Char Kway Teow

Although I had been cooking on and off, I did not document anything because I was mostly cooking the same ole stuff over and over again.

Today I cooked Char Kway Teow for lunch. Mine's the healthy version and not the kind you would pay for at food courts.

It's basically the same ol' "recipe" except this time I cooked a lot of green vegetables - chye sim and xiao bai chye. Wow! Two kinds of vegetables together. Revolutionary!

Here's a list of the ingredients I threw in:
chicken leg cut (using a pair of scissors) into small pieces
fish cake (the fresh kind)
white mushrooms
4 eggs scrambled

Sauce:
soy sauce
abalone sauce

Me son proclaimed it was OKAY.

Oven Baked Chicken Leg

We had oven baked chicken leg. This is the second time I've used my Baby Belling oven to bake a chicken. It's so-so. We had leftovers so I'd say the kids prefer chicken cooked by the Turbo Broiler because they turn out crispier. I baked the chicken at 190 deg C until brown. Is that right?

I marinated the chicken legs with ground black pepper, sugar and salt. The veggies were cooked separately.

Chicken Curry Moru

It has been a long time since I last cooked from a recipe. I wanted to cook chicken curry because I love chicken curry.

This recipe is from The Eurasion Cookbook by Mary Gomes.

This is the magic - ginger, garlic and big onions ground together.

I used cute potatoes.

Curry powder made into a paste.

To make this into a one-pot dish, I added carrots and cabbages.

This is the tastiest chicken curry I've ever cooked! My kids loved it.

Mixed Vegetables

I bought some Thai asparagus to cook for dinner and look at the bunch of stuff I added to go with it! Carrots, grey prawns and shitake mushrooms. Stir fried and simmered. Seasoned with light soy sauce.

I'm just marvelling at how my kids like my cooking. I mean they really heap on the praises whenever I cook. Sometimes I think they're trying to be funny but they finish the food. That's the most important thing, right? I'm pretty sure the day will come when they get sick of mom's cooking. Whatever, I'll enjoy it while I can.

This is stir fried silver fish seasoned with shallots and soy sauce. It's best eaten deep fried but I don't deep fry at home. It's too much cleaning. There's a dim sum restaurant in Singapore that sells deep fried silver fish and it cost about SGD7.50 before tax. But worth every cent. My kids don't really care for silver fish but they'll eat it anyway.

Cabbage soup. Cabbage boiled in chicken parts. My son always requests for cabbage chicken soup.

Leftover Meat

What do you do when you have leftover chicken? For dinner, I cooked kway teow to go with the leftover chicken!

This is a no-brainer dish. I cooked the ingredients in order of length of time taken to cook. Finally I add in the kway teow, mix it up with soy sauce and it's done! The ingredients are carrot strips, bean sprouts, prawns, shitake mushrooms, fish cake, leftover chicken and scrambled egg.

My kids love this simple meal. There was nothing left over for Dad.

What The Kids Want

My kids love to eat hotdogs. I don't try to understand why. At least once a week I would give them what they really love to eat.

This is hotdog omelette. The kids just looove this.

This is lightly grilled luncheon meat. It is absolutely unhealthy but heavenly. Once there was a shortage of luncheon meat in Singapore. You can imagine the panic in this family.

When I was young, my mother would fry luncheon meat with scrambled egg. It tastes really good but my kids won't touch it. So I only cook it for myself. My GP says that when you eat unhealthy food, you must balance it with healthy food. So we eat healthy grain rice.

This is the other healthy dish we eat with the unhealthy stuff. Boiled cabbage, carrots in chicken soup with a little ginseng powder.

Porridge For Dinner

Nowadays in an effort to lose the flab, if I have a heavy lunch, I will keep my dinner light. So this was my dinner 2 days ago. Yes, porridge for dinner.

I've cooked this many times before and there isn't really a recipe. Altho' white rice porridge tastes better I only had multi-grain rice. I added fresh Shitake mushrooms, carrots, chye sim, Japanese sweet potatoes, minced chicken and prawns.

This is something I cooked for my children when they were much younger. They don't want to eat it anymore. So sad.