Stir fry Mix Vegetable

Last Sunday, Oct 25 2009. Ck and me drove to San Ramon to buy Soya bean milk from 中华豆腐. We both like their soya bean milk cos it's not too sweet. On our way home, we missed the exit to highway I680 and by chance we saw there is a small fruit stall at the crossroad selling lots of pumpkin. ohh.. it's halloween next week (Oct 30)... so we stopped by the fruit stall and joined the crowd to see what the stall is selling. We saw this special in purple color cauliflower selling at $0.99/each... labeled crunchy sweet cauliflower. I had never seen purple cauliflower before and we decided to give it a try... we stir fry with brocolli, mushroom/shitake, carrot and celery... hmm.. it taste really good and it was really crunchy and sweet... I am sure this plate of colorful vegan make up full range of healthy nutricient that will definitely boost your energy!

Sausage Bun

Sweet Potatoe Bun (番薯包)

Ingredients (for ~ 25 buns):

• Sweet potatoes 300g
• 1 carrot
• Bread Flour 1kg
• Baking Powder 1Ts
• Instant Yeast 1Ts
• Lard (白油) or replace with Cooking oil 50g
• Sugar 250g
• Water 400ml

Boil sweet potatoes and carrot in water until soft. Smash or blend it in blender/chopper until smooth. Let it cool to room temperature. Add smash sweet potatoes to the rest of flour mixture and kneat the dough evenly and until not sticky to your hand. Divide the dough into small pieces (~ 100g) each small dough and cover with wet cloth or plastic wrap until the dough rise to ~ 1.5x or 2x bigger. Steam for 10 min.

Penang Prawn Mee (Hokkien Mee)

Ingredient for Stock:
1. Boil prawn shell for 30min at medium to low heat.
2. Boil pork ribs in 8 cups of water for 1 hr (till the ribs get tender).
3. Add prawn stock to pork stock and at low heat continue to cook for 30min.

To prepare the chilli paste:
1. Dry chilli
2. 5-6 clove of garlic
3. 8 shallot
4. blend 1-3 become chilli paste and saute it with 5 Ts cooking oil until frangrant.
5. Pour half of the chilli paste to the stock together with the chilli oil

To garnish:
De-shelf hard boil egg and slice it
Bean sprout, kangkong
Rice noodle (bee-hoon) and yellow noodle.

Chicken Chop with Black Pepper souce

Chicken Cabonara

Ingredients:

(A)

2 teaspoons olive oil
4 ounces thinly sliced pancetta/bacon, chopped
2 teaspoons minced garlic

4 cups coarsely shredded chicken (from 1 roasted/steam chicken)

(B) Prepare the cream mixture:
2 1/2 cups whipping cream
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan
8 large egg yolks
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves
1/4 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley leaves
Salt 1 pound spaghetti boil in Salt water for 8-10 min
Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup chopped walnuts/Pecan (pre-bake for crispiness)

Directions:
Saute(A) in frying pot until bacon become crispy, add the shreded chicken.
Whisk (B) in large mixing bowl.
Add the spaghetti to the frying pot, add the cream mixture and toss over medium low heat, mix until the cream coated spaghetti. Sprinkle some chopped walnut and pepper. Chicken cabonara is ready to serve.

Steam Fish (老虎斑)

Oct 4, 2009, Sunday. As usual ck and me went to do grocery shopping for the week at Ranch 99.

We spotted this fish known as (老虎斑), ck was thrilled when he saw this fish cos it's very rare and expensive fish in our hometown and he was excited because of the price we pay for the fish is much cheaper in U.S (~ 2.99/lb). The fish weighted 3.5lb (~USD10). It can cost > RM80 per fish in M'sia. So we give it a try to steam this fish for our dinner. Surprisingly the fish turned out to be quite fresh and tasty.. haa.. now it's time to show off to ck's father as this is father favourite fish....