Sweet Potato Porridge

Whenever I had too much rich food, I would cook porridge to eat for dinner. This might look gross to some people but it's quite delicious. I cook brown rice, Japanese sweet potatoes and fresh Shitake mushrooms together. When it's almost cooked, I add some minced chicken and a pinch of soy sauce. That's it. Only my daughter shares my delight in this dish.

Butter Chicken

This is the most delicious chicken I have ever cooked! I rubbed Olive Oil margarine all over the chicken, inside out and baked using my Turbo Broiler. (I call it my flying saucer) Crispy and fragrant and dripping with margarine. Yummy!

Pancakes

When it comes to pancakes, I like to use different flour each time just to see what it tastes like. Generally the pancakes are popular with my kids when I use unbleached white flour. For this particular batch, I used pastry flour which gave it a different taste yet I can't quite place it. My children kept complaining about the funny taste yet they wolfed the pancakes down.

Green Tea Buckwheat Noodles

Buckwheat noodles look really gross but somehow I have developed a taste for them. I especially like the ones with green tea. These noodles go really well with Soba Sauce and leftover meat (that's my leftover from my oven baked chicken). However Soba Sauce contains MSG and I feel so thirsty after that so I usually just eat them without any sauce. Super gross. (It's an acquired taste. Really.) Sometimes I cook them for my kids for lunch and they really complain! But they still eat it.

Sweet Beans Are Made Of These

This is a stir-fry vegetable dish I frequently cook for my family. It is very easy to prepare. The ingredients are sweet beans, fresh Shitake mushrooms, fresh baby corns and raw tomatoes.

Oven Baked Chicken

This is the first chicken I had baked using my Baby Belling oven. I used a simple marinade of black soy sauce and black pepper. I was really apprehensive and rightly so. It took a really long time for the chicken to be cooked. I kept poking it and poking it. Everyone got really hungry waiting for it to be cooked.

Verdict:
It tasted really tender despite the amount of time it spent in the oven.

Postmortem:
Use smaller pieces of chicken next time to reduce cooking time.

Prawns with cashew nuts

I wanted to cook something light for lunch and I thought this was the perfect dish - prawns with cashew nuts from Heartymeals by Mrs Leong Yee Soo. Although I'm now a big fan of Mrs Leong, I don't care for her MSG ingredient. Those were the days when mothers would add MSG to every dish. I would never add MSG to something I cook. But I don't avoid it like I avoid coconut. MSG just makes me thirsty, it doesn't give me migraine like coconut.

I notice that Mrs Leong is also fond of using corn flour. I'm not so sure if I like corn flour - all sticky. I added snow peas and baby corn to the dish because I was late and didn't have time to cook the veg separately.


The snow peas were crunchy!

Verdict:
Everyone loves it.
Son hates any kind of nuts.

Postmortem:
Don't use corn flour next time.
Don't give son any of the nuts.