The chance to cook again came sooner than I'd expected... am on mc today, and after the visit to the doc, I decided to buy some foodstuff to cook for dinner tonight. Actually, it's only the Ti Huang Miao that I need to cook, the rest are some cooked roasted meat for the SO, unless I do a fried rice with some of the roasted meat.
Ahh...eggs! Tempting tempting...
I hope the rice will still be ok and fit for eating. I also realised I should have bought some garlic, though I did buy young fresh ginger. I'm so rusty now that I'd taken such basic ingredients for granted and assumed I always have them at home. :P
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Thursday, 14 August 2008
Monday, 11 August 2008
I miss home-cooked food
I haven't been cooking for quite a long while, and when I look at photos of my past cooked dishes, I really missed eating them.
The dishes don't have to be very elaborate or special, and I miss the simple taste of home-cooked fresh vegetables without too much sauces and added condiment.
I mentioned this to the SO and he said he missed my home-cooked food too.
I shall try not to be lazy and cook something this week. One thing's for sure though - I believe it's harder to keep our weight down when we eat more home-cooked food... coz we tend to eat a lot more of it! :P
The dishes don't have to be very elaborate or special, and I miss the simple taste of home-cooked fresh vegetables without too much sauces and added condiment.
I mentioned this to the SO and he said he missed my home-cooked food too.
I shall try not to be lazy and cook something this week. One thing's for sure though - I believe it's harder to keep our weight down when we eat more home-cooked food... coz we tend to eat a lot more of it! :P
Saturday, 26 July 2008
Uhmm...
More food from our friendly neighbours.
A few days' ago, they gave us a very big bowl of green bean. Actually, we do like green beans... of the normal type.
This one had a "sharp" taste of coconut milk, and (the first time I've come across) pieces of strong, pungent durian chunks...
Some of the food stuff they gave us earlier this year:
Cheesecake
I do eat cheesecake... ie. the normal kind...
That is, the normal kind without an extra layer of sweet jelly on top...
This was their own concocted dessert. I think it had a thick layer of sticky, rich & sweet chocolate over a layer of rich, cream cheese that sat over a layer of sweet Oreo biscuits.
Very sticky, rich, fattening and jelat. Probably concocted by their little girls.
Over at our home, the SO does not eat fresh durian. He only eats processed durian like durian kueh, which we eat once in a blue moon, like when someone buys a tube from Malaysia and give it to us. Fresh durian makes him throw up. I ate durians when I was a kid... and the last time I ate durian was like 2 or 3 years ago (probably ate up to 3 seeds).
I am not a dessert person. I am not into overly sweet food, although I eat Snickers and I love Magnum ice-cream, which I eat selectively since I put on weight easily.
Other than that, we are really not fussy people when it comes to food. We eat at hawker stalls, mostly. We can eat plain rice with vegetables everyday, or just a simple bowl of noodles.
It's a sin to waste food. The green bean is still sitting in the fridge... I don't know what to do... >_<"
Aarrrggghhh!!! *pulls out hair*
A few days' ago, they gave us a very big bowl of green bean. Actually, we do like green beans... of the normal type.
This one had a "sharp" taste of coconut milk, and (the first time I've come across) pieces of strong, pungent durian chunks...
Some of the food stuff they gave us earlier this year:
Cheesecake
I do eat cheesecake... ie. the normal kind...
That is, the normal kind without an extra layer of sweet jelly on top...
This was their own concocted dessert. I think it had a thick layer of sticky, rich & sweet chocolate over a layer of rich, cream cheese that sat over a layer of sweet Oreo biscuits.
Very sticky, rich, fattening and jelat. Probably concocted by their little girls.
Over at our home, the SO does not eat fresh durian. He only eats processed durian like durian kueh, which we eat once in a blue moon, like when someone buys a tube from Malaysia and give it to us. Fresh durian makes him throw up. I ate durians when I was a kid... and the last time I ate durian was like 2 or 3 years ago (probably ate up to 3 seeds).
