76. Our Food Diary Mar2020

Sunday, March 01, 2020

76. Our Food Diary Mar2020

what we ate in march 2020

fried ipoh kuay teow with leftover thai garlic coriander chilli sauce
and lao gan ma chilli crisps with spicy broadbean paste or dou ban jiang

13-14 march 2020

Ribeye Steak! $35/kg
each piece is around 155g, costing around $5.50 per piece

seasoned with salt & black pepper

wok fry on both sides on big fire
then add some butter just before taking them out of the wok
rest the beef for about 15-30min - it's a WOW!!

29 & 30 March 2020
Ribeye Steak Thai Salad

1. steak (fry at room temp)
- seasoned with salt, black pepper, garlic oil, light soya
- pan fry
- rest cooked beef before slicing

2. thai dressing
- sliced red onions
- coriander
- lime juice
- fish sauce
- sugar - pinch
- light soya sauce
- option - chillis or chilli flakes

3. add tung hoon (boil to soften)

20 March 2020
making tom yum soup with tung hoon, chicken, sotong balls, and mushrooms

Tom Yum Soup
- galangal or blue ginger
- lemongrass
- kaffir lime leaves
- onions
- chillis
- lime juice
- fish sauce
- thai palm sugar
- coriander - roots and leaves/stems
- season with salt, soya sauce & black pepper
- red chilli tom yum paste - holly farm brand

Tom Yum fresh ingredients - galangal, onions, kaffir lime leaves, lemongrass, palm sugar, coriander roots, chillis
other ingredients not in pic - lime juice, coriander, fish sauce, light soya sauce, black pepper, tom yum chilli paste

basic tom yum flavours

tung hoon - cooked in tom yum soup
and seasoned with light soya mix
(see HK style steam fish)

fried fish
(we had fried pork but i forgot to take a pic ARGH)

sweet & sour pork (sauce separate LOL)

Sweet & Sour Pork

1. Pork pieces (suitable for sweet & sour pork)

Season pork with the following:
- chicken rice cooked ginger paste, 1 tbsp
- 1 egg
- salt, white pepper, light soya sauce
- sesame oil
- corn starch
- potato starch
- rice flour
- plain flour
- baking powder

2. Sweet & Sour Sauce
- tomato ketchup
- garlic chilli sauce
- salt
- sugar
- rice vinegar
- sesame oil
- water
- corn starch slurry

Sweet & Sour Pork - Method:
- Fry pork in oil, make sure you add them piece by piece so that they don't stick together.
- Fry onions and add sauce mix - cook to desired sauce thickness
- Coat fried pork with sauce or serve as a side gravy.

27 March 2020

Pan Fry Pork Chops
(small fire is ok)
Season
- salt, white/black pepper,
- fried garlic oil,
- fragrant soy sauce
- cornflour,
- baking powder

22 March 2020
sunday - oxtail soup with tomato paste

oxtail tomato soup

oxtail!

18 & 19 March 2020

17 March 2020
Jannah makes dumplings

jannah and i made some pork dumplings!!
wow, it tastes like those sold out there!!

14 march 2020
tom yum soup with sotong and tung hoon!!

they are removed from the soup and seasoned with
soya sauce, fried garlic oil, chinese wine, sugar, sliced onions and lime juice
so fragrant and yummy!!

notice that ours doesn't have chillis (they don't like it spicy)
and no corriander (yes, they don't like corriander uggh)