117. Our Food Diary - July to Sep 2024
OUR FOOD DIARY 2024
July, August, September 2024
what we ate from July to Sept 2024
and here are the star pics!
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no mummy and no helper.
just me trying to go market, plan and cook meals.
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cook less but good dishes,
try cooking rice for the day/meal
and less leftover dishes too
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what we ate and cooked ...
veggies, tofu, eggs
- egg mayo with crackers - with recipe
- roasted pumpkins, carrots, potatoes and corn - with recipe
- red and green peppers on crackers/biscuits - with recipe
- fried eggs
- fried egg tofu
- mixed veggies with egg gravy
- stir fried kang kong, kai lan and spinach
- apple sauce - with recipe
- su chye with fish maw
meat
- chicken - wings
- chicken - roast
- chicken - with garlic onion, oyster sauce and chinese wine
- chicken - ginger chicken - with recipe
- chicken - curry (using curry leaves from the garden) - with recipe
- chicken - feet lotus root, peanut soup - with recipe
- meat - sukiyaki beef and pork
- pork - tau yu bak braised pork
- pork - babi pongteh
- pork - minced pork with potatoes carrots onions tomatoes - with recipe
- pork - stewed with apple sauce, onions, potatoes and carrots
- beef - beef golden coin soup - with recipe
- beef - sirloin and ribeye steak
fish, seafood
- fish - smoked salmon - cooked, flaked, seasoned for crackers
- fish - fried fresh salmon with soya sauce / sukiyaki sauce
- fish - turmeric white snapper with chilli sauce - with recipe
- fish - assam fish - grey mullet - with recipe
- fish - threadfin 午鱼 (wu yu) Ngor her $65, ntuc 1aug2024 - fried with taucheo gravy
- fish - chinese pomfret, $15, 400g each, ntuc 1aug2024
- fish - steamed pomfret teochew style - with recipe
- fish - black pomfret kecap manis - with recipe
- fish - stingray or ikan pari - Alow's kuah lada!! - with recipe
- prawns - pan fried prawns BBQ taste - with recipe
- cuttlefish - deepfried with flour
noodles, rice
- fried rice
- ayam soto
- mee goreng
- bee hoon, kuey teow soup
restaurants and food outlets
- chu hui lin teochew restaurant - jumbo group
- candlenut peranakan restaurant - dempsey - chef malcolm lee
- ma mum halal thai beef boat noodles - kkh
- fish and co - amk hub
- beef pho - sengkang hospital
- singapore swimming club
- seletar mall 老火汤 lao huo tang
- 628 amk nasi padang & nasi lemak
- rong ji zhi char at northstar
- jalan kayu prata shop
- Jade Pheonix, singapore swimming club
- silk restaurant, island country club
- red star restaurant
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SEPTEMBER 2024
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30 Sep 2024 Mon
lunch - malay rice at sengkang hospital
then went to jamie's flat to throw out some furniture
some things worked out and some things didn't uggh
dinner - made more su chye and cooked more chicken
also cooked kai lan
but the "mood" not there, so tired :((
29 Sep 2024 Sun
morning - ate leftover rice with crispy whitebait
then went to jamie's hdb to clear everything in the bedroom
lunch - shared
fish ball beehoon, oyster omelette at malaysia boleh
and bahn mi, ginger tea
dinner - cooked
- fried chicken with garlic, onions and oyster sauce - was so good!!
- su chye with fish maw and scallops
28 Sep 2024 Sat
lunch - sengkang hospital -
malay rice - sambval goreng and fried egg $4.50
dinner - cooked
- grilled chicken with leftover mustard dressing
- sourdough bread with garlic butter and cherry tomatoes
- cucumbers
27 Sep 2024 Fri
lunch - tekka market
pomfret and batang fish soup - no pics
tabao indian rice set for the kids
- pepper chicken $5
- masala chicken with 2 veggies rice set $7
(ladysfinger and cabbage)
- fried chicken $5
dinner - samad's mutton briyani & leftovers
26 Sep 2024 Thu
morning / lunch
- chopped garlic
- cut chinese cabbage
- prepared black pomfret and japanese whitebait for dinner
- roasted pecan and cashew nuts
- cooked instant noodles with dumplings, cabbage and egg
3pm - went nex with ko ko and dio dio
- ntuc to buy veg and stuff
dinner
(fried fish today because kyi kyi will clean the kitchen on friday!!)
- cooked black pomfret with kicap manis, tomato kechup
- fried whitebait omelette (japanese whitebait)
- fried crispy whitebait (japanese whitebait)
25 Sep 2024 Wed
10+am ran to amk hub to get fruits, cucumber, tomatoes
went to joey's house for potluck
edna going kuching end sept for 2 months
edna made kong bak bao
roger brought yakitori
joey made spaghetti Lol
i brought oranges, grapes, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, boiled eggs and mustard dressing.
below: for jannah's lunch
24 Sep 2024 Tues
went to get some things from wholesale market
- pecan nuts, 500g - $13.50
- cashew nuts (lightly baked), 500g - $11
- fish maw $18
- garlic, 250g $1.50
- whitebait (indonesia), 500g $8
Total $52
lunch - roast meats near wholesale market
- sio bak,
- char siew
- pork ribs for 5 persons +
- kiam chye duck soup $3 +
- lotus root soup $3 +
- noodles x2 +
- rice x3
= total $53
dinner - kuay chap at bishan $33
- big intestines
- 3 eggs,
- pork belly 1 portion,
- fish cakes
- tau guah and tau pok
- kiam chye
- chicken feet
23 Sep 2024 Mon
lunch - leftover tom yum soup with sotong ball and bean curd skin
dinner - leftover
- minced pork patties (250g minced pork)
- bacon with long beans / french beans
22 Sep 2024 Sun
lunch/dinner - cooked
- minced pork patties (250g minced pork)
- bacon with long beans / french beans and shitake mushrooms
- fried eggs
- stir fried kailan and spinach
21 Sep 2024 Sat
20 Sep 2024 Fri
19 Sep 2024 Thu
lunch - amk hub malaysia boleh
dinner - cooked
- salmon head, bones and belly with taucheo
- kangkong and puay leng chinese spinach
- mooncake from ritz carlton hotel
- mooncake from ritz carlton hotel
17 Sep 2024 Tues
lunch - changi village nasi lemak with sambal goreng
dinner - cooked sukiyaki pork collar
and pork with french beans and broadbean paste (douban jiang)
16 Sep 2024 Mon
lunch - cooked omelette with veggies lying around in the fridge LOL
dinner - bishan - daddy had western and i had veggies with rice
15 Sep 2024 Sun
lunch - amk hub -
quick lunch with jannah (she had ramen)
then went to ntuc amk to get MORE stingray!