I am not a dessert person. I am not into overly sweet food, although I eat Snickers and I love Magnum ice-cream, which I eat selectively since I put on weight easily.
Other than that, we are really not fussy people when it comes to food. We eat at hawker stalls, mostly. We can eat plain rice with vegetables everyday, or just a simple bowl of noodles.
It's a sin to waste food. The green bean is still sitting in the fridge... I don't know what to do... >_<"
Aarrrggghhh!!! *pulls out hair*
Sunday, 6 April 2008
Speaking of things Korean...
The SO and I sometimes watch Korean drama serials, but only the comedies, like "My Name is Kim San Soon" and "My Girl", two of our favourites. I've learnt a thing or two about their culture through watching these serials, such as:
* Age does make a difference - the junior must respect the elderly without question (& without questioning them!). Not only that, the junior must also respect the senior even if they are only a couple of years apart.
* It's still a mostly patriarchal society, so the men are still quite MCP while the married women must hold a subservient role. The upside of this is that the married woman can choose to be a stay-at-home wife while the husband brings home the bacon or kimchi, which makes life a little simpler (I think).
* Cosmetic surgery is VERY common, such that even before their convocation, the uni grads will think of improving their looks under the knife, so that they can take a great-looking make-over picture for their job search. Most celebrities would have had some form of cosmetic surgery (I saw the transformation on some web forum!)
I have a couple of puzzles though:
# How do the Koreans drink hot soup with that spiny, silver or stainless steel spoon of theirs, or do they usually consume food that's not hot? That spoon can take only less than half the soup (not shiok to drink) compared to the traditional Chinese spoon, and it gets very hot when dipped in hot soup, so how do they even place that hot spoon to their lips??
(Photo from Wikipedia)
# With so many folks and celebrities who had cosmetic surgery done to their faces, when they get married and have children, the Koreans are going to end up with kids who do not look anything like their parents, right? Then their kids may start to wonder if they are really their parents' son or daughter... :P
Anyhow, I for one, love to each Korean kimchi with rice, and I absolutely love Bibimbap, the Korean mixed rice. I must try to cook it at home one day. :)
* Age does make a difference - the junior must respect the elderly without question (& without questioning them!). Not only that, the junior must also respect the senior even if they are only a couple of years apart.
* It's still a mostly patriarchal society, so the men are still quite MCP while the married women must hold a subservient role. The upside of this is that the married woman can choose to be a stay-at-home wife while the husband brings home the bacon or kimchi, which makes life a little simpler (I think).
* Cosmetic surgery is VERY common, such that even before their convocation, the uni grads will think of improving their looks under the knife, so that they can take a great-looking make-over picture for their job search. Most celebrities would have had some form of cosmetic surgery (I saw the transformation on some web forum!)
I have a couple of puzzles though:
# How do the Koreans drink hot soup with that spiny, silver or stainless steel spoon of theirs, or do they usually consume food that's not hot? That spoon can take only less than half the soup (not shiok to drink) compared to the traditional Chinese spoon, and it gets very hot when dipped in hot soup, so how do they even place that hot spoon to their lips??
(Photo from Wikipedia)# With so many folks and celebrities who had cosmetic surgery done to their faces, when they get married and have children, the Koreans are going to end up with kids who do not look anything like their parents, right? Then their kids may start to wonder if they are really their parents' son or daughter... :P
Anyhow, I for one, love to each Korean kimchi with rice, and I absolutely love Bibimbap, the Korean mixed rice. I must try to cook it at home one day. :)
Friday, 22 February 2008
After the CNY period
Normally, people will have to eat the leftover CNY goodies after the new year. For me, I think I should have to continue with my leftover spring cleaning (the keyword here is "should"). Another way of looking at it is this - I'm starting next year's spring cleaning early...very very early.
Really, we ought to plan some of the spring cleaning chores like washing sofa covers and curtains early, especially when the next CNY is going be on the 26th Jan 2009, according to the lunar calendar on my hp. And if the coming December rainy season is going to hit us late like the last one, there won't be sufficient sunny weekends for us to do all the "special laundry" in time for the CNY! Talk about planning ahead!
