Curry Chicken

Now, this is my favorite! This dish was actually taught by one of my colleague long long time ago (well probably 2 years). He always complains that my curry chicken is too spicy for him...and yesterday, he complains that the curry is SWEET... what can I say, MEN ....

Anyway, this is the recipe:
Ingredients:
1. Chicken portions
2. 1 potato
3. 2 tomatoes
4. 1 cm of ginger
5. 1 onions
6. 5-6 tbsp milk/coconut milk
7. 3 cloves of garlic
8. 4-5 curry leaves
9. 3/4 tbsp of curry powder
10. 1/2 tbsp of turmeric powder
11. 2 tbsp of oil
12. Light soy sauce
13. Salt & pepper to taste

Steps:
1. Cut the potato and tomatoes into cubes, smash the ginger and garlic and slice the onion.
2. Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pot. When it is ready, saute the sliced onions until fragrant. Before it is brown, fry along with ginger, garlic and curry leaves.
3. Add in the chicken potions and slightly stir it with the onions. Then, add the curry powder and turmeric powder and stir well. Add in the potatoes cubes and tomatoes wedges.
4. Pour in the milk/coconut milk and cover the pot with low fire for about 15-20 minutes until the chicken portions are cook.
5. Before dishing out, season it with salt and pepper.

p/s: Superb easy dish and lovely

Spring roll

What can I say, this is one of his favorite food. Every now and then, HE would ask me to make this dish for him. When he asked me to make it yesterday, I have got no prawns, no sesame oil and some other ingredients.

So I've used whatever I can find from his fridge to make him this before he comes back from work.

Ingredients:
1. Mince pork (1/4 of 500g)
2. half a carrot
3. 2 mushrooms
4. 2 cloves of garlic
5. light soya sauce (~1 tablespoon)
6. sugar (1/2 tablespoon)
7. salt and pepper to taste
8. spring roll pastry

Steps:
1. Chop the carrot and mushroom into pieces and mix them with mince pork. Do the same for garlic as well. Marinate the mixture with soy sauce, sugar, salt and pepper.
2. Instead of deep frying the spring rolls, I've used oven to grill the rolls. No oils = less fat! So, to I've fry the mixture first before rolling them with the spring roll pastry.
3. Heat the frying pan with 1 tablespoon of oil, and stir fry the minced garlic. Once the garlic start to burn, pour in the meat mixture and continue to fry. Turn off the fire, when the mince meat is no longer pinkish color. The result should look like this.

4. Let it cool before wrapping it with the pastry.
5. I've used this spring roll skin(bought one from china town)
6. After wrapping...


7. Heat up the oven to about 180C before placing wrapped spring roll inside. When the oven is ready, grill the rolls for about 10-15 minutes for each side. It should be ready when it looks brownish.

Haha...this is what we had for our dinner with a plate of fried bee hoon.

and even gardening...

Bird eye chili(chili padi) had always been a 'must buy' ingredient whenever we do our grocery shopping. So one day HE took an unused peanut butter plastic bottle, filled it up with soil and 'throw' some bird eye chili seeds into it.

I was not so keen about gardening as I thought this is a hobby for someone who is retired and has got nothing to do. For the first few weeks, HE was the one that did all the watering, taking it in and out so that it has got enough 'sunlight'. I was surprised that it managed to grow! Because we do not know which seeds will actually grow, so whenever we used the chili padi, we 'throw' those seeds into the 'pot'. Never know most of them grow! Not only we have to get more pots to transplant them, we need more space to make sure they have got enough sunlight. In the end, I think we have got about 12 chili plants (errr, I don't know which species are they). We did get rid of some of them by giving them away to people...

Since HE moved away from the house, I was the one that 'took care' of all the plants. Seeing them grow everyday is really awesome. Watering them everyday....putting them by the side of my window before I leave the house .... I would think is a 'cute' hobby. Now we have got about 5 plants that has got flower and 1 plant is growing the chili! I really cant wait to try them... hehe

Googling for some chili padi's plant photos,...I've found this...

My aim: Hope that all my chili plants will grow like this...

BUT.... until today, my plants are like this..
I am very proud of myself .... hehe .... cause I was so patient to wait for the plant to grow from this....

a biT of mySelf

I am 18 this year (and every year!) :) ...
who met up with 'The One' two years ago ...
and managed to 'transform' into a LADy ...
his appearance not only made me know how to cook and bake ...
I've even started knitting and cross - stitching...
though this is a huge 'transformation' for me, but I really appreciate it.... appreciate him...
appreciate what he brought into my life ..
what can I say, you complete my jigsaw puzzle...
:D

so the purpose of this blog is ... to share my recipes ... with anyone else that needs them...