dinner - cooked
- stewed pork in apple sauce with potatoes and carrots
- ikan pari stingray kuah lada
today, the kuah lada tasted even better!!
added some lime juice in the gravy
13 Sep - 15 Sep 2024
bought stingray from ntuc twice!!
- $12.50 + $16 = $28-$30
Recipe - Alow's Ikan Pari Kuah Lada
1. season fish with
- salt,
- white and black pepper,
- turmeric powder
- garlic flavoured oil
2. fry aromatics till fragrant
- lada - crushed white pepper corns x4 tbsp
- onions x2 medium to large
- garlic x2-3 large cloves
- langkuas or galangal x5 slices
- kunyit or turmeric x2 thumbsize pieces
- serai or lemongrass x3-4
- belacan 1/2 tsp
- assam skin x3-4
- assam paste x2 tbsp
- lime juice x4-6 tbsp
- gula melaka
3. add tomatoes x5 - cut into wedges and fry
4. add assam paste and water
5. boil gravy, taste
6. add kiam chye
7. add fish - cook till fish is tender
8 add vegetables - ladysfinger and brinjals
9. add salt to taste and serve hot with steamed rice
14 Sep 2024 Sat
morning - made a simple apple sauce (for my pork!)
only don't know how i want to cook the pork yet LOL
lunch - sengkang hospital nasi padang
dinner - spaghetti with apple-stewed pork, potatoes and carrots,
rice with stingray or ikan pari kuah lada, crispy whitebait
jannah cooked spaghetti for her potluck dinner
- see video - edit 2 -
Recipe: Simple Apple Sauce
- green apples x5
- red fuji apple x1-2
- lemon rind and juice x1/2 lemon
- pandan leaves
- brown/raw sugar x4 tsp
- white sugar x6-8 tsp
- pinch of salt
below: jannah cooked lunch for herself and christen
below: christen's messy lunch bowl!
below: my lunch - nasi padang
sambal goreng and fried egg - $4.50
other food is dio dio's and daddy's
4pm - jannah cooked for her potluck dinner
below: lemon spaghetti
below: dinner
pork braised in apple sauce, potatoes and carrots
and some kuah lada stingray / ikan pari
i also had rice with what's left of the crispy whitebait fish
13 Sep 2024 Fri
lunch - leftover chicken and spinach x2 types
also roasted and seasoned red and green bell peppers
12 Sep 2024 Thu
lunch - amk hub - lunch at malaysia boleh
dinner - chicken with kailan, chinese spinach with scallops
11 Sep 2024 Wed
morning - prepared some veggies
- kailan, chinese and sharp spinach, carrots,
- toasted/roasted some cashew and pecan nuts
potluck lunch at joey's place
- edna - mee siam, chicken wings, red bean dessert
- roger - beef satay
- joey - mooncakes, ice cream, drinks, snacks (too much!)
- me - wanted to cook capsicums or spinach with dried scallops or san choy pow - but ended up bringing little piggies, cashew and pecan nuts, oranges, dried apricots
too full to eat dinner LOL
below: mooncake with some ginger flavour from ritz carlton
10 Sep 2024 Tues
lunch with Parvin
ate at serangoon gardens market - turkish food
we ordered the pita bread (chicken) - ate half each
and shared salad with chicken and mutton
total $24
dinner - tabao from amk hub
chicken rice, thigh meat (free peanut soup) $5.50 x2 + 30 cents for soup container
and pork liver $4.50 + 40 cents for container
daddy had char siew, sio bak with noodles $6.50
9 Sep 2024 Mon
lunch - leftover sukiyaki and prawns
(charging phone so no pics)
freshly cooked rice with the fried whitebait fish is very nice!!
4+pm - mee siam at SGH - Rempah cafe
after jannah's O&G scan and consult
dinner - ikea
- beef cheeks
- prawns with spaghetti and veggies
- meatballs for jannah
- spring rolls
below: mee siam at SGH - Rempah cafe
after jannah's O&G scan and consult
below: dinner at ikea
8 Sep 2024 Sun
lunch - sengkang hospital - no pics
i ordered yong tofu for veggies
and then ate ko ko's vegetarian bee hoon and dio dio's nasi padang
dinner - sin ming bak chor meeee
finally got to try this!!
7 Sep 2024 Sat
lunch - cooked a lot
before jamie flies back to bangkok
- leftover tau yu bak with boiled eggs
- 2 sirloin steaks with onions
- tiger prawns fried with kecap manis (forgot the assam!)
- jannah's leftover sukiyaki ingredients -
chicken, pork fried with fresh shitake mushrooms and
added more seasoning - turned out amazing!!
dinner - simple cooking
- cooked macaroni chilli and added lemon juice
- fried rice with jannah's sukiyaki dish
- instant korean kimchi noodles with eggs (dry)
- and fruits - oranges and grapes
ate the food with freshly cooked macaroni chilli... wahhhh!!
below: dinner - fried rice with sukiyaki stuff Lol
eat it with freshly made macaroni chilli - so good!!