Oh shucks! If my hp is correct, then the first day of the CNY will be a Monday, which means we will loogi (forgo) the half-day or 1-day off on CNY's eve!
:-(
Really, we ought to plan some of the spring cleaning chores like washing sofa covers and curtains early, especially when the next CNY is going be on the 26th Jan 2009, according to the lunar calendar on my hp. And if the coming December rainy season is going to hit us late like the last one, there won't be sufficient sunny weekends for us to do all the "special laundry" in time for the CNY! Talk about planning ahead!
Oh shucks! If my hp is correct, then the first day of the CNY will be a Monday, which means we will loogi (forgo) the half-day or 1-day off on CNY's eve!
:-(
Thursday, 21 February 2008
元宵节
Today is the 15th and the last day of the Chinese new year, or 元宵节.
The SO asked me what's the significance of this day. I can't quite remember, but as a single living with my family, it would be the day for another reunion dinner of sorts, usually steamboat. I was told recently that this is more usual for the Teochews.
Then what about the day when single, unattached men and women are supposed to throw Mandarin oranges into the sea, so as to get blessed, or have their specific orange(s) get picked up by an eligible party? I know there's one day in CNY meant for this, but can't remember which day.
I also vaguely remember this practice of throwing oranges was done during the Mooncake Festival (中秋节), unless I am getting all confused with the different festivals as age catches up. :-(
The SO asked me what's the significance of this day. I can't quite remember, but as a single living with my family, it would be the day for another reunion dinner of sorts, usually steamboat. I was told recently that this is more usual for the Teochews.
Then what about the day when single, unattached men and women are supposed to throw Mandarin oranges into the sea, so as to get blessed, or have their specific orange(s) get picked up by an eligible party? I know there's one day in CNY meant for this, but can't remember which day.
I also vaguely remember this practice of throwing oranges was done during the Mooncake Festival (中秋节), unless I am getting all confused with the different festivals as age catches up. :-(
Monday, 18 February 2008
Diet Per-char
Will be meeting Spud's folks this evening...and Spud, of course.
Spud's dad say Spud's mom has made my favourite kueh piety (I'd eaten her KP before).
I say I need to go on a diet.
He say it's only vege, what!
Hur, hur, hur! >_<"
Spud's dad say Spud's mom has made my favourite kueh piety (I'd eaten her KP before).
I say I need to go on a diet.
He say it's only vege, what!
Hur, hur, hur! >_<"
Friday, 15 February 2008
Steamboat again
Mom called to ask me to go eat steamboat next week. This will be the 5th steamboat I will be eating within a month!
Although I love to eat steamboat, to eat it 5 times in a row is also a bit much, hor?感觉上有一点夸张.
The last time we had steamboat at mom's/bro's, the Zhuroshi hot pot failed to boil sufficiently to cook the food. In the end, we had to cook the food in a pot over the stove. Wahaha! What sort of steamboat dinner was that? And they made us go all the way there some more.
Later, it was discovered that the steamboat fiasco was due to the dirty plug, i.e. the connecting point of the hot pot's plug was dirty, and failed to conduct electricity effectively.
Hope history will not repeat itself.
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Happy Valentine's & 拜天公 day!
I guess the people who will be smiling away all day and saying "Huat ah!" would be the restaurant owners, hotels, florists and chocolate retailers. The SO and I have never celebrated valentine's, not even while we were dating. SO says it's too commercial, or maybe he's just stingy...keke!
As a kid who lived in an old shophouse among the mostly Hokkien community, praying to the sky God was a very fun, boisterious event. It was really 兴高采烈! Both sides of the street would be lined with red colour tables, each tied with a pair of sugar cane branches by the side and filled with lots of goodies, including the obiquitous roasted 猪头, an assortment of meat, fish (to be converted into fish floss), fruits and candles. Old men playing flutes would come by to visit every household to play a short, auspicious tune for a small red packet, and lions would come dancing and add to the festive air! We kids were happy to stay up late till 12am, and that's when mom will sliced up the long-awaited, yummy home-made Ngoh Hiang (五香) and chopped up the sugar cane for us to sup on! Yoohoo~!
