90. Our Food Diary Feb2021 & CNY2021 - Year of the Ox
What we ate in Feb 2021
21 feb 2021
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CNY Meals & Recipes - Links
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CNY Recipes - Links
bakwan kepiting - https://jt-food.blogspot.com/2017/06/13-bakwan-kepeting.html
more to come
- popiah & kueh pie tee
- ngo hiang
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This month will have busy eating and cooking because of cny.
Food Diary for Feb 2021
- Salad with honey mustard dressing with Recipe
- Sambal Belachan! with Recipe
- Nasi Lemak
- Chicken Briyani with Recipe
- squid ink pasta
- soto ayam
- indian fish head curry & chicken masala from samy's
- crab omelette
- putu piring
- nasi padang
- macaroni soup
- sambal belachan
- pork ribs
- ginger paste and chicken rice chilli (oops, no pics)
CNY Food
12feb - Reunion Dinner Fri & CNY Day1 Sat
- soup1 - Pig Stomach Soup with Recipe
- soup2 - chinese cabbage soup with sea cucumber, fish maw and fish balls/fish dumplings
- soup3 - crab meatball soup, bakwan kepeting with Recipe
- soup4 - kiam chye soup
- leeks with prawns
- ayam buah keluak (this year we also added pork ribs)
- ayam sioh
- yu sheng salad with abalone
- sambal belachan
- liver and red wine lap cheong/chinese sausages (cny day1)
13feb - CNY Day2 Sat
- Steamboat (lunch)
- Sukiyaki Pork, mummy's tau yew bak (dinner)
14feb - CNY Day3 Sun
- fried rice
- snacks at zhor tzur ko ko and lim tzur di di's house
- snacks and green bean dessert with coconut milk at edna's house
- hui tzur didi's birthday dinner at jalan laban
15feb - CNY Day4 Mon
- Samy's Curry fish head & chicken masala (lunch)
(visited huber's butchery - wow, wanna go back there again!!)
- Curry, Crab Omelette (Foo Yong Hai) and Chicken Chop, Tempura fish, Popiah filling only
16feb - CNY Day5 Tues
- leftover crab meatball soup with steamboat soup with rice
- lunch (christen & me) - chicken chop
- dinner - roast chicken with fresh salad + honey mustard/mayo dressing
17feb - CNY Day6 Wed
- lunch - szechuan veggies with chicken breastmeat, fried egg and rice
(the rest went to lentor to eat the ampang yong tau hu)
- dinner - ayam soto
18feb - CNY Day7 Thu - Everybody's birthday today!
- breakfast - leftover soto, leftover roast chicken sandwich
- lunch - fried fresh salmon, fried egg, szechuan veggies with chicken and kangkong
- dinner - takeaway malay food from assam tree & assam pedas udang nanas & cucumber and pineapple salad with sambal belachan
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Yu Sheng ingredients and their meaning by www.nomsaurus.com.
