103. Our Food Diary - Jan to Jun 2022
OUR FOOD DIARY 2022
9 Jan 2022
not feeling anywhere near good ...
mummy's gone (cancer sucks)
tini's gone (no more helper... and no more stress)
and i have to prepare meals, cook, clean a little...
but then again, whatever dishes i cook would be what i can actually do on my own. i guess that is quite an achievement!
star pics - here are the highlights of our food diary
Food Diary - JAN 2022
HAPPY 2022 !!
fish day!!
fried red snapper & batang fish with salt & tumeric/kunyit powder. so yummy!
bought 2 whole fish from 628 wet market (for fish head curry)
batang $12
red snapper $25
total $37
tempura mushrooms $8 and fried tofu $5 at a japanese stall at an urban farm around bukit merah. went there after daddy went to consult & try hearing aid.
4 Jan 2022 Tues
jannah and i went to chang kee to have claypot tofu with rice for lunch. so good!!
claypot toufu $10
with roast belly pork, prawns, yam, veggies
cooked boiled belly pork on 3 jan. sadly, no pics.
(nicely packed frozen belly pork from ntuc $8.90 per 500gm)
2 days later, roasted them in the turbo oven at around 150-175 degrees for around 20-30min. so crispy and crackling!! tender and tasty too. a good snack for crowds or small party Lol
6 Jan 2022 Thu
went lai wah for lunch. so good but ex! hehe
and no pics :(
roast chicken - half $10
steamed chicken with ham - half $10
venison with ginger & spring onions $16+
tofu with mushrooms and broccoli $16+
horfun $4
7 Jan 2022 Fri
after work, went to amk hub for lunch - got me a cup of boost's berry bang.
also wanted to get some fresh fish from NTUC.
was craving for steamed fish!!
bought:
1. whole greasy grouper (butterfly) $3.84 @$0.99/100gm
2. whole seabass (fillet) 700+gm - total $7.60
3. whole chicken (throw head & tail, clean & chop in half) 800gm, $5.90
aidan was coming home from camp so wanted to let him eat some chicken breast meat other than fish.
by the time i got home from ntuc, it was 3.30pm and i prepared the fish, chicken and cooked a huge pot of round cabbage, chinese cabbage soup with fishballs x20pcs and fishmaw. soup was soooooo good and it was ready for snacking at around 4.30pm!! (no pics again coz aidan and i were too hungry to take any photos haha)
7 Jan friday dinner
Steamed grouper & seabass
thai style, steamed fish with garlic, chilli and lime!
(also steamed some leftover iceberg lettuce in the fridge - so good!!)
8 Jan 2022 Sat
fish was so good that jamie & i woke up early on Sat morning 8am to go amk hub ntuc to buy MORE fish!! ko ko and dio dio also came along. also ended up buying a whole load of other stuff, like a tefal wok pan, frozen scallops, dried fish maw... ha. spent almost 2 hours at amk hub!!
main buys:
1. tefal wok pan for all hobs incl induction 28cm diameter $41.90 (UP $59.90)
2. frozen scallops from japan $24 (UP $39.95)
3. shrimp with tail on (frozen) $8.95 (UP $9.95)
other main buys:
dried fish maw 500gm from hock hua $29.90
fish:
1. pomfret (small) x2 - total $8.24
2. whole greasy grouper x2 - total $8.24
3. whole batang/tenggiri - $16.50 @$1.09/100gm (usual $1.29/100gm)
for Sat lunch...
- steamed pomfret teochew style
- fried batang fish bones and fillet about 4 small pcs
- fishball cabbage soup (leftover from day before)
- roast chicken with tomatoes (seasoned with black pepper and smoked paprika)
- tomatoes, kiam chye, sour plums x2
- chilli, ginger, keng chye or chinese celery,
- light soya sauce, white pepper
with tumeric / kunyit powder
7 Jan Sat Lunch
Roast Chicken!!! (for aidan)
30min - 45min, 150 degrees
so pissed i accidentally tore the chicken skin at the thigh/drumstick area :/
had abt 6-8 tomatoes that were about to spoil, so cut them up and roasted them too. some other tomatoes were used for my steamed pomfret.
12 Jan 2022
for 3 mornings in a row, ate fried bee hoon with a fried egg and veggies. even with no appetite, i could finish up the whole plate Lol it's kinda tasty but not quite a wow. so i'm quite surprised i actually ate up everything.
jannah is at home for home based learning and i have no work.
we made breakfast!
scrambled eggs (gobbled them down so no pics haha)
my new wok pan (tefal) yay!!
and thai instant noodle - one packet looks like a small portion but it's very filling
cooked the noodles, added an egg and mushrooms.
13 jan 2022
lunch - leftover rice with leftover egg tofu and fried chicken mince.13 jan 2022
dinner - spaghetti with mushrooms (almost $10 worth of mushrooms!)- button mushrooms 250g x2 packets @$2.50 each
- shimeji mushrooms - brown x1, white x1 @$1 each
- king oyster mushrooms x2pcs $2.35
tefal wok pan for all hobs incl induction
28cm diameter
$41.90 (UP $59.90), ntuc
14 Jan 2022
no pics, no appetite.
chee cheong fan with a fried egg for breakfast. $1.80 and so good!
lunch - tabao ee fu mee from the thomson geylang beef hor fun shop
dinner
- bbq stingray $15 & sambal kangkong $8 from Fu, Chomp Chomp
- 20 sticks chicken satay + 5 sticks tripe from malay stall, chomp chomp
15 jan 2022 Sat
have the urge to cook!
but my fingers are sooooo painful :(((( for the past 3-4 days
breakfast -
jannah made french toasts (no pics) and i made some pasta
15 jan 2022
lunch - no pics
- chicken thighs in oyster sauce with vinegar pickled onions,
- kiam chye soup with pork ribs,
- fish maw with black fungus (this is soooooo good!!!)
- sweet peas with beef
fish maw soup
(aiyah, no pics but... i nailed the restaurant style taste!!!)
- fish maw
- black fungus (hard and soft types)
- carrots
- chinese mushrooms 2-3 pcs
- 2 eggs, beaten and dropped into the soup
- spring onions and coriander
didn't have tofu, sea cucumber... and too lazy to prepare bamboo shoots, prawns, scallops, crab, own made minced meat balls and fresh mushrooms Lol
chicken stock seasoned with
shaoxing wine, sesame oil, white pepper, and a slice of ginger
16 Jan 2022
breakfast
- rolled pancakes or crepes with strawberry jam and maple syrup
- scrambled eggs and ham
- aidan made toast with avocado and scrambled eggs
photos by aidan
photos from my old iphone SE
aidan offered to make the pancakes for me while i did something else. he got quite impatient and is a messy chef haha but he made really nice pancakes!
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16 Jan 2022 Sun
Lunch
minced pork,
stir fried chicken thigh,
fried grouper with tom yum sauce/soup
(dinner - no pics - tabao tofu with roast pork, prawns and veggies from chang kee)
used some plain flour (set aside from pancakes) and fried the fish in the new wok pan. tasted so good and the flour bits were so crispy that the bones were eaten till clean LOL not sure what i did different but the tom yum soup was kinda creamy even when i didn't add any cream or milk.
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17 Jan 2022 Mon
leftover fish maw soup!
ok, the pic isn't great but the soup was amazing!!
fish maw soup
(nailed the restaurant style taste!!!)