I'm reminiscing, but those were really memorable days. Once we moved into HDB flats, the feel of the celebration was never the same.
:-)
ps: Ok, ok, I must attempt to learn to make the Ngoh Hiang this year; must not let the yummy home recipe be lost. Mom has probably forgotten the exact recipe, but I shall try to re-create it by trial and error. :-P
As a kid who lived in an old shophouse among the mostly Hokkien community, praying to the sky God was a very fun, boisterious event. It was really 兴高采烈! Both sides of the street would be lined with red colour tables, each tied with a pair of sugar cane branches by the side and filled with lots of goodies, including the obiquitous roasted 猪头, an assortment of meat, fish (to be converted into fish floss), fruits and candles. Old men playing flutes would come by to visit every household to play a short, auspicious tune for a small red packet, and lions would come dancing and add to the festive air! We kids were happy to stay up late till 12am, and that's when mom will sliced up the long-awaited, yummy home-made Ngoh Hiang (五香) and chopped up the sugar cane for us to sup on! Yoohoo~!
I'm reminiscing, but those were really memorable days. Once we moved into HDB flats, the feel of the celebration was never the same.
:-)
ps: Ok, ok, I must attempt to learn to make the Ngoh Hiang this year; must not let the yummy home recipe be lost. Mom has probably forgotten the exact recipe, but I shall try to re-create it by trial and error. :-P
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Fuji apples
After having eaten the Fuji apple from Japan last Sat (for the first time), the PRC's Fuji apple I'm eating now taste blah!....so bland. The one from Japan has an intense apple flavour and was very sweet, definitely not a taste which I had tasted before. I think I will not buy PRC's Fuji apple from now on.
I saw the Japanese Wong Bok (pek chye) at Cold Storage earlier and was tempted to buy it. One whole cabbage costs about $5, perhaps $1.50 to $2 more than the PRC one. Luckily, the PRC's Wong Bok at this time of Spring (called 元宵白）usually tastes very sweet, so perhaps I'll try the Japanese version after Spring is over.
LHL can try to convince us with his "bread is bread, rice is rice" talk, but I am not convinced lah! If that were true, then there would be no such thing as 一分钱，一分货, would it? Even the Sunday Times' ranking of bread has proven that bread is not just bread, regardless of price, ok? That ranking/taste test by Violet Oon published last Sunday was like a spoof on LHL's theory...haha! And the funniest thing is that "Aunty Lucy" house brand of bread did not even get into the top 10 ranking.
Tsk, tsk, so malu!
I saw the Japanese Wong Bok (pek chye) at Cold Storage earlier and was tempted to buy it. One whole cabbage costs about $5, perhaps $1.50 to $2 more than the PRC one. Luckily, the PRC's Wong Bok at this time of Spring (called 元宵白）usually tastes very sweet, so perhaps I'll try the Japanese version after Spring is over.
LHL can try to convince us with his "bread is bread, rice is rice" talk, but I am not convinced lah! If that were true, then there would be no such thing as 一分钱，一分货, would it? Even the Sunday Times' ranking of bread has proven that bread is not just bread, regardless of price, ok? That ranking/taste test by Violet Oon published last Sunday was like a spoof on LHL's theory...haha! And the funniest thing is that "Aunty Lucy" house brand of bread did not even get into the top 10 ranking.
Tsk, tsk, so malu!
Saturday, 2 February 2008
Aarrgghhhh!!
It's the last weekend before Chinese New Year and there's still much spring cleaning and packing to do!! *Drats!*
My new mantra for now is:
Must reduce the clutter,
Must Reduce the clutter,
MUST REDUCE THE CLUTTER!!
:PPP
I was envying a friend whose company has closed for the CNY festive season since after work last Thursday...until she told me they will get 3 days deducted from their annual leave. It's a compulsory thing, no questions asked, and non-negotiable!
Waa...in that case, it's not enviable at all.