boiled with 2 eggs, boiled till dry-ish
6 Sep 2024 Fri
lunch - red star restaurant
dinner - (after 10pm!) kuay chap at bishan
lunch at red star
- sharksfin omelette on iceberg lettuce L $68
- chicken with ham broccoli $40
- french beans with minced pork and bean sauce $22
- watercress pork ribs soup $20
- steamed tofu with prawn balls L $22
- fried noodles with duck L $24
dim sum
- jellyfish $14
- century egg $7
- prawn chee cheong fun $5.70
- chicken feet $5.70 x2
- char siew soh $5.70
- egg tarts $5.70
- steamed pork ribs $5.90
others
- pickle (cabbage achar) $2
- tea x$2.80 x11
subtotal: $286.20
10% service charge $28.62
9% gst $28.33
red star lunch total $314.82
cakes total - $130
chocolate cake $42
durian cake $88
cake + lunch = $473.15
my share (half) = $236.575
dinner - got our food at 10.20pm (there was a queue)
portion for 4 - daddy, jamie, christen and me
large intestine, pig skin, 2 fish cakes, 3 eggs, pork belly for 2 pax,
tau kuah, tau pok, tau kee, kiam chye, 4 bowls of kuay
later went to amk hub ntuc to get jamie's insect spray,
some fruits and veggies
also bought 2 piggies (mooncakes)
for christen and jannah, $1.80 each
5 Sep 2024 Thu
the car alternator died today and we had to replace it. $360
then we went to joo chiat to get bak chang and
jalan kayu to buy birthday durian and chocolate cake
lunch - black pomfret fry with kecap manis, malay style
dinner - briyani and indian food at jalan kayu
as you can see, my fish skin got ripped off as i didn’t
figure out how to not break the fish skin while frying😅😩
Recipe - Black Pomfret Fish with Kicap Manis Gravy
1. fresh black pomfret
cleaned and seasoned with
turmeric or kunyit powder
you can also stuff chopped chillies inside the fish stomach and slits on the meat
2. fry fish till golden & crispy, set aside
(as you can see, my fish skin got ripped off as i didn’t
figure out how to not break the fish skin while frying😅😩)
3. fry aromatics
onions, garlic, ginger
red & green chillis - chopped
4. add kecap manis sauce
and any other sauces if you want to …
- oyster sauce
- light soya sauce
- fish sauce
3 add the following to the sauce
tomatoes,
chinese celery,
coriander,
fresh lime,
and if needed, water and salt to taste
4. pour sauce over fish
5. serve hot with steamed rice
below: dinner at jalan kayu
4 Sep 2024 Wed
lunch - jannah and i shared turkish lamb chicken with butter rice
dinner - daddy's 82nd birthday
daddy's 82nd birthday dinner
at the Silk Restaurant, Island Country Club, 4 Sep 2024
can't take pictures fast enough... so only have a few pics LOL
- birthday buns x18 buns
- fried prawns coated with mango puree $50
- grouper with asparagus fried in taucheo sauce (or XO sauce?) $68
- drunken chicken $37
- pork ribs with garlic (salt & pepper?) $53
- homemade tofu with truffle sauce $46
- asparagus with wild yam and black fungus $41
- crispy egg noodles with seafood $46
- red bean pancake
- chrysanthymun tea
best guess - dinner total around $450++
daddy's 82nd birthday dinner
at the Silk Restaurant, Island Country Club, 4 Sep 2024
noodles
truffle tofu
salt and pepper pork ribs
drunken chicken
grouper slices with asparagus and veggies
seasoned with taucheo sauce
below: coincidence - christen quoted something from his lecturer at NTU
and we found out his lecturer was san chuan!! hahahahhaha
sunset over the golf course
island country club
3 Sep 2024 Tues
brunch - hans sembawang - had 2 sunny side up eggs with ham
dinner - went out - went singapore swimming club
jannah had school friends over for sukiyaki and to carry lanterns
dinner at jade phoenix, singapore swimming club
(busy eating so no time to take pictures!)
- deep fried whitebait fish
- deep fried brinjals with pork floss
- roast meats 3 types - roast duck, sio bak, char siew
- yellow croaker deep fried
- stir fried kailan with garlic 清炒 (Large)
- ee fu mee / noodles
dinner at jade phoenix, singapore swimming club
(busy eating so no time to take pictures!)
- deep fried whitebait fish
- deep fried brinjals with pork floss
- roast meats 3 types - roast duck, sio bak, char siew
- yellow croaker deep fried
- stir fried kailan with garlic 清炒 (Large) - love this!
- ee fu mee / noodles
2 Sep 2024 Mon
morning - chopped garlic and chillies
also made sng mi chou
and cooked tau yu bak with hard boiled eggs
lunch - garlic butter toast
with roast veggies, salad and chicken mayo
dinner - cooked
- tau yu bak with hard boiled eggs
- fried leftover roasted brinjals with chilli and kecap manis
used the tiny shopper machine that aidan bought me
chopped garlic, red chillies, red & green chillies,
sng mi chou - garlic chilli taucheo sugar and rice vinegar
lunch
jannah had a kkh appt
we had mee siam there
1 Sep 2024 Sun
brunch - sengkang hospital
ate yong tau foo - a bit tasteless :(
- christen had fever, so went amk hub to get lunch with jannah
- jannah ate ramen, tabao kuay teow soup for christen
bought a whole large chicken and pork from ntuc
also bought french loaf and navel oranges
dinner - cooked
- steamed pomfret (bought from ntuc) - abt $15
- roast whole chicken (1.2-1.4kg) - abt $15
- stir fry broccoli with oyster sauce - bought at giant, 3 bunches for $2.80
- pork liver from amk hub - $5
- fresh lettuce - $3.50 from ntuc (getting so ex!!) (twee bak)
dinner was ready at around 7.45pm even though
i started cook/fry very early (about 4pm)
- pork lard - boiled and fried with salt
- dried whitebait fish (no pics yet)
Recipe - Roast Chicken Breast - Chicken Mayo
- peel roast chicken breast
- wholegrain mustard x1-2 tsp
- japanese mayo x2-3 tbsp
- salt and pepper
below: pork lard - fried and boiled
for frying veggies and steaming fish
and for noodle soups and dry noodle seasoning
below: yong tau foo
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AUGUST 2024
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31 Aug 2024 Sat
lunch - cooked in about 2hrs
- chicken stew with chicken drumsticks and leftover roast potatoes and carrots
- spinach - 2 types - sharp spinach (hoi chye) and chinese spinach (puay leng)
- fried eggs
- tabao sambal prawns with petai (stinky beans)
cooked lunch in about 2hrs, rushed through lunch
and then drove to airport to pick jamie at 12.30+
dinner - leftovers
Recipe: Boiled Spinach
1. season boiling water with
- salt, shaoxing wine, sugar and
- garlic flavoured oil
(soak raw chopped garlic in oil to get garlic flavoured oil!)
