Sweet and Sour Pork Balls

That's my feeble attempt at frying pork balls.

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? :)

Sweet and Sour Beancurd

Repeated dish. For my records.

Sweet and Sour Mock Chicken

Ok... I am repeating my recipes. Just want to keep it as a record for looking different. :)

Pork Cutlet Spaghetti

Add this and this, and you will have the following. :)

It was a yummy treat and a good change from the usual chicken/sausage spaghetti. I added fresh diced tomato to improve the taste. :)

Sweet and Sour (Mock) Chicken

My hubby wanted me to cook exactly the same dishes as last week because he loved every single dish. Aw... so sweet of him. ;)

I never had such a request from him before, so I agreed to go along with his suggestion. On second thoughts, I thought I would change one dish. For variety's sake and so that I can do a blog. :P

Instead of the Gong Bao Ji Ding, I decided to use the tomato (from last week) to do a sweet and sour dish instead. Wala, it turned out not bad! My hub likes it and commented that it is quite an improvement from my last sweet and sour dish. Still, I feel that I can be better. :P



















Ingredients

• Mock Chicken
• 1 Chilli (cut into triangles)
• 1/2 Tomato (sliced)
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 tsp garlic

Sauce Mixture

• 3 tbsp tomato sauce
• 2 tbsp chilli sauce
• 1 tsp light soy sauce
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp sesame oil
• 3/4 cup water

Method

1) Roast the Mock Chicken in Healsio (as always) for 15 minutes
2) Heat Oil and stir fry garlic and chilli slices until fragrant
3) Add Sauce mixture and simmer till it bubbles
4) Pour in the roasted mock chicken so that it will absorb the sweetness of the sauce.
5) Add tomato slices about 10 seconds before turning the fire off and serve.

Pork and Potato in Tomato Sauce

This dish would have been better if I had stick to pork loin. But I can't help it. The pork cubes looked so cute and everything is cut nicely for me. I just have to skin away those fats. Tell me, who doesn't like the easy way out? However, I would say that it is a compromise on the taste as it wasn't as tender. Heng my mother and hub find it quite nice and finished up the dish! ^^

Ingredients

• Pork Loin (cut into cubes)
• 1 Potato (cut into cubes)
• 1 Onion (cut into quarters)
• 1 Chilli (cut)
• 1/2 tomato (quarters)
• 2 tsp chopped garlic
• 1 tbsp oil

Mixed Seasonings

• 3 tbsp tomato sauce
• 2 tbsp chilli sauce
• 1/2 small bowl of water
• 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1/2 tsp sugar

Method

1) Blanch potato in water until it's moderately, but not fully soft
2) Stir fry chopped garlic and onion in 1 tbsp of oil
3) Add and cook pork* till it has changed colour
4) Pour mixed seasoning and chilli into the wok
5) Cook until the gravy bubbles
6) Do not overcook the pork. Serve immediately.

*Add stock if you are not using a non-stick wok like me. >_<