109. CNY 2023 - YEAR OF THE RABBIT
CHINESE NEW YEAR 2023
Year of the Rabbit
Year of the Rabbit
so.
what do i cook this year?
what do i cook this year?
it has to be from scratch.
surprise, surprise, i will be cooking ayam sioh
and this is my least favourite dish :(
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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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2023 cny menu - all made from scratch
CNY MENU 2023
Soups
- bakwan kepiting
- cabbage fishball, fish maw soup
(didn't make kiam chye duck and pig stomach pepper soup)
Stews
- ayam sioh
- buah keluak with pork ribs and chicken
- braised mushrooms with fish maw, sea cucumber, chicken feet
Vegetables and Salad
- yu sheng
- leeks with prawns
- broccoli, carrots, shanghai greens
- french beans with eggs
Others
- sambal belacan
- roast chicken for aidan
- porridge with braised peanuts, pickled lettuce
- yam cake with chye poh, eggs
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from my hazy memory...
in the 1970's, 1980's, early 1990's...
we would eat the same dishes for about 3-4 days
since almost all shops, markets, restaurants
would be closed for about a whole week!
list of usual reunion dinner dishes mama used to cook by herself.
main - buah keluak - incl stuffed meatballs into the black nut
main - ayam sioh
must have - chinese leeks with prawns
soup 1 - kiam chye duck
soup 2 - bakwan kepeting
soup 3 - chinese cabbage soup with fishballs, sea cucumber, fish dumplings, fish maw
soup 4 - pig's stomach soup
soups, curries and stews would be boiled and covered in the pot before the kitchen is closed for the night and boiled again first thing in the morning when we wake up. (boiling = u must see the water boil vigorously for about 5-10min before switching off the fire and closing the lid - you can't open the lid after that until morning when you would reboil the pot of food again.)
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mummy and alow would cook
cny day 1
yu sheng salad
mango salad
prawn rolls - hae zhor
buah keluak
bakwan kepeting with flower crabs
cabbage fish ball, fish maw soup
leeks with prawns
sambal belacan
udang assam pedas nanas for gu gu
cny day 2 - popiah
arh / cooked veg filling
- bamboo shoots
- turnips
spreads
- garlic paste
- fresh chilli paste
- sweet black sauce - diam cheo
- roasted peanuts, coarsely pounded
- kueh pie tee chilli (macaroni chilli with a bit more fresh lime)
other ingredients for popiah
- popiah skin - need to order and collect
- shredded cucumber
- bean sprouts, boiled
- fresh coriander - roughly chopped
- tau kuah cubes, fried
- boiled eggs or thin omelette - sliced
- crab meat (peeled flower crabs)
- fresh prawns - boiled and sliced
- steamed lap cheong / chinese sausage
kueh pie tee cups (that would be my job!)
porridge & sides for porridge
- fermented bean curd,
- olive veg,
- salted eggs,
- pickled lettuce,
- stewed peanuts
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let's list what i can cook...
cny eve - lunch - 3 soups, stews and curries
cny day 1 - breakfast / lunch - 3 soups, leeks, buah keluak, sioh, smoked duck
cny day 2 - leftovers (kids may go woodlands)
cny day 3 - seafood - steamed fish, sotong, prawns, mushroom, spinach
cny dishes
soup 1 - kiam chye, tofu, tomatoes with pork ribs
soup 2 - bakwan kepeting
soup 3 - chinese cabbage fishball, fish maw soup
For Reunion Dinner
- Ayam Sioh
- veggies & mushroom
For Us, for Day1 Lunch
- pork ribs buah keluak - leftover
- cabbage fishball fishmaw soup - leftover
- crabmeat ball soup - freshly cooked
- sambal belacan
- leeks with prawns - freshly cooked
My Cooking Plan -
Day 1
- 3 soups (cut down to 1 big soup)
- ayam sioh
- buah keluak - will try to do this year all by myself!
- leeks with prawns or scallops
Day 2
kids going woodlands this year
so i can just heat up the leftovers!