- fish maw
- black fungus (2 types - hard and soft types)
- carrots
- chinese mushrooms 2-3 pcsm sliced
- 2 eggs, beaten and dropped into the soup
- spring onions and coriander
didn't have tofu, sea cucumber... and too lazy to prepare bamboo shoots, prawns, scallops, crab, own made minced meat balls and fresh mushrooms Lol
recipe - fish maw soup
1 - made a pot of boiling water to cook my broccoli!
boiled water was seasoned with salt, sugar, shaoxing wine and 2 slices of ginger.
so this is now my vegetable stock. very fragrant already!
2. then added the packet soup and water to the vegetable / broccoli stock
3. to the combined veggie & chicken stock, added the ingredients
- fish maw,
- dried mushrooms (already soaked)
- carrots
- later added the 2 types of black fungus
4. seasoned the soup with
- shaoxing wine,
- sesame oil,
- fish sauce,
- light soya sauce,
- white pepper
5. beat 2 eggs, seasoned eggs with salt and white pepper and then drop eggs into the soup!
6. served hot soup with spring onions and coriander
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18 Jan 2022 Tues
DAY1 - AIDAN'S COVID ISOLATION AT HOME :((((
REST OF US ON HRW (HIGH RISK WARNING ORDER)
lunch - (no pics)
- bought pork porridge from 628 amk market for aidan
- chai peng for daddy and me -
packet 1 (daddy's) - egg toufu, pork ribs, lady's fingers,
packet 2 (mine) - egg toufu fried fish with lemon sauce
both packs have chicken curry gravy. yum!
jamie & daddy went out for dinner so
for dinner (no pics) - only jannah and christen
my gums were swollen
so i couldn't eat dinner :(((( ouch owwww
- chye sim shoots
- fried chicken & minced pork (leftover from sun)
- bottom round beef stew (but nobody can eat it, so tough!!)
- miso soup
- leftover fried rice (from sun)
for aidan -
- chang kee fish soup and rice,
- 1 watermelon slice
- 1 yakult
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19 Jan 2022 Wed
DAY 2 - HRW & AIDAN'S COVID ISOLATION
jannah and aidan were home ...
breakfast - for aidan & jannah - each of them ate...
- 2 boiled eggs
- toast x2 slices with butter and strawberry jam
- frozen blueberries and strawberries
- yakult
- milo
lunch -
went for my TTSH Rheumatology appt late and couldn't see the doc. so angry. more angry when i bought 3 veggies for $7.50 at nasi padang stall at ttsh hospital kopitiam (veggies were nice but so ex!!! got brinjals, lady's fingers and bittergourd with egg) - and forgot to use my kopitiam card for more discounts. ugggh. 😡
then went to lai wah to get the boiled chicken with ham but the promo is on hold due to cny period. arrrghhhh so i bought ee fu mee which i thought would be $10 but it seems the charges have increased to $14 😡😡
then bought petrol (and fishballs and yakult),
then back to 628 to get chai peng for jannah, daddy and me.
chye peng $8.10
packet1 - fried fish, toufu with chicken curry gravy
packet2 - stingray assam pedas gravy and toufu
from soup stall,
bought abc soup ($4.50 each) x2 serves
for aidan i got him watercress soup ($5.50) with rice
and added one apple from the fridge Lol
wah spent a lot!!
ttsh kopitiam - nasi padang 3 veggies $7.50
lai wah - ee fu mee $14
chai peng - $8.10
3 soups - around $17
dinner
- chicken rice 1 whole chicken + veggies + 4 rice about $35
- batang fish soup $8
i was in so much pain!@@W@! no dinner for me.
gums & jaw bone so swollen!
so tired, slept early...
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20 Jan 2022 Thu
DAY 3 HRW & AIDAN'S COVID ISOLATION
felt better with sleep so decided to cook today...
so breakfast for jannah and aidan - each of them had
- toast 2 slices with butter and cheese spread,
- 2 fried eggs,
- frozen blueberries and strawberries,
- milo
- yakult
(jannah also had fried soba noodles LOL)
jannah also had fried soba noodles
with leftover chicken from chicken rice (night before)
20 Jan 2022
lunch for everyone -
- chicken thigh with mushrooms,
- abc soup (from 628 coffeeshop)
- broccoli and kai lan baby shoots
- leftover ee fu mee from lai wah
dinner - rice wasn't much so i fried the soba noodle
- afternoon chicken thigh with mushrooms
- fried eggs x5
- fried soba with kai lan shoots and mushrooms
- 1 tempura fish
- leftover abc soup and ee fu mee from lai wah
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20 Jan 2022
JANNAH's additional breakfast...
(she also ate what aidan had)
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20 Jan 2022
AIDAN's breakfast
toast with butter and cheese spread
fried eggs x2
frozen blueberries and strawberries
milo & yakult
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20 Jan 2022
- abc soup
- rice bowl with chicken, mushrooms,
broccoli and kailan shoots
aidan's dinner -
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20 Jan 2022
fried soba noodles with mushrooms and kailan,
chicken stew,
fried eggs & watermelon
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21 Jan 2022 Fri
Breakfast
- boiled eggs x3
aidan - yakult, boiled egg sandwich
with cream cheese & butter on toast,
frozen blueberries and strawberries
lunch
- cucumber soup with fishballs & egg
- chicken with black sauce and vinegar onions
- leftover chicken stew with mushrooms
- watermelon
dinner
- chicken rice from next door
1 chicken $32
chicken liver $2
5 rice $5
1 veggie $4.80
total about $48
& watermelon
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22 Jan 2022 Sat
Breakfast (no pics)
aidan - oats, milo and
frozen blueberries and strawberries
lunch & dinner
- chicken wings
- chicken thigh for daddy
- spam and eggs
- shu chye - chinese cabbage soft stew
1/2 big cabbage for lunch
1/2 big cabbage for dinner
dinner - pork chop from nex (no pics)
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23 Jan 2022 Sun
breakfast
- smoked sausages x10
- cooked eggs x4 with cream cheese x3pcs
- fries from macs and our freezer (clearing the freezer!)
- aidan also has buttered toast x2 slices (no pics)
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pre-lunch
dinner -
smoked salmon sandwich
and miso soup with frozen scallops
super late lunch (from nex) - no pics
- putien fried mee suah and bee hoon
- aidan had chicken chop from hot tomato shop.
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23 Jan 2022 Sun
DAY 6 HRW & AIDAN'S COVID ISOLATION
Dinner
- chicken wings
- chicken thigh for daddy
- smoked salmon spaghetti
with mushrooms, garlic stem and french beans
Smoked Salmon Pasta - how to cook:
1. boil veggies, mushrooms, pasta in salted water. set aside
2. fry garlic and onions till fragrant
3. add smoked salmon and fry
4. add milk and cream cheese
5. add pasta and mix
6. season with salt and black pepper
7. add veggies, mushrooms and mix
8. serve with fresh lemon slices for lemon juice
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highlights of our meals 21jan to 24jan
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24 Jan 2022 Mon
DAY 7 HRW & AIDAN'S COVID ISOLATION
ART Positive Result
breakfast - no pics
sunday's fried bee hoon
from putien food court stall
lunch - no pics
hans (tabao)
- sweet & sour pork with rice
- apple pie
chang kee
aidan ate fried rice & har cheong gai
jannah & i ate the veg and rice
daddy & jamie ate fish soup
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25 Jan 2022 Tues
DAY 7 HRW & AIDAN'S COVID ISOLATION
1st day ART Neg Result
breakfast -
han's chicken pie & giant's danish,
yoghurt, frozen blueberries & strawberries
lunch
chicken wings - grilled with lemon juice
dinner
chicken rice from next door
(christen bought)
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26 Jan 2022 Wed
DAY 8 AIDAN WENT BACK TO CAMP 8pm
2nd day ART Neg Result
breakfast -
instant thai kuey chap for aidan
leftover hor fun from hans for me
lunch -
chicken char siew, archar and rice
dinner - no pics
chang kee - total $40.50
$7 sambal sotong & rice
$5.50 mix veggie & rice
$5 mee goreng
$13 assam fish head
$10 har cheong gai
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27 Jan 2022
pork chop (pork collar)
next time i'll use shabu shabu or sukiyaki cut pork collar
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28 Jan to 2 Feb 2022
CNY Food - highlights
more CNY food pics here:
- leeks with scallops and prawns
- fried breaded prawns
- cabbage fish maw soup with meatballs, fishballs, sotongballs and abalone
- kiam chye soup with pork softbones
- meatball soup (meatballs from last cny!)