2. add spinach and boil till cooked
3. remove spinach from seasoned water and serve hot
30 Aug 2024 Fri
lunch - changi village
had sambal prawns with petai with rice and fried egg $7.90
(later i tabao one portion of sambal petai $13.20 LOL)
daddy had beef horfun
jannah tabao mizzy nasi lemak $5
ko ko and dio dio also had nasi lemak
dinner - cooked
roast chicken drumsticks
fried rice (leftover rice) with egg and fresh tomatoes
leftover takoyaki and karaage
cucumber, tomatoes and lettuce
below: my lunch - otah is from ko ko
the sambal tastes close to alow's sambal prawns!!
never thought i'd taste her sambal prawns again -
tho not as tasty as hers, this is pretty close!!
below: simple dinner
29 Aug 2024 Thu
lunch - met parvin and jannah (no pics)
korean food - bibimbap at fortune centre
dessert and ginger tea at the albert street food centre
then went shopping at wholesale centre
spent $55.50!!
woahhhhh - i bought....
- scallops 300g, $15
- whitebait 300g, $5
- dried peaches 250g, $4
- dried apricots 250g, $5.50
- cashew nuts 500g. $11
- pecan nuts 500g, $13.50
- whole garlic 1pkt, $1.50
add on: piggy in baskets x10pcs, $6.50
dinner - leftover roasted stuff
and more garlic bread!!
below: dinner
28 Aug 2024 Wed
early morning - national heart centre
daddy had a treadmill test and MRI for the heart
breakfast at heart centre - that beef soup - kaffe toast
at kaffee and toast, national heart centre
late lunch - dry bcm beehoon $4,
daddy had salad at paris baguette
dinner - roasted 1/2 chicken, veggies and salads
roast veggies -
seasoned with salt, pepper, honey, black sauce, garlic flavoured oil
- 1 green capsicum and 2 red capsicums
- tomatoes x3-4
- brinjals x2
- pumpkin x1/2
- carrots and potatoes
- onions
salad - mixed lettuce and cucumber, raw onions
salad dressing - balsamic vinegar, olive oil, honey, salt and pepper
below: thai beef noodle soup
below: dinner - roast veggies and chicken
Recipe - Roasted Capsicums
1. roast or grill red capsicums + 1 green capsicums till charred
2. cover and rest the veggies
3. peel off the charred skin
4. cut into strips
5. season with salt, black pepper, balsamic vinegar, honey,
olive oil and/or garlic-flavoured oil
6. serve - add roasted capsicums on plain crackers or oglio olio or baked potatoes
Recipe - Roasted Pumpkin
- season pumpkin with salt, black pepper, garlic-flavoured oil
- roast till just tender (about 15min 120 degrees)
- serve hot
optional - squeeze a bit of lemon
27 Aug 2024 Tues
lunch - giant food court
nasi padang is super ex
- sambal goreng, fried egg and bergedel is $5.50
tea - ikea for spring rolls and 1 chicken wing
jac had 5 chicken wings and spring rolls
we also bought those veggies patties with cheese inside
dinner - tabao from don don donki waterway otw home from tampines
- chicken karaage x8 pcs $12
- takoyaki x8 pcs $5
- tofu x5 pcs $3.90
- saba teriyaki and rice set $5.90
- also bought japanese worchestershire sauce and sushi rice vinegar mix
also for dinner,
jannah fried an egg with sesame oil,
i boiled some broccoli
bought 3 broccoli flowers for $2+ from giant
26 Aug 2024 Mon
went to kkh to see the doc about the biopsy of the uterus lining
- so far so good - no cancer cells
lunch - kkh thai beef noodles
went to ntuc ank hub to get some veggies
dinner - amk hub new food court
jannah had large pig intestine noodles
i had hk hor fun with chicken chop (lousy)
25 Aug 2024 Sun
lunch - jalan kayu
- i had vegetarian rice set - 3 veggies, dahl and rice
- daddy and ko ko had dosai masala
- daddy order mutton with bone $8
- dio dio had prata with chicken curry
- tabao tandoori chicken with naan for kids $8.50 x2
- pompadum x1 packet - $1
dinner - bishan (coffeshop with kueh chap)
- daddy had beef with penne pasta
- i bought sio bak hor fun $4.80
tabao (no pics)
grilled fish with oglio olio for christen $10.50
fish & chips for jannah $7.90
fried cheese sticks x6 pcs $7.90
then drove christen back to hall 5 NTU
24 Aug 2024 Sat
lunch - cooked
- babi pongteh
- fried omelette with onions
- fried sharp spinach
- leftover minced chicken patties
had the same food for dinner
+ cut some cucumbers and tomatoes
23 Aug 2024 Fri
brunch - yong tofu from 628 amk - loads of veggies -
YTF $4.80 for 6 pcs with noodles
- kang kong, stuffed green capsicum, broccoli,
- re-fried ngo hiang, wrapped strings beans, fish cakes
tea - tekka market for dosai, ginger tea
dinner - samad mutton dum briyani & masala chicken from tekka
below: tea time - ate dosai masala at tekka market
below: dinner from tekka market
fried chicken - $5
samad's mutton dum briyani - $7
kamala's chicken masala $8
22 Aug 2024 Thu
lunch - amk central coffeeshop next to amk hub and macs
order bcm but they gave me wrong noodles
and added too much freaking chilli - pissed with my order!
afternoon - went amk hub ntuc and bought
- pomfret x2 $29+
- 12 grey prawns @$19.90/kg - $9.90
- pork collar @$20.9/kg - $17+
- 1/2 chicken about $6
- chicken feet x2 packets
- veggies
dinner - cooked
- fried sunny side up eggs x3
- jannah's seasoned minced chicken - fried patties
- 12 prawns - salt and pepper prawns
- a dip for prawns - chilli, onions, lime juice, light soya sauce
- fried chinese cabbage that i cut up like 6 days ago!