Day 3
steamboat OR
- mushrooms - dried shitake, button, straw mushrooms, abalone, sea cucumber?, black fungus
- spinach with 3 eggs
- fresh scallops
- tung hoon salad
- prawns - 3 ways - assam and black sauce, salt and pepper, salad
- prawn rolls - hae zhor
- steam fish - hong kong style
- salmon
- small sotong
- smoked duck
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Cooking Schedule - crazy me Lol
5 jan 2023 - tekka - shopping for buah keluak
7 jan 2023 - grind and cook rempah for buah keluak
17 jan 2023 tues - ntuc delivery - cooked pork ribs, prepared all frozen chicken
20 jan 2023 fri - eve of the eve - went ntuc to get last minute stuff,
cooked buah keluak, sioh, cabbage soup, prepared meatball, prawns, etc
21 Jan 2023 sat - 除夕 cny eve, reunion dinner!
22 Jan 2023 sun - 初一 cny day1 - bakwan kepeting, leeks with prawns
23 jan 2023 mon - (kids are out) lunch at changi beach club, porridge for dinner
24 jan 2023 tues - lunch & dinner at home - made more bakwan kepeting, had yu sheng!
25 jan 2023 wed - lunch - minced chicken patties, dinner - leftover buah keluak & bakwan
lots of cooking!
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20 jan fri -
Eve of the Eve of CNY lol
last min shopping at ntuc, cooked
- buah keluak,
- sioh,
- cabbage fishball fishmaw soup
below: my lunch
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buah keluak with pork ribs
photos blur because a piece of paper or plastic was stuck on the lens
and i didn't even notice until much later!
recipe:
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Ayam Sioh
recipe:
below: i burnt the sioh while heating up,
so ended up boiling into a stew Lol
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Bakwan Kepeting - Crab Meatball
made by Jannah!
Recipe - Bakwan Kepeting:
meatball mix:
(leave in the fridge for 1-2 days to set)
- minced pork - seasoned
- minced chicken (added for this cny only)
- coarsely minced fresh prawns (i use kitchen scissors to cut them up)
- sotong paste
- prawn paste
- fish paste (from fishball stalls)
- bamboo shoots - cut into strips, 2 packets
- water chestnuts - chopped
- 1 egg
- cornstarch
- seasoning - salt, white pepper, light soya sauce, fish sauce, fried garlic crisps
- fresh coriander leaves and stems for garnish
CNY DAY 3
below: jannah cooked more on day
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leeks with prawns
CNY Day 1
leftover prawns with eggs
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Braised / Stewed Mushrooms
with dried scallops, fish maw and
sea cucumber in chicken feet jelly stock!
Recipe - Braised Mushrooms
with fish maw, dried scallops, sea cucumber
1. jelly stock
- slow cook chicken feet in water or neutral chicken stock
- season - salt, white pepper, shallots x6, garlic x1 small clove
- keep overnight in fridge till jelly forms
- remove chicken feet, set aside jelly stock for braising mushrooms
2. dried baby scallops
- quick rince and soak in chinese wine, water
3. chinese dried mushrooms -
best is 花菇 flower mushrooms,
next best is 香菇 xiang gu, fragrant mushrooms
- soak mushrooms in room temp water till soft,
- cut off stem, lightly squeeze dry and prepare to cook
- fry chopped garlic, onions, ginger (2-3 slices)
add mushroom, seasoning and fry together till fragrant
- oyster sauce, fish sauce, light soya sauce,
- shaoxing chinese wine and sesame oil,
- salt and white pepper to taste
- add dried scallops and soaking liquid (chinese wine)
- add fish maw
- add jelly stock and additional stock or water if needed
- slow cook overnight or for a long time, till mushrooms are done
(this year, i must have slow cooked the mushrooms for at least 12 hours!)
more ingredients
to cook together with mushrooms, add 10-15min before serving
- abalone
- sea cucumber (scalded and boiled for 5min before adding to mushrooms)
- fresh/frozen scallops
before serving,
add shaoxing chinese wine, sesame oil, crispy fried garlic,
chopped spring onions and fresh coriander
dish out and serve hot
with veggies - boiled broccoli, spinach, kai lan, xiao bai chye or shanghai greens
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Loh Hei, Yu Sheng
at home - cny day 3 - tues 24 jan 2023
Recipe - YU SHENG - How to ...?
1. peel pink pomelo from thailand
2. shred white radish, green radish, red radish,
3. shred carrots, cucumber,
rinse and soak veggies in water for at least 15min
drain water and keep in the fridge
4. prepare coriander, lime juice
5. baby abalone - heat up in soup
6. prepare jellyfish and season according to packet instructions
7. get pickles set, crunchy crackers and big plate ready!
8. toss toss toss and eat eat eat!