- fresh mushrooms
- ayam sioh
- ayam buah keluak
- ngo hiang
- roast pork belly
- sambal belachan
- to cook - smoked duck, scallops and more prawns
aidan made air fried broccoli
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4 Feb 2022 Fri
lunch - hainanese pork chop at hans
dinner - fried cod fish, omelette, overcooked cauliflower, fish maw soup, my own macaroni chilli
5 Feb 2022
breakfast
jannah made scrambled eggs!
so good!!
aidan cooked spam fries!
aidan also boiled and roasted potatoes
in the panasonic air fryer
(since jap gave us a bunch of potatoes from wholesale market)
so good!!
christen tried to roast another lot of potatoes
so good too!!
i cooked fried rice with spam, egg, onions, garlic, chilli and 3 french beans haha!!
yummm!!
below: Scrambled eggs and spam fries
below: aidan's roasted potatoes seasoned with
- salt,
- black pepper,
- smoked paprika,
- garlic powder,
- parmesan cheese powder
below: christen's roasted potatoes and carrots
thai basil minced pork with fried egg and rice
from next door...
basil pork $10 (share with jannah)
rice x2 x 70 cents each
fried egg x2 x 70 cents each
7 Feb 2022
home cooked lunch
- black sauce chicken with tau kuah and mushrooms- chinese spinach (puay leng) with wolfberries
Chicken Stew
stews in black sauce usually never look good but the dish is so aromatic!!
ingredients used
- garlic & onion
- chicken wings and leg meat
- mushrooms - i used canned button & straw mushrooms
- tau kuah - sprinkle with salt & fried till light golden brown
seasoning
- chicken rice black sauce
- chicken rice ginger paste
- shaoxing chinese wine
- sesame oil
- salt & white pepper to taste
heated the stew with rice
in the microwave (or steam them)
oishii!!
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7 Feb 2022
CNY Day 7 -
Jannah's Tiger Yu Sheng!!
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13 Feb 2022
Green Elmo Yusheng for dinner!
usually in a yusheng set, they provide these ingredients (sometimes varies)
- Preserved Melon Strip,
- Preserved Mixed Melon Strip,
- Preserved China Melon Strip,
- Red Sweet Ginger Strip,
- White Sour Ginger Strip,
- Preserved Yellow Strip,
- Preserved Winter Melon Strip,
- Sweeten Lime Strip,
- Yu-Sheng Sauce,
- Crispy Cracker,
- Peanut & Sesame Seed,
- Soya Bean Oil,
- Cinnamon Powder,
- Pepper Powder.
below: some ingredients jamie prepared...
- jellyfish
- pomelo
- lime juice
- fresh coriander
what i really really liked about the yusheng pickles this year is the candied oranges that they usually use for cakes and biscuits, especially the fruit cake.
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10 Feb 2022 Thu
Lunch - broccoli with dumpling (all boiled in the soup)
& leftover chicken stew & macaroni soup
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11 Feb 2022 Fri
Sukiyaki at home
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9 Feb 2022 Wed
& 12 Feb 2022 Sat
Pics - Beef Gyudon & Beef Yakiniku at Sukiya Suntec
No PIcs - Chicken Yakiniku at Sukiya Novena
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14 Feb 2022 Mon
CNY Day14 Dinner
Sukiyaki & home-cooked Roast Chicken at Home
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15 Feb 2022 Tues
Breakfast
so finally i took pics of the chee cheong fan breakfast at telok blangah crescent market.
chee cheong fan - small $1.20
egg 60 cents
fishcake 60 cents
breakfast cheong fan - $2.40 (1 roll + egg + fish cake)
ginger tea $1.20
dinner - no pics
grilled otah,
soya sauce chicken from chinatown,
cabbage, carrot, onions & potato soup with ikan bilis stock,
french beans with carrots, eggs and egg tofu
below: this is the stall selling the chee cheong fan
small cheong fan $1.20 (1 roll)
big $1.80 (2 rolls)
fried egg 60 cents
fish cake 60 cents
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16 Feb 2022 Wed
Jannah's School Lunch - looks good!
Shoyu Kazan Ramen in a Hot Stone Pot
small $15
big $19
we ordered. a small and shared
24 Feb 2022 Thu
Morning - Aidan made pancakes with blueberry/strawberry sauce!!
Lunch - fishball soup and rice, leftover sio bak roast pork belly and char siew
Dinner - ko ko gave us chicken stew with fish maw & tau pok
also cooked the leftover roast meat in "lou" 卤肉汁, shaoxing wine and sesame oil (no pics)
recipe - fishball soup teochew style
- raw fishballs
- tung chye 冬菜
- fried onions and fried garlic
- salt & white pepper to taste
other ingredients
- tung hoon
- silken tofu
- teochew meatballs
soup base (optional)
- grounded ikan bilis - powder or cube
- chicken / pork bone soup base
- minced pork or chicken
24 Feb 2022 thu
aidan made pancakes with berry sauce
Aidan made roast chicken with rosemary/thyme and stir fried broccoli for lunch
jannah made chicken wings and cooked rice
27 Feb 2022
breakfast
- jannah made cheese omelette and bacon, cut some cucumbers,
- i steamed some frozen crystal jade siew mai
lunch
- jannah made fried rice with leftover bacon and eggs
- eggs cooked with french beans
made fried rice since too lazy to cook rice and too little leftover rice
- heated up chicken wings made by jannah on sat
- grilled smoked duck
- steamed the otah
- pickled the leftover cucumbers and used japanese soy and sesame dressing
dinner
after jannah and i cut our hair, went to boon keng to get dinner
- boon tong kee chicken rice
(whole chicken $30, fried tofu $9, 3 rice @$1.20 each)
- $10 char siew and sio bak mix from boon keng market/coffeeshop
- $5 kung bao chicken
28 Feb 2022 Mon
chai peng from serangoon gardens
- pig skin withh mushrooms (nice!), broccoli and egg tofu
bought some garlic and red shallots from telok blangah cres wet market
3 March 2022 Thu
aidan helped me cook dinner
- stir fry baby kailan, eggs with mushrooms, fried rice
jamie cooked chicken in leftover curry gravy
i cooked soup - chicken feet, salt and pepper
bought fried broccoli from the chai peng stall at amk 628
4 March 2022 Fri
aidan cooked dinner since my fingers are still badly hurt.
