107. Christmas 2022 and New Year 2023 - With Recipes

Christmas 2022 and New Year 2023

With Recipes

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Recipes List

- potato salad

- minced chicken patties

- roast chicken with lemon

- ayam sioh - 1st attempt & 2nd attempt with extra ketumbar

- chicken soup (with 2 slices dang gui and red dates)

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22 Dec 2022 - Christen comes home sick

23 Dec 2022 - Christmas dinner at holland rd! and Potato Salad!

24 Dec 2022 - er?? anyhow cook but try to make simple, light dishes

25 Dec 2022 - simple christmas meals without the kids

26 Dec 2022 - chicken rice and chicken cutlet! but should have cooked :/

27 Dec 2022 - trying ayam sioh #1 - 1st time, chicken soup and rice, pan fried salmon

28 Dec 2022 - mapo tofu, adjust and test ayam sioh #2 with extra ketumbar

29 Dec 2022 - leftover soup, bittergourd and grilled lemon chicken

30 Dec 2022 - char siew sio bak, fish bites, otah

31 Dec 2022 - pork belly fried, string beans, tabao from casuarina

01 Jan 2023 - german sausages and malay food, dinner at casuarina (no pics)

when does christmas celebrations really start? Lol

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1 Jan 2023 Sun

Happy New Year!

lunch - 

german sausages with sunny side up eggs

malay food - cuttlefish sambal, sambal goreng, ayam lemak, brinjal

broccoli qing chao

dinner - no pics

casuarina with ko ko and dio dio, jannah and daddy

- har cheong gai $10, 8 pcs

- fish head pieces with bittergourd $30

- claypot tofu $10

- kang kong with fremented beancurd $10

- 4 rice

31 Dec 2022 Sat

lunch

- sliced pork belly (frozen) from the netherlands - 

boiled and then fried with salt and pepper and 5 spice

- string beans with black fungus

- omelette

dinner - no pics

- tabao from casuarina

- har cheong gai $10

- claypot tofu $10

- salted fish fried rice $7

below: while waiting for my tabao at casuarina - long wait but i dun mind

30 Dec 2022 Fri

lunch -

rice with char siew and sio bak from 628 market

leftover bittergourd and mapo tofu

dinner - 

otak and fish bites

leftover potatoes and chicken wings

cucumbers with soya sauce and sesame oil

29 Dec 2022 thu

- leftover soup, mapo tofu, chicken wings (clive's)

- bittergourd with 3 eggs

- grilled lemon chicken, roast baby potatoes

- kailan - disaster. it tastes bad coz it was old and overcooked.

28 Dec 2022 Wed

lunch - no pics, busy gardening etc

ma po tofu

minced chicken

leftover chicken soup

dinner - 

ayam sioh - part 2 - grilled chicken

leftover ma po tofu, chicken minced and roast chicken

bought a bottle of ketumbar from ntuc $1.30

dry roasted 3tbsp seeds in the pan,

pound and then add into the rempah

grilled chicken with ayam sioh rempah

below: minced chicken

27 Dec 2022 Tues

lunch - 

didn't want anything rich or heavy for lunch.

made a chicken soup - plain

and baby chye sim

also cooked ayam sioh - 1st try with new recipe

dinner - 

fried salmon x6 pcs for jannah, daddy and me

sweet peas with garlic

leftover lemon roast chicken

ayam sioh - added more ketumbar and some salt (to counter the sugar-sweetness)

Recipe - Baby Chye Sim

1. boil baby chye sim with salt and sugar. set aside

2. fry garlic. when fragrant, add salt, light soya sauce, water and chinese wine.

3. pour over baby chye sim

Recipe - Chicken Soup

1. clean and brine the whole chicken. remove brine and set aside.

2. fill slow cooker with water. add chicken, red dates, dang gui, salt, white pepper, light soya sauce

3. slow cook and serve hot with salt and white pepper dip

Recipe - Ayam Sioh

rempah

- onions x8 medium - chopped

- garlic x4 cloves - chopped

- roasted ketumbar x4-5 tbsp - ground to powder

- sugar x7-8 tbsp

- assam paste x1 tbsp

- tau cheo x1 tsp

- white pepper x2 tbsp

- coriander roots x4-5

1. fry onions and garlic till soft

2. add sugar and fry until sugar melts and turns brown

3. add tau cheo, assam paste, roasted ketumbar, white pepper, coriander roots

4. fry mixture (rempah) till fragrant and sticky

5. add chicken and fry

6. add water and stir till drier or until preferred dryness or thickened gravy

7. serve hot with steamed jasmine rice

below: pan fried salmon 

seasoned with salt, pepper, light soya sauce, mirin

below: my rice has some roast chicken gravy 

(whole chicken roasted with lemon) - so good!