Ingredient #1: Raw Fish (生鱼, Sheng Yu)
Phrase: 年年有余 (Nian Nian You Yu)
Meaning: "Abundance throughout the year"
Ingredient #2: Pomelo (柚子, You Zi)
Phrase: 大吉大利 (Da Ji Da Li)
Meaning: "Good luck and smooth sailing"
Ingredient #3: Pepper (胡椒粉, Hu Jiao Fen)
Phrase: 招财进宝 (Zhao Cai Jin Bao)
Meaning: "Attract wealth and treasures"
Ingredient #4: Oil (油, You)
Phrase: 一本万利 (Yi Ben Wan Li) and 财源广进 (Cai Yuan Guang Jin)
Meaning: "Make 10,000 times of profit with your capital" and "Numerous sources of wealth"
Ingredient #5: Carrot (红萝卜, Hong Luo Bo)
Phrase: 鸿运当头 (Hong Yun Dang Tou)
Meaning: "Good luck is approaching"
Ingredient #6: Green Radish (青萝卜, Qing Luo Bo)
Phrase: 青春常驻 (Qing Chun Chang Zhu)
Meaning: "Eternal youth"
Ingredient #7: White Radish (白萝卜, Bai Luo Bo)
Phrase: 步步高升 (Bu Bu Gao Sheng) and 风生水起 (Feng Sheng Shui Qi)
Meaning: "Reaching higher levels with each step" and "Progress at a fast pace"
Ingredient #8: Peanuts Crumbs (花生粉, Hua Sheng Fen)
Phrase: 金银满屋 (Jin Yin Man Wu)
Meaning: “Household filled with gold and silver”
Ingredient #9: Sesame seeds (芝麻, Zhi Ma)
Phrase: 生意兴隆 (Sheng Yi Xing Long)
Meaning: “Prosperity for the business”
Ingredient #10: Golden crackers (薄脆饼干, Bo Cui Bing Gan)
Phrase: 满地黄金 (Man Di Huang Jin)
Meaning: “Floor full of gold”
Ingredient #11: Plum sauce (酸梅酱, Suan Mei Jiang)
Phrase: 甜甜蜜蜜 (Tian Tian Mi Mi)
Meaning: “Sweet and loving relationships”
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1 Feb 2021
Jannah and i aren't feeling that well so we had macaroni soup for lunch
(pork & century egg porridge from 628amk for breakfast but no pics)
so dinner had some salad to go with the macaroni.
honey mustard dressing:
- raw garlic pounded x1/2 tsp or more
- honey x1/2 tbsp
- whole grain mustard 1tbsp
- mayo 1-2 tbsp
- apple cider vinegar 1tbsp
- salt & black pepper
27 Feb 2021
tabao lunch and dinner - felt sick at the end of the day.
can't take too much "outside food"
felt sick after eating so much tabao food, but a hot cup of puer tea helps!
26 Feb 2021 Sat
jamie's dinner - mee suah
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| what jamie wants since he can't come home |
26 feb 2021 Sat
for breakfast, we had croissant and jam.
lunch we had sandwiches from origins and bloom, roast chicken from jason's.
dinner we had pork ribs cooked in black pepper sauce
Recipe
Pork Ribs in Black Pepper Sauce
1. Season Pork Ribs in the following order:
- baking powder,
- salt,
- light sauce,
- white pepper,
- cornstarch,
- garlic oil
2. fry pork ribs in oil till golden brown
3. add green chillis, onions, garlic, black pepper (a lot), curry leaves and fry
4. add black pepper sauce (used singlong brand) and fry
5. add water and cook till pork ribs are tender
26-27 Feb 2021 fri & sat
prepared some ginger, garlic and shallots paste & ground chilli the day before and made some ginger paste and chicken rice chilli. not sure why the ginger tasted bitter :( so disappointed. and the chicken rice chilli ended up super spicy due to the few chillipadi that i used as those chillis were going to spoil. sigh. well, for the very spicy chicken rice chilli, i used vinegar and sugar to "make less spicy". helped a lot and surprisingly, the vinegar made the chilli sauce very very tasty!! omg, if it wasn't so spicy, i would have just eaten up the chilli sauce with rice!
wish i had the pics.
(pssst i took this pic on 1mar2021)
anyway, made some chicken rice with the ginger paste - the kids loved it so much they ate up the whole freaking lot! omg i was quite surprised.
Recipe:
Ginger Paste
Ginger Paste
1. Grind ginger, garlic, shallots, green spring onions. add salt.
2. in a pot, add oil, then add ginger mix and fry.
3. add salt, light soya sauce, chinese shaoxing wine, sugar to taste
4. add chicken stock, cook and cool before storing
Recipe:
Chicken Rice Chilli Sauce
1. heat the pot. add the cooked ginger paste and blended fresh chillis (mix of red, green, chillipadi)
2. cook mixture. add salt, sugar, light soya sauce to taste.
3. add chicken stock and cook chilli sauce
4. add rice vinegar and/or lime juice.
5. cook and cool before storing.