- fried salmon with salt and pepper
- pasta shells
- bolognese sauce with minced beef
- brussel sprouts
5 March 2022 Sat
Lunch/Dinner
peanut soup with red dates & wolf berries
ntuc frozen satay - grilled
japanese cucumber salad (no pics)
jannah cooked fried broccoli, boiled sweet peas & carrots (no pics)
6 March 2022 Sun
Lunch
stuff'd - smoked salmon salad $8.20
roast chicken from seletar mall "my kampung"
boiled chicken from 628 coffeeshop 925 yishun chicken rice
Dinner - no pics
tabao from Upper Thomson zhichar (lor 9 beef kuay teow)
- since jamie is leaving on mon 7mar2022
8 Mar 2022 Tues
cooked for dinner
- chicken thighs - grill
- leftover roast chicken fry with garlic chilli and black sauce
- eggs with french beans
- leftover chicken rice with soya sauce
10 March 2022
Buying and cooking fish from NTUC amk
waited for the staff to display and clean my fishes.
was there from 7.30am to 9am
bought
1. batang x2 - @$10.50/kg - UP $16.50/kg
2. greasy grouper x2 - @$9.90/kg -
3. white snapper x1 - @$9.50/kg
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batang1 - 1.868kg - $19.61
batang2 - 1.932kg - $20.29
greasy grouper x2 - 0.751kg - $7.43
white snapper - 0.754kg - $7.16
10 March 2022 Thu
fried the fish bones and heads with salt, white pepper and cornflour
10 March 2022
dinner
made a tau cheo gravy for the fish and grilled it in the gravy. yum!!
stir fried thin french beans and bean sprouts with garlic and hae bi
dinner
string french beans and bean sprouts stir fried with garlic and dried prawns (hae bi)
11 March 2022 Fri
batang fish dinner for jannah (seafood fridays for lent season)
batang fish fried with salt, pepper and cornflour, cooked with sukiyaki gravy
also cooked tomato egg drop soup with ikan bilis stock cube,
roast chicken thighs & roast red chat potatoes (no pics for soup and roasts)
i know the fish dish isn't picture-perfect or pretty
but it was cooked to perfection and texture was so good!!
13 March 2022 Sun
for breakfast, aidan cooked minced pork ball porridge from scratch.
very very yummy!!
13 March 2022 Sunday
Sunday Lunch
- Bratwurst sausages made in germany x5pcs,
- back bacon,
- roast potatoes, tomatoes,
- boiled brussel sprouts, carrots with butter
- fried eggs sunny side up
Sunday Dinner
- roasted half a chicken with roast potatoes and carrots
- bratwurst sausages x5pcs
- broccoli and cabbage
14 Mar 2022 Monday
tau kuah
fried in soya sauce gravy, black fungus, broccoli and eggs.
since my fingers are painful, i buy chopped garlic from the supermarket
of course, fresh chopped garlic is still way better!!
15 March 2022 Tues
lunch - jannah cooked veggies and roasted chicken
dinner - fried fish (burnt them a little), oxtail soup, fried veggies with tau guah (no pics)
ate rojak and claypot chicken rice at old airport road hawker centre
the rice was... burnt and hard Lol
that's the way. alot of people like their claypot rice!
BUT NOT FOR ME :(
17 March 2022 Thu
stay home cook rice hahaha!! (ryanhiggaa)
added lap cheong when cooking rice!
18 March 2022 Fri
Lunch - french beans with hae bi and oxtail soup. yum!!
breakfast - fried leftover chee cheong fan with bean sprouts, lap cheong and 2 eggs. so good Lol
19 March 2022 Sat
clean and cleared part of the kitchen afterwards.also cleared the storeroom, outside shoe cabinet and the living room mask area...
and then played with hawkeye - she bit my finger with her pointed beak :((((
19 March 2022 Sat
Dinner - heated up the oxtail, rice and veggies
20 March 2022 Sun
Lunch - went to heavenly wangs
Dinner - fried grouper and batang fish
with tom yum gravy, stir fried cabbage
and lotus root peanut pork rib soup
21 March 2022 Mon
christen's lunch
- salted egg pork ribs with rice
dinner
- lady's fingers & chicken drumstick
- leftover tom yum soup & peanut, lotus root soup
22 March 2022 Tues
lunch
- minced chicken with 2 fried eggs,
- baby kailan,
- salted fish bean sprouts
23 March 2022 Wed
finally cooked my brinjal and chicken
with chilli, black vinegar and sugar
forgot to take a pic of my dish :(
i wasn't hungry and keen to eat dinner but this dish opens the appetite!
brinjal, chicken recipe: (same as mapo tofu)
1. fry chicken and brinjal till golden brown. set aside
2. fry chopped onions, ginger, garlic, fresh red/green chillis
3. add doubanjiang and lau gan ma crispy garlic chilli sauce
4. add salty sauces & seasoning
- oyster sauce,
- fish sauce,
- light & dark soya sauce,
- black vinegar
- sugar
- shaoxing wine
- sesame oil
- water
5. add chicken and brinjals into sauce & cook 5-10min
6. thicken sauce with slurry
7. turn off heat and add
- shaoxing wine, sesame oil,
- chopped fresh coriander and spring onions,
serve the dish hot with hot jasmine rice!!
24 March 2022
finally cooked the mani chye...
leaves are old and fibrous :/
26 March 2022 Sat
dropped jannah at the ice cream museum
so went to Samy's to get fish head curry & masala chicken.
26 March 2022
dinner
leftover fish head curry,
cooked chicken curry using curry gravy from samy's, (no pics)
cooked roast teriyaki chicken (no pics) & tomato soup with 2 eggs
27 March 2022 Sun
our sunday lunch
sambal chilli with string beans
plain omelette
leftover chicken curry, teriyaki chicken & tomato soup
Recipe - String Beans
- string beans x2 packets
- prima shrimp paste chilli rempah mix x1 pkt
- chopped garlic
- hae bi - soaked a bit to soften
1. fry chopped garlic & hae bi
2. at high heat, add the veggies and fry
3. add the rempah mix & some water to cook the beans
4 cook till the water evaporated and the paste thick
5. season with light soya or oyster sauce
6. serve hot with steamed rice
goes well with egg or omelette!
no pics for meals 27-30 March.
i think it's because we ate the leftover fish and chicken curry for many days!
dinner
- ko ko cooked lo gai yit (stew with red beancurd)
- i had to cook up the fish
- a big packet of string beans with dried prawns, garlic, oyster sauce
1 April 2022
used the rice cooker to cook rice,
steam the sweet peas and minced pork.
2 April 2022 Sat
Dinner
- salted fish with bean sprouts tau gey,
- boiled chicken
- and leftover fish & minced pork
3 April 2022 Sunday
HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY JANNAH!we had lunch together at home :)
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Sunday Dinner
for the birthday girl
Ee fu noodles with straw mushrooms,
spring onions and beansprouts
Sunday Lunch
1. Bratwurst +Bockwurst Sausages, NTUC $14 for 2 packs (UP $18)
2. sushi
- unagi & avocado NTUC finest $8.80,
- cucumber NTUC finest $3.30
- purple cucumber pickles NTUC finest $3 (UP $3.50)
- california sushi Umisushi $6.50 x2
3. eggs x7
sunny side up, 1 cooked yolk for aidan
4. veggies
- romaine & iceberg lettuce,
- cucumber ($2/bag at wet market),
- tomatoes x7 ($1 at wet market)
- 3 medium red onions - fried
- button mushrooms with garlic and butter, 500g
($2.50 per 250g x2 packets, wet market)
5. cake - $55 chateraise strawberry cream cake
6. cooked rice 2.5 cups + leftover rice with salted fish
- enjoyed by christen, jannah and me
wefies below!
er... christen added a filter -
it made the veggies look ash grey
and our faces blurry
below: pics before cropping them
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4 April 2022 Monday
Brunch
leftover rice, sausages (Bockwurst), fried egg and miso soup for brunch
4 April 2022 Mon
dinner
roasted a chicken with salt, pepper, garlic powder and oil
6 April 2022
dinner - thai food tabao
tung hoon prawn,
mango salad,
tom yum fried rice
7 Apr 2022 Thu
lunch and dinner
9 April 2022
Sat lunch - teochew porridge
Sunday brunch - spam & egg!!
added tomatoes and carrots when cooking rice.
also had some fried capsicums that i cooked yesterday...
