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ShareLove: Onde Onde

March 30, 2013 Unknown 0 Comments

Joanne made this for the Easter gathering for our connect group. This little green coconut ball, Onde Onde, is a traditional Malaysian sweets. It is so yummy and the best part is when you bite into it, the sugar will just flow out inside the ball. You just cannot stop eating it! I can never thank you enough Joanne :) xx

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{ Recipe } Cucumber Kimchi

March 25, 2013 Unknown 0 Comments

I love Korean food especially their side dish. Whenever I go for a Korean barbecue, I keep asking the staff to refill the side dish, be it the potato salad, the seaweed salad and the wombok kimchi. I just can't stop eating them. Among all kimchi I have ever tried, the cucumber kimchi is my next favourite after wombok Kimchi. :D

Do you want a little bit of spice tonight? I absolutely do!


[ Ingredients ]

6 Lebanese cucumbers *
4 cups water
4 tbsp sea salt
1/2 small bunch of Asian chive, chopped
1/2 onion, chopped
2 cups carrots  sliced into thin matchsticks *

For the filling

1 tbsp salted shrimp
2 tbsp cooked white rice
1/4 cup water
3 garlic cloves
1 piece of ginger, size of a garlic clove
1 tbsp sugar
1/3 cup Korean chili flakes
4 tbsp fish sauce *

* where I used different ingredients from the original recipe

[ Method ]

The below is for reference only, for a proper full version of the recipe, please click here and click photo to enlarge the image.


[ Kitchen Notes ]

¶ To avoid irritation from the chili, it is recommended to use gloves when stuffing the cucumber :)

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{ Recipe } Sticky Baked Pork Ribs

March 17, 2013 Unknown 0 Comments

This is a very simple dish from Christine's Recipes (she also has a Chinese version of this blog called 簡易食譜). She cooks many Chinese traditional food and the best of all is they are all simple and easy to do. When I found out she is also living in Brisbane, I was really happy. Why? Because whatever she bought for her cooking, I am sure I can find it here!!! hehe... Even I can't find, I can simply ask her :DDD

I have tried quite a few recipes from her and this is one of those. That night I cooked for Mr. Pear for dinner and put some fried pumpkin and snow peas for sides. Easy and quick fix for a lazy night or a lazy housewife, like me! :P I wish I can cook like her :))

Try this one night and you will love it!!



[ Ingredients ]

400 g American pork rib

Marinade

2 tbsp char siu sauce (Chinese barbeque sauce) 叉燒醬
1 tsp ground bean sauce 磨豉醬
2 tsp freshly grated ginger
3 tsp light soy sauce
1 tsp Shaoxing wine
2-3 tbsp water

[ Method ]

Note: the below is for reference only, for a proper full version of the recipe, please click here and click photo to enlarge.

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{ Recipe } Oyakodon 親子丼

March 10, 2013 Unknown 0 Comments

I love Japanese food. Oyakodon (親子丼) is one of my all time favourite Japanese dish. It literally means parent and children rice. This is simply because this dish main ingredients are chicken (the parent) and egg (the children). What a meaningful dish! But at the same time, it sounds a bit sad... because both parent and son are cook for someone to eat... Oh no, I am getting too emotional... haha... Despite of this, I still love to eat this :P


[ Ingredient ]



Ingredient A

100 g chicken thighs
1/2 onion
3 eggs
4 or 5 stalks trefoil (I did not use this)
2 bowls of rice

Ingredient B

4 1/3 tbsp chicken stock
2 tbsp sake
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp mirin
2 1/2 tbsp soy sauce

[ Method ]

1 Remove excess fat and skin from the chicken thighs, and shave into bite-sized pieces. Peel the onion, and slice thinly. Cut the trefoil stalks into 2-3 cm long. Beat the eggs lightly.

2 Add ingredient B a bowl and mix well.

3 Put the hot rice into individual bowls.

4 Put only a half of the liquid prepared in step 2 in a frying pan, and bring to the boil. Add half of the chicken thigh pieces and onion slices, and simmer.

5 Pour a half amount of the eggs gently along the circular edge of the simmering sauce, and cover. Simmer for about 30 seconds while shaking the pan gently. Scatter half of the trefoil stalks, and turn off the heat. Put everything onto the rice in one of the bowls. Repeat step 4 and 5 for the other portion.



¶ If you think it is too trouble to cook the chicken one by one, you can put the chicken in a big ban and pour all the ingredients and follow the recipe. I did it like that cause I think it's too time consuming... After all, I think I am really lazy... hehe

¶ Normally, oyakodon gives a lot of moist and sauce, I guess I cooked too long... haha.. Because I didn't follow the recipe... um...

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ShareLove: Black Sesame Cupcake

March 03, 2013 Unknown 0 Comments

Ai this time made this cute cupcake for our tea. Her cupcake is always yummy and I do like the way she decorated the cupcake~ very cute :D