Recipe:
Chicken Rice
Chicken Rice
- uncooked rice
- cooked ginger paste
- pandan leaves
- chicken stock
- salt to taste
- fried crispy shallots
turn on the rice cooker and cook till al dente.
this rice is fragrant and not oily!
26 Feb 2021 fri
cny day 15 dinner
tabao gordon ramsey's bread street kitchen
- beef wellington x2 @$80 each
- mushroom risotto x1 $32
then went to origins and bloom
- smoked salmon with bagel $14
- duck wrap $12
- french parma ham in a baguette $14
- early riser $8
- baguette $4
- blueberry danish x2 @$4 each
- ice cream 2 scoops $8
gordon ramsey's beef wellington
26 feb 2021 Fri
went to the amk 628 market to eat pork porridge. (tummy pain)
no pics, isn't that strange? LOL
also bought some pork ribs, ginger, garlic, shallots, roast pork, braised pig skin
then i saw that my regular pork stall has a contact number!
well, maybe one day i might call...
25 Feb 2021 Thu
breakfast at queen street bak kut noodles.
jannah oredered pork ribs and prawns,
i ordered pig liver and pig skin.
25 feb 2021 thu
my students offered me some snacks - vegetarian bak kuah. Chris, one of our American teachers was eager to eat it... what a surprise! will try it soon!
25 feb 2021 thu
after work, had lunch at Chrystal Jade with Jac. we were a bit taken aback by a very small cny menu and struggled to order haha took us like 30min to order... or maybe longer than 30min! had some dim sum and fried rice. was good! after lunch, jannah met us and we zoomed to giant tampines. bought some prawns and batang fish...
dinner - simple food at home and no pics ha
prawns @$10 per kg (i got about 600gm of prawns)
batang @$8.90 per kg (chose one fish $15+)
24 Feb 2021
Jelly!! agar agar with red dragon fruit and mangoes!
dinner. - roast chicken thighs with salt, white/black pepper, honey, garlic and red/green chillis
24 Feb 2021
porridge breakfast at telok blangah market
23 feb 2021
breakfast - kuay teow soup at telok blangah market
dinner - egg and rice and stew (no pics for the stew!)
19 Feb 2021
my plate with some dishes from malay stall (assam tree in amk central)
19 feb 2021
breakfast - finishing up the frozen prata and samy's fish curry from almost a week ago haha. after that, most meals are as simple as possible. been eating too much!
cooked macaroni soup on 20 feb and had macaroni soup on sun.
love it! i missed this sooooo much!
22 feb 2021
ondeh ondeh was from another stall $2 for 4 pcs. that's kinda ex, but it's hard to find them so i bought a pack of 4. sardine puff was $2 for 4pcs.
re-cooked the pig stomach soup.
sent aidan to changi saf ferry terminal, so dropped by at changi village to get some nasi padang dishes (sambal goreng $3, bergedel x4pcs $2) and nasi lemak ($3.50) from the same stall. forgot to take a pic of the nasi lemak - by the time i remembered, i've eaten almost half of the packet haha!! one set comes with chicken wings, ikan bilis, fried egg and nasi lemak rice, sambal & cucumber.
18 Feb 2021
putu piring
10 Feb 2021
earliy cooking for CNY reunion dinner
(cny eve is on 11feb2021 - oh that's tomorrow! 😓)
i had to cook the ayam buah keluak & sioh
cooking the rempah mixed with buah keluak
frying pork ribs with lard
adding in the pork ribs into the rempah mix
add water and boil to cook the chicken & pork
thicker gravy after braising the mix and meat
cooking ayam sioh
fry the chicken,
set aside,
then fry the rempah
below: what we had for lunch,
day before eve of cny!
giant pot of chinese cabbage soup with fish maw, sea cucumber,
fish balls, fish dumplings, added round cabbage for sweeter taste
pig stomach soup
kiam chye soup
ayam sioh with thicker gravy/rempah
ayam buah keluak with thicker gravy
pig stomach soup with ginko nuts & white peppercorns
11 Feb 2021
(CNY Eve & Reunion Dinner)
CNY eve, spent all morning and afternoon and evening cooking cooking cooking...
and i forgot to take pics of the meatball haha. but i will take pics tmr!