14 Apr 2022
dinner at home - fried fish, sio bek chye (xiao bai chai)
15 April 2022
it's good friday, so fish & seafood for the kids
Our Breakfast
- fried rice with 3 eggs and taugeh / bean sprouts
Our Lunch
- cucumber, prawns & eggs in ikan bilis stock - no pic :(
- minced chicken for daddy
- pan fried brinjals with salt
(since aidan wasn't eating - he hates brinjals!)
- ready made tempura fish
15 April 2022
Good Friday Dinner (Seafood)
- scallops
- fried cod fish
- sambal string beans with dried prawns
- brussel sprouts
16 Apr 2022
Sat Breakfast - aidan air fried spam Lol
Sat Lunch
- Roast Chicken with Lemon & Paprika
- Roast Chicken with Lemon & Paprika
- Roast tomatoes
- Air fried broccoli with garlic powder, salt and black pepper
- garden salad - iceberg lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, shallots
tonight's dinner - we'll be celebrating Aidan's birthday!
- BBQ stingray, baby squid, sambal kang kong, 3 rice $43
- carrot cake $4
- chicken satay x20 sticks + 1 ketupat $18
- mee sua from xinghua restaurant, seletar mall, Medium $14
- chateraise strawberry cake $55
- chateraise cream puff $2 x5
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NEW PHONE CAMERA!!
i bought a new iphone SE (3rd Gen) on 4 April
so some photos from now will look incredibly more improved!!
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18 April 2022
since i was at chinatown at around 11am
(daddy went to the family clinic for blood test)
bought some braised pig's trotters ($13) from People's Park
shop name is 哈尔滨红肠 - 骨里香熟食
literally means Harbin red sausage - bone in fragrant cooked food
what i didn't know was that the pig's trotter has a smokey flavour!
wow.
and the meat is so moist, succulent.
no gravy or chilli sauce.
plus the stall helps you cut it into bite sized pieces
for dinner, heated it up in the turbo oven
for about 20min, 100-125 degrees
meat was still tender and moist.
amazing!
23 Aprl 2022
Sat Made Nasi Briyani using Shan Bombay Spice Mix
love the smell of fresh coriander and fresh mint ...
23 April Sat dinner
pan fried some brinjals/eggplant in a non stick pan
with a little olive oil,
sprinkled with salt.
tastes so good!!
24 April 2022
trying out pan fried cauliflower - using batter
batter for crispy coating
- plain flour
- cornflour
- baking powder
- water
- oil
- seasoning
salt, white/black pepper, paprika, garlic powder (with parsley), soya sauce
pan fried with little oil not suitable for these bulky odd shaped cauliflower. perhaps to pan fry and then grill will be better for even coating. kids love this, so it might be nice to have veggie pancakes as well with this type of batter.
27 April 2022 Wed
lunch - went to upper thomson for zhi char
just felt like having some well-fried veggies!!
dinner (no pics)
- fresh saba fillet fish from market $4 (cooked 1/2)
- fried cauliflower
- chicken wings
- chicken drumsticks with ginger, onions and garlic
- steamed rice with fresh tomatoes
sah poh fan
i think i cooked this on thu 28 apr 2022
this pic is taken 29 apr fri - leftovers for lunch after work.
1 May 2022 Sunday
Aidan and Christie made korean army stew for dinner
2 May 2022
tried making fried mee siam using ready made chilli paste (prima mix)
the dish looks good,
cooking method was spot on,
got my basic ingredients sorted -
except maybe too much assam and the wrong type of tau cheo
so epic fail for taste 😡
3 May 2022
cooked ayam lemak chilipadi from scratch!!!
Recipe - Ayam Lemak Chilipadi
Rempah (spice mix) - pound or blend
(i pounded in this order...)
- shallots - 6-7
- garlic x3-4
(set aside pounded shallots & garlic)
- red/green chilipadi or large chillis
(set aside pounded fresh chillis)
- fresh turmeric - 1 inch
- ginger - 1 inch
(set aside both gingers)
Ingredients
- chicken - seasoned with turmeric powder and salt
- optional - potatoes & tomatoes
- serai or lemongrass x4, smashed to release fragrance
- limau purut leaves / kaffir lime leaves x8-10
- daun kunyit x1 - remove stems
(also called turmeric leaves)
- lime juice - 3-4 limes
(or asam keping/asam gelugur 2-3 pcs)
- coconut milk (i used packet type)
- salt and sugar to taste
- cut fresh red chillis for garnish
method:
1. pound/prepare & fry rempah till fragrant and oil separates
2. add coconut milk and the other ingredients
3. add chicken and cook. if needed, add water to cook chicken.
4. add salt and sugar to taste
5. serve hot with steamed jasmine rice
for pounding, i pounded in this order...
- shallots x6-8
- garlic x3-4
- red & green chillipadi - adjust accordingly
- fresh kunyit - 1 inch
- ginger - 1 inch
1. fry rempah
2. add coconut milk
3. add
- daun kunyit
- limau purut
- serai (lemongrass)
- asam keping or lime juice
4. add chicken (season chicken with turmeric powder & salt)
5. cook chicken - add water if needed
6. add salt & sugar to taste
7. add tomatoes and boiled potatoes
8. garnish with fresh cut chillis
serve hot with steamed jasmine rice
below: pounding the rempah - in this order
1. shallots
2. garlic
3. combine shallots and garlic - set aside
4. red & green chillis and/or chillipadi
5. combine shallots, garlic, chillis - set aside
6. fresh turmuric and ginger - pound & set aside
in my photos, i added more shallots
when i realised that i did not have enough shallots
we do the agak agak method
(estimate the quantity of herbs & spices)
frying the rempah takes a lot of patience.
we need to know when the rempah is cooked enough to move to the next step of cooking.
after frying the rempah, i added the thick coconut milk - this is following a thai method of cooking - the thais say that the coconut milk will have natural oils to flavour the rempah over heat and this technique will add a new dimension to flavours during the cooking process.
enjoy!
4 May 2022 Wed
added half a chicken in the gravy
and boiled the lemak for at least 30min - 45min...
became thick and creamy!!
5 May 2022 Thu
2 days later, the lemak tastes much much better!!
creamier, more fragrant and too delicious!!
it's defo a party dish LOL
omg so good!!
video below is most recently edited.
so this has elements i like.
4 May 2022
breakfast - mee sua soup at telok blangah rise market
lunch and dinner - food from mama woodlands
- chicken curry,
- rendang,
- sambal goreng,
- archar
6 May 2022 Fri
since i have no more classes and aidan needs to work around 12-1pm, fried some bee hoon - even separated the fried egg and veggies so we can have them with rice if we want to. a very good meal!!
