Bread and Noodles

My tastebuds have gone haywired for the past few months and I haven't been cooking since then.

These are the dishes that I have cooked before that happens.

Egg Sandwich

French Toast

Fuzhou fishball noodle soup

Hokkien Mee

Vegetables noodles with gravy

Fried Hokkien Mee (Prawn replaced by mock meat)

I was on leave then and have been cooking everyday. I have saved quite a bit on meals - just imagine 1 packet of noodles lasted me five meals!

Really enjoyed those food that I have cooked. Kinda surprised that it tasted very close to what I have aimed to achieve. Alas, I didn't take down the ingredients, seasonings etc. Looks like I have to do another trial again should I want to sample the same dishes again. :P

Popiah

I cooked Popiah fillings quite some time back, (using the more tedious method that my grandma used - Cabbage, long beans, turnip, carrot, beancurd, hei bi, 2-layered pork), but ironically, it wasn't as popular as the following, which was so much easier to prepare and cook!



Ingredients

• Cabbage
• Turnip
• Carrot
• Egg (either hard boil or fried, depending on preference)
• Sausage (heated over wok, no oil required!)
• Popiah skin - use the type that can only be found in markets. According to the store owners, they can last up to a few months with proper refrigeration.
• Scallop concentrates
• Sugar
• Salt
• Light soy sauce

Method
1) Stir-fry turnip, cabbage and carrot
2) Add scallop concentrates, sugar, salt and light soy sauce to taste.
3) Add sweet sauce/balachan, 3 tbsp of the veges, egg and sausage to the popiah skin, roll and serve!

Cabbage Soup

As a working wife, I can only find time to cook on a day or two of the week. Thus, it is vital that I use up all the ingredients for that week, to avoid wastage. It's fun to know that I am not alone.

I also find it extremely satisfying when the dish that I cooked with the 'remains' turned out to be good. :)

Ingredients

• Cabbage (remains)
• A few slices of tomato (remains)
• 3 pieces of mock meat
• 2 tbsp Woh Hup scallop concentrates (highly recommended as it does not contain MSG!)
• 6 cups of water

Method (too simple to be true)

1) Boil water with concentrates

2) Add cabbage and mock meat

3) Add tomato just before serving

I wanted to add sugar and salt to make it more flavourful, but I find it absolutely unnecessary after trying a spoonful! The soup itself was already very sweet. Yums...

On a side note, I realised that soup made from scallop concentrates taste so much better than from chicken concentrates. And a bottle of scallop concentrates costs only like thirty cents more? :)

Cabbage

My hub wants me to remember how I cooked this because this is the way he wanted cabbage to be cooked from now on.

The truth is, I didn't follow any receipe so it was plain luck that I whipped out something that catered to his taste buds! >_<"

Ingredients

• Cabbage
• Fried vegetarian fritters? (Sorry, Not too sure how to call that)
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
• 3/4 cup of water
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• Sprinkles of sesame oil

Method

1) Stir fry some ginger in heated oil
2) Add cabbage and oyster sauce
3) Pour the water in and simmer until the vegetables are moderately soft.
4) Add sugar and sesame oil before switching off the fire
5) Mix the fritters with the cabbage just before serving

Voila! Simple and yet tasty. :)

Stir-Fry Cabbage

Ingredients

• Ginger
• Cabbage
• 1/2 a carrot
• 1 tbsp cooking oil

Seasonings

• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1 cup of stock (from the soaking of mushroom)
• 1 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1 tsp sugar
• salt to taste

Method

1) Stir fry ginger in high heat
2) Cook carrot over moderate heat
3) Add cabbage after carrot is moderately soft
4) Add oyster sauce
5) Pour stock in and the remaining seasonings
6) Simmer