This is soft omelette that we (me and my girl) made. Because she's craving for western omelette =D and finally we did it together.. Hehehe

The secret ingredient is milk.

Ingredients:

2. Put a knob of butter in frying pan over a medium heat. When the butter starts to melt pour the egg mixture into the pan and cook for approx 1-2 minutes until egg mixture is set.

3. Cook the omelette for approx 1 further minute then loosen the edges of the egg using aspatula . Lift and fold the omelette in half. Tilt the pan and slide the omelette off onto a warm plate.

yeay.. finally i made it for my pretty girlfriend as valentine's early breakfast surprise where I suddenly show up at her home ^^ and she loved it...

If you notice this is the recipe on my first time start blogging and i never put the image in yet. Now, I can made it for my loved one =)

Strawberry Love Dessert

Ingredient:

1. Biscuit Marie Regal / sugar cookies
2. Margarine for cake (Blue Band or something else that smell good)
3. Whiskey (Good one make cakes taste better)
4. Sweetened condensed milk (white). If you like chocolate is fine too.
5. Strawberries
6. Messes
7. Marshmallow

How to make the cakes:

1. Crunch the biscuit.
2. Add margarine. Use hand to mix it until you feel like creamy in your hand and you feel good and soft in your hand.
3. Add little by little whiskey. But not too much. Test it by using your sense of taste.
4. Add sweetened condensed milk little by little until it sticks together. Not too much milk because it will become too soft and cannot stick together.
5. After than you can make what ever form you like (circle, square, love shape)
6. Make 2 layer of cake and put messes on the top of each layer.

How to put the dessert together:

gỏi cuốn

Vietnamese traditional salad wrap which is very healthy diet dish, you should try this out ^^
Ingredients:
- rice paper (called banh trang)
- shrimp boiled and sliced into 2
- thin slice pork (i use grill chicken with soy sauce, salt, pepper, minced onion, minced garlic, basil)
- cilantro
- lettuce
- beansprout
- cucumber (thin slice)
- carrot (thin slice)
- vermicelli rice (bee hoon)

Dipping sauce:
- hoisin sauce (1 tbl spoon)
- water (2 tbl spoon)
- minced peanuts sprinkle on top of the sauce

How to make:
1. deep rice paper to warm water and place into flat dry plate
2. place shrimp, slice pork followed by lettuce, cucumber, carrot, bean sport, bee hoon and cilantro
3. fold the side first to prevent the ingredient coming out and roll it up tight

Another healthy food from me. love it to the max!!! =p

White Radish Soup

1 white radish peal the skind and cut into blocks
600 gr pork ribs
2-3 carot cut into blocks.
dried cuttle fish (or fish sauce)
Salt and pepper

How to:
1. boil a pot of water, put all ingredients and boil them together for 10-15 mins.
2. lower down the flame and let it cook for 2 hours or until radish and carrot soften.
3. season the sup with fish sauce, salt and pepper.

Chinese Home Style dish. Healthy and yummy. =)

1 Medium size white pomfret

4-5 slice of ginger
salted preserved vegetable sliced
2-3 shitake mushroom sliced (soak till soften)
dash of white pepper
1 table of light soysauce

How to:
1. Clean the fish, cut of fin and tail and make 2 slit on both side of the body.
2. stir fry ginger with 2 table spoon oil until fragrance.
3. add shitake mushroom and salted preserved vegetable, add light soysauce and sprinkle dash of salt and pepper. continue stir fry for a minute.

4. pour on top of the fish and place the fish on top of the steaming rack and steam for 10 mins.

Crab Rangoon is an Chinese Americanize dish that originally developed in United States to match western taste. It stuffed with a combination of cream cheese and lightly flaked crab meat/ imitation crab meat.