8 May 2022 Sun
craving for veggies so cooked mostly veggies today
- round cabbage with tung hoon, carrots and tomatoes
- cooked/combined leftover string beans with tau guah in gravy
- bittergourd with 2 eggs (next time use 3-4 eggs!!)
other leftovers
- garlic chicken stew
(accidentally used the tiam cheo sweet sauce for soon kueh and popiah)
- macaroni soup with carrots, tomatoes, enoki, straw and button mushrooms
- (cold) boiled chicken
10 May 2022
dinner - ate thai food at amk with aidan and jannah -
garlic pork,
mango salad
clear tom yum soup & thai tea (no pics)
aidan said it was a bit ex but food was good.
total bill was about $42
12 & 13 May 2022 Thu & Fri
thu went to waterway's don don donki to get some fried toufu and frozen ready-to-cook katsu (pork in breadcrumbs). both toufu and pork were so yummy!
14 May 2022 Sat
simple meal
- steamed minced pork,
- abc soup,
- bacon and eggs,
- veggies (garlic stem)
lunch - sausages and eggs, roast tomatoes, potatoes and carrots
(had to cook something fast and easy)
dinner- tabao from northstar Rong Ji zhi char (from seletar market since 1980's)
16 May 2022 Mon
dinner - cooked sweet & sour pork
Recipe - Sweet & Sour Pork
1. Pork cubes
- season with salt, soya sauce, pepper, cornflour
2. flour mix (dry)
- plain flour,
- cornflour,
- baking powder,
- salt & pepper
3. egg mix
- 2 eggs,
- flour mix 1 tbsp,
- water 1tbsp
4. coat seasoned pork with flour mix
5. then coat with egg mix
6. coat with flour mix again
7. shallow fry or deep fry - low to medium heat
8. crisp in oven
9. cook sweet & sour gravy
optional - fry sliced onions before adding gravy
optional - add capsicums, pineapple, canned lychees
sweet & sour gravy (agak agak)
- tomato ketchup x4-5 tbsp
- chilli sauce x3 tbsp
- sugar x2 tbsp
- rice vinegar x2-3 tbsp
- sesame oil 2-3 tbsp
- cornflour & water - slurry to thicken sauce
- light soya and salt to taste
10. serve hot
option 1 - stir fry & serve pork in gravy with fruits & veggies together
option 2 - serve crispy pork and gravy separately
i serve the gravy and pork separately so we can add the amount of gravy we want on our crispy pork! most people will fry the crispy pork in the gravy and serve the pork hot and coated with gravy.
18 May 2022 Wed
fried chicken breast meat with panko breadcrumbs
aidan and christen liked it
also had steamed toufu,
fried french beans with 3 eggs
(oops, no pics :/)
christen's plate is usually very messy!
pork hock - just boiled them and cooked the boiled boney pieces in the slow cooker with the bak kut teh white pepper spice pouch & garlic. so good!!
also made chicken porridge for Christie (no pics)
Lunch - roast meat at boon keng
can't believe the small portion of meat for $20 :/
roast pork belly, char siew & roast duck
Dinner - cooked 3 types of veggies, 2 dishes...
- bittergourd with eggs (used 3 eggs!)
- garlic flower stem, french beans & diced chicken
Lunch - waterway
Dinner - eating mostly leftovers. -
bittergourd, french beans, soup, sausages, szechuan veggies,...
except for fried eggs x3,
salmon and toufu pieces from don don donki
below: pan fried brinjals, before i made the gravy and stewed them in the gravy.
25 May Wed (no pics)
breakfast - soya bean and yu char kueh, chwee kueh
lunch - chicken rice - 1/2 chicken
dinner - saba fish and rice
26 May Thu (no pics)
- lunch - Serangoon Gardens Market - zhu zha tang
- dinner - popiah/pizza from kovan, fish maw, fishball soup with rice
27 May 2022 Fri
i have a lot of food in the fridge!
what i have in my fridge
- fishballs & fish maw soup
- sek mee and tau geh (wanted to make mee goreng)
- tau guah
- eggs (not much)
- to cook - sausages x2 packets
- leftover - chicken rice
- leftover - pizza and roast chicken from cold storage
- raw food - chicken drumsticks for curry
- raw food - sweet & sour pork cubes
- raw food - sliced pork for stir fry
- raw food - saba fish
- veggies - brinjals, lady's finger, tomatoes
- veggies - archar from 628 market
- veggies - cucumber
- veggies - baby kailan
27 May 2022 Fri
Lunch - Mee Goreng!!
Dinner - Saba fish, 1 fillet, Brinjals (the curved brinjal and one okra/lady's finger are from the garden where jannah painted the wall for community service). also had fish maw soup with rice
28 May 2022 Sat
either i have the mood to cook or i have no choice but to cook today because i have some raw food i the fridge.... (pork cubes 500g, pork fillet slices 300g and chicken drumsticks x12 pieces, 800g)
for lunch cooked
- chicken curry
- pork with fermented red bean curd (super fragrant!!)
- veggie - baby kai lan
- tau guah 2 ways - one lot plain, one lot with sambal and black sauce
i bought the pork fillet (sliced) from ntuc online. too bad they took it off the list afterwards :(((
Recipe - pork with fermented red bean curd
1. mix the following to season pork
- fermented red beancurd x2 pieces
- shaoxing wine x3 tbsp
- sesame oil x1 tbsp
- sugar x1/2 tsp
- optional - minced garlic, oyster sauce
2. coat pork with cornstarch
3. mix plain flour, corn starch and baking powder together
4. coat seasoned pork with flour mix and fry till crispy
5. serve hot with steamed jasmine rice
Recipe: tau guah with sambal
(Tau hu Goreng Indonesian style)
1. fry tau guah till golden brown (add salt to taste)
2. fry onions, garlic, lemongrass/serai, chillis till fragrant
3. add tau guah and fry
4. add sambal sauce mix and limau purut leaves
(what i would use for frying mee goreng!)
- nasi lemak chilli,
- tomato ketchup
- chilli sauce
- dark/black sauce
5. add french beans or long beans or tempeh
6. fry together till veggie is almost cooked
7. serve hot and eat with steamed jasmine rice!!
ref video - pork with fermented red bean curd
https://youtu.be/uwmYKxc6dvk
29 May 2022 Sun
Lunch - chicken stew with canned mushrooms and baby corn
well, christen left the curry outside overnight and we had to throw it out. good thing i had 4 drumsticks stashed away instead of adding them in the curry.
also stir fried tau geh / bean sprouts with salt and fresh garlic
29 May 2022 Sun
dinner
Boon tong kee chicken rice!
eat quickly before the ban of fresh chicken imports from malaysia (ban kicking in 1 jun 2022)
1 whole chicken $28
the takeaway container is so cute!!
Boon tong kee amk
1 chicken $28
fried toufu $9
sweet and sour pork $14 (very nice!)
spinach with 3 eggs $13
chicken rice x6 @$1.30 = $7.80
total $77 (gst $5 uggh)
30 May 2022 Mon
Dinner - sweet and sour pork cubes seasoned with fermented red beancurd - too bad not enough flour so the pork wasn't so crispy when fried and then oven toasted.
this time it tastes like char siew, har cheong chicken or fried pork LOL
chee cheong fan for breakfast and lunch
thai food from "next door" for dinner
tom yum fried rice $8
basil minced pork $10
mango salad $8
$26
cooked baby spinach!
1 June 2022 Wed
Dinner steamed minced pork and
cooked Sambal Goreng with leftover stuff Lol
Recipe
My ANYHOW COOK Sambal Goreng!