below: some seafood at ntuc
below: dinner
1. clean and season prawns with salt and white/black pepper
make sure prawns are not wet - i left them in the fridge for 2-3 hours to "dry"
2. in a hot pan with some oil or lard, pan fry prawns till it smells like bbq
turn prawns only after the shell changes colour and smells like it's been grilled
3. when prawn shells change to a red/orange colour, add onions and chopped garlic
4. (pan is still hot) stir fry onions and garlic with "grilled" prawns
5. sprinkle some salt and pepper, then stir fry to mix everything for a few more seconds
6. serve hot
below: jannah's seasoned minced chicken (v nice!)
i just added fresh coriander and fried shallots
i think jannah added chopped garlic, cornflour, salt, pepper and light soya sauce
she also added chopped carrots, spring onions and some raw garlic oil
21 Aug 2024 Wed
lunch - northpoint food court - king grouper soup $11
rushed home bc had stomache and then knocked out till5+/6+
dinner - chicken rice from 628, louis chicken rice
BANGKOK!!
17 August (Sat) to 20 August (Tues)
Meet but dunno when/where 😃
below: what daddy ate & what jannah cooked
while i was in bangkok
16 Aug 2024 Fri
lunch - woodleigh grouper fish soup with jannah
dinner - rong ji
- sweet and sour fish (grouper costs $62)
- braised tofu
- kak kueh soup (luffa veg)
- chai poh omelette
15 Aug 2024 Thu
lunch - noodles at amk central,
S11 coffeeshop next to amk hub
dinner - cooked
- chicken feet lotus root, peanut soup
- green marrow with eggs (boiled in belly pork liquid, then add fried garlic)
- su chye - added more cabbage, gluten (mock abalone) and mushrooms
- pork belly - boiled with some fried ginger garlic onions,
seasoned with light & dark soya sauce, salt and pepper
- pork belly - took some pieces and boiled it in the xi chap sauce/gravy
14 Aug 2024 Wed
lunch - seletar mall soup
dinner - heated leftovers (no pics)
- chicken wings
- minced chicken with tung hoon
- su chye (very very nice!!)
13 Aug 2024 Tues
brunch - thomson plaza hans - had hor fun - very nice!
dinner - cooked chicken wings and
minced chicken with lots of gravy (going to add tung hoon next day)
12 Aug 2024 Mon
breakfast
went to the airport with aidan, kristie, daddy
had kaya toast, 1 egg and tea for breakfast at wangs
and sent aidan off to canada
brought daddy to sengkang hospital for his lunch
i had watermelon juice and couldn't eat -
tummy feels STUCK 😡
dinner at 8.45pm -
bishan for kuay chap, abt $12
11 Aug 2024 Sun
lunch - cooked bee hoon soup (kids prefer kuay teow)
dinner - no pics
clive tabao crabs, sotong, har cheong gai and ngo hiang,
cooked su chye
(wanted to cook chicken wings and minced chicken but too much food!)
10 Aug 2024 Sat
amk 628 bought
1.5kg sirloin steak $49 (cut into 6 pcs)
and 1kg grey prawns $16
brunch - 628 amk - had beehoon with veg, fried egg and ngo hiang $4.50
lunch (jannah) - nasi padang - brinjal, ladysfingers, ayam lemak $5.50
tea time - leftover curry and rice AND bahn mi
dinner - sirloin steak and prawns, leftover beehoon soup
below: oh i love the sight of
nasi padang that's packed together!
Recipe - Simple Pan Fried Prawns
1. fresh grey sea prawns - cleaned and
seasoned with salt, black/white pepper, garlic oil
2. add garlic flavoured oil in a very hot pan
3. when pan is smoking, add the prawns and
avoid adding any liquid (hear the sizzle)
4. turn when prawn shells are seared.
5. just before prawns are just cooked,
add some chopped garlic and stir fry.
6. dish out and serve hot
below: jannah's plate LOL
9 Aug 2024 Fri
happy National Day!
lunch - bought malay nasi lemak from 628 amk - so good!!
each nasi lemak packet has 1 chicken wing, 1 fried egg, ikan bilis and peanuts, cucumber and sambal. costs $3.50 per packet. also bought some fried potatoes and 1 tempeh. so tempted to buy nasi padang as well!
dinner - bee hoon, kuay teow soup
8 Aug 2024 Thu
lunch - chinatown smith street with ko ko and dio dio
- song herr fish $20
- pork ribs with bittergourd xi chap $12
- satay (nice) - 80 cents per stick, minimum 10 sticks
- tabao roast meats - char siew sio bak pork ribs $9.20
- chendol $2.80/bowl (was $2.50)
dinner - cooked in a small pot...
very happy with results today
- salt and pepper cuttlefish
- snapper fish fillet with black bean sauce
- leftover bean sprouts and rice
above: instagram pics Lol
below: special order - huge fish from fatty ox stall
dinner - fried snapper and cuttlefish
7 Aug 2024 Wed
tummy constipated so didn't go out
lunch - tau huey (selegie from kovan market)
tea - curry and rice
dinner - curry and rice - so good!
also cooked fried tau gueh with salted fish and fried eggs
should have taken the big bowl of bean sprouts topped with fried eggs Lol
6 Aug 2024 Tues
lunch - aidan wanted to go to mummy's niche
(we left without him on her bday LOL)
then went to northpoint to have lunch
and aidan changed currency there for his canada trip
daddy order ribeye steak $12
aidan and i ate bak chor mee - ok lah
tea - hans for a sandwich
dinner - jalan kayu prata shop
- beehoon goreng (no chilli) - v nice
- masala dosai
- ginger tea
- mutton briyani for jannah (shared)
5 Aug 2024 Mon
breakfast - 628 amk market for white beehoon, fried egg and ngo hiang
lunch - maybe leftover curry and rice (so good!)
