of tong sum (refer to photo)


Condiments: Fresh raw garlic with chilli padi in soya sauce

Steps:
1. Prepare 1kg of meat (marinate with some salt for 10 minutes and rince with hot water).
2. Add Wonderful spices, garlic, wolfberries and tong sum to 3.5 litre of hot water and boil for 20 minutes.
3. Add the meat and simmer for another 1 hour.
4. Add 4 tablespoon light soya sauce, 1/2 tablespoon dark soya sauce and the rest of ingredients. 
5. Boil till all ingredients are cooked.

Bruschetta & Lemongrass Satay

Bruschetta

Lemongrass Chicken Satay

Saturday's cooking class again at Teddy's Kitchen.
Recipe from http://www.artsfunstudio.blogspot.com or http://kiddocook.blogspot.com
(those with this sign -- is added by myself)


LEMONGRASS SATAY
150g minced chicken
½ yellow onion (chopped)
3stk lemongrass
1pinch chicken stock
1pinch salt
1pinch 5 spice powder
1pinch cumin powder
1pinch turmeric powder
1pinch fennel
1pinch coriander powder
1pinch aniseed
1pinch cinnamon powder
2tbsp corn flour
--some honey
--sesame oil
--chinese parsley

[Step-by-Step]
1) Mix all ingredients together with hand (except lemongrass).
2) Divide the mixture to 3 portion and stick it to lemongrass.
-- Cut the lemon grass top part and dip into oil and flour. Put chicken mixture on this lemongrass stick
3) Place the satay in freezer for 10mins.
4) Bake the satay at 170˚C for 30mins or until golden brown.


BRUSCHETTA
Garlic Bread
6slice french loaf/Baguette
100g melted butter
3clove garlic (chopped)
15g spring onion
-- chinese parsley, if you like

[Step-by-Step (Garlic Bread)]
1) Melted butter, sauté with the garlic and spring onion.
2) Brush garlic butter on french loaf. Bake at 170˚C for 5mins.

Salsa
½ tomato --skin part & cut cube
1/4 yellow onion (cube)
3stk coriander leaf
1pinch salt & pepper
1tsp lemon juice
½tsp honey
-- basil leaves, if you like

[Step-by-Step (Salsa)]
1) Mix all ingredients.
2) Place on crispy hot bread before serve.

Yakitori & Green salad

March 5, my girl went to the cooking class at Teddy's Kitchen. You can enrol your kids too.  It's fun for them to play with the food and learn some skills.  It's location is at Art's Fun Studio

Yakitori & Green salad

Recipe from http://www.artsfunstudio.blogspot.com
(those with this sign -- is added by myself)

YAKITORI
½ chicken breast
1tbsp onion (chopped)
1pinch salt
1pinch pepper
1cup Teriyaki Sauce
3-4 satay stick
-- some honey

[Step-by-Step]
1) Marinate all ingredients about 25-30mins.
2) Cut the chicken in cube size (5cm x 3cm).
3) Put the chicken on satay stick.
4) Bake at 90˚C for 15mins.
5) Brush the cooked Yakitori with Teriyaki sauce before serve.


GREEN SALAD
7pc iceberg/coral lettuce
1/4 carrot (sliced)
8 cherry tomato
1/4 capsicum - red & yellow (sliced)
1/4 cucumber (sliced)
1/4 yellow onions

For dressing
2tbsp mayonnaise
½tbsp olive oil
5drop sesame oil
1pinch pepper
1pinch salt
1pinch sugar

[Step-by-Step]
1) Wash all vegetable with ice water. Drain it dry and slice.
2) Mix all dressing ingredients in a bowl until fine.
3) Place the vegetable in a bowl and pour in the dressing before serve.

Home cook food for my lil' angel's birthday

To tell you the truth, I seldom cook like this.  I only cook occasionally.  Working full time and taking care of 2 kids + 1 big one (you know who I mean..LOL)..is really exhausted.  Well, I'm blessed to be able to still enjoy my mom's home cook food everyday!!  Da best of all!!  so below is what I've cooked with hubby for my lil angel's birthday.  She is 6 years old this year and will be going to primary school next year.  I wish her good health and happiness forever.  This is the most important thing in our life.  I always talk to her how lucky we are..and every time she will tell me how lucky she is!  Yes, we are very lucky and blessed (including everyone out there)

Okay, I saw this recipe in the Ikea's book and thought it would be good to try it out.  It says:

An instant recipe to be a Swedish Chef!  well maybe mine doesn't look like the picture they have shown LOL

Crispy Lemon and Herb Butter Chicken

This meatball also refering to a recipe book ..my first try on that recipe and it turns out still okay.  Next time, I should add some prawns so then it will taste better.

Meatballs with water chestnut

Stir fried Broccoli

Homemade mash potatoes and Bacon chip

This is another dish that I tried for the first time.. normally I cook spaghetti. So this fettucine needs to cook for a bit longer. The sauce to accompany it also took me longer than usual and ended up everyone is waiting for it. This again from the Ikea's book and I'll post the recipe at the bottom for reference.

