Amongst the many vegetables, I don’t really like eating brinjals much. I find it too mushy and soft to my liking. Then, my Personal Chef (aka The Food Critic) found a way to cook it that makes it so delicious, I actually love it!
This recipe for stir-fried spicy brinjal is actually my grandmother’s recipe and after tasting it and learning a few tips from her, my Personal Chef started trying his hand at cooking it. Well, if anything, he aced it. So, this recipe today is partly my Personal Chef’s recipe and partly mine as I try to . . . → Read More: Stir-fried Spicy Brinjal (Eggplant)
Whenever I cook during the weekends, I always do it in the shortest time possible because I’d usually be alone at home with my toddler. It is not a good idea to spend too much time in the kitchen while watching over a toddler who likes to get up to all sorts of mischief.
So, I usually do a lot of short-cuts in my cooking and one of it is to use the same sauce for two different types of mains and yet come up with absolute different flavours for both of it. Curious? Read on to find . . . → Read More: One sauce, two main dishes
Other than rice, my son absolutely loves to drink soup. In fact, he’d rather drink soup than milk! I’ve been working late into the night a lot these days (blogging and some freelance writing work) so a nice bowl of nutritious chicken soup is really good to rejuvenate my tired body.
This is a recipe for nutritious and highly healthy clear chicken soup:
Chicken and Ginseng Soup
Chicken Soup For the Tired Body (with ginseng / pao sam and Dom)
Ingredients
Half chicken, cleaned and skin removed (so that soup will not be so oily)
I love prawns, especially fresh ones and regardless of whether it is sea water prawns or freshwater prawns, I simply love eating prawns!
I know, I know, it is not healthy to be eating prawns all the time due to the high cholesterol content but hey, it is not everyday that I eat prawns, okay? It isn’t exactly cheap nowadays, anyway. So, when I got about 10 free prawns, this is what I did with it:
We seldom go to this coffee shop along Jalan Air Itam for dinner because it is not exactly near our home and we don’t usually go to Air Itam in the evenings. So, the few times we ended up looking for food around Air Itam, this is one of the coffee shops that we’d go to.
Min Jiang Coffee Shop
They have quite a selection of hawker foods from bee hoon soup to lor bak to fried oyster and prawn omelette. They are particularly well known for their great bee hoon soup and tom yam. The tom yam . . . → Read More: Prawn omelette, tomyam and bee hoon soup at Min Jiang
When I ran out of fresh produce to cook soups and didn’t have time to pay the market a visit, I usually fall on cooking this soup. This is because I always have peanuts at home and it is good enough to make a delicious clear soup.
Peanut and chicken soup
Here’s the recipe:
Peanut and Chicken Soup
Ingredients
1/2 chicken and chicken feet, seasoned with salt
1 cup peanuts, washed and soaked
4 dried red dates, seeded
1 tbsp wolfberries (optional – I add this because of its nutritional values)
I cook on most weekends and sometimes I’d be too busy to prepare complicated dishes so I’d usually cook something simple, easy and healthy too. So, I tried out some of my chicken breast recipes.
Simple stir-fried chicken
It is a very simple and easy recipe. Most important of all, it is healthy and tasty too. Here’s the recipe:
Chicken breast recipes: Simple Stir-fried Chicken
Ingredients
1 pc deboned chicken breast meat, sliced thinly into strips