dinner - curry and rice Lol
no pics
4 Aug 2024 Sun
lunch - sengkang hospital
had nasi padang - $4.50
dinner - cooked
chicken curry, fried eggs and veggies
Recipe - Chicken Curry
1. season 1 chicken with
- salt, light soya
- alagapal curry powder x5 tbsp
- house brand briyani powder x2 tbsp
- house brand garam masala powder x 2 tbsp
- yoghurt (today i forgot to buy)
2. prepare aromatics
fresh aromatics
- onions x2 - diced
- garlic x5 - chopped
- ginger - about 2-3 inches - chopped
- green chillis x6 - cut into 4-5 pcs per chilli
- fresh coriander - including roots
- curry leaves x4-5 stalks - remove stems
- tomatoes x5-6 - diced
- lime juice x2 limes
dried spices
- cinnamon stick x1
- star anise x2-x3
- cloves x10-x12
- green cardamons x8-10
- cumin seeds x1-2 tbsp
- black pepper x1-2 tbsp
(i had no fennel seeds but will add 1-2 tbsp if i had it)
3. fry dried spices + curry leaves
(low to medium fire)
4. fry chicken to brown
5. add tomatoes and fry till tomatoes are soft
6. add water and cook curry
7. season with salt, lime juice, coriander roots
8. to thicken curry, add a bit more curry powder or use coconut cream or yoghurt
9. serve hot with steamed rice and fresh cucumbers or any suitable veggies
- veggie eg. archar,
- yoghurt with chopped onions and cucumber,
- fresh onions/cucumber
3 Aug 2024 Sat
lunch - cooked
- minced pork with potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and onions
- fried eggs x6 + 1 for mee goreng
- fried mee goreng with leftover tau guey, spinach and sambal
- fried beehoon with garlic and soy sauce
- leftover steamed pomfret - amazingly still fresh and very tasty!!
- leftover kai lan
Recipe - Minced Pork with Potatoes, Carrots, Tomatoes and Onions
1. season minced pork
with salt, white pepper, light soya, shaoxing wine, cornflour
2. fry diced potatoes, carrots, onions, tomatoes
with chopped garlic, salt and black/white pepper
3. add minced pork and fry
4. add water or stock
5. season with oyster sauce, light soya sauce
today i added tomato ketchup since the bottle is almost finished
6. when carrots and potatoes are tender,
serve hot with steamed rice
below: fried eggs with salt and white/black pepper
and a drizzle of black sauce on top
below: mee goreng
2 Aug 2024 Fri
lunch - waterway - ah ma noodles - no pics
snack - takoyaki!!! yum yum!
dinner - cooked!
- steamed pomfret x2 fishes
with ready made pack (and my own ingredients)
- karaage chicken and tofu from don don donki
- fried baby kai lan
- leftover scrambled eggs, sweet peas and kang kong
- leftover ikan kurau in taucheo gravy (nice!!)
below: a sampan at waterway food court Lol
- fish - rub salt, white pepper and stuff ginger slices in stomach
- fresh ginger - sliced
- kiam chye - sliced
- red chilli x1- sliced
- tomatoes x1-2
- sour plums x3-4
- lard pieces x2-3
- fried garlic
- others: dried shitake chinese mushrooms - sliced, fried onions
steam for about 7-8 min (1 fish),
steam for about 10-12 min (2 fishes)
serve hot with fresh spring onions, fresh coriander, chinese celery
1 Aug 2024 Thu
morning went to amk hub with ko ko to get fresh fish
bought (forgot to take pics)
- 2 black pomfret - $10.90
- 1 ikan kurau - $64.34 (think around $3.20/100g)
- 2 chinese pomfret - $29.79 (think around $3.75/100g) -
- each chinese pomfret around 400g
lunch - m'sia boleh - ok lah
dinner - kurau fish with taucheo gravy
(had problems frying the fish... )
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JULY 2024
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31 Jult 2024 Wed
lunch - kovan - bak chor mee!
dinner - leftover ayam soto
30 July 2024 Tues
after medical appt at kkh and flu jab
lunch - 628 chai peng
- mui chye, brinjals and egg tofu - meh
dinner - cooked ayam soto with 2 chicken grillers
and made some cooked sambal
(red/green chillies, garlic tomatoes, lime)
think it took me about 5 hours to finish cooking!
started at around 3+pm, ended around 7+
(blender too weak, got to redo blending a few times)
the 2 boiled chickens rested quite long in a covered bowl
and was super juicy and yummy. incredible!!
29 July 2024 Mon
lunch - kkh with jannah - we had thai beef noodle soup!
dinner
28 July 2024 Sun
lunch - sengkang hospital - nasi padang
dinner - kids brought back food from mama woodlands
27 July 2024 Sat
lunch - porridge for christen
- snapper fish boiled in kiam chye soup
- fried kang kong and fried kai lan
dinner - fried rice with eggs and leftover veggies
26 July 2024 Fri
lunch - can't remember! Lol
think maybe we went to waterway to eat lunch - ah ma noodles
bought duck porridge for christen but he didn't eat it :/
dinner - sengkang hospital
- had nasi padang $4 for sambal goreng and bergedel
25 July 2024 Thu
breakfast - scrambled eggs and fried shitake mushrooms
lunch - tabao pork porridge for christen and tabao sio bak char siew rice for us Lol
dinner - leftover fried snapper (puah jiang zhi) and porridge for christen
and tabao amk zhi char for us
- bittergourd with pork, mapo tofu and brinjal
24 July 2024 Wed
3pm+ christen went to NUH to pull out 2 wisdom teeth, right side
lunch - can't remember Lol
dinner - porridge for christen with snapper fish (nice)
fried snapper with soya sauce gravy and rice - nice!