Crab Rangoon

Ingredients:

• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 8 ounces fresh crab meat or canned crab meat, drained and flaked
• 1 teaspoon red onion, chopped
• freshly ground pepper, to taste
• 1 green onion, finely sliced
• 1 large clove garlic, smashed, peeled, and finely minced
• 1-2 package won ton wrappers
• 1 small bowl water
• Oil for deep-frying, as needed

Preparation:

• Combine the cream cheese and crab meat. Mix in the remaining six filling ingredients (up to the wonton wrappers) one at a time.
• On wonton wrapper, Add 1 teaspoon of filling to the middle. and wrap it to make it looks like bag.
• Keep the completed Crab Rangoon covered with a damp towel or paper towel to keep them from drying out while preparing the remainder.
• Heat wok and add oil for deep-frying. When oil is ready (the temperature should be between 360 - 375 degrees), carefully slide in the Crab Rangoon, taking care not to overcrowd the wok. Deep-fry until they are golden brown, about 3 minutes, turning once. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain. Serve hot with Sweet and Sour Sauce.

Hey my fellow food lover... After being away from US, finally, I've settle myself in Singapore.. I found a job and got my Permanent Resident within 3 1/2 months... also I have chance to cook again.. many different kind of food I never seen, taste and found in States. So I'd like to share it with you guys... This dish is from Singapore's famous red district area, Geylang, The restaurant is called Sek Wai Sin.. Even though this area is famous of prostitution, they have famous Asian exotic restaurant too... so it a must to visit this place :D

Sek Wai Sin's Tofu with Shrimp

Ingredients:

1 Japanese Soft Tofu (cut into small pieces and deep fried)
5-8 Shelled big shrimp
1 tbs little small Dried shrimp (ebi)
some Green onion
1 Egg white
1/4 tsp light soy sauce
1 tsp cornstarch
a pinch salt
a pinch pepper
1/2 tsp vegetable stock
few drop sesame oil

How to prepare:
1. Cut tofu into small pieces and deep fried.
2. Strip off and discard the head from the whole shrimp (do not remove the tail), devein shrimp, rinse and dry.
3. Heat up vegetable oil, put some small dried shrimp (ebi) and stir fry for awhile until fragrance.
4. Add prawn cook until it's turn redish then add deep fried tofu.
5. Add some water mixed with cornstarch, pinch of salt and pepper, vegetable stock, light soy sauce, few drop of sesame oil and then add green onion.
6. Lastly, turn of the fire and pour 1 egg white in it and stir around and serve (remember do not boil it).

Enjoy... ^^

Last week I went to my friend's potluck. I tried Frittata made by Wieke Sutrisno, it's my first time tasting and OMG .. it's so yummy. I managed to get the recipe from Wieke, Thank you for Wieke, you are the best ^^. Frittata is an Italian omelet that frequently features fillings such as meats, cheeses, and vegetables.

Frittata

• Ham/ Bacon/ Imitation crab/ Italian Sausage
• 8 Eggs
• 1/3 cups Parmesan Cheese
• 1/2 cups Milk
• Cilantro
• Salt and pepper

1. Mix eggs, Parmesan cheese, milk, cilantro (quantity depends on preference) and small slice of hams (or other meats). For the meat, you can add as many as you want.. but not too many else the taste of egg will gone.
   
2. prepare muffin pan sprayed with cooking oil, pour the mix on it.
3. Heat oven 370F and bake for 8-12 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center come out dry and clean.

Cheesecake is a sweet, often cheese based dessert. My first cheesecake, since there's only chocolate on my fridge, I manage to bake chocolate cheesecake with melted and shredded chocolate added on top as decoration.

There's not much about cooking or baking on this post, basically it's just an idea for desserts. First one is Roselle Tea which I just boil Roselle flower then add some sugar. Next is Strawberry Ice cream tart, which I use the left over crust from egg tart and put ice cream and strawberry on the top.

Pineapple fried rice is one of Thai cuisine. This dish is much less oily than Chinese fried rice, easy to prepare and cook. One of the way the dish differs from Chinese fried rice is that it is prepared with Thai Jasmine rice.

1. In a cup, stir fish oil and curry powder.
   
2. heat up oil, add shallot and garlic then stir fry until fragrant.
   
