79. Our Food Diary May2020

Friday, May 01, 2020

79. Our Food Diary May2020

What we ate in May 2020
- lockdown during CB period (7 April to 1 June 2020)

and the question for each meal...
what do i cook today?

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- stewed chicken wings with recipe

- chicken stew (Mama's recipe)

- potato salad

- Ribeye beef steak

- lemongrass vietnamese style pork chops / chicken thighs with recipe

- ham steak with pineapples

- steamboat with recipe

- a pot of veggies and mushrooms with prawns

- tom yum soup & rice

- pork dumplings

- steamed minced pork

- radish, white carrot cake with recipe

- macaroni soup

- pasta salad with recipe

- roasted capsicums on croissants

- chicken curry

- battered prawns & sotong

- fried fish with sambal

- fried bee hoon with recipe

- fried noodles, fried rice

- Tillamook ice cream - caramel toffee crunch with nuts

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fried bee hoon - seasoned with chopped garlic, salt, white pepper, sesame oil,
oyster sauce, fish sauce, ikan bilis powder 1/2 tsp, dark soy sauce, thai sweet chilli sauce,
with dried mushrooms, white/black fungus, egg, round cabbage, chye sum, french beans, carrots, celery

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31 May 2020

Ribeye Steak & Potato Salad & Roast Chicken

Ribeye Steak - seasoned with salt and black pepper
served with sauce on the side - fried onions, HP & Tomato Sauces

jannah's plate of food Lol looks so good

potato salad with boiled eggs, onions, cucumber, apples, tomatoes, mayo, wholegrain mustard,
butter, salt, pepper, pinch of sugar, spring onions

30 & 31 May 2020

well, not everyone likes macaroni so i made some mee suah soup.

very plain. but so good!

29 May 2020

lunch - another pot of veggies!!

and a pot of mapo toufu with leftover beef soup!

dinner - lemongrass pork chops!!

28 May 2020

a pot of veggies and mushrooms! supposed to be a claypot stew but it turns out like chap chye hahaha. still, very pleased with the result and we finished everything!!

what i used for this dish...

- chicken thigh cubes

- prawns

- chinese cabbage

- black & white fungus

- dried chinese mushrooms

- ginger slices / chopped

- garlic

sauce mix for cooking:

- light soya sauce

- oyster sauce

- fish sauce

- shaoxing wine

- salt & white pepper

- cornstarch

- sesame oil

before serving, drizzle some sesame oil & shaoxing wine.

27 May 2020

Soup & Rice... always nice!

ingredients from a huge pot of tom yum soup!
chicken drumsticks, straw & button mushrooms, prawns, sotong

fried cabbage with hae bi (dried prawns) and dried flower chinese mushrooms

25 May 2020

Vietnamese Pork Chops

Pork Chops marinade:

Step 1 - Mix the combined ingredients with Pork

- Baking Powder,

- Water,

- Salt & Black Pepper,

- Soya Sauce,

- Oyster Sauce,

- Fish Sauce

- Sugar

Step 2 - Add Minced or chopped, mix with seasoned Pork

- Lemongrass,

- Garlic

- Onions or Spring Onions

Step 3 - Add

- Cornflour, mix

- Scallion or garlic oil - mix

Cooking Method

1. Leave pork in the fridge to season for about 1-2 days.

2. remove pork from cold fridge to rest for an hour at room temperature before cooking.

3. Fry onions with 1tbsp sugar & a pinch of salt, remove and set aside

4. Fry pork chops

5. Serve with sweetened fried onions, fried egg sunny side up,

fresh cucumbers, onions, tomatoes

and also with vietnamese sauce dip

(dip - fish sauce, sugar, lime juice, chopped garlic & chillis)

Vietnamese Pork Chops

one dish meal! vietnamese lemongrass pork chops
with fried egg sunny side up and some salad over steamed jasmine rice!

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21 july 2021

you can do the same with chicken thighs.

i added a few other flavours to the basic marinade.

Grilled Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken Thighs

(Blend) Marinade for chicken thighs x4 large pcs

- lemongrass x3

- onions x1 small

- garlic x5 cloves

- coriander roots x2-3

- black pepper - freshly grounded or blended together with marinade

- honey /sugar x2-3 tsp or to taste

- fish sauce & light soya sauce

- turmeric or kunyit powder

- dark soya sauce for color

- oil x2 tbsp

- sesame oil x2 tbsp

- salt to taste

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fried battered prawns and fish

23 May 2020

Ice Cream & Making Boiled Chicken yummy!!

boiled chicken seasoned with soya sauce, white pepper, garlic oil, sesame oil,
oyster sauce, chopped chillis and spring onions, pinch of sugar

19 May 2020

Dinner time and everyone is hungry Lol

16 & 17 May 2020

Minced Ham... very nice!

jannah's photo - this is on Jannah's plate Lol

15 May 2020

Lunch - didn't take any pic, bc i hardly ate LOL we had salmon and rice. yum!