- fried tau kuah (leftover)
- tempeh - cut and fried them
- french beans
- galangal (blue ginger) x4 slices
- ginger x4 slices
- limau purut leaves
- hae bi chilli sambal & chye poh
from the chwee kueh stall in 628 market (leftover)
- lime slices - squeezed the juice (leftover)
2 June 2022 Thu
3 June 2022 Fri
8 June 2022 wed
below: my fav fish stew as a kid!!
https://youtu.be/aV1jkkGwqgE
chopped garlic, onions, cut red chillis
would be nice but i didn't have them,
too lazy to cut
how to cook
1. fry the aromatics - garlic, ginger, onions, galangal, cut chillis
2. add the french beans or long beans and fry
3. add the fried tau kuah and fried tempeh
4. add the sambal and chye poh, stir fry.
5. add the limau purut leaves and fry together
6. add water if needed
7. season with salt, oyster sauce and lime juice (little)
7. stur fry till all comes together
8 serve hot, garnish with fried onions and fresh coriander
i'm so pleased with my anyhow cook sambal goreng!!!
had leftover baby corn and straw mushrooms (from the can)
so fried them with minced pork and mushroom/oyster sauce
yum!!
- leftover food
- fried tau gueh and unagi for dinner
lunch - chicken porridge - no pics :(
My Chicken Porridge
1. boil in a pot....
- 1/2- 1 cup washed rice for 3-4 of us
- ginger - about 1 inch
- chicken stock - used packet ones x1
- water - 2 bowls
- carrots x1
2. while porridge is cooking,
season sliced chicken breast with
- salt and water (brine)
- pepper
- light soya sauce
- shaoxing wine
- cornflour
- sesame oil
- fried garlic and a bit of fried garlic oil
- optional. -ginger x2-3 thin slices
leave seasoned chicken to rest for 10-30min
before cooking/boiling
3. after rice is quite soft in the broth, add...
- chicken breast meat - seasoned
- fried onions and fried garlic
4. optional - eggs, veggies
5. season porridge and serve hot with
- spring onions from the garden
(planted them when my onions started sprouting!)
- salt & white pepper to taste
- sesame oil
tastes to good!
3 June fri
dinner
- fried eggs (used 5 eggs)
and soup with seasoned minced pork
(added water and mixed the meat in it)
and seasoned chicken breast
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i can hardly remember what we ate the last few days Lol
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sat 4 jun (no pics)
lunch
dumplings, cabbage in miso soup with udon
for jannah and me
dinner
boiled chicken drumsticks, topped with oyster sauce gravy
and string beans
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sun 5 jun (no pics)
lunch
briyani and hor fan from casuarina
jannah has sore throat so hor fan was kinda soupy and nice
dinner
daddy ate rice with claypot tauhu (bought during lunch time at casuarina)
jannah and i ate briyani with masala chicken
and papaya pickles from casuarina
christen came back at 6 plus (from bali trip) and tested positive for covid. ugggh
so went seletar mall to buy food for him - tabao mee suah soup & nine fresh jelly for Christen
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mon 6 jun (no pics)
breakfast -
tiong bahru coffeeshop near the clinic where daddy picked up his hearing aid for the first time (i didn't eat anything). telok blangah market was closed so we went to 628 for lunch
lunch - 628 market
- chye peng from 628 coffeeshop
- pork porridge for christen
- fish soup from the coffeeshop for me (pics below)
dinner - chang kee
- mixed veggie rice for jannah (flu) and christen (covid)
- pork ribs with bittergourd for daddy amd me
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tues 7 jun (no pics)
lunch
people's park was closed
so bought 1 packet chye peng from amk 628 coffeeshop
$8.10 for 3 of us
fried fish, pork chops, string beans, mui chye,
szechuan chye with sliced pork, curry gravy
the packet was bursting and the portion was just right for the 3 of us
watercress soup and pumpkin rice for christen (covid)
dinner
- el carbon - the grilled chicken is still so good!
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wed 8 june
lunch
- fried chicken drumstick meat with string beans and oyster sauce
- fried pork cubes with fermented red beancurd and cabbage
- steamed egg
below: Christen's packed lunch
(covid prisoner haha!!)
dinner -
same food + made more steamed egg
+ a black bean and peanut soup
poor christen had his food packed...
and it didn't look that great :(
SOUP (no pic)
black bean + peanut + 2 red dates
slow cooked with pan fried chicken bones
in pork stock (packet)
& seasoned with a bit of salt, fried garlic
9 June 2022 thu
breakfast -
fresh noodles in soup (see pics below) and
dry version with last night's chicken/string bean oyster sauce gravy (no pics)
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below - choc for a snack - love this!
$8/box at Royce
9 June 2022 Thu
jamie bought some chicken thighs so...
dinner
- roast chicken thigh with salt, pepper, smoked paprika, garlic powder
- german bratwurst, bockwurst sausages, fried eggs x5
- simple salad and baked beans
christen's packed dinner below:
(he's still positive)
11 June 2022 Sat
tabao from sembawang/thomson's
mong kok dim sum zhi char shop
11 jun 2022 Sat
dinner
- batang fish
- sotong pancake
pancake batter -
left overnight in the fridge because i couldn't use it
- flour
- cornflour
- baking powder
- egg x1
- water
- salt & pepper to taste
13 June 2022 Sunday
lunch - chicken drumsticks (boneless) with lemon gravy, su chye (chinese cabbage teochew stew), ikan kurau, black bean/peanut soup
dinner - minced chicken, cucumber in cabbage stew, fried eggs
Christen is still positive (today is 7th day), so he's still stuck in his room! LOL
below: christen's packed meal
13 June 2022 Mon
lunch - daddy bought noodle soup from waterway
dinner - took me 2.5 hours to cook the ayam lemak (no chillipadi), fried eggs and 2 veg and heat 1 soup (black bean/peanut soup).
very yummy, i had seconds... and thirds 😅
14 June 2022 Tues
jannah cooked garlic butter fried rice with prawns and string beans for her picnic at botanic gardens. looks yummy! (but think a little too much butter for me)
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15 June 2022 Wed
(no pics)
tabao food - for lunch & dinner
lunch - ??
dinner - zhichar from sembawang/thomson
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16 June 2022 Thu
(no food pics)
- lunch - snack on dumpling
- dinner - teochew porridge buffet at crystal - very nice! (meet Bib for the 1st time)
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17 June 2022 Fri
after installing the plaque at the niche,
Lunch at Ikea
lamb shank with rendang sauce $16
12 beef meatballs $8.50
6 chicken wings $8.50
salmon with lemon sauce $10.50 x2
lava choc cake $2.50
coffee $0.50 x3
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18 June 2022 Sat
lunch - kenny rogers with jac and jannah
dinner - sliced pork with string beans - no pics :((
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19 June 2022 Sun
roasted pork for lunch
Recipe - Roast Pork
1kg Pork Shoulder Butt / Pork Collar
i bought 500g pork x2 pcs
then season 2-3 days with
- salt, pepper, light soya sauce
- baking powder, cornflour
- shaoxing wine (to remove the smell)
- garlic powder
- smoked paprika
- dark soya sauce (for color)
- oil
- brown/white sugar - dilute sugar in warm water - 1/2 to season, 1/2 to glaze
- a little water
roast in turbo oven with some liquid
and tomatoes/potatoes etc,
150 degrees
30min each side
i made some boiled eggs just in case the pork was too tough - if too tough, i had to resort to braising the pork in tau yew (black/dark soya sauce). but today, the pork was tender!! (thanks to the baking powder)
20 June 2022 Mon
lunch - waterway - noodles soup with pig liver - nice!
dinner
cooked chicken breast fillet, fried eggs,
fishball bayam spinach soup
and french beans today for dinner.
below: chicken breast -
salt, white pepper,
cornflour
and fry in non-stick pan
below: bento lunch boxes at don don donki
21 June 2022 Tues
breakfast - chee cheong fun with fried egg and fish cake - too much gravy!! and she served me a large chee cheong fun instead of a small portion :/
lunch - geylang bahru hawker centre -
we had steamed fish with black fungus $6
steamed minced pork with mui choy $6.50
steamed chicken with codyceps $8
2 bowls of rice $1
total $21.50 - paid with CDC vouchers
dinner (no pics) - bought sesame oil chicken and pig trotters from geylang bahru. slow cooked old cucumber soup with pork ribs.