Okie...back to housework. :((
ps: after that last sentence, Coco apparently agreed that I should return to doing my housework, as she promptly stepped over my keyboard and shut down my pc for me. *Hmph!*
My new mantra for now is:
Must reduce the clutter,
Must Reduce the clutter,
MUST REDUCE THE CLUTTER!!
:PPP
I was envying a friend whose company has closed for the CNY festive season since after work last Thursday...until she told me they will get 3 days deducted from their annual leave. It's a compulsory thing, no questions asked, and non-negotiable!
Waa...in that case, it's not enviable at all.
Okie...back to housework. :((
ps: after that last sentence, Coco apparently agreed that I should return to doing my housework, as she promptly stepped over my keyboard and shut down my pc for me. *Hmph!*
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Wanna-eats
I saw this photos on the net which makes me wanna go there and try the food. It was the bbq squid that did it, so I'll make a note to remind myself. Heheh!
From Riverside Indonesia BBQ ($38 platter for 2-3 pax)
The person who took the photos also highly recommend the seafood ramen at Sushi Tei. Apparently, the soup was so....so.... ??? that he could not describe it with any available superlative.
Not even "superb"?
He said we must go try the soup stock to understand what he means. Hmm...
There's now a brand new, posh-looking Sushi Tei outlet at TP...maybe can drop by to try during the weekend, or right after a gym session in the same building! Arrghh!
I've just started going back to the gym yesterday evening, after a >2 month long break. Gotta burn off the excess weight gain...by CNY?
>_<"
From Riverside Indonesia BBQ ($38 platter for 2-3 pax)
The person who took the photos also highly recommend the seafood ramen at Sushi Tei. Apparently, the soup was so....so.... ??? that he could not describe it with any available superlative.
Not even "superb"?
He said we must go try the soup stock to understand what he means. Hmm...
There's now a brand new, posh-looking Sushi Tei outlet at TP...maybe can drop by to try during the weekend, or right after a gym session in the same building! Arrghh!
I've just started going back to the gym yesterday evening, after a >2 month long break. Gotta burn off the excess weight gain...by CNY?
>_<"
Monday, 9 April 2007
A food-ful weekend
Last week was the long Good Friday weekend. It was good, and this morning, I felt like I finally have enough R & R.
Very sinfully, I ate and ate a lot over the weekend! Lots of sinful food and lots of salty food!
Thursday: Even before the long weekend started, we met up with friends at Botak Jones - where sinful, salty American food is served at kopitiam prices. The Cajun chicken was acceptable but the kitchen staff definitely had been too heavy-handed in sprinkling the salt over the fries, that it's was almost inedible. We also have a small bowl of the yummy gumbo which I'm sure was high in salt and other assorted spices (besides the hot green chillies). It was a warm night plus the salty food made me very thirty, that I had to have 2 cans of drinks (shared with SO though). And because dinner was late, I had to eat an Indian mutton curry puff drenched in a watery so-called chilli sauce to stave off my hunger first.
Friday: Had lunch at a hawker centre, plus the sinful friend carrot cake, plus sugar cane juice with lemon. After that, the SO still can tempt me by asking me if I wanted to eat ice-cream! So we had 2 scoops of lemon-plus-pink grapefruit gelatto or whatever (??) but they tasted more like sherbet.
Then we bought some snacks (from Thai Express Kovan) to visit mom's place where we...erm...ate the snacks and more! So we had Thai tapioca drenched with syrup and thick coconut milk, onek onek (Nonya snack), agar agar and friend bee hoon by mom. Mom's beehoon has got more "liao" (ingredients) than beehoon. Besides prawns and fish cake, she had even added a can of the fatty, sinful Ma Ling stewed pork (sum cham bak). After that, sis-in-law came back with home-made brownies and some fried snacks given by friends - but I resisted and didn't eat them (anyway the flat-looking brownies didn't look too great also :P ). Later, we had porridge with a large fried you tiao (fried flour fritters) for dinner outside, plus supped on some Kettle chips at home. :PP
Saturday: Ate the 3 meals quite normally, including some sumptious sambal sotong (squids) and water cress soup for dinner at MIL's. After that, our mouths being itchy, went to Icekimo for 2 scoops of ice-cream with a wafer bowl. Ahahaha! The SO is suddenly so into these not-so-cheap hand-made ice-cream...maybe it's the humid weather.
