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Weekend’s breakfast/lunch

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I was cooking this bowl of noodles this morning at 9:30 for my breakfast.  Usually when I cook this big bowl of noodles, it will be lunch, too.  Db shouted from his office, “What smells so good from the kitchen?”  “Tom yum noodles, you want some?” He came out from his office and saw this big bowl of noodles.

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DB: “Holy schomkes!!  Take a picture of this big bowl of noodles.”

Me: “What the heck for?”  I’m going to eat it like now coz I’m so hungry.”

DB: “Oh come on, it takes a few seconds.  I want a picture so I can send it to my mom.  I want her to see what I’m talking about when I tell her you are having noodles.”

So, I did.  He calls his mom every weekend and each time he calls her, I’m in the middle of eating my weekend food.  He tells her I put a lot of stuff in my noodles, basically I put tofu, meatballs, frozen green beans and eggs.  Yes, I will eat them all, but then I will walk the extra 30 minutes in the evening, plus vacuum and clean the bathrooms.  That way, I don’t feel guilty :P

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Sep 9, 2007

Yau Mei Fan – Savoury Rice

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Tonight I made this one-pot-cook all rice, Yau Mei Fan.  I think translated to English is Savoury Rice.  I saw my sister and Pearly cooked it for her family, I thought I will make it, too.  I added Chinese sausages, Thai chilies, garlic, chicken breast, and dried shrimp.  Obviously, when I was cooking it, DB said it smelled really good.  When he ate it, it was fine, he will pick up all the sausages and spooned them to me till he chewed on something which he asked, “What did  you put in here differently from last time?”  I said, What did you taste? “Something fishy.”  Looks like I cannot get away with dried shrimp even though I drowned them with sesame oil and garlic.  Darn it! :-(

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Aug 30, 2007

Kerabu Timun(Spicy Cucumber and Dried Prawn Salad

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I made this dish after reading my sister’s cooking/food blog.   I think folks who read my blog now knows who my sister is :)   Yeah, she is super nice, put up all these simple dishes on her blog to make me cook!  It worked, so her hard work paid off.

Below is my version of the Kerabu Timun, and this is hers.  Hers look so much better.  The cucumber I got from my coworker who brought them in from her garden.  They are China hybrid cucumbers, and those cucumber looked really weird.  I called it cucumber from the Alien Nation.

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Anyways, I put too much chilie padi on mine and after a few bites, looked for something sweet, waited till the fire subsided and went for it again.  I used the chilie belachan my sister sent me.  That chilie was good.  DB took a few forkfulls and sweat was breaking out.  Haih….. but the thing is he said it taste good.  “What did you put in there?  I thought you were going to make it with some stinky stuff?”  Hahahaha, I told him I did use the stinky stuff and even put in dried shrimp.  He was still wondering why he didn’t smell it when I made it…. COZ I DIDN’T FRY THE STINKY STUFF IN THE PAN, BABE!!

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Aug 23, 2007

What a surprise!

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The boys scared the crap outta me yesterday afternoon.  They saw the mailman parked his truck across the street.  I was making coffee for the next day and I literary jumped when they barked at the mailman.  When I turned around, I saw the hair on their backs all standing up and so was their tails, growling.  Walked over to the front door and the mailman rang the door bell.  I saw this big parcel and saw Singapore Post.  Right away I knew I got food from my sister!!!  Yehhhhhh!!!!  Ain’t she nice??  She is just swell!!

Opened up the parcel and read her note first.  She wants to thank me for getting her clothes from Victoria’s Secret.  In return, she sent me “fertilizers”.  She thinks I’m too skinny!! :)  Dielah, gotta buy more new clothes :)

Here are the items in the parcel:

-  Instant noodles.  She knows how much I love instant noodles.  Lazy man’s cooking.

-  A St Michael’s shirt for DB which he loves it.  Great color.  He said “Yes! Thank you very much….”

-  The Asian style potato chips.  Opened it right away.

-  2 boxes of organic cookies from St Michael’s.  Didn’t try that yet.  I was too busy with the others.  DB took them to work this morning.  He said they were very good.

-   A bottle of chilie shrimp paste.  Can’t wait to stink up the house!

-  Couple packets of instant spices.  Another lazy man’s way of cooking.

-  A bag of plums, the chinese kind.  Always brings back a lot of memories of the old chinese medical halls in Ipoh. 

-   A big bag of chillied tapioca chips.  DB’s favorite.  He said don’t even open it if not they will be gone.

-  A big bag of stinky smelly chewy sotong (cuttle fish or squid as the Americans call it).  So good.  DB told me not to go near him when I  eat them things.

-  Another big bag of the stinky cuttle fish.  This type has sugar on them.  Oh, man, I missed eating them.  I chomped them down but, of course, not the whole bag.  Gotta leave some for some other day.

-  Last and the best of all is this chewy, stinky, smelly cuttle fish.  I remember buying them in satay sticks.  This bag is just full of this sticky thing without the fuss of the satay sticks.   I ate this the most.  Almost half the content were gone. 

Of course my dinner was really light.  I was actually full when it came to dinner.  DB asked if I want some ice-cream for dessert, I had to say no to him.  I was already stuffed.

The boys had some share, too, but not the sugary ones.  Dogs are dogs, they eat anything, but I still refuse to give them anything with sugar. 