(maybe my hands were a mess when i was making the balls
and busy chasing the flies away... and then, i just forgot to take pics! how strange!)
my breakfast - leftover briyani with buah keluak
fried leeks with prawns (too salty ugggh😖😖
yu sheng with abalone and jellyfish
the soup from before had ginko nuts
and was quite bitter :(
Recipe - Crab Meatball Soup with Bamboo Shoots (Bakwan Kepeting) cont'd
what we bought at Samy's
17 Feb 2021
Recipe - Pig Stomach Soup (Re-Cooked)
- pig stomach - soaked in water with salt & sugar
(i did this 3-4 times to get rid of the bitter taste!)
- Chicken bones and feet
- salt & 1tbsp light soya sauce or fragrant soya sauce
- white peppercorns - crushed
- white pepper
- rock sugar
12 Feb 2021
CNY Day 1
so much food! and made some chinese sausages & spicy cucumber salad
happy Chinese New Year!
finally! some pics of my handmade meatball soup!
i think i made like 50-80 meatballs, most are quite large Lol
Recipe - Crab Meatball Soup with Bamboo Shoots (Bakwan Kepeting)
- minced pork
- minced prawns (set aside some chunkier chopped prawns)
- thinly sliced bamboo shoots (set aside some for the soup)
- water chestnut, chopped
- 1 egg
- cornflour
- crispy garlic & garlic oil
- this year i added sotong paste, 1pkt
- sometimes i use fish paste, 2 pkts
- crab meat from fresh crab is best
(this year i used crabmeat bought by zhor tzur ko ko)
Recipe - Crab Meatball Soup with Bamboo Shoots (Bakwan Kepeting) cont'd
Mixing Method:
1. mix minced pork, prawns, crab, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, 1 egg
(add crab later if you prefer crabs in chunk)
2. season - salt, white pepper, fish sauce, light soya sauce, mountain sauce, a dash of shaoxing wine
3. mix seasoning and meat mixture together
4. add cornstarch to bind (agak agak). mix everything together till sticky (usually mix in circular motion and in one direction)
5. add fried garlic oil and mix in.
6. if the mixture smells a bit fishy, add more white pepper and mix
7. cool in the fridge to set - for a few hours
8. bring out of the fridge and roll mixture into balls. if sticky, use brine (water + salt) to shape the balls and smoothen the surface of each meatball
Cooking:
1. i used water - boil some water
2. add rolled meatballs and cook. meatballs may float when cooked. remove cooked meatballs
3. once all balls are cooked, add the remainder bamboo shoots and water chestnuts
4. season the soup
5. add meatballs in serving bowl and add soup with some bamboo shoots in the soup.
6. top with coriander leaves and stems
sambal belachan is a must-have for cny meals!
below: steamed chinese sausages
liver sausages - from hk
red wine pork sausages from ntuc
13 Feb 2021
CNY Day 2 - Lunch - Steamboat
guess what? no time to take pics and forgot also haha!!
but the food prepared looks & tastes so good!
joining us was zhor tzur ko ko, dio dio and hui tzur di di.
we had
- chicken thighs x4 pcs - seasoned with ginger & chinese wine
- shabu shabu pork - seasoned with japanese soy, pepper and chinese wine
- pork balls
- fuchow fish balls
- fish meatballs (bak yee)
- korean pork dumplings
- snapper fish - seasoned with salt, ginger, white pepper, chinese wine, soya sauce
- prawns seasoned with salt, white pepper, lemongrass
- fish maw
- toufu
- chinese cabbage
- archar nonya
13 feb 2021
cny day 2 dinner
we had sukiyaki pork, veggies and rice
14 feb 2021
had some snacks at edna's & george's place
edna's niece made some pineapple tarts - so cute!
i find it funny to take the pic of the tarts with joey smiling in the background!
and for dinner, we went to a restaurant to celebrate hui tzur di di's birthday. we had half roast duck, fish maw soup, jellyfish, sweet & sour pork, kong bak pao, brinjal fried with pork floss, fu jian noodles
a smiling joey haha!
