My Childhood Dishes

Hi!! I'm so happy today..;) Why? Well, my daughter is going to take her graduation photo tomorrow and I can't wait to see her wearing the robe...haha! Am I too excited? She's only 6, and she's only graduating from her kindergaten..;p (crazy me!!) Just imagine what I'm going to be when she graduate from her University in future..heehee! Another one is that I've planned and booked everything for our school holidays this coming September! Too early to plan? I like to do everything fast...that's me! haha! Not getting to far but to Singapore again..;)
Okay enough about me, let me share with you these 2 dishes that I used to eat looooooooong time ago. I can't remember when I last eat these, probably before I got married...^_^"

Here's the 1st one.......Fried prickled radish with dried shrimps.

This is a very simple dish with diced prickled raddish, diced dried shrimps, diced chilli padi and sugar. That's all you need! Soaked the prickled raddish and dried shrimps before cook, and just panfry everything with alittle oil until fragnant.

The 2nd one is Steamed Chicken with Salted Fish.

Ingredients for this are chopped Chicken, diced Salted Fish, sliced mushrooms, sesame oil, alittle cornflour, alittle sugar, and alittle light Soy Sauce. Mix everything together and steam for 25 minutes. (depends the amount/size of chicken)

All these were taught by my mother, its just simple and delicious. Well it somehow not so healthy with those prickled raddish and salted fish, but I think eating those once awhile will be nice..;)

**Note that the amount of the ingredients are depends to individual.


Cheers!!

My FIL's 70th B'Day

It's my FIL's 70th birthday yesterday. We had a nice dinner with all the relatives at a restaurant in our hometown, Seremban. A cooling day with all the nice food.....I forgotten to take pictures for all the yummy food...*sigh*..:( But luckily I did some photo shooting for my cake before we left home..heehee! But the inside...*sigh*...again forgot!!

Anyway here's some pictures that I'll like to share...."贺寿蛋糕" for my FIL.
A combination of the lemon butter cake and my favourite chocolate cake into a 12x16" rectangle tin.*phew*!

The top....................

The side...............

Side border...............

and the 寿桃 (peaches)................

The peaches (寿桃) suppose made of baos but due to my failure of spraying the colours onto the baos and also limited time.......I did it with fondant at last..;p Luckily it still can stand on the cake although its not dry enough..;)

Cheers!!!

Siam Fried Meehoon & Yam/Taro pastry Angku

A couple of days ago, I fried this meehoon for our dinner. Its so delicious, that we finished the whole pot of the meehoon. How big is that pot?, you might want to know. Its actually the whole packet of the meehoon (450g)..haha! Okay, this is a recipe from my aunt, and actually she got it from her friend. With the mix and match of the ingredients, we came out with a perfect one!



Here's the recipe for you........

450g meehoon (soaked)
50g dried shrimps (diced)
15-20 shallots (chopped)
15 Kaffir lime leaves
10 Chilli padi
1-2 tbsps Fish sauce
2 tsp salt
4tsps sugar
40g Assam juice (I used 2tbsps of assam paste mixed with water to get 40g juice, then sieved)
*some bean sprout, squids and fishcakes.

* can be replaced with any seafood you desire.

~ Blend kaffir lime leaves with chilli padi together
~ Panfry dried shrimps and shallots with alittle oil until fragnant.
~ Add in blended ingredients, seafood (which you desire) and continue panfry until fragnant.
~ Add in assam juice, sugar, salt and fish sauce.
~ Toss in soaked meehoon and beansprout, mix well and fry until dry.
~ Serve hot.

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Angku Kueh with Yam / Taro pastry

Lovely colour aren't they? The texture is good too. Well actually there is nothing special with this, but I'll like to share the picture with you, since this the first time I used yam / taro for the skin pastry..;) Using the same old fillings (sweet mung bean paste) which I still have some storing in my freezer since last 2 weeks, its a perfect supper for us tonight..:)


If you want the recipe, do view here.
If you like this yam pastry, just change the sweet potatoes with yam / taro.

Cheers!!