I think I'm new to this kind of taste and my family too LOL.  All the while I've been cooking the creamy sauce for spaghetti, but this time for a change, I thought why not try new things. Ended.. it's not a popular dish *^*  Maybe I should try new things when it's just a normal dinner so not to get disappointed with the taste *v*

Slow Roasted Tomato & Peppers Prawn Pasta

Lastly we have the fruits platter and all the kids enjoy it so much.  Of course I can see what they like as they only took their favourites and left the starfruit! My eldest sis was helping me with this and she should have cut the starfruit into star shape to attract them. Well I've told her the idea and next time I think she knows what to do ^v^

Fruits platter

Here is the recipe from Ikea:

Crispy Lemon and Herb Butter Chicken

Ingredients

1 fresh chicken
1 bunch each of these herbs: fresh basil, flat parsley, fresh rosemary
2 lemons
2 cloves of garlic
150g butter at room temperature
3 tbs olive oil
Salt and pepper

Method:
1. In a mixing bowl, mix them all together
   - Room temperature butter
   - Chop all the herbs
   - Grate all the lemon zest (without the bitter white of the lemon peel)
   - Grate the garlic
   - Squeeze the lemon juice

2. Carefully loosen the skin from the chicken and spread the above ingredients from mixing bowl evenly between the chicken skin and the meat.
3. Oil and season the chicken all over with salt and pepper.
4. Cook in an oven for 50 minutes at 225 degree C.

** Some tools from Ikea to help you with this ~ KOMMERS herb chopper, CHARM grater, KONCIS roasting tin.. check it out at Ikea.com


Slow Roasted Tomato & Peppers Prawn Pasta
Ingredients

A group
4 large tomatoes, skinned and roughly chopped
1 small red and yellow capsicum, sliced
1 tablespoon ginger strips
4 cloves garlic, crushed
2 red onions, chopped
4 green chilli padi, crushed
4 tablespoons olive oil
50ml water
1 teaspoon salt

B group
4 large fresh water prawns (udang galah), halved
1 packet fettucine cooked according to packet instructions
2 stalks spring onions, chopped

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 160 degree C conventional heat setting.
2. Put all the ingredients in A group into a casserole dish.
3. Cover and bake for 40 minutes. 
4. Remove the dish from the oven and turn up the oven temperature to 180 degree C.
5. Add the prawns, cover and return to the oven for a further 10 minutes.
6. Remove from oven and toss in the pasta.
7. Garnish with chopped spring onions and serve hot.

Christmas Celebration 2010

Last year's Christmas I did not do any open house for Christmas.  We were invited to this makan makan (eat eat)  *><* at Klang.  Look at this.. I like this picture! 

Home cook food is the best!  This is by Gourmet Cottage. They do sell cupcakes, cookies etc etc. Look at these food!!!  It's a lot. 

Check these out!

Ceasar Salad

Sausage Cheese Pizza & Salad with thousand island+japanese mayo+periperi dip

Cold cut

Corn slab buttered with herbs

Devilled eggs

Egg & Potato Salad

Fruits with Choc

Gingerbread man

Homemade Charcoal bread

Lamb shank

Mix Vege

Coleslaw

Raisins & sultanas golden rice

Roast Chicken

Roast Pork Ribs

Sausage cheese pizza

Seafood soup

Vegetarian Pizza

Miracle Drink - Carrot, Potato and Apple

A very good friend of mine shared this with me, and I think it's good to share here.  I believe that what we eat are what we are. So let's eat healthily to be healthy! 

This MIRACLE DRINK has been circulating for a long long long time ago.  It is worth your while to take note.  There is a celebrity Mr. Seto who swears by it.  He wants to make it public to draw the attention of people who have cancers.  This is a drink that can protect bad cells forming in your body or it will restrain its growth!  Mr. Seto had lung cancer.  He was recommended to take this drink by a famous Herbalist from China.  He has taken this drink diligently for 3 months and now his health is restored, and he is ready to take a pleasure trip.  Thanks to this drink!  It does not hurt for you to try.  
 
It is like a Miracle Drink!  It is simple.

You need one potato, one carrot and one apple that combine together to make the JUICE

Wash the above, cut with the skin on into pieces and put them into the juicer and immediately you drink the juice.  You can add some lime or lemon for more refreshing taste.

This Miracle Drink will be effective for the following ailments:


1.  Prevent cancer cells to develop. It will restrain cancer cells to grow.
2.  Prevent liver, kidney, pancreas decease and it can cure ulcer as well.
3.  Strengthen the lung, prevent heart attack and high blood pressure.
4.  Strengthen the immune system
5.  Good for the eyesight, eliminate red and tired eyes or dry eyes
6.  Help to eliminate pain from physical training, muscle ache
7.  Detoxify, assist bowel movement, eliminate constipation.  Therefore it will make skin healthy & LOOK more radiant. It is God sent for acne problem.
8.  Improve bad breath due to indigestion, throat infection 
9.  Lessen menstrual pain
10. Assist Hay Fever Sufferer from Hay Fever attack.

There is absolutely no side effect.  Highly nutritious and easily absorbs!  Very effective if you need to loose weight. You will notice your immune system will be improved after 2 week routine. Please make sure to drink immediately from the juicer for best effect.

When to drink it;
Drink it first thing in the morning with empty stomach! After one hour, you can have your breakfast.  For fast results, drink 2 times a day, in the morning and before 5pm.  You will never regret!