Sunday: Ate normally although there was too much salty food, including the Kettle chips (finished whatever remains in the pack of Three Cheese flavour while watching Korean dvd; I must hide the new pack of Cheddar Beer...). The worse thing was that while hungry and waiting for SO to finish watching his video on his pc, I opened up a can of oily GuLong spiced pork cubes and munched on it straight from the can. It's ultra-sinful...must be near that time of the month. :PPP
We went out to have dinner and I had this lousy, psuedo- Hawaiian chicken chop that had this coat of curry powder mixture on top of it. The SO had his hor-fun with egg, but still wasn't satisfied and wanted supper (right after dinner!). So we ate pork porridge with a strip of freshly fried you tiao (fried flour fritters).
Tsk...tsk...tsk... I had better eat lighter meals for the rest of the working week before I pass the point of no return (on the weighing scales).
Very sinfully, I ate and ate a lot over the weekend! Lots of sinful food and lots of salty food!
Thursday: Even before the long weekend started, we met up with friends at Botak Jones - where sinful, salty American food is served at kopitiam prices. The Cajun chicken was acceptable but the kitchen staff definitely had been too heavy-handed in sprinkling the salt over the fries, that it's was almost inedible. We also have a small bowl of the yummy gumbo which I'm sure was high in salt and other assorted spices (besides the hot green chillies). It was a warm night plus the salty food made me very thirty, that I had to have 2 cans of drinks (shared with SO though). And because dinner was late, I had to eat an Indian mutton curry puff drenched in a watery so-called chilli sauce to stave off my hunger first.
Friday: Had lunch at a hawker centre, plus the sinful friend carrot cake, plus sugar cane juice with lemon. After that, the SO still can tempt me by asking me if I wanted to eat ice-cream! So we had 2 scoops of lemon-plus-pink grapefruit gelatto or whatever (??) but they tasted more like sherbet.
Then we bought some snacks (from Thai Express Kovan) to visit mom's place where we...erm...ate the snacks and more! So we had Thai tapioca drenched with syrup and thick coconut milk, onek onek (Nonya snack), agar agar and friend bee hoon by mom. Mom's beehoon has got more "liao" (ingredients) than beehoon. Besides prawns and fish cake, she had even added a can of the fatty, sinful Ma Ling stewed pork (sum cham bak). After that, sis-in-law came back with home-made brownies and some fried snacks given by friends - but I resisted and didn't eat them (anyway the flat-looking brownies didn't look too great also :P ). Later, we had porridge with a large fried you tiao (fried flour fritters) for dinner outside, plus supped on some Kettle chips at home. :PP
Saturday: Ate the 3 meals quite normally, including some sumptious sambal sotong (squids) and water cress soup for dinner at MIL's. After that, our mouths being itchy, went to Icekimo for 2 scoops of ice-cream with a wafer bowl. Ahahaha! The SO is suddenly so into these not-so-cheap hand-made ice-cream...maybe it's the humid weather.
Sunday: Ate normally although there was too much salty food, including the Kettle chips (finished whatever remains in the pack of Three Cheese flavour while watching Korean dvd; I must hide the new pack of Cheddar Beer...). The worse thing was that while hungry and waiting for SO to finish watching his video on his pc, I opened up a can of oily GuLong spiced pork cubes and munched on it straight from the can. It's ultra-sinful...must be near that time of the month. :PPP
We went out to have dinner and I had this lousy, psuedo- Hawaiian chicken chop that had this coat of curry powder mixture on top of it. The SO had his hor-fun with egg, but still wasn't satisfied and wanted supper (right after dinner!). So we ate pork porridge with a strip of freshly fried you tiao (fried flour fritters).
Tsk...tsk...tsk... I had better eat lighter meals for the rest of the working week before I pass the point of no return (on the weighing scales).
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