no pics
23 July 2024 Tues
corn soup
prepared some corn for aidan to feed the chickens Lol
think we also tabao chicken rice for lunch and dinner
22 July 2024 Mon
lunch - daddy wanted to see doc at chinatown
we went to hock hai hawker centre, next to chinatown point
ordered teochew kiam chye, braised peanuts and steamed goruper $23
dinner - cooked a huge bowl of mixed veggies with egg gravy
and leftover tau yu bak and ginger chicken
21 July 2024 Sun
lunch / dinner
- tau yu bak with egg
- leftover ginger chicken
- cucumber and tomato for lunch
- fried kangkong for dinner
20 July 2024 Sat
breakfast - leftover ginger chicken with rice
lunch - cooked
- baby kailan
- assam fish grey mullet
- turmeric white snapper head and bones with homemade chilli sauce
dinner - instant ramen noodle
with eggs, chinese cabbage and oyster mushrooms
Recipe - Chicken fried with ginger
1. chicken pieces
season with salt, white pepper, chinese wine,
oyster sauce, light soya sauce
(breast meat to season with cornflour, thigh also can)
2. fry aromatics
- ginger - 10 or more slices (more will be fragrant)
- ginger - 10 or more slices (more will be fragrant)
- garlic x3-4 - sliced
- onion x1 - sliced
- pinch of salt
- optional - fresh/canned or chinese mushrooms, black fungus
(adding salted fish will be ok too
but the flavours will be different)
3. add seasoned chicken and fry
4. add some water to fully cook the chicken,
braise till gravy is thick and a bit sticky
5. add wolfberries and serve hot with steamed rice
Recipe - Assam Fish - Grey Mullet
- assam paste
- green chillies x4
- whole garlic x10 - x12
- salt
- dark soya sauce - i used 2 types -
used the thick black sauce (more sweet)
and the thin black sauce (more salty)
Recipe - Chilli Sauce for Fried Turmeric Snapper
- fry fish seasoned with salt and turmeric powder
- fry chopped garlic, onions, ginger, red and green chillis
- add lemongrass x1 and limau purut leaves and keep frying
- add turmeric powder, chilli sauce (from bottle), water and lime juice
- let it cook/boil
- pour sauce over fried fish
- grill in oven until fish is golden
- optional - chinese celery kng chye and fresh coriander
below: snapper before grilling in oven
19 July 2024 Fri
lunch - seletar mall 老火汤 lao huo tang (soup)
christen's ORD parade
cleaned and seasoned the fish, chicken and pork,
then cooked ginger chicken
with carrots and black fungus for aidan and daddy
dinner for jannah and me
- christen's army camp - bedok camp2
(forgot to take a pic of the food LOL)
jap said the catering looks like army food and refused to eat -
there was sayur lodeh, fried rice, steamed egg, black olive tomato chicken
Recipe - Ginger Chicken
1. 1 whole chicken cut into parts
season with chinese wine, oyster sauce, salt and white pepper
2. fry aromatics
- ginger - cut into strips
- garlic - slice
- onions - slice
- black fungus
3. add and fry chicken together with aromatics
4. add water and braise the chicken
5. add more shaoxing chinese wine if needed
6. add wolfberries and serve hot with steamed jasmine rice
18 July 2024 Thu
lunch - fish soup at 628 amk with aidan
dinner - macdonald's - double fish burger
no pics
Grocery Shopping
i did some late afternoon NTUC shopping and bought a lot of food!!
meat/fish (and planning to cook ...)
- pork - shoulder butt $17, twee bak $8 + $9 >> weekend
- chicken cut into 12 parts - $12 >> Fri - ginger chicken
- grey mullet x2 - $14 >> Fri - Assam fish stew
- white snapper x1 huge fish - $28 >> weekend
veg
- corn
- chinese cabbage, beijing cabbage
- spinach - round and chinese spinach
- kang kong
- baby kai lan
- fresh mushrooms - oyster and shitake
- cucumbers and tomatoes
- onions and garlic
- red/green big chillis
- fresh coriander
below: pork
and grey mullet (about 1kg)
17 July 2024 Wed
breakfast - red bean pancake
lunch & dinner - leftover rice with egg and sukiyaki beef, pork
below: dinner - had kimchi with leftover sukiyaki beef/pork and eggs
16 July 2024 Tues
morning - went ttsh to do blood test (fasted) x9 types
lunch - singapore swimming club
- satay
- chicken briyani
- masala brinjal
- tauhu goreng
- mee goreng
- fried beehoon with gravy
- cakes, coffee and jasmine tea
dinner - cooked
- sukiyaki beef and pork
- egg and egg tofu
- leftover roasted veggies and smoked duck
- re-cook capsicums
below: added dried spaghetti mixed spices
and re-fried the capsucums
15 July 2024 Mon
went to kkh for jannah's appt for thrush (or something else)
breakfast - wan tan mee - lousy
brunch - shared thai beef boat noodles with jannah
dinner - jamie is back and tabao from zuzu kebabs - nice!
no pics
14 July 2024 Sun
lunch - sukiyaki (late lunch)
prepared chopped garlic, chopped chillis with onions,
beef, pork, veggies for sukiyaki,
and also roasted capsicums and mixed veggies
christen cooked the sukiyaki - quite impressive LOLOL
sukiyaki
- oyster and shitake mushrooms
- chinese cabbage, carrots
- onions, garlic, spring onions
- shabu shabu beef - season
- shabu shabu pork collar
- spring onions
dinner - tabao el carbon
- chicken chop x2
- chicken cutlet
- fish and chips
think i over-exerted myself and
started bleeding on sun night and monday
Recipe - Roasted Capsicums
- clean capsicums, cut into half
- grill 200C, skin side up - 20-30min or till skin is charred
- rest and cool veggies for about 30 min
- peel the skins off (easy!)
- cut into desired shape/size for further cooking or salads
13 July 2024 Sat
breakfast - egg mayo with crackers
boiled eggs to make egg mayo,
cut some fresh tomatoes
wow so yum!
Jannah's crackers had melted cheese
(she melted the cheese in the oven toaster)
lunch - no pics - tabao beef pho from sengkang hospital
dinner - roasted veggies and smoked duck
Recipe - Roast Veggies
veggies
- pumpkin
- carrot
- potatoes
- corn
- onions
- garlic
- red & green capsicums
- zucchini
- fresh mushrooms
seasoned with
- salt, black pepper,
- chopped garlic
- fresh/raw salted garlic oil
Recipe: Egg Mayo
- boiled eggs
- japanese mayo
- wholegrain mustard
- kewpie roasted sesame salad dressing
- salt, white and black pepper
- sugar
below: jannah's crackers
with melted cheese and fresh tomatoes
12 July 2024 Fri
lunch and dinner - chicken rice
this chicken rice is very very nice!
