82. Our Food Diary Aug2020 & Recipes
What we ate in August 2020
thumbnails of yummy pics...
23 August 2020
Mushroom Stew
- amidst Covid19
Star Pic of this blog!
home made prawn noodles
- Angus Beef Striploin - with rosemary & thyme, onions and butter, HP sauce
- Knuckle Beef - Thai Beef Salad with tung hoon & cucumber
- chicken wings
- chicken curry
- unagi (bought ready to eat)
- bak kut pork noodles - middle road
- szechuan veggies with chicken
- ma po toufu with beef minced
- macaroni / mee suah soup
- hor fun with egg gravy (wat dan hor fun)
- leftover stir fry - noodles mix, fried rice
- scrambled eggs with recipe
- apple cider vinaigrette with recipe
- kiam chye soup with pork ribs with recipe
- broccoli in egg sauce with recipe
- steamed soya sauce chicken with recipe
- prawn noodle soup with recipe
- mushroom stew with recipe
- roast chicken with stuffing recipe
- garlic bread with recipe
- instant noodles with kim chi with recipe
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| Black angus beef steak with fried egg and thai tung hoon salad on hot steamed jasmine rice |
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30 Aug 2020
MBS Lunch at Blossoms Chinese Restaurant
Lobster steamed with garlic & tung hoon $38 x2 serves
Wagyu Beef $38
Steamed Grouper HK Style $38 x2 serves
Chrysanthymum Hot Tea
30 August 2020
Recipe - Instant Noodles with Kim Chi
- fry pork or beef or chicken, garlic, onions
- add kim chi and 2 tsp gouchujang paste and fry till fragrant (don't burn)
- add stock or water
- add instant noodles & veggies, spring onions, green & red chillis, egg
- serve hot!
25 Aug 2020
middle road's bak kut mee... breakfast at 7.45am
jannah chose small intestines and pig skin with kuay teow.
i had liver and pig skin with kuay teow.
hor fun for lunch
24 August 2020
bought cooked unagi home for dinner
unagi kabayaki abt 250g $15.90 from kuriya
also bought teriyaki saba #3.90
23 August 2020
Korean food from fortune centre...
BBQ Pork with rice and Bibimbap!
22 August 2020
cheese sandwiches - cream cheese, buttered toasts, cucumber and tomatoes
21 August 2020
we love the thai salad so much, we made some more!
20 August 2020
maoshan durian - given by mbs
Dinner - Durian and Chicken breastmeat - minced and stirfried,
made into a thai salad with tung hoon
20 August 2020
Jannah's plate - mapo toufu mixed with rice...
19 August 2020
Ma Po Toufu with Beef Minced for Jannah and Me!!
Recipe: Ma Po Toufu
- Dou Jiang - chilli broadbean paste (abt 2 tbsp)
- lao gan ma - chilli crisps (abt 4 tbsp)
- ginger - chopped (abt 4 tbsp)
- garlic - chopped (abt 4 tbsp)
- beef minced
- light & dark soya sauce
- sugar 1/2-1 tsp
- chinese black vinegar
- sesame oil
- shaoxing wine
- soft silken toufu cut and boiled in salted water, drained
- topped with coriander and spring onions
my ref video for recipe:
some ingredients for the ma po toufu
18 August 2020
Chicken Soup slow cooked, seasoned with
salt and crushed white peppercorns,
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tbsp fish sauce
16 August 2020
eggs with giant spring onions
lean pork fried with black pepper and sugar
kung bao chicken from chang ke
fried french beans and carrot with salt and white pepper
fish ball & toufu in chicken soup
14 Aug 2020
Fried instant noodles
13 Aug 2020
Steamed fish with garlic, chilli and lime sauce (thai)
missing coriander leaves and stems :(
it was so good that i ate it up without taking photos of the cooked fish!!
25 August 2020
almost forgot to take a pic... so here's the cooked fish
that's already been served except for this small piece LOL
12 & 13 Aug 2020
Chicken Currry!
10 August 2020 Mon NDP PH
Donuts!
10 August 2020
Mon NDP PH
Garlic Bread with Cucumber and Tomatoes and Ham
8 August 2020 Fri
Prawn Stock for Prawn Noodles
Hae Mee Soup
Hae Mee Soup (Prawn Noodle Soup)
Prawn Stock
Ingredients:
- prawn shells & heads (from 2kg of prawns)
- green chilli x2
- garlic - chopped or whole x10
- dried chilli + hae bi (dried prawns) + roasted belachan - grind into a chilli powder mix
- seasoning - fish sauce, salt & white pepper, rock sugar to taste
- bawang goreng (fried shallots)
- chicken or pork stock
- ikan billis powder mix
Method:
* In hot oil, add green chilli, garlic, sugar
* fry till fragrant & sugar is melted & brown
* add chilli powder mix
* fry prawn shells and head till the mixture smells like BBQ.