26 Dec 2022 Mon

had stomach pain and diarhea so didn't go out.

lunch - no pics

tabao loy kee chicken rice 

from whampoa market - very nice!

half chicken $14

chicken rice x3 packets

bok choy $3

dinner - 

tabao western chicken cutlet

25 Dec 2022 Sun

Christmas Lunch

kids are out for the whole christmas day so it's just me and daddy.

it's salmon for lunch!

and cauliflower (and leftover boiled egg) boiled in leftover miso soup

heated up the rice with leftover roast chicken gravy... so so good!!

Christmas dinner with daddy, ko ko, diodio

went casuarina for zhi char and ordered: - 

- grouper fish head with bittergourd $30

- hot plate tofu with prawns $15

- har cheong gai 8pcs $10

- black hokkien noodles $10

- chrysanthamum tea $6 ($.150 each)

- papaya pickle $2

- plain rice x2 $2

total - $76 + gst $5+ = around $82

24 Dec 2022 Sat

Christmas Eve Dinner

- roast chicken with lemon and roasted garlic

- roast baby potatoes

- roast boiled broccoli, cauliflower and carrots

- pork and apple sausages from uk

- smoked chicken sausages 

- fried leftover ramen noodles

stuffed a boiled egg in my roast chicken!!

stuffed lemon wedges, roasted garlic and one boiled egg (leftover from potato salad) into my roast chicken LOL this hoiled egg was earlier boiled in miso soup and since nobody ate it on christmas eve, i boiled it in the miso soup on christmas day haha the egg is sooooo tasty!!!

Recipe - Roast Chicken with lemon

1. chicken 1kg

- soak in salted water for few hours

- throw brine 

- season with light soya sauce and white pepper

2. stuff chicken with

- lemon wedges,

- roasted garlic x2-3 tbsp

- one boiled egg (leftover from potato salad)

- salt and pepper

- lemon juice

sprinkle over the chicken

- lemon juice

- salt and pepper 

- roasted garlic

- optional - chilli flakes

3. roast the chicken with some water (make gravy), 

150 degrees, 30min each side

- can add boiled potatoes, veggies, sausages

- turn after 30min, cook another 30min

- rest the chicken and serve 

24 Dec 2022

lunch

- instant ramen with miso soup & veggies

- bibigo frozen korean pork and veg dumplings

used a miso mix with dashi

23 Dec 2022

morning - 

made potato salad

boiled veggies

lunch - 

minced chicken with black sauce

boiled veggies

dinner - 

went to lim tzur didi's house

poor christen is sick so he stayed home and ate minced chicken with rice and potato salad.

christmas dinner:

crab bisque

roast turkey (i helped to carve it)

roast beef

baked whole salmon

roast pork rib roll with stuffing

york pudding

tumeric rice with lemak kunyit sauce

auntie's fruit salad with prawns

our potato salad

dessert - cakes, kueh kueh

wine and chinese tea

potato salad!

Recipe - Potato Salad dressing mix

- roast garlic

- chopped fresh garlic

- japanese mayo

- whole grain mustard

- lemon juice

- salt and white/black pepper

- chinese parsley (keng chye)

- coriander (wang sui)

- spring onions

- chopped onions

- sprinkle of sugar

- chilli flakes

22 Dec 2022

christen was sick so he came home for lunch and dinner.

lunch - no pics

ramen instant noodles with miso soup and eggs

rice and chicken feet dim sum

dinner

minced chicken patties and stew

Recipe - Minced Chicken Patties

1. minced chicken 1kg

season and mix/stir together with

- salt, white pepper

- light soya sauce

- fish sauce

- fried shallots

- chopped/blended garlic - raw and/or roasted

- 1-2 eggs

- cornflour

- plain flour

- chopped string beans

- optional - chopped herbs, eg coriander, spring onions, chinese celery

- optional - chopped chili

2. shape into patties and pan fry till brown and hopefully crispy

3. serve hot!

below: Stewed patties with 

onion, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and stock/water,

salt and pepper to taste, dark soya sauce for colour

optional - worchestershire sauce or HP sauce, 

tomato ketchup, tobasco sauce