23 June 2022 Thu
morning - bought fresh fish at ntuc amk hub
fresh fish i bought
1. batang x1 fish - $23.19
2. white snapper x1 fish - $10.10 (1.02kg) @$9.90/kg
3. grey mullet x1 fish - $9.07
4. toman 1pc - $5.08
5. toman 1pc - $4.51
lunch - went to sg swimming club -
had chicken briyani, aloo gobi, masala eggplant
so yum!!
24 June 202 Fri
lunch
met joey for lunch at a HK shop in sin ming before going to Perter de luze's wake. joey also wanted cheong fun and carrot cake and hong kong style tea Lol
i had gnao lam with hk noodles $6.80
dinner - ate remainder food and soup from 628 coffeeshop (no pics)
25 June 2022 Sat
after some time, started cooking again...
fish head and bones from white snapper and batang,
fried with flour and grilled with tau cheo sauce
25 june 2022 Sat
dinner - chicken breast meat and some fish in batter
jannah and i had instant noodles Lol
26 June 2022 Sun
cooked laksa - without the noodles LOL
also cooked sambal goreng with rempah for sambal kang kong... hmmm
didn't get a chance to cook my leftover tau gueh/bean sprouts, koo chye/chives and kang kong though hahaha!!
laksa
my laksa pot uses prima taste's rempah - simply boil the rempah in coconut milk and water that i used to boil my potatoes in. then added some fresh ingredients... wanted to add more stuff but the pot is too full :(((
- fishballs
- tau kuah, tua pok
- boiled potatoes
- cabbage, tomatoes, carrots
- laksa leaves
sambal goreng
- tempeh. -fried
- tau kuah - fried
- long beans
- fried garlic
- prima's sambal belachan rempah paste
dinner
roast chicken, roast potatoes and whatever veggies i feel like having...
what's leftover after a rushed lunch...
dinner
roast chicken, roast potatoes
kang kong with hu ju - fermented beancurd
tau geh with chives/koo chye
27 June 2022 Mon
lunch - aidan cooked for me & Kristy - kimchi fried rice with an egg
dinner - assam fish (grey mullet) with green chilli, garlic and black sauce
below: leftover from daddy's lunch at changi beach club with ko ko and dio dio
Recipe - Assam fish (grey mullet)
- garlic x8 cloves
- green chilli x3 to x4
- assam paste
- black sauce
- salt to taste
types of fish for this stew
- Chi Kak her = ikan terubok (toli shad)
- Grey Mullet
- Saba
- Salmon
this dish is made for the ikan terubok fish. but since this fish is hard to find at the wet markets these days, we replace with grey mullet fish, saba or salmon. i think it's a nonya dish although i'm not sure how my grandma got the recipe (likely from her grandma or foster mum who was a nonya).
this was my fav fish stew as a kid!! my grandma and mum loved it too. and i used to drink up the gravy as if it were a soup Lol
Recipe - Assam fish
- grey mullet in this video
- garlic x8 cloves
- green chilli x3 to x4
- assam paste
- black sauce
- salt to taste
boil till garlic is soft and the gravy is a little thicker
the white pot is too small for my fish! arrrgh!!
28 June 2022 Tues
lunch - went to the hong kong food place at sin ming with daddy, christen, ko ko and dio dio. and we ate till super full! so didn't even have any appetite for dinner :(((
made jannah's dinner - corn beef, kimchi and nonya archar for a meal... yummmmm!!!
and added saba fish into my assam fish stew!! (no pics coz the fish is all black LOL)
29 June 2022 Wed
early morning... cooked beef -
golden coin and oxtail soup (cooked 1/2 of the bought oxtail portion)
wow!!
lunch -
since beef takes 4-5 hours of slow cooking, made other things for lunch.
lunch - fried minced beef with string beans, oyster sauce & garlic
- minced beef seasoned with salt, light soya, pepper, cornstarch & garlic oil
dinner -
saba fish with japanese soya noodle sauce & sake, garlic, spring onions (no pic), had this with the leftover assam fish sauce
bought beef at 628 market - more ex now :(
- oxtail $31 ($24/kg)
- golden coin $18 ($21/kg)
- minced beef $5
- tendon x1 pc - $5
total $59
Recipe - simple beef / oxtail soup
- beef - golden coin, tendon, oxtail
- red shallots x10
- garlic x1-2 cloves
- salt, light soya sauce
- white/black pepper
- tang gui x2 pieces
- shaoxing chinese wine
- rock sugar or raw/brown sugar
slow cook for 4-5 hours
below: removed the beef meat, oxtail and seasoned with
- light soya sauce,
- white pepper
- garlic crisps & garlic oil,
- a bit of sugar and
- shaoxing wine
30 June 2022 Thu
aidan didn't want to eat the golden coin beef piece i heated up so i ATE it! wow. and i had it with rice and drizzled some beef soup into my rice. the overnight beef soup is so thick and sticky... and i had removed the layer of oil (hardened oil after leaving the pot in the fridge overnight).
i added some chillipadi, lime juice, soya sauce mix to the beef, added leftover roast tomatoes, fresh coriander... and my meal is so appetizing! 很开胃!!
30 June 2022 Thu
dinner
ending the month of june with a very simple meal. i dare say, my veggie dish tastes like what they serve at the restaurant and zhichar stalls!! the smell of ginger and the cooking is lingering in the bedroom 1hr later!! woah....!!
i didn't bother to add other veggies that were in the fridge, was afraid we couldn't finish and too lazy to prep - i could have added other veggies, eg baby corn, straw/fresh mushrooms, sweet peas, leeks, fried yam, etc. adding fresh prawns, squid/cuttlefish, toufu, pork/chicken slices would be nice too....
Recipe - Veggie Stew
this stew usually includes fresh seafood
and flour-coated fried fish slices or fried fish head
- napa cabbage (used 1/2)
- mushrooms
- carrots
- ginger - approx 1 inch
- garlic - 4-5 cloves, chopped
- red chilli x1
- eggs
cooking
1. fry the ginger till fragrant
2. add garlic and salt, fry till fragrant (also added fried garlic)
3. add the hard stems/stalks of the napa cabbage and carrots
4. add oyster sauce, mushroom sauce, light soya, mountain sauce, white pepper
5. add shaoxing wine and sesame oil
6. add chicken or pork or fish/ikan bilis stock
7. add all the remaining veggies and red chilli
8. add eggs
9. add cornflour slurry and thicken gravy
10. switch off the fire, add shaoxing wine, sesame oil and serve hot
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