Vegetable rice

The chai png ("mixed vegetable rice") I cooked last Tuesday for dinner.

Easy to cook everything in one pot, and the SO ate lots of it. I learnt it from my mum who is a Teochew ah nia.


With chicken, Chinese cabbage, mushrooms and spiced up with ginger, garlic, onions & sesame seed oil

A favourite meal of mine...yum!

Noodles

Noodle soup cooked by the hubby over the Christmas holidays. It was his 3rd attempt at cooking, and he likes thick, flat noodles cooked in a soggy way.

Does this sepia-toned photo look like the noodles sold by hawkers in the olden days?



The soup stock came from a bottle - convenience at your fingertips! :-)

Chicken Shepard's Pie

This is definitely for special occasions, but it's not difficult to make, actually. Even my first attempt was quite well-received. I used Violet Onn's receipe which I'd found on the internet!

The occasion: home pot luck party

(2003)

The smaller portion on the right was a meatless version for vegetarians, with dried mushroom added (nice, but stronger flavour) .

One pot rice

(Sept 2005)

Chai Png (in Teochew) or Kiam Png (in Hokkien)
i.e. rice cooked with mushrooms, Chinese cabbage, chicken & fish cake

The simple meal

* Fried tau gua with garlic sprouts
* Stir-fried cabbage
* Fried rice topped with crispy shrimps

(no meat except for the crispy shrimps)

Waiting to connect

Alas, it's impossible to connect to the photo hosting site I'm using, due to the earthquake in Taiwan, so it's akan datang...

What to cook?

That's the question I always pose to my SO (significant other) when I can't think of what to cook for dinner or lunch (lunch only during the weekends). Being a working wife whose husband likes to eat home-cooked food (but who is just about learning to cook, if he's not hooked on Naruto), I do cook about half the time, mostly simple Chinese meals, for the past few years.

I thought I would start a blog to capture some photographs of the food I'd cooked, just to remind myself during the times when I'm almost brain-dead.

So, what's for dinner? We'll see soon. :-)