This is a sauce we can make and keep in the fridge for a week, it goes well with chicken, pork and especially seafood.

One big bunch of Chinese parsley 芹菜 (big bunch means like those sell in supermarket wrap with the tag), cook in the boiling water for 1 minutes, drain and soak in cold water.

Then prepare –
1/2 bowl of garlic, peer, whole or roughly chopped.
1 rice bowl of olive oil
1 or 2 tea spoon of salt (depend how salty you take)

place above three ingredient together with the drain well cooked parsley into the blender, and blend well.

pour it out sieve it (I used a piece of cotton handkerchief), twist the handkerchief to get the oil out.

store it in the fridge.

drizzle the oil on the pan fried prawn and broccoli –

Or add 2 table spoon of vinegar and a pinch of pepper, make it into salad dressing.

Recently SIL#1 borrow a soy milk making machine, so I have been using it almost three times or more per week, make soy milk for the family.

But then there is another dish I can use soy milk as the main ingredient — steam tou-fu (bean curd).

What we need is

* 50ml of unsweeten cooked soy milk.
(either homemade, or can get from Jaya Jusco the tou-fu section, a small mineral bottle size is 50ml)
* 2 eggs
(depends on how soft you want the tou-fu to be, if you like the tou-fu harder, then use may be 3 - 4 eggs, or if for baby who start solid but not yet taking egg yoke, can just use egg white instead)
* 2 or 3 table spoon of oyster sauce (or any sauce you like), some fried onion, and finely chop spring onion for garnishing.

beat the eggs mixed it with the soy milk, sift the mixture, pour it into a swallow dish (heat resistant), steam at low heat for 10 minutes.

ta da da…

*you can either turn it over on the plate and garnish it, or just serve it in the dish as it is.

got a bottle of black bean chili sauce from the supermarket, happily using it to fry veggie,

heat a bit of oil, brown some finely chopped garlic, two table spoon of the sauce, and add the veggie.

in this picture I use celery.

but I feel a bit more thirstier than usual after eat it, so you know what is inside.

I personally likes brinjal and always attempt to cook it but of the so many times I’ve tried, 90% of it failed!! But since I’ve not tried baking it, I did my first attempt of baking
eggplant, and the outcome was perfect!!! It smelt like pizza hahaha……

Serves: 3 adults, 1 toddler

Preparation Time: 20mins, incl. cutting and marinating

Cooking Time: 15-20mins

Ingredients:

• A good handful of shredded mozarella or normal cheese

• Dory fish 1 piece, slice into small pieces

• 1 round eggplant (small to medium size), cut it half, then slice it thin

• 1 Lemon, juice it

• A dash of salt (for marinating the dory)

• Butter (for lining the baking tray)

• 1 tablespoon of McCormick mix herbs

Steps:

1. Line the baking tray with a layer of butter
2. Put the slices of dory fish on the tray, arranging them nicely if you could
3. Dash some salt ontop of the dory fish and leave it marinate by itself for 3-5 mins
4. Then dash the McCormick mix herbs carefully on each of the dory fish slices
5. Use a teaspoon and carefully scoop up some lemon juice, just lightly go over the dory fish so that it has the lemony taste
6. Arrange all the eggplant on top of the dory fish
7. Sprinkle cheese on top of the dish…as much as you want if you love cheese
8. Put the baking tray into *pre-heated* oven and bake at 200* for 15-20minutes

And here’s the result

The eggplant is so soft and with the cheese on top…..yum yum..I just love the taste and smell of it.

The dory fish at the bottom is still soft and just nice, with some lemony taste and mix herbs too.

This is a recipe that’s very easy to make, but calls for alot of ingredients. If you have everything, it takes about only 10 minutes to prepare and cook. It is one of my favorite things to make after a long day at work.

• 1 stick cinnamon
• 4 cardamom pods
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 2 teaspoons ginger, finely chopped
• 1 3/4 lbs ground chicken or turkey
• 6 to 7 ounces fresh or frozen green peas
• 1/4 tsp tumeric
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• ground black pepper

Heat some oil in a wok. Fry the cinnamon, cardamom and bay leaves for a few seconds. Put in the onion and fry for a little bit. Then add the garlic for a few seconds, then the ginger. Now add the ground meat and stir until all the lumps are broken up. Next, add the green peas.

If water starts to collect, you can let it boil off until dry, but stir ocassionally so the food doesn’t get burnt at the bottom. Add all the remaining ingredients and mix well. And this is what you get:

It is on the spicy side (as in strong taste, not hot spicy). I eat this quite often so it was worth it to buy all the ingredients. Let me know what you think!