3. crack eggs and stir around (like making scramble egg).
4. add carrot, peas, and the fish sauce mixed with curry powder.
5. add rice, pineapple chunks and gently stir fry to combine over medium high heat.
6. add onion when the dish almost done, so that u will get the crispiness of the onion.
   
7. add salt and pepper, chicken stock and adjust the taste. add little sugar to make it sweet.
   
8. serve on the plate, top with spring onion and coriander, Yum yum :)
   

My first update this year, Asian home style 2008 dish called BokChoi sukiyaki :p

Bok Choi Sukiyaki

1. Heat up vegetable oil and sesame oil.
2. Brown the garlic, add beef that already marinated with soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, starch, pepper. Cook it until done add a little water and continue cook for awhile (it will thicken a little bit from the starch).
   
3. Boil water, put vegetable for a minute.
4. Put cooked vegetable on the plate and pour the meat on the top. Dinner is ready... ^^ serve while it warm.
   

Happy New Year 2008 guys... (posting this in advance because i will be busy this new year's eve !!) And this will be our last update for 2007, so see you again in 2008 !!!

Another authentic 0riental dishes, gōng bǎo chicken, from Szechuan cuisine. Also, popular among western community where they called it Kung Pao. This dish typically contain unroasted peanuts or cashew nuts that is dropped into hot oil on the bottom of the wok, then deep fried until golden brown before other ingredients added.

Kung Pao Chicken

Ingredients:

Clay pot chicken rice is one of Singapore and Malaysia dish. rice cooked on clay pot, then cooked ingredients such as chicken, Chinese sausage, salted fish, shitake Mushroom will be added later. This is time consuming dish, because slow-cooking in clay pot is needed. With clay pot, it will give maximum flavor and visually appetizing since clay pot keeps good retention of heat.


Clay Pot Chicken Rice
Ingredients:
3 boneless chicken tights or breast
1 Chinese sausage (Lap Chiong)
1 salted fish (deep fried)
2-3 shitake mushroom
1 tbs minced garlic
1 tbs dark soysauce
1 tbs ginger powder
1 tbs sugar
1 tbs cooking wine
1/2 tsp sesame oil
1/2 tsp tapioca/ corn starch
3 cups Jasmine rice
chicken stock, salt, pepper, vegetable oil

How to prepare:

1. Soak shitake mushroom in hot water for couple hours. Marinade Chicken with soy sauce, ginger, sugar, cooking wine, sesame oil and starch for 30 minutes.
2. Rinse jasmine rice, and put in on the clay pot then add water with chicken stock. Bring it to boil and then turn the stove to low heat. Cook with low heat temperature for 15 minutes.
   
3. On frying pan, heat up oil stir fry minced garlic until it turn brown then add marinated chicken and shitake mushroom then cook until done.
   
4. After the rice is about done (after 15 minutes), add cooked chicken on the top, lap chiong, and salted fish then continue cooking with low temperature for another 15 minutes.
   
5. Sprinkle some green onion on the top. Ready to serve!!!
   

Indonesian authentic stew chicken (or beef) in soy sauce also called chicken semur is one of my country's dishes. It's easily prepared and served with rice. This dish is very aromatic because of many spices being used and it taste like rainbow (sweet, sour, salty ~ ramai rasanya ~ ^^).

Semur

Ingredients:

An unnamed Chinese dish that I share today is originally inspired from one of Chinese restaurant in Malaysia. This dish is basically contains fried tofus, Shitake mushrooms and Enoki mushrooms. Since there are no recipe shared, I managed to imitate that dish and it turned out alike and tasty.

Chicken, Tofu and Varieties of Mushrooms

Another dish that I made recently, Shanghai cuisine, called Nian Gao also called shanghai nian gao. The main ingredient is rice cake or glutinous rice that is pounded or ground into paste and molded into shape. To prepare this dish you will need in advance preparation because you will need to soak the rice cake for at least 12 hours and also soak the Shitake mushroom.

Shanghai Nian Gao