Omu Rice

Back from Bangkok and on Tuesday which is a holiday in Selangor, and my fridge is empty. No more vegs, no more meat and no more fish. Whats left is only 1 cup of rice and 2 eggs. Help... what to cook for my 2 kids lunch? Both of us too lazy to bring them out for lunch cos we are darn tired.

What I have in mind is to steam the rice and the eggs ( sui tan ) for them. Oh my... I think it will be a boring lunch for both of them. Changed my mind and search through the cupboard and saw a can of SPAM luncheon meat lying in the cupboard for so many donkey months. Better checked the expiry date and it is not expire yet. If it expired I am going to knock my head against the wall again cos a can of it is so expensive now.

Decided to cook Omu Rice or Omuraisu or another words we called it Fried Rice Wrapped With Omellete. Fried the rice with luncheon meat, egg and added some chopped spring onions into it. I planted a pot of spring onions in the garden and when there is nothing in the frige, the spring onions come to the rescue.

Wrapped the fried rice with a sheet of thin omellete and drizzle with some tomato ketchup on top of it and sprinkle some spring onions too.

Omurice with half sweet tangerine and a packet of Wang Wang Rice Crackers for both of them.

So easy to prepare !

Yummy, Omu Rice

Both of them certainly enjoyed the simple lunch Mommy prepared for them. Both of us the old one, cooked 2 packets of Korean Kimchi Noodles for lunch . I haven't been cooking since I came back from Bangkok and tonight going to Jusco's supermarket to do some groceries shopping. Till then have a nice weekend to all of you!

Happy Mid Autumn Festival

Mid Autumn Festival falls on today, 25th September'07 and in the Chinese Calendar it is August 15th. Also today is my little Ee-Thern's birthday but we didn't do any celebration for him cos we are having prayers at home. Little Ee-Thern only get 2 red, hard boiled eggs from me this morning.

This morning woke up very, very early to steam one Kampung Chicken for prayers at the altar. I am not good in praying and all this is done by my Dearie Suki. Tonight dinner, we have 'Ping Pong Chicken Rice' since we have one whole steamed Kampung Chicken. As for the rice, I sautee some garlic with butter till fragrant. Then add in rice approximately 1 cup of long grain rice, and stir fry for 2 minutes. Add in about 1 1/2 cup of chicken stock, some salt and pandan leaves. Transfer the rice into rice cooker. Once the rice is cooked, use a ladle to scoop the rice and shape into a ball. I fried some ginger to go with the chicken rice and drizzle some oyster sauce on top of the chicken.

I was wondering who invented this 'Ping Pong Chicken Rice. Why Ping Pong ? I only had 1 Ping Pong Rice and Dearie Suki had 3 Ping Pong Rice.

After dinner the kids and Dearie Suki were playing lantern at the car porch while I am busy in the kitchen washing the plates and mopping the floor. Ee-Thern and Le-Ann is making so much noises outside even me in the kitchen can hear their voice. I bet they must be enjoying their time playing lantern with Daddy.

Last 2 days, tried making some Mini Peng Pei Mooncake with White Lotus Paste. Dear Sukie help me out and we only did 12 minis peng pei mooncake. I am not a great fan for mooncake cos I find that it is far too sweet for me. Supposed to give some to his friends but end up not enough and still have 1/2 container of lotus paste in the fridge. Going to make again these few days hopefully I can find time to do it. To my Dearie Suki friend, PK, I still owe you a box of mooncake.

Following are pictures taken at Ah Mah's house last Saturday night when all of us went back to play lantern.

Another Mid Autumn festival is gone and the next coming one is Winter Solstice festival in December'07 . Why time passes so fast and very soon we are going eat 'Tong Yuen'.

Lat Sei Lei Ah Mah

This is funny whereby my sales rep every morning will make fun of me when I am having my Nasi Lemak direct translation to cantonese " Lat Sei Lei Ah Mah " . LOL. I remembered when I was pregnant with Le-Ann & Ee-Thern, every morning I must have a packet of nasi lemak plus 'si hum' (cockles) sambal. This is what I craved for every morning, without this I can't work, can't sleep and can't eat. Imagine how much weight I have gained during that period. From day 1 pregnancy till I delivered both of them, I have been eating nasi lemak everyday.