11 July 2024 Thu
12am started fasting for hysteroscopy & biopsy at kkh
no food till after the procedure - ate at around 4-5pm
dinner - rong ji - red braised tofu and sweet and sour pork
strangely, i'm able to read the clock and remember the timing
10am - registered at day surgery clinic, took my meds (sip)
12.15pm - inserted this medicine to soften the cervix
1.30pm - shivering, cramp and tummy pain, diarhoea, giddy
2.45pm - wheeled into ot - operating theatre 3
3.15pm - woke up in recovery ward - had a fever 38.4C
ate at around 4-5pm
nurse gave me some water, milo and chicken sandwich
wasn't hungry but i ate it all up anyway LOL
a bit giddy and tired but quite awake and alert
no pics of the chicken sandwich but it was nice
had mayo and fresh tomato slices
10 July 2024 Wed
lunch - candlenut at dempsy
dinner - leftover beef noodle soup
candlenut dishes
- pork buah keluak
- assam pedas
- black ink squid
- wing bean salad
- chinchalok omelette
- bakwan kepeting x3 servings
- stir fried brinjals, ladysfingers, french beans and kangkong
- sambal belacan with lime
- dessert - chendol
- dessert - coconut jelly
- dessert - buah keluak ice cream
below are the 2 nice wefies LOL
below: selfies before eating (not bloated)
below: selfies after eating (bloated)
below: culina grocery shop
9 July 2024 Tues
lunch - beef noodle soup, leftover chicken rice
cooked the white chicken in the gravy from the shop,
add chinese wine and more seasoning
dinner - dio dio's 87th birthday
at chu hui lin teochew restaurant
we had
- braised duck with tau guah
- jellied pork
- pickled cherry tomatoes
- ngo hiang
- oyster omelette
- pork 2 ways - battered and thai
- bamboo clams steamed with tung hoon and garlic
- mee suah birthday noodles
- birthday buns
- dessert - tau suan and or nee yam paste
went ttsh neurology to check on daddy's memory issues
lunch - amk hub fish and co - set lunch
$10.95 - fish and chips and drink
$11.95 - new york fish and chips - with cheese
dinner - chicken rice (925 yishun shop) and beef soup
dinner at the club for jamie's bday
7 July 2024 Sun
lunch - sirloin steak and salmon
dinner - beef soup and rice - no pics
6 July 2024 Sat
breakfast - 628 amk market
had fried beehoon and kuey teow with ngo hiang and fried egg yum!
made steak for aidan and jannah
also slow cooked the golden coin
bought beef $130
- golden coin, just above 1.5kg - about $40
- sirloin steak x10 pcs $50-$60
- ribeye steak x4 pcs + 1 end pc around $40-$50
gave 2 ribeye to dio dio
gave 2 ribeye and 2 sirloin to doris and liang
kept 1 ribeye end pc and 2 sirloin pcs in freezer
cooked 2 sirloin for aidan's and jannah's lunch
slow cooked all golden coin in a soup
left 6 sirloin for Sunday's meal
lunch - adam road hawker centre
had soup kambeng
dinner - sirloin steak!
with veggies
steak!
below: steak video!
below: sirloin x6 pcs for sunday meal
soaked in salted water and then dried in fridge
below: 2 sirloin for aidan and jannah
(not soaked with salted water and dried)
below: aidan and jannah's lunch sirloin steak
with / without sauce and stir fried cabbage below the steak
Recipe - Steak Sauce
- hp sauce
- A1 steak sauce
- tomato ketchup
- chilli sauce
- salt and white/black pepper
- oyster sauce
- stir fried onions and garlic
- whole grain mustard (for this meal, didn't add the vinegar)
- balsamic vinegar (for this meal, didn't add the vinegar)
5 July 2024 Fri
jannah went amk polyclinic and then
we took 851 bus to kkh for my appointment.
we took 851, 86 buses home and cooked fish and veggies
breakfast - crackers with artichoke, red pepper topping
late breakfast - fish soup with mee suah from amk central
late lunch at kkh - beef and chicken boat noodle soup - so good!
dinner - steamed pomfret and fried salmon
veggies - beansprouts with garlic salt and pepper,
and mo kueh or green marrow with tung hoon
4 July 2024 Thu
went to jannah's IBDP graduation exhibition at sota
then to upper serangoon for fish steamboat with daddy and aidan
lunch - leftover minced chicken and stew (many days ago ha)
dinner - fish steamboat, pork ribs, sambal potato leaves
3 July 2024 Wed
morning went to eye centre for checkup
and to get my eye specs prescription
breakfast - rempah - dry mee siam
lunch - met daddy, ko ko, dio dio and jamie
at mong kok springleaf - v nice! (no pics)
dinner - cooked minced chicken with tung hoon and veggies
2 July 2024 Tues
after lunch, went airport to pick jamie
lunch - sengkang hospital - beef pho
dinner - jamie's bday at singapore swimming club
jamie bought a pork chop sandwich from here
below: i use this vinegar mix
for japanese cucumber salad
below: love these olives!!
1 July 2024 Mon
the best pho with spinach!
i even brought my own lime but the girl gave me lime without me asking - for the first time!
jannah had sio bak wan tan mee and later Koi
dinner - leftovers and cooked
had cravings for chicken wings
- grilled chicken wings with honey and black sauce
- fried eggs and onions
- chicken stew - very soupy!
added corn, carrots, potatoes and onions
- smoked salmon - (it was frozen!)
so i boiled the smoked salmon and flaked it, then mixed it with mayo, wholegrain mustard, lemon juice and roasted sesame salad dressing. best eaten with biscuit LOL. aidan says it tastes exactly as the salmon canned food that he eats during out-field during his army days LOL
beef pho
how to cook - https://youtu.be/6FAUmCnoinI?si=J1APomYd8tbcv4zH
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