a group for tomyam

Ingredients:
some prawns, shelled
some fishballs
some chicken meat, sliced
some cabbage
an onion, cut into wedges
a carrot, sliced
a tomato, cubed
some limau kasturi (keat-ah, kat-chai), juiced
some cili padi, crushed
2 stalks of serai, crushed
4 to 5 tablespoons of tomyam paste
4 to 5 bowls of water
salt and pepper to taste

Method:

• Bring water to boil and cook all the veges together.
• Mix in the tomyam paste.
• Once the vege is cooked, pour in the prawns, chicken, and fishball.
• Pour in the limau kasturi juice to taste.
• Add cili padi to taste.
• Lastly, add in salt and pepper to taste.

Serves 4

this might be easy, but some preperation need to be done with the prawns and chicken. Anyway, it's still quite simple coz i managed to dish this out from preperation to cleaning up in a record time of two and a half hour. the tricky part was getting the taste right for the guests. since this is my first time cooking for 4, i had some problem estimating. but thanks to them, it turned out fine. but i still find it not sour enough, and not spicy enough. i'll get things right IF there is a next time.

as time consuming as it seems, timing is quite important once the meat and prawns are in the pot. i overcooked the prawns coz the taste wasnt right and i have to keep on adding keat-ah juice and cili padi to suit their taste. sorry for that guys.

anyway, thanks to rach and magi for the prawns and fishballs. and thanks to rach, magi and so for giving face. i hope you guys enjoyed the meal. so.. what's next? spagetti i heard? hahaha

everyone has their own social life. after tonight, i think this is how i would like my social life to be. hang around for a meal, and lepak around after that. not so much for the food. but more for the company. maybe later in life, i would have a wine party or something like that.. :)

very buttery rice

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons of butter
a sausage, cubed
1/3 cup of mixed vegetables
an egg, well beaten.
rice enough for 1 person.

Method:

1. Cook the rice just like normal, but add in butter, sausage, mixed vegetables, salt, and pepper.
2. Make an omelette.
3. Serve the rice with the omelette.

Serves 1

A very heavy meal that i enjoyed. i dunno why... but i just wanna taste something buttery the other day... and this was what i came up with. pretty easy, very straightforward. nothing to look out for except the extra calories :p

mee suah th'ng v2

Ingredients:
a dried mushroom, soaked and sliced
a few leaves of cabbage, cut into bite size
some chopped garlic, fried
an egg
some meatballs
two bundles of mee suah
salt and pepper to taste
a bowl of water

Method:

1. Boil the cabbage and the sliced mushroom for around 5 minutes.
2. Add in the meatball and fried garlic.
3. Add salt and pepper to taste.
4. Finally, add the mee suah and the egg.
   
5. Serve when mee suah softens.
   

Serves 1

another variation of mee suah th'ng. i wouldn't say it's nicer than the previous mee suah th'ng coz they both taste completely different :) i would say this is a more balanced meal compared to the previous version.

a word of caution though.. mee suah cooks very easily so don't cook it too long.

pork omelette

Ingredients:
an egg, beaten
some minced pork
half an onion, coarsely chopped
salt and pepper to taste
some oil

Method:

1. Stir fry the chopped onion, minced pork, some salt and pepper until fragrant. Once done, set aside.
2. Pour the egg into the pan to make a plain omelette.
3. When the omelette is half done (the surface of the omellete is still moist), spread the cooked pork on the moist side of the omelette evenly.
4. When the omellete is almost done, flip to cook the other side (the side with the ingredients)
5. If done properly, the ingredients should stay with the omelette :p
6. Serve hot.

a pork omelette. i'm just finding ways to clear up my pork which my mom brought a few weeks back.. i was desperate for food so i just made whatever i had without thinking much. omelette is nice, haha one of my fav i guess. but hey, everything i cook here is my favourite food! :p i'll see what i can come up with the last portion of the pork i have in the freezer..

oh, you don't need to know how to make an omelette to make this dish. if you're too lazy, just stir fry the ingredients, then add in the egg, and scramble it up. but this way, the pan will get a lil bit sticky due to the pork. enjoy yourself! :)

simple tom yam

Ingredients:
3 bowls of water
3 tablespoons of tomyam paste
1 stalk of serai, slightly crushed
1 medium onion, sliced to rings or wedges
1 tomato, cubed
1 piece of chicken keel, cubed or sliced
some cabbage, cut into bite size
some cili padi, crushed
1 limau kasturi, juiced
sugar, salt, and pepper to taste

Method

1. Boil the water with the cabbage and serai.
2. Once boiled, add in tomyam paste, cili padi and onion.
3. Bring to boil.
4. Add in chicken pieces.
5. Once the chicken is cooked, add in the tomato and limau kasturi juice.
6. Add sugar, salt, and pepper to taste.
7. Serve hot.

Serves 3

This is a simple tomyam recipe that i came up with the limited stuff i had. it tastes nice, sweet enough, sour enough, but not spicy enough! my cooking memang tak setanding my mom's! her tomyam tastes superb! but at least i have half the hainanese blood in me so i can cook half as nice as her :p oh ya, i had this with beehoon :)

milky spag v2

Ingredients:
some chopped garlic
2 onions, cubed
1 tomato, cubed
some minced pork
5 tablespoons of bottled spagetti sauce
1 bowl of water
1 cup of milk
salt, pepper, sugar and some italian seasoning
some corn flour

Method:

1. Stir fry the chopped garlic until fragrant and add in minced pork.
2. Once pork is almost done, add in the onion and cook until fragrant.
3. Pour in the spagetti sauce, water, and milk.
4. Add salt, pepper and sugar to taste.
   
5. Bring the sauce to boil.
6. Add tomato when the sauce is almost done.
   
7. Add in the corn flour mixture to make thick sauce.
8. Finally, add some Italian seasoning.
9. Serve hot with spag.

Serves 4

I have craved for spagetti for quite a while and I feel so satisfied today :p Having spagetti on a rainy day - heaven. It's a lil bit troublesome with the preperation but it's worth the work, especially that thick, creamy, milky sauce!

I can't wait to try the never-ending pasta at Italiannies!

vegetable soup

Ingredients:
some cabbage
some sliced carrot
a sausage/some meatballs
a pinch of salt and pepper
a bowl of water

Method:
Boil everything together :)

A 3 year old can cook this. nothing much to note, except the salt. do not put too much salt as it will spoil the sweetness of the carrot and cabbage. in fact, i didnt put any salt in the soup. anyway, enjoy this however you want. i had this with noodles.