Cooked some Curry Chicken with potatoes on Monday night. My babysitter, Ah Yoke Cheh, went back to her home town Betong ( Malaysian-Thai border ) and brought back some ready mix curry paste. She is a Thai mix Chinese and speak fluent Thai language. Sometimes my little girl even understand what she is talking in Thai. She teach me how to cook the curry chicken in Thai style.

What you need to do is to fry 2 tablespoon of the ready mix curry mix in a pan with some oil. Then add in the chicken ( approximately 2 chicken thighs ), some kaffir lime leaves, 2 stalks of serai ( lemon grass ) and fry for another 5 minutes. Add in 1 cup thick coconut milk and 1 cup of water. I substitude the coconut milk with 1 can of evaporated milk and 1 can of water. Hehehe... trying to be health conscious. Add in some potatoes ( cut into wedges ) and let it simmer till almost dry up or until the chicken or potatoes is cook.

Wah! the ready mix curry paste is real pedas. Actually is very, very pedas but very good. Much more better than those sell in the supermarket. That night we have Nasi Lemak for dinner. Boiled some hard boiled eggs and mould it with the flower shape mould. So cute and Dearie Suki was asking me how I do it and I told him its magic. Hahaha..... also have some side dishes to go along with the nasi lemak - sambal petai, stir-fried potatoes leaves ( supposed to be kangkong but my 'Overly Smart' maid, work here for 2 years can't even differentiate between the two... real STUPID ). Then fried some crispy ikan bilis to go along with it.

Yummy... next round must have the 'si hum' sambal. I miss it so much.

Simple Meals #6

For 3 weeks I haven't been blogging about my simple meals. Now got bento and forgot about it. While I was arranging my folder, saw those food pictures pilling up. Ever since I come back from my holiday, I have been getting lazy to cook nice dish for my Dearie Suki. Nothing new so far and I have been cooking a lot of fried rice and stir-fried green vegetables for dinner cos its easy and no need to think so much.

For a change in menu, I uses Petai to fried with rice. I am just getting bored with Petai. See also 'jelak'.

My dad advised me to blanched the mushroom with hot water before we kept it in the fridge cos according to him all fresh mushroom contains live fungus and it might be poisonous. So to play safe, better blanched with hot water before you store in the fridge.

This is one of my favourite confinement dish. I remember my confinement lady cook this dish for me not using rice wine but only using the hard liquor and Dom. Wah, so syiok! If my mom and sis see this dish I doubt they will be *drooling* for it. Cos we 3 women love this a lot, a lot, a lot.

This is my Dearie Suki favourite. He miss his Fried Siew Yoke at one of the hawker stall in Petaling Street. Nevermind la, my version also the same!

Lor Mai Kai @ Glutinous Rice

Sunday morning make some Lor Mai Kai or Glutinous Rice for breakfast. I missed all the Dim Sum session with Dearie Suki ever since we have Le-Ann & Ee-Thern. So yesterday morning woke up early at about 8.30 am and start preparing the Lor Mai Kai. Makes about 7 bowls of Lor Mai Kai and given 3 bowls to Mom and Dad.

Here is the recipe :

Ingredients :

A

4 tbsp of oil

1 tbsp chopped garlic and shallots

500gm glutinous rice, soaked overnight and drained

50 gm dried prawns, soaked

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1 tsp dark soya sauce

1 tsp salt

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp chicken stock granules

1/4 cup of water

B

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1/2 tsp dark soya sauce

1 tsp sugar

1/2 tsp sesame oil

1/2 tsp pepper

Salt to taste

2 chicken thigh, cut into small pieces

7 mushroom, soaked

2 chinese sausages, cut into thin slices

Method :

1. Mix ingredients B together and marinade overnight.

2. Heat oil in pan. Sautee chopped garlic, shallots and dried prawns till fragrant. Add in the glutinous rice and the rest of ingredients A and stir well. Set aside.

3. Arrange the chicken meat, mushroom and chinese sausages in a bowl. Then top up with the glutinous rice.

4. Steam on high heat for 40 minutes before serving.

Note : You can also wrapped the rice with lotus leaves to give a nice aroma to the glutinous rice.