15 feb 2021
lunch - went to huber's butchery and samy's curry at dempsey's.
the butchery has an amazing spread of items from europe, usa and australia, we were stuck in there for quite a while looking at the things available!! one good thing about the place... it's expensive! so good thing it is ex, and that would stop us from buying anything haha!!
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| crab meat from USA |
below left: jam - apricot, raspberry, bitter orange, etc
below right: different kinds of stuffings!!
- fish head x2 small = $42 ($21 each)
- sambal sotong = $13
- chicken masala x4 maryland = $22
(picture of chicken masala came out blurred so i deleted it.
took a pic later but the dish has NO more chicken haha!!)
- papadum x4 packets x $1.50 = $$6
total = $88.81 incl 7% gst
for dinner,
fried omelette with crab meat and whitebait fish
added a few drops of sesame oil to give it the "foo yong hai" flavour.
crab meat & whitebait - stir fried with soya & pepper before cooking the omelette for better flavour.
16 Feb 2021
today, i MUST rest. omg so tired.
i still have leftovers and i enjoyed everything -
had the leftover soups for breakfast
Dinner - Ayam Soto nanik's recipe
18 feb 2021
wish i had an oven for roasting food!
breakfast - leftover soto! no more carrots and cucumber :(
9 Feb 2021
stir fried chicken breast strips with garlic and chillis,
(soaked the chicken breast meat in brine water for about 1 day... ohhhh so good!)
french beans and carrot,
omelette with white bait (fish) and onions
my breakfast
instant noodles... sick of it already,
altho a typical person might enjoy it...
and my grocery cart before i had breakfast
(shopped at ntuc from 7.30-8.30am, sooooo crowded!!)
8 Feb 2021
well, i had to cook the briyani as the Shan's briyani mix has just expired Lol
we used half chicken and 3 cups of long grain basmati rice.
didn't have curd or yoghurt and green chilli and mint leaves :(
but still tasted good! LOL
Chicken Briyani Recipe:
- chicken - i soaked it in salted water
- Briyani Ready Pre-Mix - buy any that you like
- long grain basmati rice
- jeera & fennel Seeds
- garam masala powder 2tbsp
- ginger garlic paste
- red onions, sliced
- tomatoes chopped
- coriander chopped
- crispy fried shallots (bawang goreng)
- tomato paste
(i used tomato ketchup because i didn't want to open a can of tomato paste!)
this sakura chicken is so moist, so tender and so tasty... WOW.
christen ate the whole breast meat all by himself!
the WOW chicken
i soaked the half chicken in brine for about 30min,
and then boiled it in the briyani curry gravy,
and then steamed the chicken so that it'll be cooked through,
and then placed on top of the rice in the rice cooker with curry gravy,
and then covered the rice cooker and cooked for about 10min.
turned out to be so WOW. seriously.
i don't normally eat that much chicken but
if i had this again, i could finish it all by myself!!
the rice turned out pretty good too!!
for dinner, just had briyani rice and veggies.
no more succulent chicken!!
7 feb 2021
chicken rice! for lunch and dinner
6 Feb 2021
Zi Char from chang kee
2 Feb 2021
Nasi Lemak for breakfast at telok blangah crescent market
usually it costs $2 for a plate - i usually only order 1 bergadel and 1 fried egg
but today, i added sambal goreng and found 1 prawn in it!! costs $3 today LOL
found a prawn! hahaha!!
googled the stall and here it is...
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| Noordima Malay Food Stall – Back To Basics Nasi Lemak That Hits The Spot https://tidbitsmag.com/noordima-malay-food-stall/ |
2 Feb 2021
i fried omelette with green and red peppers and onions
omg it was so good with rice and chilli padi!
omg it was so good with rice and chilli padi!
3 Feb 2021
Making Sambal Belachan
- belachan - roasted
- chillis and chillipadi
- limau purut
- lime juice
4 feb 2021
squid ink pasta
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