Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

Old-fashioned Asian Corn Soup with pork ribs and carrots

Hello! getting my cooking momentum up again…
Forced to cook in a way.. When the Lord says, “No work, no eat” he also meant, “If you shall not cook, you shall not eat.”
Oh well, cooking is a pleasure. I always get such satisfaction when my food turns out edible and taste like it should.
So, recently [...]

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Fried Rice

The most tedious.
3 days. 3x in a row on the final day. And the final product–>
Ran into a few problems:rice too wetrice clumps for their life when the heat is too muchmixed veges has funny smell
Solutions:experimented with electric heat, because, unlike fire, electric heat doesn’t know when to stoprubbed salt on veges and fry [...]

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My very own George Foreman indoor griller.

First grill, or toast.

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Random and pork

Today I realised out how my mum preserved her pork in the freezer for TWO months.
ADD SALT.
I thought it up when I bought pork that came with salt and the expiry was way past those that came fresh.
I probably haven’t been putting up pictures but I have been cooking. Mostly clearing my cupboard cos [...]

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Mashed Potatoes

Guess what?

Ok I know the title already gave it away…

In case you’re wondering what the puddle of yellow liquid stuff is? It’s olive oil, uncooked. VideoJug says olive oil goes well with mashed potato.
One thing I’ve learnt: Singaporean mashed potato, (those cooked at house parties) are lazy mashed potatoes, they are not put thru sieves [...]

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The Final Product

Fried chicken is such hard work! It’s almost like fighting a war! (With the chicken who is trying to get fried)
And then there’s grease everywhere……

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Crysanthenum Tea

Dr Cheong was nice enough to pass some of her crysanthenum flowers to make tea. WAH! No need those instant packets anymore!

When in boiling water, after 10mins, they flower…. *WIDE SMILE*

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