Dearie Suki also request for porridge and cook some Pork Porridge for him and the kids. By 10.30 am everything is ready and both the kids woke him up after they take bath and we had our Dim Sum breakfast. What an enjoyable Sunday morning breakfast.

Simple Meals #5

Haven't post any of my simple meals last week and I am going to do it now. Nothing special just some simple cooking again for Dearie Suki.

I love fried rice. The easist and no need to think so much and the kids like it. Supposed to bake the fried rice topped with some Bechamel cream sauce and cheese like those from Kim Gary style but my parmesan cheese turned bad in the fridge. So, got to forget about it .

Bought 2 Mackeral Fish from the SS13 night market and I de-boned it and make it into fish paste. Shape the fish paste and deep fried it and it turned out to a lovely homemade fish cake and it is so ' Q '. Still have another Mackeral in the fridge and I am planning to make 'Otak-otak' with it.

This is one of my boring dish and almost every week I prepare it cos Petai is in season now and my Dearie Suki favourites. He won't get bored with it even if I cook it every day. Yer... the toilet stinks with Petai.

Steamed ' Wan Yue' with Kikkoman Soya Sauce. The fish is bought from the SS13 night market again. Cheap and fresh.

Ooops this is not my cooking. Given by my company during the stock take day. Each of us get a packet of 3 pcs KFC plus whipped potato and salad for lunch. All my colleagues can't finish 3 pieces and the most is 2 pieces. So I 'ta pau' back for the kids and they love it so much especially Le-Ann. She only attack the skin with lot of tomato ketchup.

Okie, got to go. My Dearie Suki is calling again to prepare supper cos he is hungry. Lazy to entertain him and going to cook ' Ibumie Prawn Instant Noodle' for him. Easy mah! Really envy him eat so much still so skinny.

Simple Meals #4

Hi! I am back again with my simple meals of the week. This week have been having fish almost everyday cos need to clear off the fish in the freezer. Ooops....bought too much fish lately and got to cut down on fish cos Dearie Suki get bored with it.

Here you go these are what I cooked for him this week. Yippe ! Its Saturday again and looking forward to have a day off in the kitchen.

Me and Dearie Suki favourite kembung fish. We love to deep fried it and eat it with hot and spicy sambal. Dearie Suki always hoping I can cook Sambal Petai whenever I fried the kembung fish.

Love the fried ginger so much. This is the kids favourite fish. They love to eat it with rice and mix it with soya sauce. Ee-Thern most favourite and he can finish a bowl of rice.

Picked some fresh mint which I plant in my garden. Gave some to my neighbour May and she told me to cook it with eggs soup. I tried but don't really like it. You know how it taste like? Its like drinking a Colgate Soup. Yuck! not going to cook this again.

Sorry too lazy to blog the recipe. Click here if you want to try it out.

This sweet potato leaves or in Cantonese we called it ' Farn Sue Yip'. Another green vegetables I plant in my garden. Mom always encourage us to plant vegetables in our house garden. So here it is Mom my 'Farn Sue Yip'. Save $$$ buying from the market.

Garlic fried rice with anchovies for yesterday night dinner since there are some left over rice in the fridge. I just love fried rice cos it is too easy to prepare. No need to think so much.

I am not good in naming fish. Bought this fish from the night market near my office on Tuesday. Sorry I don't know what is the name of this fish. If I am not mistaken it is 'Sek Pan Fish'. Anyone have any idea what it called in English? Anyway, steamed the fish with taucho sauce and the fish meat is so sweet and fresh. Dearie Suki love it so much and he told me that he can finish a whole plate of rice with just the taucho sauce itself.

Yam Fried Rice

Since there are still some yam left over so I used it to fried rice with yam. What you need to do is just cut the yam into cubes and deep fried in hot oil till soft or cooked. I added some dried prawns into the fried rice.

Next step is to make some scramble eggs and then saute the dried prawns and some chopped garlic till fragrant. Then add in the rice and stir well. Throw in the yam and season with salt and soya sauce to taste.

Here you go a nice bowl of fragrant Yam Fried Rice for dinner.