(prawn shells and heads should be as dry as possible to avoid boiling)
* add water or chicken or pork stock, ikan bilis powder mix
* boil the prawn stock till garlic is soft
* add seasoning & bawang goreng (fried shallots) to taste
8 & 9 August 2020
goes well with kuay teow!
Mushrooms
- chinese dried mushrooms
- canned straw & button mushrooms
- black wood ear fungus (2 types)
- fatt choy
Season with
- oyster sauce,
- salt, white pepper,
- shaoxing wine,
- sesame oil,
- a bit of sugar
- light & dark soya sauce (use the special blends if avail)
- fried garlic
- best to stew with chicken feet (big ones!) or abalone!!
- also good to stew with pig skin, chicken, 3-layer pork sa chum bak
Aug - My Rice Bowls
5 aug 2020 wed
9 August 2020
Fried Salt & Pepper Squid
5 August 2020 wed
steamed soya sauce chicken
broccoli in egg sauce
Steamed Soya Sauce Chicken
marinade:
- salt, white pepper
- light soya sauce
- dark soya sauce
- fish sauce
- ginger - 5-6 slices
- red shallots x4
- shaoxing chinese wine - a cup
- black woodear fungus x2 types
1. soak chicken in marinade for at last 1/2 a day
2. steam till cooked
Broccoli in Egg Sauce
- chicken stock (i used the chicken soup cooked for macaroni soup)
- broccoli
- carrots
- mushrooms, black fungus
- eggs x2 - beaten & seasoned
- chopped garlic
1. fry chopped garlic in oil, then fry veggies, put aside in serving dish
2. egg sauce
- cook soup, season with salt and white pepper, a dash of sesame oil and shaoxing wine.
- add cornstarch slurry, then do egg drop into soup
this forms a slightly thick gravy, switch heat off after dropping egg mix. egg will cook in heat
3. pour egg sauce over fried veggies, drizzle sesame oil & serve hot
stir fried leftovers for breakfast
- macaroni, mee suah, chye sim, canned chunky tuna, apple cider vinegrette
- onions, garlic, fresh chillis
- wow!! so yummy!
apple cider vinaigrette
- raw garlic - pounded - fine is easier to mix into vinaigrette mix
- olive oil or vegetable oil
- apple cider vinegar
- honey
- salt & black pepper to taste
10 Aug 2020
fried bee hoon and kuay teow with egg and bean sprouts, beijing cabbage
(also called ying yang noodles)
12 Aug 2020
Breakfast - fried rice
fried leeks with tau kuah
garlic prawns with chilli flakes
omelette with long beans & chye poh
6 August 2020
Chicken wings with ginger, garlic and black sauce
szechuan veggies with chicken
7 August 2020
kiam chye soup for aidan after booking out for NDP weekend! by special request
Kiam Chye Soup
- salty kiam chye - soaked till not so salty
- pork ribs 1kg - i buy the frozen softbone, rib parts only for $9/kg
- pork balls ( i use lion dance pork balls - it has ti poh flavours)
- sng bueh - sour plums
- assam skin x3-4 pcs
- tomatoes
- silky toufu
- rock sugar
- shallots
- canned mushrooms
- fried garlic (try to remove as much oil as possible)
8 August 2020 sat
Breakfast - scrambled eggs
2 types - plain & with cream cheese
Scrambled eggs
- eggs - beaten
- fresh parsley chopped
- salt
- black and white pepper
- milk
- butter / oil for frying
- cream cheese
2 Aug 2020
pork chops!
1 August 2020
since Aidan is back from NS 1st weekend bookout, we cooked a lot of beef!!
- knuckle beef thai salad with tung hoon and cucumbers
- black angus beef with HP sauce & fried egg
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| Thai Beef Salad using knuckle beef that costs $5 for this lot! |
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| Black Angus beef on offer @$34.90/kg from cold storage |
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| Christen's plate... no greens!! |
2 August 2020
Macaroni soup!!
3 Aug 2020
stirfried chicken thigh with ginger, garlic, spring onions, light & dark soya sauce
& veggies - bittergourd with eggs and chye sim
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