(forgot the mangoes uggh)
jannah helped out a lot!
below: does the pomelo look like
that egg from Alien the movie???
i'm quite sure they sprouted some green leaves a week later!!!
see below...
the green sprouts look bigger than before!
so the sprouts for the green and white radishes must be bigger too!
below: 29 Jan 2023
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Loh Hei
at holland road - cny eve and cny day 1
21 & 22 Jan 2023
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Day 2 Lunch - 23 Jan 2023
at Changi Beach Club
with ko ko, dio dio, adrian and jamie
fish maw soup
steamed pomfret
pork ribs
crispy chicken with gravy
veggies (not sure what this is)
black hokkien mee
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Day 2 Dinner - 23 Jan 2023
porridge for daddy and me
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Day 3 - Eat at Home - 24 jan 2023
cooked more bakwan kepeting and had leftovers
(leftover buah keluak, ayam sioh, braised mushrooms),
fried yam cake with eggs and chye poh,
and my first time making yu sheng!
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Day 4 - Eat at Home - 25 jan 2023
minced chicken, fishball soup and leftovers
(bakwan kepeting, buah keluak,
braised mushrooms, prawns),
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Day 5 - work - 26 jan 2023
tuna sandwich for lunch before work,
tabao chicken cutlet/western for dinner
no pics
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Day 6 - Eat at Home - 27 jan 2023
lunch - buah keluak and meatball
dinner - salmon and steamed seabass,
ikea veg cake, leftover tung hoon
haha i planted the 3 types of radishes -
white, green and red radish!
steamed seabass and baked salmon with ikea cakes
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Day 7 everybody's bday
- Out with Jac - Sat 28 jan 2023
hmmmm... karaoke for 4 hours! LOL
lunch - tori-Q set - no pics
early dinner - kuay chap with kiam chye and pig skin
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Day 8 - 29 jan 2023
lunch - leftover buah keluak, sioh, meatball soup,
ampang yong tofu, sambal belacan
dinner - yu sheng with white carrots, cucumbers and carrots,
baked salmon and scallops with sweet peas
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Day 9 - 30 jan 2023
oh. my bday hehe
yu sheng on my birthday!
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Day 10 - 31 jan 2023
leftovers!
31 Jan 2023 tues
eating leftovers...
lunch
- fried rice
- hokkien mee with black sauce
- stir fried beef from hans
- har cheong gai
dinner
- fish head xi chap with bittergourd
- scallops from sun
- mee goreng
- stir fried the shredded carrot and the white, green, red radish with salt, pepper and light soya sauce - wow, tasted so good!! so yummy! and looks really colourful - see below
bought new shredding peeler!
$3 for a set of 3
tastes good when cold!
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Day 11 - 1 Feb 2023
simple meals! and kueh pie tee
1 Feb 2023 Wed
lunch -
i had chicken soup and rice
aidan wanted steamed minced pork
dinner
fried and grilled chicken with kunyit powder
since i had oil in the pan, i made patties with leftover pork mince and shreeded veggies
heated up the 2 year old popiah arh and made kueh pie tee!!
kueh pie tee with filling that mummy got tini to make,
like 2 years ago... (2020/2021)
see my radishes sprouting in the garden hahahaha!!!!
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Day 12 - 2 Feb 2023 thu
leftover kunyit chicken for my lunch & dinner
dinner - tori Q from amk hub
working, so tired and no pics
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Day 13 - 3 Feb 2023
lunch - soup and rice
dinner - chicken stew and roast chicken with 5 spice
no pics. spent 2-5.30pm at A&E -
christen injured his eye, hit by the gun muzzle.
then i got caught in a horrible peak-hour jam for 1.5hrs.
reached home 7.40pm, started cooking and
finished dinner around 10pm.
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Day 14 - 4 Feb 2023 Sat
mee pok dry at amk central after collecting passport
tabao bahn mi, fish soup for aidan
dinner - minced chicken, omelette, string beans
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Day 15 - 5 Feb 2023 Sun
Chap Goh Meh
breakfast - insteant mee pok
lunch - bahn mi, had the saigon one (like sausages),
also had the pate with butter and salad. yum!
dinner - steamboat with ko ko and dio dio
thai dressing for steamboat,
seafood - baby squid, scallops, prawns,
pork collar and beef shabu shabu
fishballs and pork balls, beancurd roll with prawns
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CNY Selfies and Wefies!
22 Jan 2023 cny day 1 - going visiting...
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