Cooking recipe: Prawn stir-fry with egg

I just came back and haven't shower. I still have work to do and training foil to create but I could not resist not to post this entry. The reason is simple, because this dish is one of many Weeliem's favourite. He begged for me to tell him how to cook this because he said he doesn't need me anymore after he mastered my recipes. It is not funny at all!

The step is very simple and you can easily make it with the throw of all ingredients.

Ingredients :
Prawns medium size (200gm). Cut off the sharp end and the whiskers using scissors.
1 egg. beat
4 cloves of garlic. minced
a small piece of ginger. minced
salt & pepper to taste
cili padi (if you have). cut into small cubes
soy sauce. a teaspoon

Method:

1. Heat up a tablespoon of oil

2. Saute the mixture of garlic and ginger until the ingredients became golden brown

3. Throw in the prawns and stir fry.

4. Add salt. Add the cili padi here if you have it.

5. Control the fire to medium and fry until the prawns turned pinkish. That would be really quick

6. Pour in egg

7. Mix and stir for about 20 seconds.

8. Sprinkle about a teaspoon of soy sauce and serve with rice

Serve 2

Enjoy!

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My love confession on Rocky

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Earth hour: 28 March 2009, 8.30-9.30pm

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Taken yesterday but can't post it on time, because I fell asleep.

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Thebakingengineer and I agreed to post a photo each day with small caption. We called it PHOTOLOG. That's the photo where our friendship kinda started, so it will be my first photolog

Cooking recipe: Curry chicken

The decision to cook curry chicken on a normal weekday really took some efforts. I peeled and cleaned the shallots the night before because I knew I would not have enough time to do so when I wanted to cook it today. I had half packet of curry powder left from rendang chicken and I felt uncomfortable looking at half of the packet left in the cabinet. That was where I had the thought to make the food something similar to old town kopitiam chicken curry with rice. I managed to get coconut milk from the store but didn't have lemon grass. So I have to get going without this important ingredient. However the curry chicken turned out pretty good and spicy too. Weeliem sweated while eating his rice with the thick curry.


Here's the recipe, pardon for missing some important ingredients because I simply threw whatever I can think of and available at home. It is kinda thick or more to kapitan curry chicken style.

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Ingredients:

a cup of coconut milk

a bowl of shallots, peeled, processed

ginger, size of thumb, processed with shallots

2 chicken thighs with legs

a potatoe, cubes

2 sticks of curry leaves, tore from stick

curry powder-half a packet

cili giling/boh

peanut oil

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Steps:

1) Fry potatoes in penut oil until the outer skin turns golden, leave aside

2) Heat up 2 tablespoons peanut oil in wok

3) Saute processed mixture for few minutes till fragrant

4) Add in cili giling and curry power, turn around the mixture to avoid sticking to wok

5) Pour chicken pieces into the curry mixture, mix well for like 5 minutes

6) Add in coconut milk, if you want the curry to be thicker, you can add more coconut milk, if the other way round, add water. Adjust according to your preference

7) Add in curry leaves, close lid and leave it to boil for 3 more minutes

8) Add in potatoe cubes, let it cook for 15 minutes to make sure chicken is cooked.

9) Salt to taste, serve hot with rice

Serving: 2-3

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Enjoy!

I need to post my first photolog now and then work!

Typical morning of a working day

Since today lunch time I didn't go out and I am feeling really tired of solving those issues which cramped my brain muscle, I decided to write something here.

The pictures below were taken on a typical day before I left for work.

The weather which was pretty good on the day "spring" arrived. There was rain on the day before. It is now the month after drought which drought in my definition for the first 2 months of the year in this country, heat that unbearable to human being.

Second picture is one of the many plant that my neighbour planted. She does a lot gardenings. There are/were chillies, pandan leaves, curry leaves, kaffir lime, lady's fingers and flowers. I would like to plant them if I have a garden.

Red petal flowers blooming on a tree along the roadside

This picture is too random. Felt tired of waiting..

Beautiful neighbourhood. Many people walk their pets around here and these people are the environment conscious type who pick up their pets' poo on their way.

Breakfast. Milk tea.

Off to work..

Cooking recipe: Stir-fry black pepper pork

I made this dish two weeks back and it happened a night before when I suddenly thought of making something using the black pepper sauce I bought sometime ago. The result when I cooked the next day was the pork wasn't that rich in taste because I did not have time to marinate it at all. I simply chose some ingredients I had in my fridge and rack and threw things together. Yesterday I repeated what I did again BUT marinated the pork overnight and it turned out pretty awesome.

I did not managed to take any photo because weeliem and I savoured the pork slices gluttonly and by the time the idea to take a photo came into my mind, the plate was licked clean.

Though I want to share it here because I love it to bits. The recipe is pretty simple and is easy to make.

To marinate meat:
Ingredients:
300g pork tenderloin into thin slices
5 tablespoon black pepper sauce (I use singlung black pepper sauce)
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons starch

Method:
Mix well and put aside in the fridge overnight

To cook:
Ingredients:
1 spring onion. Sliced
ginger - size of a thumb. Sliced
4 cm carrot. Sliced
2 tablespoons soy sauce
salt and pepper to taste
marinated pork

Method:
Heat up oil in wok. Low heat.
Add in spring onion, ginger and carrot. Stir-fry until the ingredients for approx 1 minute.
Add pork and splash in drops of water so that the pork won't stick to wok. Medium heat.
Stir-fry for approx 3 minutes. Make sure pork is cooked. Stir to avoid browned bits of food
Add soy sauce, salt and pepper and let it cook a little while more .20 seconds. Stir occasionally.
Serve hot with rice

Note: serves 2.

Enjoy this simple recipe!

Crochet beret turned into crochet beanie hat

I don't know if this should be called failure project. I was trying to make a beret but the yarn and needle that I have doesn't make the size of a beret and I turned it into a beanie hat instead.

The plus side is I beautified it. I made a crochet flower put it on the beanie hat.

The colour of the hat is another thing. Earlier I thought of using the "turquoise" blue yarn but end up I didn't have enough of it. So I continued the other half using another soft shade of blue.

At last I completed my first project.. I kinda like my first crochet product!

Crochet beret - In making (1)

This is what I am up to starting today. I want to make a beret with my own hands. Let's see how long will I need to complete the full product. I am very tired and my sight getting blurry so I will stop now.