81. Our Food Diary July2020

what we ate in July 2020

- Angus Beef Striploin - Pan fried with rosemary & thyme, onions and butter
- Knuckle Beef - Thai Beef Salad with tung hoon & cucumber
- Tenderloin Beef
- Ribeye Beef Steak
- thai beef salad with recipe
- Steamboat
- chicken stew with dried chinese mushrooms
- curry chicken
- assam pedas with recipe
- roasted veggies with pasta or garlic bread
- dry mee suah
- fried grouper with chilli sauce topping
- radish, white carrot cake with recipe
- Szechuan Veggies with chicken thigh meat
- kung bao chicken
- fried bee hoon (best with canned corned beef!)
- tom yum soup
- food from newton hawker centre

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1 July 2020
Chicken and Dried Shitake Chinese Mushroom Stew 
seasoned with Oyster Sauce, Dark Soya & white pepper




31 July 2020
Australian Black Angus Beef - Striploin - from Cold Storage @$34.90/kg












31 July 2020
Lunch - Fried Rice





29 July 2020 
Dinner - Thai Beef Salad







29 July 2020 
Lunch







26 July 2020
(24 & 25 July 2020 we had steamboat for 2 lunches and 2 dinners!!)
so on sunday, we roasted veggies and added in pasta. that's it.
we also made sar poh fan but have no pics here Lol




Roast Chicken with Garlic, Lemon,
Fresh Rosemary & Thyme,
Salt & Black Pepper to Taste


23 July 2020
Kung Bao Chicken for lunch!







22 July 2020
Dinner - Fried Greasy Grouper











below: latest radish cake cooked on sunday, 19 july 2020

22 July 2020
Lunch - Home Cooked Assam Pedas

Assam Pedas 

Rempah:
- dried chillis x8
- fresh red chillis x3
- red shallots x8
- garlic x5
- fresh tumeric - 1"
- fresh galangal - 1"
- toasted/roasted belachan - 3-5 tbsp
- lemongrass/serai - 1 or 2

1. Fry rempah, serai stalks, limau purut leaves, salt with oil until oil is released
2. add assam water, fish sauce and boil
3. add fish and cook (not too long)
4. turn off fire and add laksa leaves
5. serve hot with steamed fragrant rice





21 July 2020
Ready to eat seaweed (we don't like them) & Steamed ginger chicken for dinner!




19 July 2020
lunch - fried bee hoon
dinner - thai beef salad (no pics of the salad because i forgot to take pics)

simple thai beed salad dressing 
- fish sauce, 
- lime juice, 
- chilli - chopped or dried chilli flakes, 
- sugar, 
- raw onions 
- fresh coriander leaves/stems (no fresh coriander leaves today)






18 July 2020
Chicken Curry!





18 July 2020
Roasted Veggies with Pasta
just mix in the cooked pasta and add salt & black pepper to taste!



17 July 2020
Roasted Veggies!



16 July 2020
Dry Mee Suah - seasoned with
- sesame oil
- fried garlic oil
- soya sauce
- white pepper
- shaoxing wine
- pinch of sugar

best topped with fresh cucumber, spring onions and fresh coriander!






14 July 2020
bought food from newton for aidan

1. Chong Pang BBQ - $26.60

Satay 
- Pork x10, 
- Chicken x15, 
- Ketupat x3 
@$0.70 each = $19.6

chicken wings x5 
@$1.40/wing = $7

2. BBQ Fish Stall #74 - $64

Sting Ray (M) $20
Baby Squid (S) $15
Lala (S) $15
Sambal Kang Kong (S) $8
Mantou $6

3. Thai Stall (facing car park) - $9.90

mango salad $4.50
seafood tunghoon salad $5
2 container x40 cents 

TOTAL - $100.50













13 July 2020
Tom Yum Soup & Rice






13 July 2020
the carrot cakes tastes amazing!




12 July 2020
Beef Tenderloin for Dinner
$26.29 for 1.258kg 
@$20.90/kg










11 July 2020
making radish white carrot cake

1. shred the veggies
- white carrot or radish
- carrots (optional)

2. mix flour with water, into a slurry
- rice flour
- wheat flour
- corn flour

3. chop these ingredients and fry with little oil
- dried prawns
- chinese dried mushrooms
- chinese sausage
- garlic
- dried scallops (optional)

5. seasoning
- fried onions (bawang goreng)
- sesame oil
- shaoxing wine
- light soya sauce
- salt & white pepper
- sugar
- chicken powder (optional)











12 July 2020
Breakfast - carrot cake is set and when fried is crispy and yummy!















11 july 2020
dinner





8 & 9 july 2020
steamboat dinner






8 July 2020 
Lunch - more szechuan veggies!


5, 6, 7 July 2020
can't get enough of szechuan veggies, 
soya bean sprouts and fishballs/meatballs (bak kueh)
roasted veggies







6 July 2020
tried to cook assam pedas... tastes a bit weird. maybe because of the wrong types of leaves used to flavour the kuah/gravy.



below: lean beef (stir fry)
it looks bad...  but they like it :/




4 July 2020
Roasted Veggies










2 July 2020
szechuan veggies - seasoned well, no need to soak. 
not too salty and very tasty!!

kiam chye is the sweet and sour type 
(compared to the salty type at the wet markets)
- can eat immediately as a pickle, pleasantly nice!


sweet & sour kiam chye - not salty, so can fry it up without soaking in water!



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