They sniffed out the entire parcel before I could even opened it.  Then they laid on each side of the parcel.  Once it was opened, they both got up and had to sniffed out each item.  I had to push them out of the way but I thought why not test them if they will try mawing them bags.  I let them sniffed and they used their snouts to move the packets around.  It took about a good 3-4 minutes waiting for them to snoop.  My patience was like about to burst!  They didn’t grab any of the bags.  All they did was snooped.  Good job.  I opened up the first bag – Malaysian style potato chips……..mhmmmmmm, yummy.  All the memories of back home.

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Jul 31, 2007

That’s what I’ve been eating

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The whole weekend I have been eating cherries and ribs.  I can eat these two things every day.   Unfortunately, ribs is not the best type of meat for every day consumption.   Cherries, yes, I can eat them 24/7.  If only they are in season all year round.

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Jul 10, 2007

Buckwheat Pancakes

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I bought this pancake mix couple of weeks ago. We had a craving for pancakes and didn’t want to go to IHOP (International House of Pancakes) down in Apple Valley. I drove to the organic store by our home and bought this mix. (The picture is not the best.)

We have not had anything with buckwheat before. I thought it would be nice to start adding more healthy food into our daily diet.

The texture of the pancakes came out great. I forgot to take pictures of them. We were too hungry and walloped them down pretty darn quick. I also added chopped walnuts, dried cranberries and raisins into the mixture. It was delicious.

We both had 3 pieces with our usual maple syrup and the last piece I had I added organic brown rice syrup. I was very surprised this syrup has a great taste to it. Not too sweet and the consistency is the same as the maple syrup.

Needless to say, after we stuffed our face with pancakes, I skipped lunch and dinner was salad and left overs of brats and burger. The pancakes took care of the carbs for the day.

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May 7, 2007

Gwai Ling Koh (Herbal Jelly)

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I made this herbal jelly yesterday. Mom sent several packets to me from the last care package I received.

I could not remember when was the last time I had this. This herbal jelly was manufactured in Hong Kong by the famous Eu Yan Sang Chinese herbal store.

The herbal jelly in this powdered form is easy to make – especially my type of person!

Pour the contents into a bowl, add 250ml water, and mixed it up. Boil 1 liter of water (I only boiled half of what they asked for) and pour the mixed concoction in, add sugar, stir well, and pour it into a container to cool. I put in honey and some Splenda instead of regular sugar. I don’t have any fancy-mancy containers, so poured it into a Rubbermaid container.

DB saw the packet as shown above and the first thing that came out from his mouth is, “What is this?” I told him he will not like it as there is a hint of bitterness to it. He did not say a word then.

For me, I ate half of what’s in that container and stored the rest in the refrigerator. Yummy!!

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May 7, 2007

Mysore Cafe

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I met up with Wombie’s Burrow on Sunday for some shopping and then headed to this restaurant, Mysore Cafe located on Hennepin Avenue, for our lunch. It’s an all vegan restaurant that serves South Indian cuisines. The complimentary dosai that came with the buffet were so good, I could have eaten more of them if they refill the plate! I’m a real glutton :)

Mysore Cafe will be the next meeting place when my bro comes to town. Since he is a vegetarian and he loves Indian food, I think this will be a good place for his chow. He was asking me about vegetarian restaurants in Mpls. Well, now if he comes to the Cities, he can check this place out. The decor is not too bad – plain and simple, and the prices are very reasonable.

I would come here again for a good round of food.

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Mar 26, 2007

Claypot Tofu

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I took up this challenge from my sis. She sent me this recipe which I actually asked her for it. Told DB I will make it for our dinner on Monday.
Looked through the refrigerator, and low and behold, I was out of so many ingredients for this dish – oyster sauce, soy bean paste, shroomies, and tofu.
Met with Wombie’s Burrow on Sunday and we went shopping. She took me to this Asian store, United Noodles in Mpls which I have heard of a million times but never been there. We bought a shit load of stuff there and many of the items were much, much cheaper than Cub Foods. I had to buy fried tofu for this dish since DBster does not like plain old unfried tofu.
So, sis, here’s the dish which I omitted the dark soy sauce and added some chicken, too, for us carnivores.
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Mar 26, 2007

Comfort Food

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Usually we eat because we are hungry or need energy, right? What about eating certain foods that make you feel good and sometimes remind us of happy memories? I call the latter comfort food.

How does a food become comfort food? I know ice-cream and cakes are also a comfort food for other people. This comfort food came to my mind because I cannot stop eating noodles, you know “hor fun”, “beehoon”, “chow kuey teow” and the egg noodles. I believe that we connect food with important times, feelings and people in our lives. I miss my mom and dad’s cooking, and also I miss them very much, hence I’m going for all these noodles which reminds me when I was back in Ipoh. Dad’s fried noodles and rice is the best. I still remember my mom’s “birthday mee”. Oooohhh, so yummy. On my last CNY trip, my mom made Siamese laksa. Thanks, sis, for planning the menu during my trip.

I noticed one of my coworker’s comfort food is pop-corn. She goes for pop-corn whenever she’s stressed out. Grab a packet from her cabinet, run up to the cafeteria and pop it in the microwave. Two minutes and it’s done and she comes back to the office with her bag of popped pop-corn. The entire office smells of buttered pop-corn.

Tomorrow is Saturday and it’s noodles for breakfast for me. DB will probably want some, but he might not since we might get “Pad Thai” for dinner.

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Jan 5, 2007

 

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