Dinner - Pasta Salad!!! with mustard, honey and lemon dressing

Shell pasta

- cooked in salted water, drained

- while hot, season with butter, extra virgin olive oil

- salt, black & white pepper, fresh parsley to taste

Salads

- cucumber, cherry tomatoes, red onions, fuji apple

- capsicums in vinegar and olive oil

Salad Dressing

- mustard,

- honey,

- lemon juice

- minced garlic (pounded into a paste)

- olive oil

- salt & pepper to taste

Combine your own pasta, veggies and dressing....

Tierney's Honey Baked Ham $10.90 at NTUC

14 May 2020

Dinner

- another round of steamboat - this time, no toman fish. instead, we made dumplings and the remaining pork minced filling became meat balls for the steamboat! Lol

- kids made meatballs and dumplings while i made white carrot cake!! (or radish cake)

kids making pork dumplings!

14 May 2020

White Carrot or White Radish Cake

1. Chop and Fry together, Set Aside

- Hae Bi or Dried Prawns

- Dried Shitake or Flower Mushroom - soaked, keep soaking liquid

- Lap Cheong or Chinese Sausage

2. Shred and Stir Fry veggies, then add some water, cook

- White Radish or White Carrot

- Carrot

3. Turn off fire, Add flour to the veggies & stir till mixture thickens into a batter

- Rice Flour

- Plain Flour

- Corn Flour

4. Add fried hae bi, mushrooms, lap cheong

5. Season

- Salt, White Pepper, Sugar

- Light Soya Sauce

- Sesame Oil

- Shaoxing Wine

6. Steam the cake, leave in the fridge to Set/Harden

7. Fry or Steam to Serve

the carrot cake is so mushy - didn't know i had to set it in the fridge Lol
but anyway, i'm very pleased with the taste

17 May 2020

the carrot cake has set and hardened to a cake-like structure...

14 May 2020

Breakfast - croissants with cooked capsicums

14 May 2020 Lunch

Fried Kuay Teow and Fried Hokkien Mee

13 May 2020

Lunch - Kuay Teow with Macaroni Soup, Seasoned Soybean Sprouts

Dinner - Steamboat, Udon, leftover minced pork, sambal kangkong

steamboat

- fresh sotong - fish sauce & lemongrass

- toman fish - ginger juice, light soya sauce, shaoxing wine, salt and pupper, sugar

- chicken thigh cubes - salt, pepper, paste - ginger garlic onions, shaoxing wine, light soy

- fishballs

- chinese cabbage

- macaroni soup

- udon

Sambal Kang Kong
Taho Sambal Blachan, Dried prawns (hae bi),
tomato ketchup, sugar/sweet chilli sauce

LUNCH....

11-12 May 2020

chicken curry!!!

9 & 10 May 2020

6, 7, 8 May 2020

Omelette + Szechuan Vegetables fried with chicken thigh cubes on Steamed Jasmine Rice

Mini Tangerines from Morocco and South Africa
they're so tiny, around 5-7cm wide

stewed chicken wings with mushrooms and red dates

Stewed Chicken Wings with Mushtooms & Red Dates

- 3-joint or mid-joint Chicken Wings

- dired chinese shitake mushrooms - soaked and cut into halfs

- fresh shitake mushrooms x1 pack - cut into halfs

- black woodear fungus - here i'm using the crunchy hard ones

- button mushrooms (canned) - cut into halfs

- red dates x8-12 - remove seeds and cut into halfs

- fresh garlic, shallots, dried red chillis

Sauce Mix:

- oyster sauce

- light & dark soya sauce (superior or premium ones are better)

- fish sauce

- chinese shaoxing wine

- sesame oil

- salt, sugar, white pepper to taste

Method: (cooked in claypot will be best)

1. fry garlic, shallots, dried red chillis with salt, add dried mushrooms and fry till fragrant

2. add chicken wings and fry together

3. add sauce mix, fry them well, add shaoxing wine

4. add water to cover chicken, add rest of the mushrooms and stew for about 20-30 min

5. once stew is done, switch off fire, add sesame oil and serve with steamed jasmine rice

stewed chicken wings with mushrooms, oyster sauce and red dates

white fish stuffed with my macaroni chilli sauce

lunch - stewed chicken with mushrooms,
mixed veggies on steamed jasmine rice!

5 May 2020

stir fried chicken thigh meat with szechuan pickled veggies...
wow. that alone can be my lunch or dinner!

1 May 2020
PH Labour Day, May Day

Lunch/Dinner - fried rice with sambal blachan
and fried bee hoon with veggies and mushrooms!

because we had kfc at 5pm and i had leftover curry with bread at 10.30am.

fried bee hoon - simple
1. fry eggs and set aside
2. fry chopped garlic (a lot), chilli, salt with dried mushrooms, white/black fungus
3. add veggies - cabbage, carrot, celery, french beans
4. add water & season with white pepper, sesame oil, oyster sauce, fish sauce, ikan bilis powder 1/2 tsp, dark soy sauce, thai sweet chilli sauce
5. add soaked beehoon and cook till soft or according to taste/bite
6. garnish with spring onions, sliced chillis, coriander, sambal blachan & serve