Stir Fry Cucumber with Dried Prawns

Ingredients

2 no of cucumber, sliced
A handful or less toong fun, soaked in water
1 tbsp dried prawns, roughly chopped
dashes of pepper
salt to taste, or MAGGI cukup rasa
3 cloves of chopped garlic

Method
1. Heat up oil in a wok. Add in garlic and dried prawns.
2. Add in cucumber and stir fry. Sprinkle some water into the wok.
3. Stir fry for a few minutes then add in toong fun.
4. Add in salt and dish.
5. Dashes of pepper onto the dish and serve.

Chicken with Herbs and Vegetables

Ingredients
3 cloves of garlic, chopped
1/2 chicken, chopped to four pieces OR 2 chicken drumsticks with thighs, chopped to 4
1 stalk of celery, sliced
1/2 carrots, chopped to cube size
1 small potato, chopped to cube size
1 tomato, chopped to cube size
butter or oil
2 bowls of water (more or less)
Some dashes of Italian mixed herb (marinate the chicken for at least 30 min with this herbs)

Method
1. Fry garlic with butter or cooking oil till fragrant and add in potatoes, carrots, celery and tomato as last ingredients.
2. Fry for a few minutes and dish and set aside.
3. Heat up wok or sauce pan with some butter or cooking oil, and fry the chicken cutlets till the surface is slightly brown.
4. Add in all the fried vegetables and add in water to stew.
5. Cook for 20 minutes or til chicken is cooked.(base should not be too dry or watery)
6. Add salt to taste.

Steamed Large Prawn with Fermented Bean Paste

Ingredients
2 no large prawns, cut into half
1 whole garlic, blended with 50ml water
1 tbsp fermented soya bean paste
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tsp sugar

Method
1) Heat up oil and saute fermented soya bean paste until fragrant. Add in garlic pure and the remaining ingredients and bring to boil. Lower the heat and cook for few minutes.
2) Place the cooked garlic and fermented soya bean paste on the prawns. Steam for 2-3 minutes or until cooked.

Fried Chicken Drumstick/Wings with Nam Yue

Ingredients:
5 no of chicken wings. Chopped into half to separate the wings
3 pieces of nam yue
1 no of egg
1/4 bowl of ginger juice
3 tbsp of fah tiew wine
2 tbsp cornflour

Method:
1) Marinate the chicken for at least 2 hours with the ingredients except for egg and cornflour.
2) Add in egg and cornflour before deep frying the chicken in medium heat.

Pork Burger/Patties

Ingredients:
250-300gm minced pork
Half a carrot, finely chopped
2 tbsp finely chopped garlic
2 tbsp soya sauce
Dashes of pepper
3 pinches of salt
1/2 tsp of cornflour
1 no egg

Method:
1)Mix all ingredients (except the egg and cornflour) evenly and marinate for half and hour.
2) Add in egg followed by cornflour. Shape the burger before pan frying it in low/medium heat.

Steamed Large Prawn with garlic

A friend gave us some large prawn or known as udang galah. It is very big that I only steamed two of it. I prefer to steam large prawns instead of stir fry it.
The meat tastes like lobster and I prefer this type of prawns.



I cut each prawn into half. I didn't defrost all the way because it will be easier to cut this way.

Ingredients
2 no of large prawns
pinch of salt / 1 tsp soya sauce
1.5 tbsp of fah tiew wine
chopped garlic (up to each individual on the amount)
some chopped spring onions
1 tsp of butter
1 tsp of oil

Method
1)Stir fry the chopped garlic and spring onions with oil and butter till fragrant. Dish and set aside.
2)Right before steaming, sprinkle some salt onto the prawn.
3)Pour some fah tiew wine onto the prawn evenly.
4)Pour the fried garlic and spring onions onto the prawn.
5) Steam for about 2 minutes or until cook.

You can also steamed the normal large prawns with this method.

Grilled Salmon with Teriyaki Sauce

There are few types of salmon when I was in Jusco supermarket,and I bought the Salmon Atlantic. I didn't want to buy the reared salmon as it has some chemicals added to it. I wanted fresh salmon from the sea.

Ingredients

1 slice of grilled salmon
Some salt and pepper
Teriyaki sauce

Method
1. Marinate salmon with salt, pepper and teriyaki sauce.
2. Grilled at 200 C for about 15 minutes or till cooked.
3. Bast with some honey(optional)

Ian loved it so much especially the salmon skin.

Tofu With Dried Prawns

Ingredients
2 pieces of soft tofu
5 -7 shallots, sliced and fried
1.5 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp dried prawns, chopped

Method
1) Steamed soft tofu for about 2 minutes in a rice cooker while cooking rice at the same time.
2) Fry shallots and dried prawns till brown.
3) Remove tofu from rice cooker and set aside.
3) Pour oyster sauce onto tofu.
4) Pour fried shallots and dried prawns onto tofu.
5) Dish and serve.

Fan Kok Soup

Ingredients
About 200-300gm of fan kok, remove skin and cut into small pieces
250gm pork bone
1 tbsp gei zhi
15 nos of red dates
2 tbsp peanuts
Salt to taste
Pot of water

Method:
1) Add all ingredients into a pot of boiling water and cook for 2.5 hours on medium to small heat.
2) Add in salt to taste.

Pork Chop a la Chinese Style

Ingredients:
4 slices of pork chop, pounded with the back of a cleaver
1 tbsp corn flour
1 no of egg
3-4 tbsp cooking oil

Marinate:
1 tbsp teriyaki sauce
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tbsp fah tiew wine
Salt and pepper

Method:
1) Marinade pork chop and leave it for at least 2 hours.
2) Add in cornflour and egg and mix well before pan fry.
3) Pan fry on both sides of pork chop on medium heat till tender.

* Do not overcook the pork chop.

Stewed Pork Meat With Egg

Ingredients
200gm pork meat, sliced
4 nos of boiled eggs, remove shells
1 no of dry tofu (optional)
5 slices of ginger
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp dark soya sauce
1 tbsp fah tiew wine
2 tbsp cooking oil
1 cup water

Method:
1) Heat up oil in a pot. Add in ginger and briefly fry. Add in pork meat.
2) Add in water and when it is boiled, add in all the sauces.
3) Stew pork meat for about 10 minutes, add in boiled eggs and tofu and stew for another 10 minutes or till the sauce thickens.
4) Add in fah tiew wine and let it simmer for 1 minute.
5) Dish and serve with steamed white rice.

Margarine And Butter

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback. So they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings.

DO YOU KNOW the difference between margarine and butter?

Both have the same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5grams.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

And now, for Margarine.
Very high in Trans fatty acids.

Triple risk of coronary heart disease.

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol (the good cholesterol).

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

Lowers quality of breast milk.

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC. This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).
You can try this yourself:
Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area.
Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:
* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should
tell you something)
* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value;
nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not find a home to grow.

Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

How true can this be?