Thai Green Curry & Fuyong Egg.

Want your vegetables and meat in the same bowl? Easy! Curries are the answer. For those of you who miss Eisen's scoring system, he gave this meal a 7/10. It has been really busy at uni so I haven't had the time to sit down properly and type out the recipes one by one. So if you really do want a recipe, just leave a comment (I have enabled anonymous comments), I promise I will get back to you asap. I hope everyone is having fun in the kitchen! :)

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Ingredients:
3 Tbsp. oil for frying
1 stalk lemongrass
2 Tbsp. coriander seeds
2 Tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. shrimp paste
1 tsp. sugar
1-3 green chillies (depending on desired spiciness)
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
1 thumb-size piece galangal (or ginger)
3-4 lime leaves (fresh, frozen, or dried - available at Asian stores)
½ cup fresh coriander including stems
1 tsp. dark soy sauce
1 can coconut milk
100ml of water
½ chicken chopped into pieces
2 bell peppers, red and green (or whatever vegetables happen to be in season, such as tomatoes, eggplant, yellow and orange peppers, okra, etc...)
1 cup fresh holy (or sweet) basil, chopped roughly (garnish)

Method:

Prepare Lemongrass
Cut lower half of 1 stalk lemongrass into thin slices. Place lemongrass slices in a food processor (or blender).

Stirfry all dry ingredients in a pot until fragrant, add chicken till cooked, add sugar, fish sauce, coconut milk, shrimp paste, dark soya sauce and water.

Leave to simmer for 15-20 minutes. Garnish and serve warm.

Tim Tam & Chocolate chip Ice cream

What do you do when you cannot decided whether to have Tim Tams or Chocolate Ice Cream for dessert? ......Smash the both together!!! (and skip dessert the next day! :P)

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Traditional Teochew steamed fish

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Famous Amos Cookies

Meatballs & Mushroom Tomato Pasta 2

Chicken enchiladas with nacho cheese and salsa

Chicken enchiladas - A tortilla rolled and stuffed usually with a mixture containing minced chicken meat meat, cheese, chickpeas and beans and served with a sauce spiced with chili, topped with chedder cheese baked at 180deg for 35-40 minutes

Served with corn chips, melted mozzarella cheese and tomato salsa on the side.

Simple dinner

These are really simple dishes that I grew up eating.. if any of you would like me to share the recipes, just leave a comment and I will post it up! :)

Chinese Cabbage
Spam and Egg in tomato sauce
Oyster sauce, sesame, ginger chicken with chinese mushrooms

Char Siew (Roast pork)

In addition to the chicken rice, I also made Char Siew from scratch!

Chicken Rice

I cooked up a storm (literally) for Eisen's birthday celebration with a group of good friends. My kitchen was in a MESS and I have yet to wash all the dishes. :S We had a little chicken rice competition and a friend and myself both cooked chicken rice from scratch. This is my masterpiece! hehehe.. thanks to my mummy for the wonderful recipe!

Cheesecake with profiteroles

Eisen's birthday cake...

Waffles with Chocolate Ice cream

Eisen's birthday breakfast...

Claypot Rice

Ingredients (Serves 4):
2 cloves of Garlic - chopped
Dried Shrimp - about a handful
5-6 Chinese Mushrooms - sliced
3 Chinese Sausages - sliced thinly
200g of Minced meat or chicken chunks
1.5 tablespoon Oyster sauce
2 tablespoon Dark soya sauce
1 tablespoon sesame oil
Pinch of black pepper
2 cups of cooked rice
Garnish with coriander leaves or spring onions and sliced red chillies.

Bak Kut Teh

Eisen gave this meal a 7.5/10. So need I say more?! This is obviously a must try for those who crave for a taste of Home.


I used my grandma's favourite instant Bak Kut Teh pack.. this is probably the only "instant" pack she uses! Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of my very last pack that I brought over from Singapore! It's now in the bin.. and I don't wanna rummage through it. I promise I will take a pic next time round! Anyway, these are the ingredients you will need:

12 cloves of garlic
500g of spare ribs
6 dried bean curb (tau gua?) squares (cut into halves)
4 large chinese mushrooms (cut into halves)
1 tablespoon of DARK soya sauce
10 cups of boiling water

Put everything into a pot and simmer for 35-40 minutes!

Tom Yum Soup

This is REALLY good on a freezing winter night!

Golden Scones.

This recipe produced the best scones I have ever tried! It is so moist and light.. and trust me, you can eat 2 at a go! I only made 6 large scones and Eisen finished 3 at one go.. he gave it a 7/10.. which is really good by his standards. :D The colour inside is a little brownish because the recipe had brown sugar and honey.. a must try for all you scone lovers out there!




Golden Scones Recipe (from Baking Haven):

225g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
50g soft magarine
25g soft brown sugar
1 tbsp of golden syrup or honey
1 egg + milk

Preheat oven to 220-deg. Lightly grease a baking sheet.

(A) Put flour and baking powder in a bowl, add magarine and rub it in with your fingertips till the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

(B) In a separate bowl, crack egg into a measure, lightly beat it and then make up to 150ml with milk. Beat thoroughly egg mixture, sugar and syrup till well-blended.

Stir in (A) into (B) to a soft dough. Turn onto a lightly floured table, knead lightly and then roll out to 1/2 inch thickness.

Cut into rounds with a cutter to make an approx. 10-12 scones. Place them, spaced, onto a large baking sheet; brush the tops with a lil milk and bake for about 10 minutes or till golden brown. Remove scones and leave to cool on a wire rack!

Meatballs & Mushroom Tomato Pasta

Eisen was feeling really sick over the weekend so besides the soba noodle soup, I also made fish porridge which doesn't look very appealing in the pictures so I shall not post that up :P Eisen finally felt better today so for tonight, I whipped up a simple pasta dish.. I used Leggo's ready made sauce, Ikea meatballs and sliced mushrooms. Hehehe... yes I cheated and used ready-made ingredients! But hey.. you know what.. it's still better than eating out! :)

Method:

1. Boil Pasta.

2. Stir fry 3 cloves of garlic and half chopped onions in 2 tablespoon of oil. Add meatballs and pan fry. Add sliced mushrooms. Pour in whole bottle of sauce and simmer for 3-5minutes. Add salt and pepper.

3. Serve sauce on top of pasta, sprinkle with shredded chedder cheese.

Warm Soba Noodles.

Winter is here so what a good way to warm up with a bowl of soba noodle soup! This recipe is similar to the cold soba noodles which I made before except that you dilute the same sauce in the ratio 3 water: 1 sauce. You also gotta add some chicken stock, salt and pepper. I added dumplings, fishballs and sliced fish cakes too.. the outcome was great! *Slurp slurp*

Krispy Kremes

Recently, a group of friends and I went to Melbourne for a short holiday and we brought back lots of Krispy Kreme doughnuts (original glazed of course!) and Mrs. Fields cookies.. simply heavenly!!

Mrs. Fields Cookies